Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-05

  • "In e-reader accessibility race, new Kindle, iPad in front" http://ow.ly/1qNqKe #accessibility #
  • RT @eyebeams: …get the school community to do the heavy lifting always – peer tutotring, collaborative working – relationships #ukedchat #
  • Just reread Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" Predicted hyperdrive but had soldiers receive written letters. How good're scifi tech forecasts? #
  • On Twitter, It's Follower Quality Not Quantity that Matters http://ow.ly/1qNpUg #
  • My dream set up: Drupal Commons http://j.mp/aAf2Xq for community building, Mahara for portfolio management. Why reinvent the wheel? #
  • QR on the fly Bookmarklet a great solution for transferring links to phone if not on Chrome/Froyo. http://j.mp/cWrEmj #accessibility #edtech #
  • @Google should make up for #wavefail by buying Android2Cloud or at least hosting it for free. http://j.mp/dkYcsh #android #
  • Amazon's UK #Kindle store doesn't show numbers of books per category. Good news? Hardly! http://screencast.com/t/MmZkNzBmZjkt #
  • Sadly, sometimes when you do, too: RT @literacyadviser: Sometimes when you don't succeed it's actually the success criteria which are wrong. #
  • If usability was more important than utility, Facebook, Moodle etc wouldn't exist. Most technologies are usable when used every day. #edtech #
  • @moodleman Don't think the problem with Google #Wave was usability. Rather it didn't fit into normal workflows so didn't get used enough. in reply to moodleman #
  • RT @Dries: Drupal Commons released: http://bit.ly/9NFZnS Open Source social business software #drupal #acquia #freedom /cc @batsonjay #
  • Great idea: RT @web20classroom: RT @kylepace: Large Google Doc of experts willing to Skype into your class/school…http://bit.ly/9WQLgp #
  • Can't believe Google's decision to shut down Wave. They made all the wrong calls about it but instead of learning just walked away. #ripwave #
  • So I guess, I now won't have to figure out how to make use of Google Wave. But definitely a #googlefail http://j.mp/90Ibyc #
  • @dancohen How about "The Tortoise and the Hare" because fables are more complicated than they may appear: http://j.mp/cfcRu6 #
  • Traditionalists keep asking why students don't know this or that but they should really ask why and how THEY know it. Re http://j.mp/dgW76u #
  • More in-depth discussion on failure of constructivism from Educational Psychologist on http://j.mp/bXtdxM #mootustx10 #
  • android2cloud is the perfect complement to chrome2phone – a must for Chrome/Android users/lovers! http://j.mp/deO9XH #
  • "eloquence doesn't come next to godliness; a devotion to language will have to be its own reward" http://j.mp/dorwFt #
  • "The team behind #Anthologize came and saw and coded, from brainstorm to repository in one week." http://j.mp/9rcPhf #
  • @cliotropic I like your idea of #anthologize as a course-reader framework. But what does it achieve that cut and paste wouldn't? #
  • New on Researchity: Anthologize: 5 lessons for microfunding of research and development projects #anthologize http://j.mp/9vhEZv #
  • @kmhmartin @tomwhitby Lurking is an important part of 2nd language learning & learning in general. Cf Krashen's comprehensible input #edchat in reply to kmhmartin #
  • @MoodleDan I use Chrome to Phone all the time but you can't use it with a leaflet or a business card. Thus QR codes. More coolade, please! in reply to MoodleDan #
  • @MoodleDan QR code transfers information from screen/print into phone w/o retyping. Once you know what they do, they are intuitive. in reply to MoodleDan #
  • @MoodleDan I use QR codes all the time to install apps mentioned in blog posts to my phone. Would be great if they were used more in the UK. in reply to MoodleDan #
  • RT @moodlehelen: Moodle 2 QA Cycle 1 92% passed – need 100% for Moodle 2.0 RC1, please test remaining issues http://tinyurl.com/moodleqa #
  • Already a busy bug-fixing discussion on the @anthologize dev forum: http://groups.google.com/group/anthologize-dev #oneweek #
  • What, no command line? Fired up my SSH client to install @anthologize only to find out it's already in the WP plugin repository. #oneweek #
  • eBook building on the roadmap for @anthologize. #oneweek (via @boonebgorges @amandafrench) #
