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Throw the rules out the door. It's time to blog! And that takes some new writing skills.
There are many great writers who have unsuccessful blogs. Here’s why. They may be great writers, but they are not great bloggers. There’s a big difference. Here are eight ways that blog writing differs from how you might write in school or at work.
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In response to some recent events, the Digital Media Law Project took a look today at some landmark legal cases in the history of media protection.
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"...Professional journalists now share the information ecology with a much wider array of members of the public who care about particular communities and issues. These individuals can often speak from deep personal knowledge and identify important information that others might miss. ..." Delete the scoop?
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The report has good data, tries to separate out active learners from window shoppers and not short on surprises. It’s a rich resource and a follow up report is promised. Via Nik Peachey
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Main driver – learning, low interest in certificationThis is a lesson that many MOOC commentators are learning, that MOOCs reflect, not demand for certification but demand for ‘learning’ with only around a third interested in certification or career. . That’s not to say that certification is not important, it’s just less important than educators think. Curiosity about online education and MOOCs, however, is the temporary pollutant in the data.
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May 24, 12:24 PM
The only real surprise to me was that there were close to zero students from China. How long will these courses remain free, I wonder? 
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Today, 5:19 AM
Relatório com algumas conclusões talvez inesperadas. 
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Today, 1:46 PM
one of the surprises should have been that 22K people took an Equine nutrition class. Delete the scoop?
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A row over using English in universities has blown up in France, where language is at the heart of the national identity
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[...] Roland Barthes famously described language as essentially "fascist", not because it censors but, on the contrary, because it forces us to think and say certain things. The idea that we are spoken by language as much as we speak through it is, I think, an important one here: French offers a different world view from English. Today, the symbol of British sovereignty is an independent currency. In France, it is an independent language, and that is indeed something to be cherished. Delete the scoop?
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If I’ve seen any theme come up repeatedly over the past year, it’s getting product cycle times down. It’s not the sexiest or most interesting theme, but it’s everywhere: if it’s not on the front burner, it’s always simmering in the background.
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Cutting product cycles to the bare minimum is one of the main themes of the Velocity Conference and the DevOps movement, where integration between developers and operations, along with practices like continuous deployment, allows web-native companies like Yahoo! to release upgrades to their web products many times a day. It’s no secret that many traditional enterprises are looking at this model, trying to determine what they can use or implement. Indeed, this is central to their long-term survival; companies as different from Facebook as GE and Ford are learning that they will need to become as agile and nimble as their web-native counterparts. Integrating development and operations isn’t the only way to shorten product cycles. In his talk at Google IO, Braden Kowitz talked about shortening the design cycle: rather than build big, complete products that take a lot of time and money, start with something very simple and test it, then iterate quickly. Delete the scoop?
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Recent news suggests that we may be at the leading edge of the "trough of disillusionment" for the hype cycle that ushered in the MOOCs Via R Hollingsworth
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If anything, the spread of MOOCs will be a positive development for all faculty, as MOOCs focus attention on teaching. The best thing about a MOOC is not what it does for the learners engaged in the course, or the faculty member teaching the class, but what the MOOC does (or should do) for every course on campus. 
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May 22, 1:08 PM
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Everett L. Worthington, Jr. has dedicated his career to the study of forgiveness. He has found that it carries tremendous health and social benefits—and he's taken his research to heart. Via Ariana Amorim, Andrea Marrs, Lynnette Van Dyke
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"Often we find it easier to stigmatize or denigrate our enemies than to empathize with or forgive them. And in a society as competitive as ours, people may hesitate to forgive because they don’t want to relinquish the upper hand in a relationship." Delete the scoop?
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Vimeo is the home for high-quality videos and the people who love them.
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If you’re not a geek, and reading over this stuff freaks you out, have no fear! We’re building Pinoccio to be friendly and easy to use for beginners. In other words, you don’t really need to understand what all this stuff means. For us who aren’t geeks, the tiny board has a CPU with built-in radio for connecting to each other, it’s got a USB rechargeable battery that lasts a long time, all kinds of connections to be put to creative use, it can connect to the web with a special add-on and it’s got a temperature sensor. What’s the use of it all? Maybe this short video intro from the crowdfunding page will give you an idea of the almost unlimited possibilities. Delete the scoop?
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HR and communication challenge s ahead... What do Millennials want? Flexibility and independence top the list, according to a new study, “Millennials and the Future of Work,” from oDesk.... Millennial workers want freedom and the flexibility to work how they want. Many Millennials have a “freelance” attitude. Almost nine in 10 (89 percent) say they prefer to work when and where they choose (compared to a corporate, 9-to-5 job). When comparing freelance work to “regular” jobs, Millennials say freelancing gives them more freedom to: - Work wherever they like (92 percent). - Work whenever they like (87 percent). - Work on more interesting projects (69 percent). - Travel while working (half say they’d prefer this to taking vacation time). You Might Have a Closet Freelancer on Your Staff Many Millennials are biding their time at regular jobs and freelancing on the side until the time is right to leave. Nearly three-fourths (71 percent) of those who work regular jobs want to quit to be entirely independent; 61 percent say they likely will quit within two years, and 17 percent say they definitely will.... Via Jeff Domansky, Tom Haak, Denis Pennel
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In redefining entrepreneurship what Milleniums truly expect is working from a Starbucks while typing a few lines of code and sipping coffee. When they realize it isn't that easy, that thousands like them are struggling to make ends meet, I bet you they'll think twice about that 9 to 5 steady job with a monthy pay check. 
