http://ubi-learn.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:34:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Eszter Hargittai in the journal Sociological Inquiry: People who have grown up with digital media are often assumed to be universally savvy with information and communication technologies. Such assumptions are rarely grounded in empirical evidence, however. This article draws on unique data with information about a diverse group of young ... http://ubi-learn.com/2010/03/06/digital-natives-variation-in-internet-skills-and-uses-among-members-of-the-%e2%80%9cnet-generation%e2%80%9d/ The latest issue, Volume 2, Number 1, of Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal includes: The Pros and Cons of Online Lecture Accessibility in the Context of “Skills-based” Courses by Ada Le, Steve Joordens, Sophie Chrysostomou and Raymond ... http://ubi-learn.com/2010/03/03/ubiquitous-learning-journal-latest-issue/ From the dScribe web site: dScribe, short for "digital and distributed scribes," is a participatory and collaborative model for creating open content. It brings together enrolled students, staff, faculty, and self-motivated learners to work together toward the common goal of creating content that is openly licensed and available to people throughout ... http://ubi-learn.com/2010/02/16/creating-open-educational-resources-with-dscribe/ The first issue of Volume 2 of Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal has now been published. Volume 2, Number 1 includes: Managing a University Course that Involves Real Projects for Real Clients in the Field of Information Systems by Peter Metham. Activities to Integrate Internet Usage in College ... http://ubi-learn.com/2010/02/16/ubiquitous-learning-journal-volume-2-number-1-now-available/ Author, teacher and commentator Howard Rheingold has made available a four-year collection of bookmarks in educational technology via the social bookmarking service delicious.    http://ubi-learn.com/2010/02/06/howard-rheingolds-educational-technology-bookmarks/ From Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning To read more... http://ubi-learn.com/2010/01/26/the-world-is-a-game-augmented-reality-software-combines-the-real-and-virtual-to-teach-science-2/ From Tricia Wang's blog cultural bytes: Google announced on its company blog that Chinese hackers had attacked its users and as a result Google.CN may leave China due to the security breaches. While unfortunate that Google.CN may be shutting down, my ethnographic work in China revealed five things that aren’t being told in ... http://ubi-learn.com/2010/01/23/suggestions-for-making-googles-services-more-relevant-for-non-elite-chinese-users-involves-some-ethnography/ From Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal: What if you could collect, in one well-organized, searchable, private digital repository, all the notes you create, clips from Web pages and emails you want to recall, dictated audio memos, photos, key documents, and more? And what if that repository was constantly synchronized, ... http://ubi-learn.com/2010/01/21/digital-file-cabinet-you-can-bring-with-you-anywhere/ From Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning. New software developed at MIT takes advantage of the GPS technology in mobile phones to inject new adventures into the traditional science lab. The technology creates learning games that can track players’ real world locations and send a stream of virtual information to them as ... http://ubi-learn.com/2010/01/15/the-world-is-a-game-augmented-reality-software-combines-the-real-and-virtual-to-teach-science/ From Andrew Flanagin in Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning Select findings from a new study by Andrew J. Flanagin, Professor in the Department of Communication, and Miriam Metzger, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara. The results are based on a web-based survey of a representative ... http://ubi-learn.com/2009/12/28/study-on-youth-and-information-credibility/