July 19th, 2010 Published by: philosophyandrew

Edublogger Review
A "mash-up" of postings from nine engaging educational - I wonder what the kids are doing right now?
and e-learning bloggers.
- They're probably swimming. That sounds fun.

What Runs Through My Mind - I hope TG actually goes in the water this time.
During a Software Demo - She takes after me, poor kid.
Source: http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-runs-through-my-
mind-during.html
- Hey, it can add up numbers! Nice use of server space in 2010!
By Dean Dad on July 19th, 2010

- Good God, I'm bored. - I wonder if I should get a Droid.

- Maybe if I shift in my seat... - Nah, too big. Besides, what would I use it for?

- Nope. Still bored. - Other than games during software demos, anyway.

- Ooh! A dropbox! However might it work? - At least I could hold it left-handed.

- Ayup, it drops. Color me impressed.
- Why is the presenter staring at me? Am I rolling my eyes?
- Try to look interested. Try to look interested.
- Good God, I'm bored.
- I don't know why they say only lefties are inconvenienced by
the iphone. I sometimes hold phones in my left hand, too.
- Does that mean I go both ways?
- Just like Lindsay Lohan! But she doesn't
have to sit through a software demo.

- I bet celebrities don't have to watch dropbox demos.
- I bet Lindsay Lohan doesn't have to watch dropbox demos.
- I bet they don't even do dropbox demos in prison.
- They should.
- Look at all of us in here. I wonder what the hourly wage of
everyone in this room adds up to.
- Your tax dollars at work. Look, you can refresh the page!
- He's looking at me again! Look like you care, look like you
care...

- Naw, that's cruel and unusual.
- What's she in for, anyway? Doesn't crime at least require
actually doing something?
- Maybe I should have turned to a life of crime.
- Cool crime, though, not lame crime.
- To “save,” hit “save.” Got it.
- I wonder if those Witness Relocation people get to pick where
they go.
- I'd request San Francisco, maybe. Or Seattle.
- I wonder if the tech guys think we're losers, running the demo
on an xp machine.
- Yes, I know how to type in a box. You can stop demonstrating
now.
- Anyone who misbehaves spends the night in the box.
- Whatever happened to Broderick Crawford, anyway?
- “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” God, that's
true.
- Didn't Broderick Crawford do some sort of California cop
movie or something?

- And a cooler name, like “Brock Codpiece.” - California. I'll miss it when it falls in the ocean.

