News Genius puts comment sections in the margins, just as most publishers are taking them away to protect their writers.

if you have an interactive assessment application or virtual chemistry lab, it can be securely connected to an educational platform in a standard way without having to develop and maintain custom integrations for each platform.

from simple communication applications like chat, to domain-specific learning environments

Ed-tech need not scale.

Most startups fail.

A collaborative reading environment seems to me a fair foundation for dynamic and thoughtful interaction, which, in turn, holds the potential to mirror the kind of rich and complex dialogue we aspire to in a working democracy.   

The terms of how to expand your reading community are up to you.

has always

to use a favorite Trump word, “disgusting.”

The murder was grisly.

Last year, Yiannopolous attended London’s SlutWalk and held up a sign that said, “Rape Culture’ and Harry Potter. Both Fantasy.” He was later escorted off the premises. 

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They are tools like SPLOT, Wikity, Reclaim Hosting, Known, Github, and Hypothes.is to name a few.

if someone is willing to commit to talking through hip hop

like the personal API

At least on dating apps everyone can agree that everyone on the app has the same desired goal: a relationship.

You can listen to the “I Love My Label” playlist on Spotify, but you should support artists by buying their music. Unless it's Metallica. Then share freely.

counterintuitively perhaps less “personalized.”

“Personalization” might sound like it’s designed especially for us; but “personalization” is an algorithm based on a profile, on a category, on a label.

What position are we in – artists, musicians, scholars, students, citizens – to challenge algorithmic decision-making, something that is even more opaque and “black-boxed.”

Algorithms and analytics will “personalize” our world, we’re told. The problem, of course, is that the algorithms and the analytics also make everything sound the same.

What happens in the face of an algorithmic education to intellectual curiosity?

I call myself a “serial dropout,”

Little by little the subversive features of the computer were eroded away: Instead of cutting across and so challenging the very idea of subject boundaries, the computer now defined a new subject; instead of changing the emphasis from impersonal curriculum to excited live exploration by students, the computer was now used to reinforce School’s ways. What had started as a subversive instrument of change was neutralized by the system and converted into an instrument of consolidation.

Once something sells, than we hear it and echoes of it again and again and again and again.

No one – well, except my parents, I guess – knew how many times I played that 45 of Autograph’s “Turn Up the Radio,” how many times I rewound the cassette to replay Guns & Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle.” But now the software knows

predict hit songs

a desirable location to sit back and consume it.

“Twitter is live: live commentary, live conversations, and live connections.”

As a result, often the best way to find all the crazy, interesting things happening on Twitter on any given day is to read about it somewhere else.

the air of a docent showing off a collection of Donald Judd sculptures.

the world’s chattering class

“It wasn’t that we were watching a puddle,” he says at Twitter’s offices in San Francisco. “It was that we were watching a puddle together.

Until 2015, Mr. Black was employed by the city’s Education Department, first as a special-education teacher and then as a librarian. He was honored in 2013 by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences for his exceptional work as a school librarian. Advertisement Continue reading the main story But just a year later, he lost his permanent teaching position and then was arrested and charged with bank fraud. His $76,706 salary was suspended, and he ended up in the shelter in Harlem.

Mr. White was accused of killing Deven Black

He insults the office Abraham Lincoln once occupied by running for it with less preparation than most of us would undertake to buy a sofa.

the proper thing to do in the face of demagogy is to go the other way

additional cognitive load you’re adding for your users.

creating visual complexity in your design.

add decision points for users,

Sometimes you log in with Twitter, sometimes with Facebook, sometimes with a username and password specific to that app. It’s hard enough to remember your username and password, let alone which service you should bloody use to log in.

But if they help at all, why kill them? Even a 3.4% drop in failures is worth having them there, right? Maybe not.

Social login buttons can hurt brands

(If you've seen a picture of highlighted text on Twitter, you've seen a person who needs an annotation tool.)

? Which trends and technology developments will drive educational change?

Participants in #profchat often play multiple roles in their higher education worlds – as teachers, designers, researchers, and provocateurs.

open annotation.

Republican candidates had sent certain messages to voters for years, and now the party hears them coming back from Mr. Trump translated, or perhaps decoded.

6LYD

In 1964, days before the presidential election which, incidentally, we lost, Ronald Reagan went on national television and challenged America saying that it was a "Time for Choosing."

her own courageous voice.

What the humanities need are large theories and bold concepts. 

it would make sense to look to the sciences to see the ways in which a biology lab and the biology department function together.

are they mutually exclusive

even within the Los Angeles Review of Books.

the neoliberal bean counting destroying American higher education.

The feed is how stuff enters their content system. But the feed itself is outside, leaving it available for other services to use. It's great when this happens, rather than doing it via a WG that tend to go on for years, and create stuff that's super-complicated, why not design something that works for you, put it out there with no restrictions and let whatever's going to happen happen.

