Alphabet’s Plans for a China Comeback Go Beyond Google Search
Google has faced sharp criticism, including from
its own employees, for its efforts to
rebuild an internet search presence in Chinaafter quitting the country eight years ago over censorship issues.
for Google’s corporate parent, Alphabet, the opportunities in the world’s largest internet market may be too good to resist. And the full scope of the company’s interest in China now appears to be broader than just internet search.
The latest hint came from Waymo, the driverless-car company that was spun out of Google in 2016. Chinese media noticed this week that the business had quietly registered a Shanghai subsidiary in May, suggesting that it wants a piece of an industry that the Chinese government has made a priority.
Unlike Google, Apple runs its own app store in China, heeding government directives about the kinds of apps that can be available to Chinese users. Microsoft and Amazon offer cloud computing services, working with local partners and following strict controls on how customers’ data is stored.
Baidu, maker of the country’s leading search engine, has made its autonomous-vehicle software platform available to dozens of local and foreign companies. SAIC Motor, China’s largest carmaker, is working with the e-commerce titan Alibaba. BMW and Daimler have received permission in China to test their own self-driving vehicles.
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more on Google and China in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=google+china
Tap your community for virtual field trip experiences
Lynne Schrum and Sandi Sumerfield 4/26/2018
https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=2189
Many museums now offer makerspaces and after-school programs, and universities have developed low-cost materials to spark students’ imagination and interest, such as the Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C
http://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/resources/virtualfield
https://education.microsoft.com/skype-in-the-classroom/virtual-field-trips
Art museums throughout the world offer virtual tours sorted by collection, artist or decade.
After one of these rich experiences, students can use free resources, such as Skype in the Classroom, to connect with experts to engage in scholarly dialogue to make their experience more meaningful and academically relevant or to interact with learners in other parts of the world.
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more on virtual tours in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2016/03/13/virtual-tours-museums/
http://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/resources/virtualfield
https://education.microsoft.com/skype-in-the-classroom/virtual-field-trips
more on virtual reality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality
more on video 360 in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=video+360
Digitorium 2018 Registration
Welcome to the registration page for Digitorium 2018. The conference will be held at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL, from Thursday, October 4, to Saturday, October 6, in the Hotel Capstone on campus. We look forward to welcoming you here. All participants in Digitorium, including presenters, must register and pay fees by September 28, 2018. To register, please complete the Online Registration process. Thank you again for your interest in and support for this event. We are excited to meet you in Tuscaloosa.
If you have any questions about registration, please contact Thomas C. Wilson (tcwilson@ua.edu).
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more on Digital Humanities in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+humanities
Addressing mental health issues critical to boosting academic success
Autumn A. Arnett,Aug. 8, 2018 https://www.educationdive.com/news/addressing-mental-health-issues-critical-to-boosting-academic-success/529381/,
It is estimated that 13% to 20% of children living in the United States has experienced a mental health disorder in the last year. According to the National Alliance of Mental Illness, one in five adolescents between 13 and 18 years old has or will have a serious mental illness, and suicide is the third leading cause of death for youth aged 10 to 24.
A nationwide shortage of school psychologists and counselors disproportionately affects these students as well, as they often attend more crowded, under-resourced schools, though they have the greatest need.
Some districts and universities are working to train staff to identify and, in some cases, assist students with mental illness on campus. Teachers21, a nonprofit subsidiary of William James College, a graduate college of psychology in Newton, Massachusetts, is working with classroom, school and district leaders and other school staff to build mental health treatment into their pedagogy. Trauma-informed teaching has become a popular concept, feeding into the idea of restorative justice
Most of these efforts — and a focus on social-emotional learning in general — are concentrated in elementary schools, and by the time a student reaches middle school, the emphasis begins to fizzle out. And by the time a student gets onto a college campus, efforts are all but non-existent, said Williams James President Nicholas Covino, who is a practicing psychologist.
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Report calls for national strategy to help schools prevent suicide, substance abuse
https://www.educationdive.com/news/report-calls-for-national-strategy-to-help-schools-prevent-suicide-substan/529915/
Amelia Harper Aug. 13, 2018
- The Trust for America’s Health and the Well Being Trust created a joint policy paper that calls for a national strategy to improve childhood resilience and school responses to crises involving suicide, drugs and alcohol, District Administration reports.
- The issue is relevant to schools, where students spend about half their year, because suicide is now the third leading cause of death in children ages 10 to 14, and more than 1 million middle school and high school age students have a substance abuse disorder, the authors note.
- The policy paper details four main areas of concern that need to be addressed on the school level: the need to partner with community-based organizations, such as Communities that Care; the need to improve school climate through such programs as Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS); the need for proactive screening for mental health risk factors and potential substance abuse; and increased staffing of mental health workers and training of teachers.
