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Think Link - Tracking Debatable Arguments Across the Web

cynthia eaton — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:29:43 -0400

This was posted to the TechRhet listserv by Alice J. Robinson (copied verbatim from her email):

A friend just sent me this interesting tool for discussion and debate across the web. It seems to be a computational model similar to the way Wikipedia authors and community members discuss claim-worthiness.

http://confront.intel-research.net/Think_Link.html

Directory of Learning Tools

cynthia eaton — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:47:16 -0400

Jane Hart, founder of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, offer a directory of over 3,000 learning tools--free, open source, and commercial--in 25 main categories for formal and informal learning.

The site also features a list of the "top 100," as voted on by 176 "learning professionals."

How Do You Grade an Online Conversation?

cynthia eaton — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:54:50 -0400

A really smart article from Campus Technology about how to grade an online conversation. Useful ideas for many online professors!

Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation?

Former English professor Trent Batson notes that faculty might look for the following conversational elements:

Research 2.0

cynthia eaton — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:43:34 -0400

An interesting look at how web 2.0 is changing the way we think about research: http://hoefler.wikispaces.com/Research+2.0.