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An updated guide to Facebook privacy: December 2009 edition Facebook has updated its privacy offerings and things are ever-so-slightly different. We thought we would give a rundown of the major changes as well as what's no longer there so you don't find yourself sharing party photos with your mom. - Vance Stevens

Language Learning Applications for Smartphones, or Small Can Be Beautiful* - Vance Stevens

Mag+, a concept video on the future of digital magazines I’ve got something I want to share with you. We’ve been working with our friends at Bonnier R&D exploring the future of digital magazines. Bonnier publish Popular Science and many other titles. Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable to read. Can we marry what’s best about magazines with the always connected, portable tablet e-readers sure to arrive in 2010? This video prototype shows the take of the Mag+ project. - Vance Stevens

the portal where recordings are linked - Vance Stevens

like addictomatic, write a word, see the portal form before your eyes - Vance Stevens

Show notes for Alec Couros's talk December 19, 2009 Topic: Open university courses and how to manage them. - Vance Stevens

With the growth of the internet, technology and especially with web 2.0 tools it is now easier for each of us to build a unique online Personal Learning Network (PLN). These networks often grow organically as we ourselves evolve both needs and skills ... with the increase in available information worldwide and easier access there comes a time when it's advisable to pause and reflect. Not only is this an exercise in time management but also one related to keeping sane under the rapid growth of information available. With this all in mind I created this page to identify and visualise my own PLN - Vance Stevens

The first ever Sprint ad to feature the new webOS Palm Pre! (shown at 0:27 and 0:54) http://www.weboshelp.net Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/weboshelp - Vance Stevens

Made for a challenge -"Tell us about twitter in 60 seconds" I made EVERY effort to properly credit the CC licensed photos I used. - Vance Stevens

How to create a custom meta-search in Yahoo! Pipes December 18th, 2009 by Paul Bradshaw 1 Comment Here’s another tutorial on the mashup platform Yahoo! Pipes, showing how you can use it to create a meta-search that will push any search term by the user through a number of search engines, and present you with a combined result (and RSS feed). This tutorial builds on a previous post I published on how to create basic mashups with Yahoo! Pipes. If you haven’t any knowledge of Pipes you should probably read that first. - Vance Stevens

DIF involves knowing how digital information is different from print information; having the skills to use specialized tools for finding digital information; and developing the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. As teachers and librarians develop these skills and teach them to students, students will become better equipped to achieve their information needs. The 21st Century Information Fluency Project (21CIF) began in 2001 when the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy received funds to research and develop training in the largely unexplored field of online information literacy. It immediately became clear that the largest needs in this area were for professional development and resources to help educators and students improve their ability to locate, evaluate and use digital information more effectively, efficiently and ethically. - Vance Stevens

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 as at 15 November 2009 This FINAL list has been compiled from the Top 10 Tool Contributions of 278 Learning Professionals worldwide, whose individual contributions you can read here Here is a presentation of the Top 100 Tools. Below you can see the full list with links to pages with more information about each of the tools. - Vance Stevens

Cloud created by Vance as a tool in the EVO session on Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments - Vance Stevens

There have been countless examples of learning objects, OERs and good practice repositories, however their impact on changing practice has been limited. This is due to a range of issues (whether the resources match the user’s needs, the usability of the site, the level of detail provided, etc.), but a key issue is the sustainability of these kinds of repositories. End-users rarely add resources, such sites usually require an investment in terms of someone entering resources and maintaining the repository. In contrast, user-generated content and harnessing collective intelligence are key principles of Web 2.0 tools such as Flickr, Youtube and Slideshareiii: users add content because they want to share their photos, videos or presentations with others and the net result is an aggregate benefit to the community. Can we apply such patterns of behaviour to an educational context and create a social networking site for sharing learning and teaching ideas and designs? - Vance Stevens

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. About Pranav Mistry Pranav Mistry is the inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data - Vance Stevens

Resource: Cloudworks the Movie Movie submitted to JISC 9th October 2009 164 views Cloud created by: Rebecca Galley Rebecca Galley 9 October 2009 Cloudworks the Movie Pt I - starring Grainne Conole with Martin Weller and Doug Clow. Available for general release 9th October 2009... - Vance Stevens

See the Clouds below for help with a specific use of Cloudworks. If you have any questions that are not covered by this Cloudscape please email the team at: cloudworks@open.ac.uk * What is Cloudworks? Cloudworks is a social networking site for finding, sharing and discussing learning and teaching ideas and designs. * Core concepts. There are three key concepts associated with Cloudworks - the notion of 'Clouds', 'Cloudscapes' and ‘Cloudstreams’ etc - Vance Stevens

