Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Some have fewer features, but all have some basic qualities: Ability to handle multiple courses (or activities) and enroll individual students Courses can be done either with specific deadlines, or at any pace Course calendars Messaging (between teacher and students and between students) Group discussions Document repositories Assignments and grading (..)

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Free and open source tools #1 – #100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

1] Scheme is an obscure programming language that most Computer Science students learn, but almost no one else does, and almost no one produces production code in scheme. { I’ll describe what you’ll give up with these tools (if anything) compared to their popular proprietary counterparts.

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Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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Linux Desktop Migration

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.)

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Reflection and Evaluation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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An interesting call from danah boyd

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They describe a process where 99% of the people involved get close to nothing for their efforts, the authors gives away right and the publishers just get to sit on their pot’ogold of academic knowlege and get student to pay inflated prices to use these works in school.

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