SPARC Webcast: The Right to Research: Engaging Students on the Topic of Access to Research

SPARC Webcast: The Right to Research: Engaging Students on the Topic of Access to Research
“Today’s students have come of age in the Internet era. Access to knowledge is the norm for them, rather than the exception. Students recognize how the lack of access is detrimental to research and education, and how the subscription-only model can conflict with the ethic of the academy, which is to share knowledge with everyone. I hope this guide will engage students and help them become more active participants in the campus conversation.”

(Gavin Baker, author of The Right to Research) / [http://www.arl.org/sparc/students/]

The Right to Research: Engaging Students on the Topic of Access to Research

August 6, 2008 / Wednesday / 1:00PM – 2:30PM (Eastern)

With: Gavin Baker, Graduate, University of Florida and SPARC Outreach Fellow ; Nelson Pavlosky, Law Student, George Mason University, and SPARC Summer Intern ; Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC.

Moderator: Jennifer McLennan, Director of Communications, SPARC

Today’s college students – both undergraduate and graduate –possess tremendous potential for shaping the future of scholarly exchange. Appreciating student perspectives on information sharing and access to research can help to advance library outreach programs. In partnership with student leaders, SPARC has developed The Right to Research – a campaign that encourages student engagement and provides a suite of materials to help libraries connect with students on the topic of access to research. The goal of The Right to Research is to explore ways that libraries and students might advance new opportunities to work together in creating a more open system of scholarly communication.

Please join us for the latest installment in The Right to Research campaign. At this online event, student leaders Gavin Baker and Nelson Pavlosky will lead a discussion on: why working with students is critical to advancing the discussing of access to research; how to effectively engage students on campus and what resources are available; and specific actions to take next semester – including an announcement of our next nationwide on-campus event to raise awareness.

This invitation is open to SPARC members and other libraries only. You’ll need access to a phone and a Web browser to participate. Access details will be sent to registrants. Limited to 100 participants. Register by end of day, Friday, August 1, 2008 at [http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml]

Questions and comments may be directed to Jennifer McLennan (jennifer@arl.org).

Source [http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0722.shtml]

Beasiswa Jepang: Special Scholarship Programme 2008/09 Kochi University of Technology
special Scholarship Programme 2008/09
Kochi University of Technology, Japan

Date: the 2008/09 academical year
Deadline: September 30, 2008

Announcement follows:

Special Scholarship Program (SSP) was established in 2003 in order to
support the advanced research of the university by enlisting the help
of highly capable international students. Every year in April and
October, the university enrolls selected foreign doctoral students
under specific research projects. The students pursue the doctoral
course in English while at the same time assisting their host
professor as a research assistant (RA).
Through this program KUT wishes to expand and deepen international
ties with academic and educational institutions all over the world.
Application Guideline for Special Scholarship
Program (SSP)

1. Programme of study
Course for International Students
Doctoral Program (3 years)
Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering

2. Number of students admitted
20 students per year

3. Enrollment time
April/October

4. Scholarship term
One year
*The term will be extended for increments of one year up to a total
of three years, unless the university terminates the scholarship for
any of the reasons stated below in the paragraph 12, Termination of
Scholarship

5. Obligations
(1) Scholarship recipient must work as a research assistant under the
specific research project.
*However, the total paid working time per week, including research
assistant work, should not exceed 28 hours.
(2) Scholarship recipient must report his/her study and research
achievements to the dean of the graduate school of engineering at the
end of each semester. The submitted reports will be evaluated.

