By Stephen Downes
May 28, 2003
New Brunswick: Our Stories, Our
People
About the place I call home... By
Heritage Branch, Province of New Brunswick, May, 2003
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Student Publishing & Privacy, Take ... Oh
Whatever
A nice discussion of privacy and
student publishing has been bouncing back and forth for the
last week or so. This page lists the major contributions to
the discussion - click on the links from the bottom up. The
issue, essentially, is this: if students publish work
online, using, say, a blog, and if that work is evaluated,
how much of this should be publicly accessible? The concern
is, of course, that a student's privacy might be violated,
and that student's should be protected from the harsh
criticism that may be delivered from the world at large. I
have always sought to do my work publicly - from public
speaking, class newspapers and bulletin board projects in
grade school to student journalism and activism in
univresity. Trust me, nothing teaches you to write well, to
write quickly, when you know that 25,000 people will read
your words the next day. But that said, I think it should
be the choice of the student - and it seems to me that the
same digital rights we use to manage professional works can
also be employed by students to manage the public - or
private - nature of their work online. By Greg Ritter, Ten
Reasons Why, May 28, 2003
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The Truth of Weblogs
Short article
that makes an interesting point. Before weblogs, we had two
choices: objective reporting, conducted by independent
professionals, or subjective opinion, conducted by
partisans or advocates. Welogs now give us a third - and
arguably better - alternative: intersubjectivity, the view
of the world when many subjective perspectives interact
with each other. Purists - who believe that there is one
truth, and that objective reporting gets at it - will not
be satisfied. But for the rest of us, those of us who
believe that truth depends on your point of view,
intersubjectivity is a significant improvement. As David
Carter-Tod recommends, follow this article with this one, which describes a theory of
weblog conversations. By David Weinberger, KM World, June,
2003
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Have We Lost the 'Public' in Higher
Education?
I think there is merit to this
argument. In the last decade or so, argues the author,
colleges and universities have been increasingly seen as
vehicles through which students could obtain economic
advantage. This has allowed them to raise tuitions and
thereby to make them less dependent on public support - and
accordingly, to become more commercial and less responsible
to public interest. As a result, they - and their students
- have become over the years less and less likely to engage
in experimentation, activism or controversy. Like the
author, I think that something is lost when this happens.
By Robert Zemsky, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 30,
2003
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TEEM
TEEM (Teachers Evaluating
Educational Multimedia) is an educational software
evaluation service. The site provides free access to 1110
evaluations written by teachers of 704 products. Readers
can search for evaluated products according to topic area
and educational level. Link via Spartacus.
By Various Authors, May, 2003
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