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A News Literacy Guide from NewsTrust.net - Crap Detection 101
Howard Rheingold's view on the importance of information filtering and the need to establish the credibility of source information. Rheingold outlines his methods and tools for sifting information.
Note: mentions; easywhois.com - to find someone who owns a site and "link:http://......" to see others who have linked to that page.- "Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him."
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954 - The first thing we all need to know about information online is how to detect crap, a technical term I use for information tainted by ignorance, inept communication, or deliberate deception. Learning to be a critical consumer of Webinfo is not rocket science.
- "Who is the author?" is the root question. If you don't find one, turn your skepticism meter to the top of the dial. And use easywhois.com to find out who owns the site if there is no author listed.
- When you identify an author, search on the author's name in order to evaluate what others think of the author — and don't turn off your critical stance when you assess reputation. Who are these other people whose opinions you are trusting?
- More good questions to use as credibility probes: Does the author provide sources for factual claims, and what happens when you search on the names of the authors of those sources? Have others linked to this page, and if so, who are they (use the search term "link: http://..." and Google shows you every link to a specified page).
- don't trust just one source
- think like a detective
- try to find three different ways to test a source's credibility
- Know how to use online filters
- Using the search facility on Flickr or YouTube enables you to see a stream of images or videos, and automatically subscribing to that search through "RSS" means you can continue to see visual reports stream in as others upload them — in real time
- "crowdsourcing the filter" by growing populations of trusted editors who would collectively identify the good stuff
- steps to take to verify a tweet, including, among many other tips, checking the history of past tweets by a person to see what context you might find before the claim about a news event was tweeted, checking the bio of twitterer who makes a claim, being wary of news tweets from someone with very few previous tweets or who joined very recently, use Twitter's reply feature to engage the twitterer directly
- Dispute Finder Firefox Extension "highlights disputed claims on web pages you browse and shows you evidence for alternative points of view."
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Designing A Facebook Fan Page: Showcases, Tutorials, Resources - Smashing Magazine
Showcase Of Well-Designed Facebook Company Fan Pages http://bit.ly/dvTl99
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RT : QR codes - early successes - simoncobb's post
@lmcnicoll RT @tombarrett: QR codes - early successes - simoncobb's posterous http://bit.ly/i6zbTP @ictast great to hear of your success!
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Jakten på den perfekta lektionen: Groups, Networks and Grabbing the Mic in cck11
Groups, Networks and Grabbing the Mic in #cck11 http://bit.ly/hVE9nD
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10 Ways to Use QR Codes in Your Classroom | Technology Teacher | Diigo
Practical ideas to use codes in the classroom and link and info on QR code generating
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Really good article relating to Facebook.
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social capital: civic community and education
General article on social capiital - section on social capital in organisations
- Social capital for starters
- Groups and organizations with high social capital have the means (and sometimes the motive) to work to exclude and subordinate others. Furthermore, the experience of living in close knit communities can be stultifying - especially to those who feel they are 'different' in some important way.
- Defining social capital
- 'Social capital refers to the institutions, relationships, and norms that shape the quality and quantity of a society's social interactions... Social capital is not just the sum of the institutions which underpin a society – it is the glue that holds them together' (The World Bank 1999).
- Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference to our lives.
- Exhibit 3: Bridging, bonding and linking social capital
- A growing body of research suggests that where trust and social networks flourish, individuals, firms, neighbourhoods, and even nations prosper economically
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Social capital in organizations
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Better knowledge sharing, due to established trust relationships, common frames of reference, and shared goals.
Lower transaction costs, due to a high level of trust and a cooperative spirit (both within the organization and between the organization and its customers and partners).
Low turnover rates, reducing severance costs and hiring and training expenses, avoiding discontinuities associated with frequent personnel changes, and maintaining valuable organizational knowledge.
Greater coherence of action due to organizational stability and shared understanding. (Cohen and Prusak 2001: 10)
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Networked and social learning.
- Connectivism Glossary
- Amplification
- Resonance
- Synchronization
- Information diffusion
- Influence
- Enacting new domains of knowledge
- Connected specialization
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Moving learning theories into the digital age
Connectivism principles/Organisation knowledgement/Networks, Small Worls and Weak Ties/ Th cycle of Knowledge Development (personal to network to organisation)- An Alternative Theory
- Networks, Small Worlds, Weak Ties
- Connectivism
- Connectivism is driven by the understanding that decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations. New information is continually being acquired.
- Implications
- Management and leadership
- Media, news, information
- Personal knowledge management in relation to organizational knowledge management
- Design of learning environments
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Week 1 - What Is Connectivism? ~ CCK11
See reading list for What is Connectivism
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Week 2 - Patterns of Connectivity ~ CCK11
See reading list/resources for Patterns of Connectivity
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Good explanation of social network analysis - giving examples
- Social network analysis [SNA] is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, URLs, and other connected information/knowledge entities. The nodes in the network are the people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes.
- Degree Centrality, Betweenness Centrality, and Closeness Centrality.
- What really matters is where those connections lead to -- and how they connect the otherwise unconnected
- A node with high betweenness has great influence over what flows -- and does not -- in the network
- Closeness Centrality
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Network Centralization
- Network Reach
- Boundary Spanners
- Peripheral Players
- Applying Social Network Analysis
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Week 5 - Groups, Networks and Collectives ~ CCK11
Collection of resources on Groups, Networks and Collectives form Stephen Downs
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How Some Folks Have Tried to Describe Community
A collection of definitions of community
- described a set of attributes captured the essence of "connection" as manifest in community in terms of relationships. He uses words like "feeling part of a larger social whole," "web of relationships," "an exchange...of commonly valued things," and "relationships...that last through time creating shared histories.
