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opencontent Writing about how folksonomic approaches can combine with semantic web approaches to give us a less-expensive-best-of-both-worlds was some of the more useful stuff I did while at USU working with COSL. As a play on words, I called the resulting applications “folksemantic,” which became an active research line whose work was originally funded by the … Read more
Heard of ThruYou yet? Lessig says, “Watch this, and you’ll understand everything and more than what I try to explain in my book [Remix].” Writing for the Huffington Post, Timothy Karr says, “What ThruYOU tells us is that all bets are off. The DNA of our media system has mutated so completely that it’s only … Read more
Here is my wrap up from last Friday’s incredible Hacking Education meeting. Books mentioned: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life What Would Google Do? Websites mentioned: http://worldwideworkshop.org/ http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://gamestarmechanic.com/GSM/web/home.html http://www.muzzylane.com/ http://edufire.com/ Home http://betterlesson.org/ http://www.facinghistory.org/ http://schoolofeverything.com/ http://www.teachstreet.com/ http://techshop.ws/ … Read more