I found the readings quite interesting and filled with the perspectives of others on a topic new to me. Well, I should say, the exposure to the literature on the topic is new to me, not the concept of open pedagogy in general. I was also exposed to new learning and sharing of information by using a ...
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👓 Facebook asks U.S. banks for financial info to boost user engagement: WSJ | Reuters
Facebook Inc said on Monday it is in talks to deepen links with banks and financial institutions, saying it can help the firms improve their customer service.
👓 Muslim Woman Ignores Dying Victim of London Terror Attack? | Snopes
On 22 March 2017, an attack took place outside the British Parliament in London during which a man drove a vehicle into a crowd of people on the Westminster Bridge. As police responded to the incident, which left four people dead, a photograph showing a woman dressed in a hijab with a cell phone in ...
👓 Why We Removed Pressbooks from the WordPress Plugin Repository | PressBooks
A couple weeks ago, we removed Pressbooks from the WordPress Plugin Repository. We want to offer an explanation for this decision to our users, and give some insight into our plans for the distribution of Pressbooks moving forward. Press...
👓 Why is Max Nikias still hanging around? USC needs to move faster to find new leadership | LA Times
USC needs to be moving full steam ahead on new leadership capable of governing the university with accountability, transparency and ethics.
👓 Wife of former Marine to be deported to Mexico Friday, after 20 years in U.S. | CBS
Alejandra Juarez has lived in the U.S. for 20 years and has two daughters who are American citizens
👓 Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring | Washington Post
In private, President Trump spent much of the past week brooding, as he often does. He has been anxious about the Russia investigation’s widening fallout, with his former campaign chairman standing trial. And he has fretted that he is failing to accrue enough political credit for what he claims as triumphs.
At rare moments of introspection for the famously self-centered president, Trump has also expressed to confidants lingering unease about how some in his orbit — including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — are ensnared in the Russia probe, in his assessment simply because of their connection to him.
👓 Y’all Are About To Lose The Most Important Resource You Have In Ed-Tech | Kin Lane
With their dynamic roofs and neon signs, these diners, motels, and car washes showcase the best of Googie style.
👓 Fortnite is putting users at risk, to prove a point about Google’s Android monopoly | CNet
Commentary: Fortnite gives Google the middle finger, but both are failing us to some degree.
👓 On Using Titles, Tags, and Categories | Greg McVerry
There seems to be some confusion uin #edu522 about when to add a title and when to leave a post with a title. This is the #IndieWeb the choice is utimatley yours. If a one word post deserves a title..give it one;…a 3,000 word treatsie doesn’t need it…then skip it. Best Practice Yet here is a q...
While I like the idea of “backstage” posts, I’m not sure that tagging them as such has as much value to me. Since my site is my living commonplace book, such a tag doesn’t have as much meaning somehow. I’ll have to think about it and figure out what I want to do there. I can see some value for syndicating out, or potentially to fellow classmates, but I’d suspect that for the volume of content I’m producing with the edu522 tag, it may not be as valuable. Perhaps in a larger class it might or one in which I was producing a much higher volume of posts? Time will tell, but some of these mechanics could be useful/valueable to think about for teachers vis-a-vis their classrooms and digital pedagogy based on expected class size and post volume as well as how they might structure their “planets”.
Many living things—including humans—have circadian clocks, signals that activate biological
Last weekend, “Hello Mr Billionaire” opened to an astonishing $131m in Chinese box-offices.
👓 The New York Times just shut down a major bullying tactic of the alt-right | Vox
The "controversy" over hiring tech journalist Sarah Jeong, explained.
Another related case can potentially be found with Kevin Williamson at The Atlantic.