Library

They have also embedded five scavenger hunt-style clues among the texts

Here they are, slightly edited:

form

I think not.

And might learners be assessed favorably if they annotate with more than text (for example, if they link to related resources, or embedded images or GIFs)?

Some learners were initially concerned about publicly identifying with their open annotation, and subsequently owning the ensuing discussion.

moves the center from the designer’s imagination of the system to the designer’s imagination of the user of the system

Don Norman at Apple in 1993 (referenced by Peter Merholz[10]Peter Merholz. "Whither "User Experience"?". peterme.com. (1998): [http://www.peterme.com/index112498.html] ):“I invented the term [User Experience]

Modernist

what word do architects use for the people who dwell in the buildings they make?

rich commenting features

rapid publication

antidisciplinary ethos

The numbers simply don't work, unless the field unexpectedly narrows before March.

What Trump understands better than his opponents is that NASCAR America, WWE America, always loves seeing the preening self-proclaimed good guy get whacked with a chair.

the presidential election campaign is really just a badly acted, billion-dollar TV show whose production costs ludicrously include the political disenfranchisement of its audience.

the stones

The future first lady is a Slovenian model who, apart from Trump, was most famous for a TV ad in which she engaged in a Frankenstein-style body transfer with the Aflac duck, voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.

He steps to the lectern and does his Mussolini routine, which he's perfected over the past months.

When you win as much as he does, who the hell cares what anything means?

because of feelings of belonging and obligation to the community.

However, our results do not point to any significant decrease in users’ wishes to continue using the site or recommend it to friends after being faced with a website’s requests to participate.

“lurkers” who passively consume content.

comment options,

Content organization refers to features that require little effort from the user and that help fellow users receive useful information about the content. These features include the “like” button and options such as ratings (star ratings or a numerical scale) or tagging content with user-suggested keywords.

if we were to ask people whether clicking on a “like” button next to a short video clip is identical to leaving a detailed comment, the answer would probably be a clear “no.”

Social activity on a website can increase users’ commitment to the site and willingness to pay for its services.

When the tasks that users were prompted to engage in were not presented in increasing order of effort level, users tended to donate and participate less than when tasks were ordered that way.

“calls to action,” issued at different points in time

To do this, website managers must understand the current user community, identify how they would like that community to evolve, and select the participatory features they offer — and the order of their introduction — accordingly.

ladder of participation — a framework for strategic thinking about using site engagement to improve conversion

It’s why I ran (against her husband) in 1992. I wanted my vagina on that chair. Now I want Hillary’s there. I want to look back on my time. Even from right here. I went to the hardware store for a door. And I got it.

So now information is spectacular too meaning that where it’s a little bit true that Hill was a Republican when she was a kid and she did say something stupid but specific about some black youth, so if we tweak it this way it will stick to the next accusation and soon we have a hovering ominous witchy form.

Bernie Sanders has written about women’s desires to be gang raped not while he was in high school but when he was a grown man.

there’s a romance about who Kennedy was, but Johnson did the thing and I think Hillary Clinton will be like that.

a 1930s chill.

Because here in the great state of Texas we do things our way. That’s how a man runs his life.

willing to wait, you know, standing around being a good citizen, when suddenly it swerved to politics.

“She took Henry to the Apple store,” Olivia said, tearing open her box of squishy balls. Henry was her brother, age 12.

typical American teenage girl

“My mom’s credit card is on there,” she said, “so we can just like get whatever we want. She never notices.”

when they went to science camp together at an Ivy League university

Now if we could only figure out how to fit "the egalitarian economic benefits of the postwar American economy were disproportionately available to white Americans because of officially sanctioned racism" on a hat.

you should be accountable for more than just sales.

not wanting, even indirectly, to become an arm of the government.

Mr. Cook says Apple’s ultimate goal is to provide customers “safety” from “attack.” But Mr. Cook does not seem to be talking about the kind of attack that took 14 lives in San Bernardino.

First, the phone is owned by the County of San Bernardino, which issued it to Mr. Farook, an employee of its health department. The county, as Apple’s customer, has no problem having its phone opened.

If your deadline for changing your party affiliation has not yet come, re-register and vote for Rubio, even if, like me, you cannot stomach his opposition to marriage equality.

The truth is that the vast majority of voting Americans think that Trump is unacceptable as a presidential candidate,

why not let Trump pay for his own ads when he wants to broadcast foul and incendiary ideas?

Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate.

In Texas, registered voters may vote in either political party’s primary; however, a voter may vote in only one party’s primary in each election cycle.