- supportive of all its members, accepts individual styles and fills in gaps when/where needed in order to sustain itself and for the good of the whole
- Communities are characterized by three things: common interests, frequent interaction, and identification
- "People on the net should be thought of not only as solitary information processors, but also as social beings. People are not only looking for information, they are also looking for affiliation, support and affirmation...
- Howard Rheingold, the man who coined the term "virtual community" (and later suggested that that might have been a mistake!) offered in his book, The Virtual Community, "Virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace."
- intellectual virtual community
- functional virtual community
- People often think that blogs, forums, wikis, and other tools are community. In actuality, those tools are just that - tools. They can help you to build community, but they aren't actually "community"
- We find community in networks, not groups. Although people often view the world in terms of groups (Freeman 1992), they function in networks. In networked societies: boundaries are permeable, interactions are with diverse others, connections switch between multiple networks, and hierarchies can be flatter and recursive.
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Personal Networking - A Computer is a Social Network
Abstract ; Computer networks are social networks. Social affordances of computer supported social networks--broader bandwidth, wireless portability, globalized connectivity, personalization--are fostering the movement from door-to-door and place-to-place communities to person-to-person and role-to-role communities. People connect in social networks rather than in communal groups. In-person and computer-mediated communication are integrated in communities characterized by personalized networking.
- Computer networks are social networks. Social affordances of computer supported social networks--broader bandwidth, wireless portability, globalized connectivity, personalization--are fostering the movement from door-to-door and place-to-place communities to person-to-person and role-to-role communities. People connect in social networks rather than in communal groups. In-person and computer-mediated communication are integrated in communities characterized by personalized networking.
- Computer networks are social networks. Social affordances of computer supported social networks--broader bandwidth, wireless portability, globalized connectivity, personalization--are fostering the movement from door-to-door and place-to-place communities to person-to-person and role-to-role communities. People connect in social networks rather than in communal groups. In-person and computer-mediated communication are integrated in communities characterized by personalized networking.
- A Computer Network is a Social Network
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The Network Revolution
We find community in networks, not groups. Although people often view the world in terms of groups (Freeman 1992), they function in networks.
- The Social Affordances of Computerized Communication Networks
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Communities Transcend the Group and the Locality The proliferation of computer-supported social networks is fostering changes in the ways that people contact, interact, and obtain resources with each other
- The Rise of Networked Individualism
- Is Community Viable Online?
- Specialized Relationships
- Specialized Communities
- Is There a Place for Physical Space in Cyber Space?
- The Impact of Cyber Space on Community
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Groups vs Networks: The Class Struggle Continues
Slide presentation on Groups vs Networks
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Summary of Social Network Theory and list of other links re SNT
- Social networks have also been used to examine how companies interact with each other, characterizing the many informal connections that link executives together, as well as associations and connections between individual employees at different companies. These networks provide ways for companies to gather information, deter competition, and even collude in setting prices or policies.
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New animation: Intellectual Property Rights in the Web 2.0 world : JISC
The six-minute animation is accessible and colourful, portraying in a light-hearted way some of the issues involved via three typical case studies: a researcher, a lecturer and a student. These examples pinpoint areas where confusion exists, or even where many may not consider IPR to be an issue at all, and signpost back to the online diagnostic tool for further guidance and information.
- Intellectual Property Rights in the Web 2.0 world
- The six-minute animation is accessible and colourful, portraying in a light-hearted way some of the issues involved via three typical case studies: a researcher, a lecturer and a student.
- The six-minute animation is accessible and colourful, portraying in a light-hearted way some of the issues involved via three typical case studies: a researcher, a lecturer and a student. These examples pinpoint areas where confusion exists, or even where many may not consider IPR to be an issue at all, and signpost back to the online diagnostic tool for further guidance and information.
- Web 2.0 has revolutionised education and practice, and in a very positive way, but there is a lack of understanding regarding copyright, and whether it applies. The basic fact is that IPR holds just as strongly with Web 2.0 content as it does with more traditional forms.
- The animation highlights the issues in a very approachable way, and we hope this raises awareness among users in HE and FE to take IPR within their Web 2.0 activity seriously.’
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Warning to abusive bloggers as judge tells site to reveal names | Technology | The Guardian
Example from the Guardian of social media and defamation, specifically blogging and "cloak of anonymity"
- anonymous internet postings may face expensive libel claims
- highlight the danger of assuming that the apparent cloak of anonymity gives users of internet forums and chatrooms carte blanche to say whatever they like.
- Exposing the identity of those who post damaging lies in cyberspace is a growt
- h area for libel lawyers.
- "This case illustrates an increasingly important legal issue: proving who is responsible for the publication of anonymous material on the internet. This is likely to be a significant issue in defamation cases in the future."
- The next move was to apply for a court order requiring him to reveal the identities of "Halfpint" and the other fans behind what the club's lawyers described as a "sustained campaign of vilification".
- But the judge decided some fans, whose postings were merely "abusive" or likely to be understood as jokes, should keep their anonymity.
- Court orders obliging websites to disclose the identity of users posting anonymous defamatory remarks began in 2001.
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Can hyperlinks be libellous, or are they just mere footnotes? | Law | guardian.co.uk
Example from the Guardia of social media defamation case relating specifically to hyperlinks.
- whether a link to a web page that contains defamatory statements about someone is actionable.
- Can the web pages a publisher links to inform the meaning of an article?
- statements must not be taken out of context. In defamation cases the whole publication is relevant for the purpose of deciding what an article means; it should be read in its entirety, even if it continues on another page, and passages and headlines shouldn't be read in isolation.
- when a defendant publisher has linked to someone else's web pages, that content may be treated as part of the whole publication when it comes to deciding what the words complained about mean.
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