Why 15 Minutes?- ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education http://t.co/iLWPV2XV... 
The Death of the Cubicle-and the Killers are Collaboration & Innovation http://t.co/5Ac7TzXR #e20s #socbiz #digitalworkplace #intranet... 
The Education Department presses states seeking NCLB flexibility for more-ambitious goals in their applications. 
A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia. 
Grockit's latest product re-configures online content such as YouTube videos, Wikipedia entries and ebooks into ordered lesson plans. 
MTV.comLady Gaga's Little Monsters may scare social media giantsBoston HeraldBy Jessica Van Sack Pop megastar Lady Gaga might just be onto something with her new social network, Little Monsters, launching this summer. 
Children in the United Kingdom and the United States are more likely to be "functionally illiterate" than children in Canada and Australia, despite higher spending on children and similar levels of inequality, new research has found. 
Excerpted from the article: "Vyclone is a free iOS app (UK-only for now), that professes to let you “Record life from all angles” – in short, it lets users collaborate from different locations and perspectives to “co-create, sync and share movies”.
Vyclone lets you upload a clip to its servers, where other users can throw their own shots into the mix to create a crowdsourced movie encompassing, literally, different points-of-view.
Once you’re in you can browse existing videos, or start shooting footage yourself.
It’s worth noting that once you upload a video for the Vyclone-using public to access, others can remix it and do as they please.
You can choose what content you want to share publicly through Vyclone, and whether you want to keep it private between you and your buddies. If you don’t choose ‘public’ or ‘private’, it will default to the former.
A nice little feature is that you can search for movies that have already been created nearby, which obviously lends itself well to event-specific video collaborations. Once you’re done shooting or remixing the movie with the built-in editing tool, you can choose to broadcast your movie across all the usual social networks.
It’s worth noting that the app is UK-only for now, though as The Guardian notes, a full-scale launch should happen this year. And an Android app is in the works too..."
Read full article here: http://j.mp/K0nwFh Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
For colleges and universities, the great age of experimentation is now upon us. by Thomas Frey Via Susan Bainbridge RT @drmelmarshall: Personal response to Rosalind Gill's essay - The uncertainty of contemporary Higher Education | Dr Anna Tarrant http://t.co/jQz1xa5L... 
Interesting tidbit.... 
Foucault revisited for the Digital Humanities http://t.co/8Uiepe8S... |
At a Tech-Savvy School, Smart Questions About City's New Social Media PolicyNew York TimesBy Beth Fertig Students and teachers at the NYC iSchool in Manhattan greeted the city's recently announced social media policy with a shrug because it won't... 
More than 50 years after the introduction of [Canadian] universal health care, we need a new approach to our most important social program – and a commitment to putting the interests of the patient first... 
"WASHINGTON -- The presumptive presidential Republican nominee Mitt Romney pledged Wednesday that, if elected, he would reshape or do away with two major Obama administration higher education policy initiatives: the overhaul of the federal student loan program and tighter regulations on for-profit colleges. . . ." 
Convert your files to Ebook formats! ePub, FB2, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PDF, TCR! Ebook Converter allows you to convert almost all files to the below mentioned ebook formats! You can even change specific settings and select sometimes for what ebook reader the file is going to be used. How can we convert almost every file on your phone? Well, the converting is accomplished by uploading your file to the cloud where it will be converted and downloaded back to your phone. This all occurs really fast and while the converting is being done you can just continue using your phone. Features:
I have used this App several times now and it is quick and works without a hitch. The question is why convert to ebook? Simple, an ebook is easier to read and keeps a bookmark. When you read alot of research documents like I do these features alone are worth their weight in gold. Plus, the ebook bookshelf is a nice way of browsing my files instead of trawling through document folders on my device.
5 stars for this one Via Heath Sawyer Ok, I’ll risk sounding like a broken record to say again that the notion that humanities students are ill-positioned for solid careers after college is simply misguided. It still bears repe... 
The word “collaboration” is creating lots of confusion these days. In several recent client projects, I've seen firsthand to what extent different interpretations of “collaboration” have triggered serious misunderstandings and even ... 
#HE #Tech Educational Technology Is Key to Job Training, Panelists Say ...: The Chronicle of Higher Education ..... The overload of the print revolution led to indexes, reference books, editors, authors, classification systems. 17 minute 48 second audio interview with author of "Too Much to Know" Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age" -- Howard
"It is a constant complaint: We're choking on information. The flood of data on the Web has reached mind boggling proportions, and it shows no signs of stopping. But wait, says Harvard professor Ann Blair -- this is not a new condition." Via Howard Rheingold 
'How to Think Wrong' workshops teach us to challenge the status quo. 
EMC Greenplum to Host Second Annual Data Science SummitMarketWatch (press release)The event brings together thought leaders from academia, the social enterprise, Silicon Valley start-ups, and the public sector to help attendees explore and define... 
How to convince the naysayers in IT, HR, and the Legal Department that social media is a necessity. |
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