6. Benefits
(1) Receive up to 1,200, 000 yen per year for working as a research
assistant.
(2) Exemption from 300,000 yen enrollment fee, 940,000 yen (per year)
tuition fee, 150,000 yen (per year) fee for facilities improvement
and 150,000yen (per year) cost of experiments and laboratory work.
(3) Receive 200,000 yen for travel and initial living costs (given
only to applicants who are living outside Japan at the time of
application)

7. Eligibility
@Applicants are required to meet all of the following conditions

(1) To have or to be expected to acquire a master fs degree before
enrollment.
(2) To have intention, adequate knowledge and research skill to work
as a research assistant under the one of research projects listed here
(3) To have an excellent academic record
(4) To have a high English proficiency
(5) To be 35 years old or under at the time of enrollment
(6) To have other than Japanese nationality

8. Application process
(1) Choose the research project from @the SSP Research Project List
for October 2008 & April 2009 Enrollment.
(2) Complete and submit all required documents.
*Please refer to @the List for SSP Application Documents

9. Admission schedule
October 2008 Admission
Deadline: March 31, 2008
April 2009 Admission
Deadline: March 31, 2008 & September 30, 2008

For More Information Klik
http://www.kochi-tech.ac.jp/gs_e/admission/index.html

Regards,

Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New

Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New

23 - 25 June 2008 / City Campus East, Northumbria University /
Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK /

Day 2 / Wednesday / 25th June 2008
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
Keynote 4
Gerry McKiernan
Iowa State University, US.

Throughout history, humans have (re)used local resources to create not only buildings and fortifications, but monuments, roads, and a wide variety of other structures. For countless generations, artists, composers, and writers have freely incorporated elements from local and distant cultures to create new visual, musical, and textual forms.

In The Web 2.0 World, the open (re)combination of multiple media has become commonplace in many venues, practices that Lawrence Lessig [http://lessig.org/], founder of Creative Commons [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons], and others, would characterize as emblematic of a ‘Remix ‘ or ‘Read/Write’ culture. Indeed, from his point of view, “the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix_culture].

In the recently-released Horizon Report 2008 - a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), six emerging information technologies and practices that are expected to significantly impact educational organizations are profiled: Grassroots Video, Collaborative Webs, Mobile Broadband, Data Mashups, Collaborative Intelligence, and Social Operating Systems
[http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf].

In this presentation, we will review the Read/Write Traditions of the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences; analyze key Past / Present / Future Participatory Technologies; and explore the potential of Web 2.0 for creating/fostering Disruptive Learning / Scholarship / Teaching in the 21st century.

A leadership running on empty
While sitting in the midst of a recession and struggling with the continuously increasing cost of everyday items (mostly due to the soaring costs of fuel and gas), I can’t help but wonder when this problem will end.

As a UMKC student, I have worked part-time for the last three years at an average pay of $8-9 per hour; not too bad for a college student many would say.

PhD Studentship - Value of Time University of Dublin

PhD Studentship - Value of Time University of Dublin
University of Dublin, Trinity College
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
PhD Studentship in Transport Research

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the Centre for Transport Research, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin. The research position is for 3 years, commencing October 2008. Funding is provided under the National Roads Authority Doctoral Fellowship Programme.

This research will investigate the value of time used and savings in travel time using a number of methods including stated and revealed preference methods, and discrete choice modelling. The outcomes of this research will be used to calculate a value for travel time saved so that a value can be placed on the benefits derived by road users for major new road schemes.
The studentship includes a stipend of €13,000 per annum, plus college fees. Applicants should have a good honours primary degree (at least 2-1 honour) in Civil Engineering, Economics, Transport, or other relevant degree.
Candidates are asked to send a full CV together the names of two referees, at least one of whom should be an academic, to:

Professor Margaret O’Mahony,
Chair of Civil Engineering, Head of Department and
Director of the Centre for Transport Research,
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland
Email: margaret.omahony@ tcd.ie
Telephone +353-1-8962084

Beasiswa Jepang: Special Scholarship Programme 2008/09 Kochi University of Technology
special Scholarship Programme 2008/09
Kochi University of Technology, Japan

Date: the 2008/09 academical year
Deadline: September 30, 2008

Announcement follows:

Special Scholarship Program (SSP) was established in 2003 in order to
support the advanced research of the university by enlisting the help
of highly capable international students. Every year in April and
October, the university enrolls selected foreign doctoral students
under specific research projects. The students pursue the doctoral
course in English while at the same time assisting their host
professor as a research assistant (RA).
Through this program KUT wishes to expand and deepen international
ties with academic and educational institutions all over the world.
Application Guideline for Special Scholarship
Program (SSP)