- Naw, then the kids would be little Codpieces. That wouldn't - Poor bastards.
be right.
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- Of course, in the ocean, you don't have to sit through software
demos.
- I'd like to be under the sea, in an Octopus' garden...
- TG used to love that song. What is it about girls and Ringo?
- Zooey Deschanel liked Ringo in that movie.
- How the hell did the dweeb from Third Rock get Zooey
Deschanel?
- Third Rock was a good show. Surprisingly accurate about
college faculty.
- “Alpha order.” Nice. Just say “alphabetical.” Nobody's
impressed.
- Click “save.” Okay. Learned that one in '86, thanks.
- They should 86 this presentation.
- What does that even mean, anyway?
- Brock Codpiece would know. He'd google it on his Droid, on
his way to bust Lindsay Lohan out of prison. Then Broderick
Crawford would catch him, and he'd spend the night in the box.
- Sigh.
- I wonder if I'll have time for lunch...
- Click “close.”
From Mark Twain to the
Future
Source: http://www.jarche.com/2010/07/from-mark-twain-to-the-future/
By Harold Jarche on July 19th, 2010
Here are some of the things I learned on Twitter this past week:
Mark Twain’s Posthumous Bombshells by @cburell
Why is Mark Twain’s autobiography only coming out
now, 100 years after his death? Because he stipulated
so before dying.
What he expresses in these screenshots from a PBS
Newshour clip of the manuscript suggests why he
might have wanted these thoughts to stay silent for a
century. And they’re strangely resonant in our own
day.
via @couchlearner – The Most Important Question to Ask a
Consultant Before Saying Yes – by @timberry:
So the most important question to ask, before you
agree to a consulting job, is who is actually going to
be doing the work. Who will deliver it, and who will
you talk to in the interim. Yes, you’d think that would
all be obvious. But the bigger and more successful
the consulting company, the less likely that the actual
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work will be done by the people you talk to. For
example, with most of the top 10 consulting firms the
partners sell the jobs (they call them engagements)
and the associates – relatively recent hires – do the
work.
Has Knowledge Management Been Bad For Us? by @rickladd
But I think we’re missing the point about the real
value of knowledge. If, in fact, the largest (by far)
percentage of an enterprise’s useful knowledge is
locked between the heads of its employees and, if
(as we frequently say about tacit knowledge) much
of it can’t be accessed until it’s required, why are
we not spending more of our limited funds on
facilitating the connection and communication, as
well as the findability and collaborative capabilities
of our employees?
@robpatrob – How to break through the culture barriers in
Social Media – Veterans Affairs [VAC] creates a Wedge
So even before “Social Media” was a buzz word, VAC
had created a site, using kids, where the public could
find out about their loved ones online and where the
public could not only look but participate.
The key issue here in terms of culture and barriers,
is that this is quite real – the public are really
contributing and the service is authentic and valuable
– but that the risks are low. Above all that VAC is
learning by doing how to get a start.
@DanielPink “The real reason China is laughing at the US” -
Creativity: one core skill here, via @charlesjennings
@rossdawson – 5 graphic frameworks showing the future of
media:
Haiti, Six Months After
Source: http://howtheuniversityworks.com/wordpress/archives/261
By Marc Bousquet on July 19th, 2010
Joe Ramsey is a talented young scholar of the radical writing
that often characterized the American cultural landscape in
the first half of the last century (and which the cultural
criticism of the second half largely ignored). He writes
politically-relevant poetry under the name J. Gallant Ramsey.
This piece on Haiti is presented here with his permission. Over
one and a half million Haitians are still homeless, many of
them the children of the quarter-million dead.
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Fault Lines –Six Months After, July 12 *
The Earth has traveled half way round the Sun Worldwide
Since the day it shook and sucked them down. They say there are a dozen cities
Down With at least a million people each
Down and Lying, waiting, sleeping on a fault line;
down Slum-dweller flesh to feed the breach.
everything fell: For every year the Earth, it shivers
Shacks and hovels smashed through sewers; In the endless cold of space;
Palace collapsed like an empty egg shell. Quakes and quivers, like a bull whose skin
Three hundred thousand, maybe fewer must knock flies from its face.
Thousands buried, never found. The fault is not the moving earth’s
A nation of souls, searching, searing –We know that quakes will come, and even where–
Buried in a human hell. The problem: a crooked scheming class
La Terre Tremble. That crams the poor into the cracks
Have we forgotten what that shaking ground And stitches them into the seams
Revealed for all to see, who cared to look?: Breaking their backs
The way the streets filled up with bloated bodies; Letting them choke
The way the troops drove on, and let them cook. Gasping for air–
The ‘aid’ delayed, Stripping them down to their dreams,
as if for fear of zombies Then bare.
Rising from their rubble graves to run– There is no plan
White eyes blazing bloody memories No care for the people
of how white masters came and took by gun. except for the juice
But—as we know—poor Haitians did not riot; that can be squeezed
worked to pull their brothers from the ruins. from their bones
Carried those who died, and those who wouldn’t to quench the schemers’ thirst:
for a while, Markets pressure
And those who lived. and hearts burst.
Gave until they had no more to give. (The heads of state remain aloof:
* Crisis equals opportunity, after all
A hundred miles of broken blister Helicopter blades
oozing, live on your TV, give the world a roof.
draped in pathos and then charity: And there’s plenty of sweat to catch, as they fall.)
Nightly News *
For about a week. But even then, Outside Port au Prince:
If I may ask: Refugee Cities–
Did they let the Haitians speak? tents made from tarps
What did the people have to say? Flap on and on,
When they look at us what do they see? But only the bugs can fly.
Do you dare to take a peek with me today? Eyes peer out through the fraying holes;
Caught in the sun, the pocked eye turns away. Fingers point
How much can the blinded stand to see? : At jet-liners tearing the sky.
Band-aids slap where barricades should be. First-class passengers,

