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Maria Rosario Di Mónaco's Blog – January 2010 Archive (5)

Comment on David Weinberger and Andrew Keen's debate

In truth, these are just notes taken while listening to David Weinberger and Andrew Keen debating Weinberger's thesis in "All Things Miscellaneous"



D. Weinberger’s argument:

The fundamental web challenge is how to organize information, how to find what matters to us.

He contrasts physical order with digital order:





Andrew Keen’s criticism

The main issue at stake: the value of authority in a connected world.

He views… Continue

Added by Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on January 31, 2010 at 1:00am — 4 Comments

Comment on "Many Lenses"

Here, at last, is my comment on "Many Lenses":



Let me start with a doubt. When talking about the Scottish student’s textspeak essay, M. Pegrum states that many people who aren’t digital natives would struggle with it. I wonder if all digital natives within the English speaking world would be able to understand it straightaway. I feel that, as textspeak is a new, informal linguistic form of expression, some of its “unconventional conventions” might not be immediately understood… Continue

Added by Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on January 29, 2010 at 3:21am — 3 Comments

Editing Bubbl.us Sheets

Apparently, if you want to work collaboratively on a bubbl.us sheet, you need to click on the friends tab. If the person already has an account, you can find them by name or email. If they don't, you have to click on the option invite them by email. Then click on sharing to choose the kind of access you want to give people: "read only" or "full edit"

Vance, as you have an account, I just wrote your name and you… Continue

Added by Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on January 28, 2010 at 5:10pm — 1 Comment

Collaboration: bubbl.us

I'm experimenting with this mind mapping tool Letizia mentioned in the Multiliteracies YG. I'm using it to represent the content of that article in Spanish I mentioned in my previous post. It gives you an embed code, so now I want to see if it works in Ning (sometimes Ning does not allow that, don't ask me why) Here it… Continue

Added by Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on January 27, 2010 at 6:08pm — 8 Comments

My first entry

Shame on me! I can't believe this is my first posting here. OK, I only joined the session a few days ago. And it's as hot as hell here in Argentina. But that is no excuse, is it?



Anyway, I need to cheer myself up and think of the things I HAVE got done: added myself to the map, added my info to the participants Google doc (picture included, thanks to Marian's… Continue

Added by Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on January 27, 2010 at 2:57am — 2 Comments

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