1. Programme of study
Course for International Students
Doctoral Program (3 years)
Department of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering

2. Number of students admitted
20 students per year

3. Enrollment time
April/October

4. Scholarship term
One year
*The term will be extended for increments of one year up to a total
of three years, unless the university terminates the scholarship for
any of the reasons stated below in the paragraph 12, Termination of
Scholarship

5. Obligations
(1) Scholarship recipient must work as a research assistant under the
specific research project.
*However, the total paid working time per week, including research
assistant work, should not exceed 28 hours.
(2) Scholarship recipient must report his/her study and research
achievements to the dean of the graduate school of engineering at the
end of each semester. The submitted reports will be evaluated.

6. Benefits
(1) Receive up to 1,200, 000 yen per year for working as a research
assistant.
(2) Exemption from 300,000 yen enrollment fee, 940,000 yen (per year)
tuition fee, 150,000 yen (per year) fee for facilities improvement
and 150,000yen (per year) cost of experiments and laboratory work.
(3) Receive 200,000 yen for travel and initial living costs (given
only to applicants who are living outside Japan at the time of
application)

7. Eligibility
@Applicants are required to meet all of the following conditions

(1) To have or to be expected to acquire a master fs degree before
enrollment.
(2) To have intention, adequate knowledge and research skill to work
as a research assistant under the one of research projects listed here
(3) To have an excellent academic record
(4) To have a high English proficiency
(5) To be 35 years old or under at the time of enrollment
(6) To have other than Japanese nationality

8. Application process
(1) Choose the research project from @the SSP Research Project List
for October 2008 & April 2009 Enrollment.
(2) Complete and submit all required documents.
*Please refer to @the List for SSP Application Documents

9. Admission schedule
October 2008 Admission
Deadline: March 31, 2008
April 2009 Admission
Deadline: March 31, 2008 & September 30, 2008

For More Information Klik
http://www.kochi-tech.ac.jp/gs_e/admission/index.html

Regards,

eBay Address and Billing Glitches

eBay Address and Billing Glitches

I recently received a question about eBay shipping charge and address glitches:

The ebay system seems to have a glitch in it. I had a buyer insist that the invoice did not show my mailing address. I checked all my settings and it should show up on every invoice. I figured she just made a mistake, but then I sent her an invoice and copy to myself and the address did not show. Also, I have sent invoices where the shipping charges changed on discounted shipping. Once again, I thought there was some error on the other person part, until I purchased multiple items from two different ebayers and found that once I clicked on Pay Now, the shipping charged either defaulted to the charge for one item or added all shipping charges w/o the discount. I ended in all cases having to pay thru Paypal directly instead of thru ebay.

Have you heard of this happening to other sellers?

The following link addresses the issue: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m09/i11/s02

Apparently eBay and PayPal have fixed the issue. See: http://www.ebaychatter.com/the_chatter/2007/09/paypal-ship-to-.html

Does anyone else have experience with the shipping charge issue in the 2^nd part of the question?

Thanks,

Phil

Inside tips on creating a successful landing page.

Inside tips on creating a successful landing page.

Landing pages are important to anyone running a pay per click campaign. Some people may disagree. In fact, I know there are many people that believe there is little use in spending time on them at all. These are usually people that have never attempted to optimize their landing pages. Several large and medium sized businesses use pay per click. Some have even taken the step to make all their “buy” pages landing pages. If profitable businesses take notice of landing pages, shouldn’t you? So what is a landing page and what are the benefits?

Landing pages have everything a visitor needs to make a decision and purchase all on one page. You may be asking if this is necessary. Couldn’t you just link to the home page? If you do that, the visitor now needs to surf to find what they want. Trust me, they won’t. It is easier to hit the back button and try another site. Landing pages go hand in hand with your ad. If your ad is mentioning a specific product, the link should take them to the page featuring this product. Your site’s landing pages should be accessible from your site map. It needs to be indexed but doesn’t need to be viewable by your visitors unless they are coming in from your PPC ad.