ED Accepting Proposals for Consortium OER Pilots
By Dian Schaffhauser 08/02/18
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2018/08/02/ed-accepting-proposals-for-consortium-oer-pilots.aspx?
The U.S. Department of Education has finally made a move on its efforts to fund development of open educational resources. The agency issued a notice this week inviting proposals for an “open textbooks pilot program” with an Aug. 29, 2018 deadline. The program was mandated in an omnibus spending law, H.R. 1625, approved by Congress earlier this year. ED expected to issue between one and three awards.
The winning proposals will be eligible for between $1.5 million and $4.95 million. The latter amount is nearly the entire fund of $5 million stipulated for the pilot in an explanatory document that accompanied the spending bill.
The application has three “absolute priorities” and one “competitive preference” priority. The absolutes are these:
- The project must involve consortium with at least three institutions participating, along with representation from industry or workforce groups and nonprofit or community organizations;
- The proposal needs to fill current gaps in the OER “marketplace” and be able to scale beyond the consortium members; and
- The plan needs to address how the OER will promote degree completion.
For more information, visit the application on the Federal Register.
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more on OER in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=oer
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dVtIha1-P1t6t7GEFjzGYd8aegU_OVzRQM-BHzxYwNg/edit
VWMOOC18 August 1-31, 2018
Excerpts from the program
| Sun.
August 5 |
12NOON SLT |
CVL Librarians |
Networking Forum at Community Virtual Library |
How can librarians help educators in virtual worlds?
Held at CVL main library SLurl:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/206/219/21
Embedded librarianship holds potential for immersive learning. Come learn how to promote your virtual world communities and the great work of educators in virtual worlds through networking. https://communityvirtuallibrary.wordpress.com/ |
| Fri. August 10 |
12pm SLT |
Dieter Heyne (Edward Tarber) |
Web Based Virtual Worlds in Education |
Organizing collaboration for 400 students in a web based virtual learning environment. Setting up a “synthetic” college.
In the VWMOOC HQ: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madhupak/113/66/62 |
| Sat. August 11 |
Noon SLT /
3pm Eastern |
Lyr Lobo, Cynthia Calongne
Kae Novak (SL: Kavon Zenovka, WoW: Maskirovka)
Chris Luchs (SL: Abacus Capellini, WoW: Cheerwine) |
What Can We Learn from the World of Warcraft? |
Join us as we host a blended reality session featuring a live stream from the World of Warcraft (WoW) as we explore educational opportunities in a massive multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG). We will have a YouTube live stream, a Discord channel for voice discussion, and an immersive event in WoW. Educators from the International Society for Technology in Education – Games and Simulations Network (ISTE G&SN) will host an immersive event & discuss learning in a multiuser virtual environment (MUVE).
To join us in WoW: visit this site: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/3128270
Click Try for Free and download the Blizzard Launcher, which manages the download. You’ll need 52GB for the game. Create an account, select Sisters of Elune realm and create a troll if you are new to WoW and using a Free Trial account.
Location: In the World of Warcraft and for those who do not have the game, over a YouTube Live stream (available that day) and hosted after the event over https://www.youtube.com/user/gamesmooc/videos |
| Friday
August 17 |
9 am slt |
Lynne Berrett (Wisdomseeker) |
Howard Gardner’s “Theory of Multiple Intelligences” explored through an Interactive, Immersive Experience in Second Life |
Dr. Gardner has proposed 8 different types of intelligence, ranging from Interpersonal to Kinesthetic. Join us to discover your own most innate type. You may be surprised, like many of the teachers who have tried this challenge as part of our whole-brain training program.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Inspiration%20Island/48/54/22 |
| Fri. August 17 |
Noon SLT |
Mark Childs (Gann McGann) |
Theatrical performances in virtual worlds |
This is a summary of various performance-based activities in Second Life and how performance studies can provide an insight into the experience of virtual worlds.
Presented in the VWMOOC HQ: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madhupak/113/66/62 |
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On behalf of the 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Committee, I am pleased to notify you that your proposal, “Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) for Library Orientation: A Scalable Approach to Implementing VR/AR/MR in Education”, has been accepted for presentation at the 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum in Minneapolis, Minnesota (November 8-10).
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Mark Gill and Plamen Miltenoff will participate in a round table discussion Friday. November 9, 3:30PM at Haytt Regency, Minneapolis, MN. We will stream live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InforMediaServices/
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Notes from the Forum
Risk and Reward: Public Interest and the Public Good at the Intersection of Law, Tech, and Libraries
https://thatandromeda.github.io/forum18_schedule/
Blog: Copyright Librarian; Twitter: @CopyrightLibn
U of MN has a person, whose entire job is to read and negotiate contracts with vendors. No resources, not comfortable to negotiate contracts and vendors use this.