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May 16, 11:25 AM
Very interesting, the technology certainly exists to make this real. Organisational structures however, are slower to change. The move to flexibility I think is a good one, affording a better work life balance. Delete the scoop?
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I know the old saying can be true, teachers make the worst students. But it's time to take ownership of your PLN and here's why.
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I have gone to a few ‘unconference’ EdCamp-styled events the past couple years. At each of these, I left with tons of ideas, felt inspired and rejuvenated. Each time I went as an attendee, with the mindset to sit back and absorb as much information as possible. But I was wrong, I was being selfish and using the other attendees for my own personal gain. The buzz phrase lately has been PLN – creating a personal learning network. A network involves connections. As an audience member, I was not connecting and engaging with the other learners, my fellow teachers. Delete the scoop?
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Is there a link between suicide and weakened social ties?
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University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox pointed out recently, there’s a strong link between suicide and weakened social ties: people — and especially men — become more likely to kill themselves “when they get disconnected from society’s core institutions (e.g., marriage, religion) or when their economic prospects take a dive (e.g., unemployment).” That’s exactly what we’ve seen happen lately among the middle-aged male population, whose suicide rates have climbed the fastest: a retreat from family obligations, from civic and religious participation, and from full-time paying work. Delete the scoop?
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“It’s Mooc or die”, a university vice-chancellor has said, claiming that institutions must embrace the massive open online course movement and adapt their teaching methods or face a tough future.
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As more and more universities offer their courses for free online, those that choose not to risk being left behind, and missing out on the opportunity to develop a more innovative – and future-proof – approach to higher education, Don Nutbeam, vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton, said. Speaking at the Universities UK Open and Online Learning conference in London yesterday, he posed the question: “If university content is available for free, why would anyone pay £9,000 plus per year for a university education? If university content can be delivered where and when people want it who will ever turn up for lectures again?” Delete the scoop?
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Google and NASA are forming a joint research lab to look at quantum computing for things like facial recognition and understanding of disease.
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Their quantum computer, which performs complex calculations thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers, is expected to be in active use in the third quarter of this year.
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Overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed papers taking a position on global warming say humans are causing it Our team of citizen science volunteers at Skeptical Science has published a new survey in the journal Environmental Research Letters of over...
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Based on our abstract ratings, we found that just over 4,000 papers took a position on the cause of global warming, 97.1% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. In the scientist self-ratings, nearly 1,400 papers were rated as taking a position, 97.2% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. Many papers captured in our literature search simply investigated an issue related to climate change without taking a position on its cause. Our survey found that the consensus has grown slowly over time, and reached about 98% as of 2011. Our results are also consistent with several previous surveys finding a 97% consensus amongst climate experts on the human cause of global warming. Delete the scoop?
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In this video from our Futurist Forum, Jamais Cascio says that the people hacking a tech to make it serve more shady purposes (or to help them have sex) might be the best window into how it works.
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"If you what to find out how to use a new emerging tool, don’t ask the people who invent it, because they have a very narrow view of what it’s supposed to be used for. The people who are hacking it--the people who use it for crime, who use it to have sex, who use it to do something fun or different--those are the people who are going to find out the little interesting variations." Delete the scoop?
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Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists.
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Using scripture from the Gospel of Mark, Francis explained how upset Jesus' disciples were that someone outside their group was doing good, according to a report from Vatican Radio. “They complain,” the Pope said in his homily, because they say, “If he is not one of us, he cannot do good. If he is not of our party, he cannot do good.” And Jesus corrects them: “Do not hinder him, he says, let him do good.” The disciples, Pope Francis explains, “were a little intolerant,” closed off by the idea of possessing the truth, convinced that “those who do not have the truth, cannot do good.” “This was wrong . . . Jesus broadens the horizon.” Pope Francis said, “The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation” Delete the scoop?
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“The Machine Age,” an essay written for The New York Times by Norbert Wiener, a visionary mathematician, languished for six decades in the M.I.T. archives, and now excerpts are being published.
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[...] Almost 64 years after Wiener wrote it, his essay is still remarkably topical, raising questions about the impact of smart machines on society and of automation on human labor. In the spirit of rectifying an old omission, here are excerpts from “The Machine Age,” courtesy of the M.I.T. Libraries (all rights reserved).[...] ... [...] if we move in the direction of making machines which learn and whose behavior is modified by experience, we must face the fact that every degree of independence we give the machine is a degree of possible defiance of our wishes. The genie in the bottle will not willingly go back in the bottle, nor have we any reason to expect them to be well disposed to us. [...] Delete the scoop?
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In the United States, 3D scanners are now providing new opportunities for technical manufacturers such as bicycle makers to raise the level of product personalisation and thereby attract new customers.