8th ELTA IATEFL Conference PDF Print E-mail ELTA, English Language Teachers' Association is delighted to announce that the next year's Conference, the eight in the highly successful series of ELTA gatherings, will take place in Belgrade, hotel Continental, from May 7-9, 2010. Technology mediated education - necessity or luxury? ELTA is honoured to announce that one of the keynote speakers will be Herbert Puchta. Technology has become an integral component of our life. It is hard to imagine a segment of our everyday life that is not linked with technology in one way or another. It goes without saying how quickly technology has found its way into education. There is barely a teacher who does not use it or who does not ask students to rely on it for their learning. What would education be like without technology? Is there any area of education in which technology should not be used? When do we and our students have enough of technology? - Vance Stevens

TESOL CALL-IS EVO Sessions For six weeks , participants can engage with ESOL experts in collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These sessions will bring together participants for a longer period of time than is permitted by the four-day land-based TESOL convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas and themes of the convention or of professional interest in general. The sessions are free and open to all interested parties. You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate. Visit this page for more information: http://evosessions.pbworks.com/ Check out the sessions we're offering for 2010, and let us know what you think of them: http://evosessions.pbworks.com/Call_fo... - Vance Stevens

Becoming a Webhead 2010 session A hands-on workshop on how to use Web communication tools for language teaching and learning. 30 views Cloud created by: Dafne Gonzalez Dafne Gonzalez 10 December 2009 Welcome to the 2010 issue of Becoming a Webhead! Becoming a Webhead 2010 Sponsor: TESOL CALL IS Jan 11 - Feb 21 In BaW10, we will explore Web 2.0 tools and share the best ways of using them in our teaching practices. We are part of the Webheads in Action virtual Community of Practice. Would you like to join us? - Vance Stevens

Scott Thornburys page including minimalist Dogme portal and more maximalist links to talks and handouts. Why doesn't he use Slideshare and make PDF's, I wonder? - Vance Stevens

clay shirky explains the thesis of his book - Vance Stevens

Clay Shirky tells three stories about connectivity, how entrenched systems broke down in china when citizens reported on an earthquake as it happened and eventually got on to the fact that corrupt officials had allowed breaches in bldg codes and how chinese officials couldn't prevent it because the great firewall was facing the wrong way - then about Obama who decided to go against an online swell of protest against him but didin't shut it down, and one other story I might recall later - Vance Stevens

This is a a reprint of the paper from 2004 with the same name: http://www.elearnspace.org/Article... - Vance Stevens

The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application. When knowledge, however, is needed, but not known, the ability to plug into sources to meet the requirements becomes a vital skill. As knowledge continues to grow and evolve, access to what is needed is more important than what the learner currently possesses. Connectivism presents a model of learning that acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity. How people work and function is altered when new tools are utilized. The field of education has been slow to recognize both the impact of new learning tools and the environmental changes in what it means to learn. Connectivism provides insight into learning skills and tasks needed for learners to flourish in a digital era. - Vance Stevens

This is a slightly altered and expanded version of the paper from 2004 with the same name: http://www.elearnspace.org/Article... - Vance Stevens

The book is here, xeroxed - Vance Stevens

Arabic lessons leave pupils tongue-tied Despite Arabic being the native language of the UAE, it remains a poorly taught and neglected subject in schools. Expatriate children are far from conversing in the language and their proficiency levels are shockingly weak. Many are turning to private tuition for help. From under-qualified teachers to poor resources to unmotivated pupils, a look into the many factors that make learning Arabic unexciting in classrooms. * Anjana Sankar, Senior Reporter * Published: 18:45 December 3, 2009 - Vance Stevens

Learner strategies at the interface: Computer-assisted language learning meets computer-mediated communication Vance Stevens, Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Kassem Wahba, Zeinab Taha, and Liz England (Eds.) September 5, 2005 About Arabic teaching using mimicry and memorization, noncommunicative practice with dialogues, and readings and listenings chosen more for the linguistic forms present than for relevance to students, most devoid of authenticity. Computers and particularly access to the Internet have since changed the potential, if not always the practice, of the teaching of languages. Accordingly, this chapter focuses on the currently underdeveloped but potentially significant impact of CMC in the teaching of Arabic as a second/foreign language. see also http://gulfnews.com/news... - Vance Stevens

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