  • @anthologize sounds like the perfect tool for academic portfolio building. Who will build the first PhD thesis using this? #oneweek #
  • #wordpress probably the right choice for @anthologize and #oneweek but would like to see a more generalized version to work with #drupal #
  • #oneweek tool is a WordPress plugin called "Anthologize" to bring multiple identity streams together. Available on http://anthologize.org #
  • Part of purpose of #oneweek to challenge assumptions about training people in digital humanities. (#dancohen live at http://ustre.am/19C ) #
  • The Big Reveal of #oneweek seems to be about to commence live. (#dancohen live at http://ustre.am/19C ) #
  • How to plan CPD 2.0? 1 Start Twitter account 2 Join in #edchat 3 ??? #
  • @mweller It looks more like a mislabeled RSS feed. I'd say the link back justifies the BY/SA part of the licence. Probably NC, too. in reply to mweller #
  • RT @EADraffan: Android smart phone magnifier works well with a steady hand and has colour options… http://bit.ly/c4TOzE #
  • Towards responsive research funding – More thoughts on the JISC Elevator http://j.mp/aOYysn #
  • I'm much less appalled by witless plagiarism than witless journalism covering the same things as everyone else. http://j.mp/9uzLbD #
  • Yet another age-old behavior blamed on new technology: "a disconnect that is growing in the Internet age" http://j.mp/9uzLbD #nytfail #
  • "OpenCourseWare…has been awarded the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) by Science Magazine" http://j.mp/dloAtV #
  • More and more sites like http://j.mp/a766xn seem to use flash elements for headings–did I miss a memo or is this just bad design? #webdev #
  • New on Researchity: JISC Elevator might bring more responsiveness to research funding http://j.mp/cMqBMZ #
  • "It’s 125 years since the International Phonetic Association was founded." http://j.mp/d3Xdav #
  • Never thought I'd say I'm with Woodhead: There may be no right answers in literature but there are a lot of idiotic ones. http://j.mp/buq1QB #
  • Finally someone doing interesting things with peer review: RT @mweller: Online, open access education research journal: http://www.oerj.org/ #
  • #Froyo downloading now on my HTC Desire. Although I did not wake up early for it like some, I am unduly excited. #
  • If you're also waiting. This will have to do for the time being. RT @DjipOner Terrible: FroYo sur HTC Desire! http://twitpic.com/1zh687 #
  • What do you do when Twitter is down for planned maintenance and you want to tweet your frustration? Another case for federation. #
  • "[Americans practice choice] from such an early age that they've come to believe everyone must be born with this ability" http://j.mp/9RwtGo #
  • Explains why some educators intuitively want VLEs closed: RT @ConnectIrmeli: Welcome to Social Web 3.0 http://slidesha.re/cdRbFI /via @tuija #
  • So sadly true and astutely observed: RT @cliotropic: xkcd on university websites: http://xkcd.com/773/ v @timoreilly #
  • Perhaps we should study failed online communities as carefully as we study dead cultures and languages > http://j.mp/cWPNcp #dh #edtech #
  • RT @cliotropic: RT @sgillies: Maybe the #oneweek project is a tool to measure hype, and this is a training dataset in the making 😉 #
  • RT @Czechly: scvrnkl is the longest #Czech word without any vowels. It means 'he pinged sth off'. Not useful but a #funfact in reply to Czechly #
  • Exposed weakness in our assumptions of educational causality: "Hangman teaches kids: learn spelling or somebody dies" http://bit.ly/clNnwM #
  • @mweller Thanks for tweeting about MetaphorHacker.net. The power of your recommendation brought down the site. All back up and running, now. in reply to mweller #
  • Really? "education means training a child’s conceptual faculty in the process of gaining objective knowledge of reality" http://j.mp/dgW76u #
  • @digitalhumanist @psychemedia Love the JISC Elevator concept. See http://researchity.net for some more ideas on a user-directed approach. in reply to digitalhumanist #
  • RT @digitalhumanist: at JISC Innovation Forum http://bit.ly/9iMymt, idea shared for elevator pitches to rapidly fund small projects. #

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