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3D modelling using scanners is helping to shape the future of product personalisation. The apparel industry seems to have lost no time taking on board this way of making garments, for both protective wear and made-to-measure suits. Now the technology looks set to spread fast to more technical industries. The Ohio-based company Roll: is a good example. The company, which sells bicycles, has come up with the idea of creating 3D body images of its customers in order to ensure that the bike s/he has chosen is totally personalised to his/her body metrics. Delete the scoop?
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This is a visualization of San Francisco from the series "Transit Patterns". The piece shows transit ridership in public transportation over 24 hours, depicting…
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Ridership is an identifier for how cities are utilized--whether they are centralized, decentralized or have multiple focal points, whether activity concentrates during rush hour as people are entering or leaving the city center(s), or whether activity is spread out over time. As the transit passenger data suggests, Geneva is centralized while Zurich appears to have multiple centers, and activity is concentrated during rush hours. Activity in San Francisco on the other hand is more evenly spread out, both spatially and over the course of the day. Delete the scoop?
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Any language teacher knows that online translation tools can be a double edged sword. This visual should shed some light on current trends to know about. Delete the scoop?
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Rana Plaza shows just how much traceable supply chains matter. We need to care about the people making our clothes
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"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde's famous quote keeps coming back to me at the moment. I have thought of it over and over in the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. More than 1,120 bodies were removed from the rubble of the eight-storey complex. For some, the Rana Plaza tragedy is a matter of criminality, and indeed there have been multiple arrests, including engineers who are alleged to have illegally added several shoddily constructed floors to the building, and the factory owner who is said to have ordered employees to work the morning of the collapse, after safety concerns had been raised. Delete the scoop?
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Cet article est en creative commons, il est a été écrit et illustré par Camille Bosqué. Accès à l'article, initialement publié sur Strabic. Notre reporter a poussé la porte de l'un des FabLabs européens les mieux équipés et les plus influents. Delete the scoop?
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The soon to be released Moodle 2.5 comes with a new feature called Badges. So before I go through how it works in Moodle, let me address a few questions Wha Via Donna Thompson
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In general, normal certificates printed for a course that the person has been taken are not something that can be easily managed online. Yes, they can be scanned and uploaded but then anyone could edit that. Which brings the second aspect of certificates that they are not easily automatically verified. Some institutions have systems that can provide verification based on a unique code. There are also businesses that specialise in qualification verification.. So open badges solves multiple challenges at once by enabling both the collation and display, and the issuing and verification - thus assisting the issuing organisation, the learner (badge earner) and potential employers or people interested in those skills.
As it is an open design, they are totally portable in case Mozilla just vanished or dropped the support. To take a Q&A directly from their site – > FROM -> http://openbadges.org/faq/ Where will the Open Badges Infrastructure be hosted after it’s built? Will this hosting be “lifelong” to match the goal of students engaging in lifelong learning? Our goal is to support lifelong learning through ongoing access to badges. Mozilla is building the reference implementation to support a federation of badge backpacks that will be hosted by various organizations. We are building the infrastructure in a way to support complete decentralization and openness. This is intended to make it easy for organizations, or even individuals, to manage their own backpacks and still work within the wider ecosystem. Delete the scoop?
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Make a loan to an entrepreneur across the globe for as little as $25. Kiva is the world's first online lending platform connecting online lenders to entrepreneurs across the globe.
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Donator since 2008, I just reloaned money I had been paid back by other entrepreneurs I lent to previously.
Care to help fight poverty, make good and do something useful, click the link and join me in Team Europe. - Pascal 
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May 18, 5:39 AM
It's a great organisation if you perceive yourself as a citizen of the world! Very rewarding to be a small part of it! Delete the scoop?
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May 17, 12:57 PM
Too bad the person delivering the speech seems to suffer from a bad cold.
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The problem is that Wikipedia in the classroom has gotten a bad reputation in the K-12 world, undeservedly so I think. I would suggest that Wikipedia can be used for a multitude of educational purposes at a wide variety of grade levels. Too many teachers are still afraid to use it in class, so I’m here to right that wrong and show our educators how they can responsibly integrate Wikipedia into their lessons.
Via Nik Peachey
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Ultimately though, it’s your classroom, so it’s up to you to decide how to grade your students. Be sure to check out Wikipedia’s own resources for teachers as well. They have an awesome 12-week syllabus showing you exactly how you can integrate Wikipedia into your classroom. They also have training designed especially for educators. 
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May 17, 12:53 PM
Many schools don't allow students to use Wikipedia for projects, but could they be teaching their students how to use Wikipedia effectively instead? 
Ken Morrison's comment,
May 17, 6:44 PM
Ugh. I hate it when I do this. I accidentally scooped this article instead of rescooping yours. Thanks for sharing. Sometimes opening too many tabs causes bad habits for me.
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May 18, 8:46 AM
Από το άρθρο:" Be sure to check out Wikipedia’s own resources for teachers as well. They have an awesome 12-week syllabus showing you exactly how you can integrate Wikipedia into your classroom. They also have training designed especially for educators."
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