Some inside secrets:

Some people will leave your landing page without scrolling down or reading the content on the page. Whatever layout you decide to go with, keep that in mind. If visitors can’t find what they need within 10 seconds, they’ll likely move on to someone else’s page. Make sure your photo, content and “call for action” are in immediate view of the visitor.

Use the same heading for your title page on your landing pages. This will help reassure your visitors that they are on the right site. Use words for your hyperlinks. Worded links tend to catch visitors eyes first. Use this to your advantage. Links can be whole sentences if so desired. Bold any words that may be of interest to the visitor. Words such as free, guarantee, low prices and other similar words will guide the reader to where you want them to go. Also, most visitors will jump through a few hoops to purchase your product. Just don’t make them jump too often. Make your forms simple and easy to fill out. If your form takes longer the 2.5 minutes to fill out, you may lose the sale.

Here are some small factors that can make a big difference in sales. Try:

* Changing colors
* Lowering shipping charges occasionally, and indicating it to the visitor
* Reassuring buyers with a money back guarantee or BBB seal
* Limiting navigational options
* Simplifying content (Just list the information a visitor needs to know to make a purchase)
* Making it as easy as possible for the visitor to make a speedy purchase (If the shipping and billing addresses are the same, do they really need to fill it out twice? Why not use an automated indicator box?) Offering better customer service options (If you can, give them the option to call you - especially if you offer 24 hour telephone service)

Test other layouts. Try adding different photos, text, fonts and colors. Make each landing page different. Then compare your clicks vs sales. The landing page with the highest conversion may be the one that works best. If you see a remarkable difference in your click to sale ratio, implement the same layout to the other pages. Your conversion rates should move up. Remember to keep your pages simple. In this case, less is more. Remember to keep a close eye on your conversions and adjust accordingly. You should see your ROI increase.

For Affordable SEO, SEM, website design and more visit Joe’s site. To read the latest SEO News visit his blog.Or, read articles on SEO.

Software Outsourcing

Software Outsourcing

Downright Fascinating Social Media and Web Commerce Trends

Downright Fascinating Social Media and Web Commerce Trends

The following is important fodder for eBay sellers, ecommerce sites, and general Web commerce audiences. It’s even fascinating to the lay person. That said,…

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee wrote a great article on Web trends in the November 26, 2007 issue of InformationWeek. There is so much going on in this market.. the mind reels. Here’s a taste from the lead:

“The old days of companies tightly controlling a marketing message are gone…The interactive forces of the Internet - including social networking sites, online discussion boards, and blogs - are arming consumers with tools that can quickly and exponentially spread the word to other would-be customers if a product stinks or a company blunders… Companies such as Charles Schwab and OnStar are creating Internet platforms to literally read the minds of consumers, seeking out insights that directly drive their new product strategies.” [my emphasis]

This reminded me of AdWords, of course. AdWords is great for driving business or clicks to your site via general advertising techniques. However, what a lot of people don’t realize is that AdWords is a great tool for testing promos, floating new ideas, and reading the minds of consumers. And it’s cheap!.. given the right niched-out keywords.

The article details various ways companies like FedEx, eBay, Schwab and others are using the social connectivity of Web 2.0 (I hate saying Web 2.0, but I did, shame) to their advantage. FedEx’s CIO Rob Carter says, (paraphrased from the article) “The explosive growth of this connectivity has been ‘completely underestimated’ in how it will affect society and markets.” I concur.

The article also talks about some fascinating new trends, like having your Second Life avatar or character purchase things for you or book reservations for you online. I know, that sounds crazy. But think about it. Why the heck not? If you build the right character, with all your tastes, desires, wish lists and so forth, why not set him free on a shopping spree? I’ve never played Second Life, but I assume there are vendors in there, like Amazon.com. (If you know how this works, please comment below and enlighten us.) FedEx’s Carter comments in the article, “Second Life has enough momentum to make us wonder: What if this identity I’ve built could spill over into my daily life and get things done for me?” Your avatar would be like an information robot – tuned to all your preferences and guided by “business rules” that determine decisions.