If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. if it is not ours… we don’t get what we don’t ask for.
libraries are now developing plenty, but if something is brought in, so stop analytics over people. Google Analytics collects data, which is very valuable for students. bring coherent rink of services around students and show money saving. it is not possible to make a number of copyright savings. collecting such data must be in the library, not outside. Data that is collected, will be put to use. Data that is collected, will be put to uses that challenge library values. Data puts people at risk. anonymized data is not anonymous. rethink our relationship to data. data sensitivity is contextual.
stop requiring MLSs for a lot of position. not PhDs in English, but people with specific skills.
perspective taking does not help you understand what others want. connection to tech. user testing – personas (imagining one’s perspective). we need to ask, better employ the people we want to understand. in regard of this, our profession is worse then other professions.
pay more is important to restore value of the profession.
https://twitter.com/LibSkrat/status/1060925716483710976
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lLHP2TZnmrRodSdulPPOruEeF20iwF5zw6h5aOV8ogg/edit
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Library System Migrations: Issues and Solutions
https://drive.google.com/open?id=109w_NU3zki_A6Fukpa50zzGJdgazbVSKqf7zAoYaKsc
from Sierra to Alma. SFX. number of challenges
Stanford – Folio, Cornell, Duke and several others. https://www.folio.org/ Alma too locked up for Stanford.
Easy Proxy for Alma Primo
Voyager to OCLC. Archive space from in-house to vendor. Migration
Polaris, payments, scheduling, PC sign up. Symphony, but discussing migration to Polaris to share ILS. COntent Diem. EasyProxy, from Millenium no Discovery Layer to Koha and EDS. ILL.
WMS to Alma. Illinois State – CARLY – from Voyager to Alma Primo. COntent Diem, Dynex to Koha.
Princeton: Voyager, migrating Alma and FOlio. Ex Libris. Finances migrate to PeopleSoft. SFX. Intota
RFPs – Request for Proposals stage. cloud and self-hosted bid.
Data Preparation. all data is standard, consistent. divorce package for vendors (preparing data to be exported (~10K). the less to migrate, the better, so prioritize chunks of data (clean up the data)
Data. overwhelming for the non-tech services. so a story is welcome. Design and Admin background, not librarian background, big picture, being not a librarian helps not stuck with the manusha (particular records)
teams and committees – how to compile a great team. who makes the decision. ORCHID integration. Blog or OneNote place to share information. touch base with everyone before they come to the meeting. the preplanning makes large meetings more productive.
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Using Design Thinking — Do we really want a makerspace?
makerbot replicator 3d printer
one touch studio 4 ready record studio. data analytics + several rooms to schedule.
lighting turned on when USB drive inserted.
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2:30 – 2:50
Talk To the Phone (Because the Human Is Overwhelmed)
Google physical web beacons, NFC lables, QR codes, Augmented Reality. magnetic position. nearby navigations
Navigating the Digital Shift: Quality Learning Connections in the Digital Age
https://home.edweb.net/webinar/digitalcontent20180530/
This edWebinar highlights SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities. As states and districts shift to implement digital instructional materials, the report provides information and guidance on state acquisition and procurement policies, selection and curation processes. States are increasingly providing guidance, definitions, and vetting policies and practices for the implementation of digital materials to help ensure that digital materials are available to learners via devices anywhere, anytime.
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see also
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/06/25/iste-standards-ed-leaders/
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http://myweb.fsu.edu/vshute/pdf/Stealth_Assessment.pdf
https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Stealth-Assessment-Turns/125276
Colleges no longer simply want to know what their students know, but how they think.
Higher-order thinking skills are “something that schools are paying a little bit more attention to these days,”
educators also say that paper-and-pencil examinations have limits—for one thing, knowing that you are being tested can drag down performance—and they are looking for new methods to measure skills like critical thinking, creativity, and persistence.
Emerging Library Trends in FYE
From FYE to ROI to HIP, librarians are seeing new acronyms emerge in their campus administrations’ initiatives. How can today’s academic libraries position themselves to improve student success and retention, using high-impact practices (HIPs) to demonstrate a return-on-investment (ROI)? Many libraries struggle to define and implement their services in a way that meets these shifting expectations.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 2:00 PM Eastern 1:00 PM Central12:00 PM Mountain 11:00 AM Pacific
To register: https://goo.gl/EhzBRi
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more on ROI in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=return+on+investment