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Finally, Hodgkinson-Williams and Gray (2009) discuss “social openness”: “the willingness to make materials available beyond the confines of the classroom by lecturers, students and university management” (p. 105). Social openness not only involves making teaching materials available to a wider audience, but also engaging in more collaborative activities among students, between students and instructors, and […]
Imagine having your own self-contained knowledge manipulator in a portable package the size and shape of an ordinary notebook. Suppose it had enough power to outrace your senses of sight and hearing, enough capacity to store for later retrieval thousands of page-equivalents of reference materials, poems, letters, recipes, records, drawings, animations, musical scores, waveform, dynamic […]
“Devices” which variously store, retrieve, or manipulate information in the form of messages embedded in a medium have been in existence for thousands of years. People use them to communicate ideas and feelings both to others and back to themselves. Although thinking goes on in one’s head, external media serve to materialize thoughts and, through […]
Moreover, they will be far more versatile than present commercial machines, so that they may readily be adapted for a wide variety of operations. They will be controlled by a control card or film, they will select their own data and manipulate it in accordance with the instructions thus inserted, they will perform complex arithmetical … Continue reading ““Nugget Assignment #2”: The Past is a Foreign Country”
Hello classmates and fellow blogging enthusiasts! This week’s first assignment was to collaborate with my fellow students and create a comprehensive timeline of the Web and it’s milestone achievements (or what we consider to be an achievement.) My contributions were…
Hello! Coming at you is the third nugget from the fourth module. This bit is from the blog post, The Question Should be: Why Are You *Not* Blogging: “Do you know what you were thinking about on a date, like, say September 30, 2005? I will wait. See if you can recall. Are you having […]
On Module 3 for this week, there was an article called “25 things you might not know about the web on its 25th birthday” of John Naughton and this paragraph below captured my attention. “20 The web has an impact on the environment. We just don’t know how big it is The web is largely powered…
Here is the PowerPoint presentation I made on the topic of language learning. I chose this topic because I’ve been meaning to write something about learning foreign languages to this blog, as it’s a passion and hobby of mine. Also, I thought it might be helpful to add some information for anyone who might be considering […]
My class collectively made a timeline of the history of the Web. We were all required to…
What is Open Education? By Christina Hendricks Types of Openness: Free of cost “Anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose.” (Legal Openness) “Technological Openness”, which is the use of different software tools. Educational Resources, which combines financial, legal,…