Amazon thinks that what OER needs is a marketplace (albeit with the money removed). But OER are living documents, and what they need is an environment less like Amazon.com and more like GitHub

We don’t know if content will be interoperable – that is, usable beyond the Amazon (Kindle) ecosystem – or if there’ll be integration with other software systems.

a shift in power from governmental bodies to technology platforms as the locus of control.

wicked

Regarding the major obstacles for higher education, blending formal and informal learning is considered one of the solvable challenges

In higher education, the BYOD movement addresses the same reality; many students are entering the classroom with their own devices, which they use to connect to the institutions’ networks.

It was the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president showing off the demagogue's instinct for amplifying the angriest voice in the mob.

“You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,” he said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.” He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. It’s why shopping is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia.”

maybe publishing is not in fact dead, but like the proverbial Monty Python parrot, lying on the floor of its cage, eyes screwed tightly shut.

Having a legacy business configured around a website is now almost as much of a headache as the rumbling printing press, fuelled by paper and money.

contexts

I welcome a conversation about the extent to which (online) discussion of academic literature should be playful, and how best to create the conditions for such playful learning.

One student recently wrote to me: This format [Hypothesis] is much better for me as far as encouraging participation. With the old discussion format that listed all the readings then posed questions for group discussion, I felt a bit overwhelmed by the long responses people offered and had a hard time jumping into the conversation. With Hypothes.is, I can offer my thoughts as I go, which I find to be much more effective in my assimilation of the information.

VISUAL

I had the opportunity to meet with Hugh McGuire

(SPOILER: This is how a lot of my day went: thinking things were going to be more complicated than they actually were.)

Reading the detailed PressBooks plugin installation instructions was helpful but a bit daunting,

and hypothes.is has a WordPress plugin.

a few greasy looking smears and next to them, written in soft pencil– by a beautiful girl, I could tell, whom I would never meet– “Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”

I was just beginning high school then,

the one that dangles from me like a locket,

enwreathed with Blake’s furious scribbling.

the pains of copying,

a bird singing near their window, or the sunlight that illuminated their page–

We

And if you have managed to graduate from college without ever having written “Man vs. Nature” in a margin, perhaps now is the time to take one step forward.

rain down along the sidelines.

Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers, hands cupped around their mouths.

Another notes the presence of “Irony” fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal.

Students are more modest

I remember once looking up from my reading, my thumb as a bookmark, trying to imagine what the person must look like

If I could just get my hands on you,

what does a president sound like?

the site builder side via a WordPress plugin.

Part 3, Pressbooks dependencies:

Navigate to: My Books → YOUR_SITE → Dashboard

Part 1, WordPress generic:

Pressbooks works with PHP 5.6.x and WordPress 4.4.1.

Network Enable "Pressbooks."

Do not install Pressbooks on an existing WordPress blog -- create a new WordPress install instead.

Reubens engaged in thrift-store binges he likened to acts of rescue, filling his house, and several storage lockers, with salvaged treasure.

As a kid, born in Peekskill, N.Y., and reared in Sarasota, Fla., he showed his action figures great reverence, taking care never to leave them facedown between play sessions.

But over the course of this campaign it feels as if there’s been a decline in behavioral standards across the board.

Media Bias?

truthiness

Some studies see the rats pressing the dopamine lever 700 times in an hour.

For the past couple of years, my evening routine has been a variation on: get home from work, exhausted. Make sure the girls have eaten. Make sure I eat. Get the girls to bed. Feel exhausted. Turn on the computer to watch some (neo-golden-age-era) television. Fiddle with work emails, and generally piddle around while that golden-age-era TV consumes 57% of my attention. Be bad at watching TV and bad at getting emails done. Go to bed. Try to read. Check email. Try to read again. Fall asleep.

And so, starting in January, I started making some changes. The key ones are:No more Twitter, Facebook, or article reading during the work day (hard)No reading of random news articles (hard)No smartphones or computers in the bedroom (easy)No TV after dinner (it turns out, easy)Instead, go straight to bed and start reading a book — usually on an eink ereader (it turns out, easy)

to find, and follow, a link to a good, really good, article in the New Yorker,

They fight as though they are insurgents while they operate as though they are kings.

Worse, a collection of unicorns who see themselves as underdogs in a world where instability and inequality are rampant fail to realize that they have a moral responsibility.

bubbalicious

Not only was everyone attached to their iPhones and Androids, but companies like Salesforce and Palantir and Facebook took over storefronts and invited attendees in for coffee and discussions about Syrian migrants, while camouflaged snipers protected the scene from the roofs of nearby hotels.

a limited sphere of the World Wide Web

60 percent of humanity remains offline.

How wide the screen is

How far the projector is from the screen (throw distance)

Companies often lump what are essentially restyled multimedia projectors into the home theater category. Telltale signs are high lumen ratings (more than 3,000 lumens), VESA rather than HD video native resolutions (such as WXGA and WUXGA), and zoom that's shorter than 2x.