Twitter Weekly Digest for @janaremy, 2011-03-11

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  • MT @digitaldigs: the latest edition of a print journal is a great time capsule of scholarship–to see what people were thinking 2 yrs ago. #
  • RT @iamwun: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~Mary Oliver #
  • RT @mcsweeneys: Rubber Stamps I Wish I Had for Grading Freshman Composition Papers. http://bit.ly/dOjH1A #
  • RT @iamwun: To be fully alive, fully human & completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. —Pema Chödrön #
  • Good morning twitter! #
  • Mantra from climbing class tonite: "Anything looks good when you're more than 10 feet in the air." Also, conquered 2 new overhangs. Yay me! #
  • Looking for advice on a place to stay for #wherecamp -either in SF or Palo Alto. Needs to be close to train/shuttle. #
  • RT @ocwordcamp: So…who wants to buy the first ticket? http://bit.ly/fb7pxG #ChapmanU #
  • MT @westcenter & @adamarenson: the heartland was always about Western ambitions: http://nyti.ms/hAbkmQ #
  • RT @houshuang: Recording of talk by #P2PU director "P2PU: The Future of Learning? The Future of the University?" http://bit.ly/gq3DXI #P2PU #
  • MT @anitaborg_org: RT @youtube: In honor of the 100th Int'l Women's Day, view stories of female empowerment: http://bit.ly/aFl2F5 #iwd #
  • RT @hmprescott: The Knitting Clio Daily is out! http://bit.ly/i9nAoI ▸ Top stories today via @cliotropic @geedee215 @melissaterras @janaremy #
  • I'll be tweeting and liveblogging the 2011 #dayofDH You can, too: http://bit.ly/eN08fB #
  • RT @clotildenet: 3d printers create edible objects using puréed foods in place of ink: http://bit.ly/hdcqqt (via @stimpy @slashdot) #
  • Schmidt: Experiment w/university class open to #P2PU learners–>improved class for everyone, but best work done by #P2PU students #UCHRI #
  • Comment from audience: not one word abt research in #P2PU talk, only abt teaching. #UCHRI #
  • Schmidt: Community validation rather than institutional validation (the university moves too slowly to validate many skills) #P2PU #UCHRI #
  • Goldberg: speaking of delicate "balance between a disposition of propagation vs a disposition of inquiry" at #P2PU #UCHRI #
  • Maurer: Questions the "branding" of using the word university (too old-fashioned/arcane?) #P2PU #UCHRI #
  • Maurer: "Would #P2PU model work in the Humanities & Social Sciences?" (he argues that we need the walls to protect academic freedom) #UCHRI #
  • Maurer's Qs: "At what point can't we equate scholarship and content?" & "Is there a virtue in things that are closed?" #P2PU #UCHRI #
  • Bill Maurer now offering the "curmudgeon-ly" perspective on #P2PU #UCHRI #
  • P2PU is more user-driven than other open courseware models #UCHRI #
  • So #P2PU is experimenting with "badge" model to show certification/accomplishment (reminds me of gowalla) [-] #
  • #P2PU will never be an accredited university. So must create some form of recognition to show learning/skills #UCHRI [+] #
  • How to ensure quality of courses at #P2PU : transitioning from organized to self-organized (i.e. Yahoo–>Google model) #UCHRI #
  • "With choices between structure & experimentation, we've always gone with experimentation," Schmidt #P2PU #UCHRI #
  • P2PU partnership with Mozilla, for "School of Webcraft" (for web design). #UCHRI #
  • .#P2PU: anyone can get involved, learners are in charge, volunteers facilitate courses, peer-learning instead of top-down instruction #UCHRI #
  • Schmidt calling in everyone to be involved in educational innovation #P2P #UCHRI #
  • OpenCourseware Physics class has 390K views in 159 countries (in contrast to trad'l lectures). #UCHRI #P2P #
  • Schmidt offering critique of current education model–>too short, direct teaching isn't collaborative, etc. #UCHRI #
  • Listening to Phillip Schmidt of P2P university at #UCI #UCHRI http://plixi.com/p/82343182 #
  • RT @AliKira: RT @mdgee: Are you a pessimist… an optimist or an….? http://bit.ly/hwmAwb #
  • RT @miriamkp & @jackiewyse: Tchng w tech: want collaboration? wiki. want posts? blog. want pages? drupal. want artifacts? omeka. #thatcamp #
  • Just paid $360 for my son's AP exams. That's pretty close to what I paid for UC college tuition my freshman year #thosewerethedays #

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