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Boanerges Aleman-Meza and others - Semantic Analytics on Social Networks - WWW 2006
This is a great paper. The discussion is directed toward the use of links within a social network to detect a potential conflict of interest. This would help editors select reviewers for journal articles (OK, so the authors are still rooted in the old world - let it go). Two networks,
FOAF and the
bibliographic literature in Computer Science research, are used. What we get in this paper is a nice series of steps (and cool diagram) that characterize such semantic analyses: 1. Obta From
OLDaily on November 23, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Konrad Glogowski - Students Reflect on Group Work - Blog of Proximal Development
His comments on group work, he says, "follow him around." I'm not surprised. Questioning group work is like questioning the Pope. Glogowski reports on some parent and student reactions to group work, including a memo from the principal to all staff pointing out "some students feel that they are 'left out,' 'stuck with,' or 'looked past' during group work. Many of these kids have other social stresses to deal with. Can we all please make every effort to alleviate this stress during class time?" People continue to say group work sometimes benefits students. I d From
OLDaily on November 23, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Various authors - The Webcast Academy
Interesting. "The Academy is a hands on, collaborative training center for people interested in learning how to produce and host live, interactive webcasts. You can learn more about The Webcast Academy here." What's kind of weird is that instead of posting the learning material in some easily accessible format, they have regular meetings (called 'classes') that you have to attend at certain times. Don't know what that's about; it certainly isn't very user-friendly. And why oh why would they make the section headings out of Flash? Don't they know that messes u From
OLDaily on November 23, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..