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Glide overhead,
travelling onto milder climes:
if they look down
between shared clouds,
see nothing
but
dirty laundry lines.
-J. Gallant Ramsey
Somerville, Massachusetts
July 12, 2010
‘Can I?’ is better than ‘I can’
Source: http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/can_i_is_better_than_i_can/
July 19th, 2010
Interesting study suggests that interrogative self-talk is
actually more motivating than declarative gumption that
business leaders profess.
“Why is interrogative self-talk more effective?
Subsequent experiments by the scientists suggested
that the power of the “Will I?” condition resides
in its ability to elicit intrinsic motivation. (We
are intrinsically motivated when we are doing
an activity for ourselves, because we enjoy it. In
contrast, extrinsic motivation occurs when we’re
doing something for a paycheck or any “extrinsic”
reward.) By interrogating ourselves, we set up a well-
defined challenge that we can master. And it is this
desire for personal fulfillment - being able to tell
ourselves that we solved the anagrams - that actually
motivates us to keep on trying.”
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Clayton Christensen Says
The Solution Is More Online
Education
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/07/clayton-
christensen-says-the-solution-is-more-online-education.html
By StevenB on July 19th, 2010
The people who run many schools realize that they can save
considerably by cutting back on traditional classroom versions
of non-core courses--advanced placement, foreign language,
economics and so forth--and instead offer them online. More
than 70% of school districts already offer some form of online
learning, and that number is growing among traditional brick-
and-mortar middle and high schools. With big budget cuts
looming, online learning is likely only to grow, as students
increasingly look to it to for courses they want to take and
credits they need for graduation. Read more at:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/12/education-online-
learning-leadership-careers-christensen.html
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EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute
for Computer Policy and Law:
Streamed Sessions Week of
July 19
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/208241
By Lisa Gesner on July 19th, 2010
The 15th Annual Institute for Computer Policy and Law (ICPL)
begins Monday, July 19, in Ithaca, NY. The keynote and four
sessions will be streamed live at no charge. Video of these
sessions will also be archived. This year's focus is issues related
to information technologies and academic libraries. Clifford
Lynch of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is
the Keynote Presenter. His talk is scheduled for Tuesday,
July 20, 7p.m. Eastern Time (ET). The following sessions
will also be streamed: "The Future of the Academic Library:
Space, Digitization, Access, and Curation in the New World of
Information" Cliff Lynch, Mairead Martin, Susan Perry, and
Jay Schafer Wednesday, July 21, 3:30 p.m. ET
Amherst Point Bird Sanctuary
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52894
July 19th, 2010
I've been on vacation this week and have taken the opportunity
to enjoy some brilliant weather in Canada's Maritime
vacationland. Monday Andrea and I went down to Tidnish
Dock (photos) provincial park, about an hour away. Yesterday
we went to the bird sanctuary at Amherst Point (photos , about
45 minutes away. And today I took a longer drive, two hours,
to explore the cliffs at Cape Chjignecto (no photos posted yet).
Stephen Downes , Flickr , July 16, 2010 7:03 p.m.. [ Link ]
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Not Clear If Study Abroad
Helps But It Doesn't Hurt
Students
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/07/not-clear-if-study-
abroad-helps-but-it-doesnt-hurt-students.html
By StevenB on July 19th, 2010
Opinions are divided on the merits of study abroad: Does
it help or hinder an education? Is it a glorified vacation for
rich kids, or a program of study comparable in depth and
rigor to what the student would get back on campus? The
University System of Georgia has spent a decade studying
these questions. The findings, briefed Tuesday in Inside
Higher Ed, are encouraging. Outside the Georgia university
system, study abroad programs are regarded as varying widely
in rigor. Read more at:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2010/07/
does_study_abroad_make_you_a_b.html?wprss=college-
inc
July Podcast of the Month
Features Interview with
Rosalyn Metz on Cloud
Computing
Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/208218
By fyfthgeer on July 19th, 2010
The July podcast of the month features Rosalyn Metz, systems
administrator for circular support, Wheaton College, on what
cloud computing means for higher education. Metz also has an
article entitled, "Cloud Computing Explained," in this month's
EDUCAUSE Quarterly.
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Warning: Suspicious
Conferences
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52893
July 19th, 2010
The word has been going out around our office to beware
of some suspicious conferences advertising non-genuine