Carter extends the concepts further, saying, “The greatest opportunities lie in socially networking corporations together – horizontally, across business processes, which don’t necessarily live within your four walls anymore.” Great example = Gaming like Second Life supporting commerce like FedEx and Amazon.com.

The article describes how some companies like OnStar use Nielsen BuzzMetrics to analyze how they’re performing in “consumer-generated media.” This is another hot topic, worthy of another post, probably.

There’s a cool story about Dell’s celebrity advertising campaigns, too. I’ll blog more on that later, too.

In the mean time, read the article. It’s a mind bender.

Text~Touch(sm): Haptic Highlighting/Rating of Text

Text~Touch(sm): Haptic Highlighting/Rating of Text

Humans Are MultiModal Creatures With MultiModal Minds

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture]

Using Other/Related Haptic Technology Readers Would be Able To Feel The Range of Textures Layered Over The Text Within A Corpus.

Such Texture Could Be Used to Denote Another Dimension Of The Text OR Denote Relative Importance.

[http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/writecolorsm-multicoloring-for.html]

THINK That This Is FarFetched? Not Really.

A Decade Ago I Began to Explore Haptic Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases

The Magic Touch(sm) [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Touch.htm]

/Gerry

ThoughtMesh: An Innovative Scholarly Publishing and Discovery Model
ThoughtMesh is an unusual model for publishing and discovering scholarly papers online. It gives readers a tag-based navigation system that uses keywords to connect excerpts of essays published on different Web sites.

Add your essay to the mesh, and ThoughtMesh gives you a traditional navigation menu plus a tag cloud that enables nonlinear access to text excerpts. You can navigate across excerpts both within the original essay and from related essays distributed across the mesh.

So let’s say you are reading an essay on Modern art. You can pick a single word out of that essay’s tag cloud- -say Picasso- -and view a list of all the sections from that essay that relate to Picasso. Or you can view a list of sections of other articles tagged with Picasso, and jump right to one of those sections. You can also combine tags to narrow your search, such as Picasso + Cubism + 1900.

As an author, you can choose to post your essay in a central repository hosted by the Vectors program at USC, the sponsor of this project. Or you can self-archive your essay on your own Web site. [snip]

[http://thoughtmesh.net/]

Features

Innovative Search Options

• Use tags to find text blocks within the current article
• Use tags to find related blocks in outside articles
• Use search-as-you-type lookup to find words in current article

Expandable Navigation Menu

• Offers more traditional navigation
• Breaks long essays into easy-to-read screen-sized chunks
• Can be used interchangeable with tag-based navigation

Automated Tag and HTML Generation

• Paste in your essay sections and easy-to-use software generates a ThoughtMeshed version
• Software can auto-generate tags for each text block
• Or author can assign custom tags
• Overall tag cloud gives quick sense of article’s themes

Meshes (Features For Future Releases)

• Users can view a map of where the current article fits in the larger mesh.
• Publications and groups of authors can define and administrate their own meshes.
• Users can choose only lexias from current mesh, or from all meshes

FAQ

What’s a tag cloud?
A bunch of keywords in a box. Click on one to see text excerpts related to that theme, or click on several to see excerpts tagged with all of those keywords.

What’s a lexia?
A text excerpt from a longer essay or Web site–usually a couple of paragraphs. Lots of blogs and newspapers have tag clouds. How is ThoughtMesh different?Most of these sites are data-base driven collections of text blocks run off a single server. ThoughtMesh’s tag registry (or mesh) can connect articles on different servers across the Internet.

Is this the “Semantic Web”?
Yes and no. Like the long-term vision of the Semantic Web, ThoughtMesh treats every page on the Web as a potential “database record” to be searched. Unlike the conventional XML-powered vision of the Semantic Web, however, ThoughtMesh’s data are only minimally structured in the page itself; instead, a registry of tags housed on a remote host serves to connect all the individual pages. But it’s still a model of distributed publication, since in principle the same pages can be navigated via independently operated registries.

