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Visualize connections in conversations on Twitter. Search for a user, tag, or trends. Tweets that generate conversation appear as spirals as they bounce around between people, so perhaps someone with lots of spirals would be someone who generates lots of conversation rather than just talking at people.
·socialcollider.net·
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2¢ Worth » Why did Google Make this Harder
2¢ Worth » Why did Google Make this Harder
I was just trying to figure out how to get a news feed from Google today and was stumped. Google changed the interface and no longer provides a direct link, but you can manually create the feed.
You just have to manually rewrite the search URL, adding “<i>&amp;output=rss</i>“.
·davidwarlick.com·
2¢ Worth » Why did Google Make this Harder
SpeEdChange: Refusing Free, Depriving Students
SpeEdChange: Refusing Free, Depriving Students
Why do schools refuse to use free and open source software options, even when those options would improve accessibility for students? Ignorance? Fear? Politics? Probably some combination of all three.
If an electrician was too afraid of electricity to touch a wire, he'd be an electrician no more. So if an educator is afraid of the information and communication technologies of his/her age, then he/she can no longer be an "educator" in any meaningful way.
·speedchange.blogspot.com·
SpeEdChange: Refusing Free, Depriving Students
Education - Change.org: Pharmer's Market: The Cost of Producing "Successful" Students
Education - Change.org: Pharmer's Market: The Cost of Producing "Successful" Students
A comparison of standardized schooling with industrial agriculture and the effects of the obsession on productivity in both environments
In standardized environments, students with a high tolerance for monotony and the ability to repress their curious gene are deemed the fittest of the bunch.
It seems that despite (or maybe because of) our fetish with productivity, many of humanity's most pressing issues seem to be getting worse. The unnatural selection playing out in schools creates what every educational institution's mission statement pledges against: the creation of uncritical, passive, challenge-averse individuals, unwilling and unable to tackle the challenges of the 21st-century.
·education.change.org·
Education - Change.org: Pharmer's Market: The Cost of Producing "Successful" Students
The eLearning Coach » Blog Archive » 10 Qualities of the Ideal Instructional Designer
The eLearning Coach » Blog Archive » 10 Qualities of the Ideal Instructional Designer
Recognizing that most instructional designers don't have a degree in the field, this post argues that it's less important for IDs to have a degree than to be "self-didacts" interested in learning about everything on their own. This also includes a list of 10 qualities of instructional designers.
·theelearningcoach.com·
The eLearning Coach » Blog Archive » 10 Qualities of the Ideal Instructional Designer
News: U.S. Push for Free Online Courses - Inside Higher Ed
News: U.S. Push for Free Online Courses - Inside Higher Ed
The Obama administration is pushing for creating free online courses at the high school/community college level, focusing on basic skills and job training. Some sort of examination/assessment is also possible, plus the idea of mixing free and paid courses at community colleges to reduce the cost of tuition.
Bonk said that administration's ideas about open courses are consistent with the "convergence" he sees taking place in online learning. There is a growing belief that for many kinds of courses, there are best providers whose work can be made available online, there are large numbers of students who could benefit from those courses, and those who might benefit don't necessarily have a lot of money.
·insidehighered.com·
News: U.S. Push for Free Online Courses - Inside Higher Ed
Meta-Analysis Shows Online Learning Better, Blended Even Better
Meta-Analysis Shows Online Learning Better, Blended Even Better

According to a meta-analysis by the US Department of Education, face-to-face courses are less effective than online and blended learning. They caution against viewing this as simply a matter of the medium though. It's the changes in what online and blended learning allow (like opportunities for collaboration) that are likely making the difference.

Direct link to PDF: http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf

The meta-analysis findings do not support simply putting an existing course online, but they do support redesigning instruction to incorporate additional learning opportunities online.
·brandon-hall.com·
Meta-Analysis Shows Online Learning Better, Blended Even Better
Clive on Learning: It's not enough to be a professional, you also have to act like one
Clive on Learning: It's not enough to be a professional, you also have to act like one
Good points on acting like real professionals, not just "order takers" when developing training/learning
<p>You wouldn't hire an interior designer only to inform.them that you've already chosen all the colour schemes and furnishings; you wouldn't engage an accountant and then explain to them the way you wanted them to process your figures; you wouldn't employ a fitness trainer and then tell them what to include in your workout; you wouldn't buy a dog and then insist on doing all the barking.</p> <p>So why, then, do we continue to encounter situations in which line managers tell the guys from l&amp;d exactly what they want in terms of learning interventions, with the expectation that the they'll simply take those instructions and run. </p>
·clive-shepherd.blogspot.com·
Clive on Learning: It's not enough to be a professional, you also have to act like one