advisory committees. Peter Turney writes, "Why would
conferences spam researchers and add people to their
program committee lists without asking? Because conferences
make money, by charging hefty registration fees. Are you
a researcher in computer science? You might find your
name on one of these program committees." Peter Turney
, Apperceptual , July 16, 2010 6:37 p.m.. [ Link ] [Tags:
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Women Still Dominate Higher
Education Enrollment
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/07/women-still-
dominate-higher-education-enrollment.html
By StevenB on July 19th, 2010
Women account for a disproportionate share of higher
education enrollments at every degree level and likely will
become an even more dominant presence on college campuses
in the next 10 years. An annual study by the U.S. Department
of Education predicts women will account for 59 percent of
undergraduate enrollment and 61 percent of post-bachelor’s
degree enrollment by 2019. Higher education leaders say a
number of factors, such as high school graduation rate gaps
and a pay disparity between working men and women that
spur women to earn more education, help drive this trend. The
national trend isn’t mirrored on some Iowa campuses. Read
more at:
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http://gazetteonline.com/local-news/education/education-
feature/2010/07/14/women-students-are-‘big-man’-on-
many-college-campuses
The Myth of the Echo Chamber
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52892
July 19th, 2010
Karl Fisch says bluntly, "There is no 'echo chamber.' It's
a myth." The comment is probably in response to Ethan
Zuckerman , though there is no link. Fisch writes, "Not
only do I think there is no echo chamber, I think there is
also tremendous power in having discussions with people
who do think in a similar (although not exact) way to you.
Communities of similarly-minded people, passionate people,
working in concert, can accomplish amazing things. We
shouldn't denigrate that, we should celebrate it." Also: Mike
Caulfield writes , "I can't see Facebook as brilliant -- quite
the opposite, it succeeded by tapping into the two most
xenophobic markets in the U.S. -- college students and Silicon
Valley." True, too true. Karl Fisch , The Fischbowl , July 16,
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Chart Shows States Facing
Serious Funding Crising For
Higher Education
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/07/chart-shows-states-
facing-serious-funding-crising-for-higher-education.html
By StevenB on July 19th, 2010
Continuing high unemployment and state budget crises could
lead to funding cuts to public colleges and universities in
Nevada, Louisiana, Illinois, and many other states. Unless
officials in troubled states find new tax dollars to support their
colleges, administrators will have little choice but to impose
hefty tuition increases or reduce the number of classes and
services offered on campus. To help parents and students
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understand what they can expect from public colleges around
the country,U.S.News & World Report has combined data
on the economic and budgetary strength of each state with
funding for each state's public university system to show which
state systems will likely face budget pressure in the coming 18
months. Read more at:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/paying-for-
college/2010/07/12/most-public-colleges-face-budget-cut-
threats-in-2011.html
If Then Why
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52888
July 19th, 2010
Graham Wegner asks a series of good questions. I wouldn't
mind seeing people try to answer them. Also, I like the "if -
then why" pattern he uses. Because I like patterns, especially
interesting ones. Graham Wegner , Open Educator , July 16,
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This Year's Grads Who Got
Jobs Are Getting Less Money
Source: http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/07/this-years-grads-
who-got-jobs-are-getting-less-money.html
By StevenB on July 19th, 2010
Recent college graduates lucky enough to nab jobs are earning
even less than their counterparts did a year ago, according
to a recent survey. The National Association of Colleges
and Employers said in its quarterly report on salaries that
2010 graduates' average starting salary was $48,661, down
1.3% from the initial salaries of 2009 graduates. People
majoring in general studies saw some of the biggest drops in
compensation. Read more at:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/jobcenter/2010-07-13-
college-job-salaries_N.htm
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Co-Publishing
Source: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=52887
July 19th, 2010

I've thought from time to time about a 'newspaper layout' for

OLDaily over the years. I've never been happy with what I
could come up with. And while http://paper.li/ isn't exactly
it, to me, it's close. I like what Doug Peterson has done with
it to create Ontario-educators Daily . The Twitter feed on the
right works wekk, and it's good to have multiple contributors
(more evident from the list view ). Doug Peterson , doug –
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