So it’s like del.icio.us?
Sort of. Del.icio.us’s global folksonomy of tags is great, but it only indexes entire pages, which is less efficient for finding relevant passages in long academic papers. ThoughtMesh helps trace thematic connections between particular sections of online essays. And ThoughtMesh’s tags (and the meshes that connect them) are determined (or at least validated) by the authors of the pages.

Is this “Web 2.0″?
ThoughtMesh exploits participatory media, remote scripting, and lateral navigation. So yeah, you can call it that.

Demos

How to Navigate Essays[http://thoughtmesh.net/media/thoughtmesh_preview_alpha.mov]

How to Tag an Essay[http://thoughtmesh.net/media/thoughtmesh_how_to_add.mov]

People

Jon Ippolito
Conceptual architect, client-side designer, and client-side engineer

Craig Dietrich
Designer and server-side engineer

John Bell
Telamon.js author and remote scripting contributor

Chirag Mehta
ThoughtMesh uses Mehta’s Tagline software
[http://chir.ag/tech/download/tagline/]

Article

/ ThoughtMesh” Tag Your Writing. Join the conversation / Jon Ippolito & Craig Dietrich / Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular / Volume 3 Issue 1, Fall 2007 /
[http://vectors.usc.edu/index.php?page=7&projectId=84]

White Papers

/ New Criteria for New Media / New Media Department, University of Maine / Promotion and Tenure Guidelines Addendum: Rationale for Redefined Criteria / Version 2.2, January 2007 /

ABSTRACT: An argument for redefining promotion and tenure criteria for faculty in new media departments of today’s universities.

[http://newmedia.umaine.edu/interarchive/new_criteria_for_new_media.html]

ThoughtMesh Author’s Statement

[http://three.org/ippolito/thoughtmesh_author_statement.html

ThoughtMesh Forum
[http://vectors.usc.edu/forums/]

Technical

[http://thoughtmesh.net/media/thoughtmesh_author_flow@m.pdf]

Related Work

/ New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces for Electronic Journals / Gerry McKiernan / The Serials Librarian, Vol. 45(2) / 87-123 / 2003 / DOI: 10.1300/J123v45n02_06 /

ABSTRACT. While it is typical for electronic journals to offer conventional search features similar to those provided by electronic databases, a select number of e-journals have also made available higher-level access options as well. In this article, we review several novel technologies and implementations that creatively exploit the inherent potential of the digital environment to further facilitate use of e-collections.We conclude with speculation on the functionalities of a next-generation e-journal interface that are likely to emerge in the near future.

[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NewAge.pdf]

Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New

Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New

23 - 25 June 2008 / City Campus East, Northumbria University /
Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK /

Day 2 / Wednesday / 25th June 2008
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
Keynote 4
Gerry McKiernan
Iowa State University, US.

Throughout history, humans have (re)used local resources to create not only buildings and fortifications, but monuments, roads, and a wide variety of other structures. For countless generations, artists, composers, and writers have freely incorporated elements from local and distant cultures to create new visual, musical, and textual forms.

In The Web 2.0 World, the open (re)combination of multiple media has become commonplace in many venues, practices that Lawrence Lessig [http://lessig.org/], founder of Creative Commons [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons], and others, would characterize as emblematic of a ‘Remix ‘ or ‘Read/Write’ culture. Indeed, from his point of view, “the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix_culture].

In the recently-released Horizon Report 2008 - a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), six emerging information technologies and practices that are expected to significantly impact educational organizations are profiled: Grassroots Video, Collaborative Webs, Mobile Broadband, Data Mashups, Collaborative Intelligence, and Social Operating Systems
[http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf].

In this presentation, we will review the Read/Write Traditions of the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences; analyze key Past / Present / Future Participatory Technologies; and explore the potential of Web 2.0 for creating/fostering Disruptive Learning / Scholarship / Teaching in the 21st century.

Stuart Taylor at Duke

ViewPlus: Feeling is More Than Seeing

ViewPlus: Feeling is More Than Seeing
Friends/

A Remarkle Development: Tactile Reading .

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