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Daley added a new discussion topic JavaFX .bat files for ease of use (Windows 10) April 20, 2021 - 11:50am

Hello everyone, I set up JavaFX on my computer when I first started the course, but hadn't used it any serious capacity until just yesterday. While I was using it, I made use of 2 batch files to call the appropriate commands required on windows...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Words will never be a substitute for grunts April 14, 2021 - 12:56pm

Andrew Norton claims that online learning will never be a substitute for face-to-face learning. Indeed. Here are some other equally useful and true claims: electric vehicles will never be a substitute for gasoline-fueled vehicles; cellphones...

https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=8996
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked What really impacts the use of active learning in undergraduate STEM education? Results from a... April 8, 2021 - 9:40pm

This is a report on an interesting study by Naneh Apkarian et al, that asked a large-ish number (3796) of in-person American STEM profs (college and university levels) about the effects of various known factors on their use of active learning...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247544
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron uploaded the file Photo of a lecture (credit to Sam Balye) April 8, 2021 - 9:23pm

Photo by Sam Balye on Unsplash
Daley created a wiki page Unit 4 Reflections April 7, 2021 - 10:08am

Because knowledge of implementation is required to use a blackbox subroutine, programmers are able to build programs based on abstracted functionality. This concept is incredibly powerful, especially when the program being created is complex. The...
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked My latest paper - Educational technology: what it is and how it works April 4, 2021 - 11:46am

This is a link to my latest paper in the journal AI & Society. You can read it in a web browser from there, but it is not directly downloadable. A preprint of the submitted version (some small differences and uncorrected errors here and there,...

https://rdcu.be/ch1tl
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron commented on a bookmark Affordable Internet for Canada - Virtual Day of Action today (March 16) March 24, 2021 - 4:05pm

Thanks for that, Nicolosus - I've added my voice and got my thank-you email! The recording of the day of action is available at the original URL. Highlights for me were Michael Geist (around the 50 minute mark) and Cory Doctorow (around 1:58), both...
- Trevor K@trevorkr
Trevor K commented on a bookmark Affordable Internet for Canada - Virtual Day of Action today (March 16) March 24, 2021 - 3:40pm

Thanks for this Prof. Dron! For anyone that would also like to sign a petition against this buyout by Rogers, can do so at the following link: https://openmedia.org/StopTheBuy-em
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron published a blog post Are experienced online teachers best-placed to help in-person teachers cope with suddenly having to... March 24, 2021 - 10:36am

Some thoughts on helping teachers with emergency online teaching, with the occasional transport metaphor and a brief, incomplete book review
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Incarceration in Real Numbers March 16, 2021 - 2:14pm

This is stunning, both in terms of content and in terms of its presentation. The content is depressingly familiar - the fact that the US incarcerates (in real numbers and as a percentage of population) vastly more people than any other country in...

https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron bookmarked Affordable Internet for Canada - Virtual Day of Action today (March 16) March 16, 2021 - 10:34am

This is a timely event, running today via Zoom, as Rogers unexpectedly announce an attempted takeover of Shaw, thereby not only acquiring Shaw's extensive cable Internet and TV business, but also one of the last remaining serious competitors to the...

https://affordable-internet.ca/
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- Trevor K@trevorkr
  
  Trevor K March 24, 2021 - 3:40pm
  Thanks for this Prof. Dron! For anyone that would also like to sign a petition against this buyout by Rogers, can do so at the following link:
  https://openmedia.org/StopTheBuy-em
- Jon Dron@jond
  
  Jon Dron March 24, 2021 - 4:05pm
  Thanks for that, Nicolosus - I've added my voice and got my thank-you email!
  The recording of the day of action is available at the original URL. Highlights for me were Michael Geist (around the 50 minute mark) and Cory Doctorow (around 1:58), both of whom are incredibly smart people and excellent communicators to whom I always pay a lot of attention, but the stories from less eminent folk, especially from those struggling on the periphery and choosing between Internet access and food, were often quite moving. There was a lot of really good information from very diverse stakeholders throughout - some really interesting stats from UoT researcher Sam Andre from Ryerson U on the digital divide in Toronto compared with Canada as a whole, for instance, just after the 38 minute mark.
- Jon Dron@jond
Jon Dron posted to the wire March 10, 2021 - 10:02am

I'd forgotten that I'd already read that.
- Mike Sosteric@mikes
Mike Sosteric posted to the wire March 10, 2021 - 7:25am

This seems like something academics might be interested in. CBD oil treats Alzheimer's https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210309192548.htm
- Dane Watts@danewa1
Dane Watts has created a new Pinboard My Work March 8, 2021 - 9:34am

This is where I will be pinning my work throughout the courses as I study. See anything you can use, feel free to.
- Christine Reganti@christinere17
Christine Reganti created a wiki page TME 9 Final Reflection March 6, 2021 - 10:27am

The most difficult task of this course was definitely Unit Five where we were asked to create, configure, and manage a webserver all from scratch. It was a heavy unit and I had no experience with creating and configuring webservers. Before this...
- Michael Bloom@michaelbl32
Michael Bloom created a wiki page Michael Bloom Personal Notebook March 1, 2021 - 4:30pm

Greetings, I am a father to one and with a successful, supportive, and loving wife. We enjoy spending time together whether it's travelling, fishing, paddle boarding, boating, or camping. I am a part time worker at a bakery and a full time...
- Michael Bloom@michaelbl32
Michael Bloom created a wiki page Michael Bloom Personal Notebook March 1, 2021 - 4:28pm

Greetings, My name is Michael Bloom and I am taking AU's BSc with a major in Computer and Information Systems. I am a father of one and married to a successful, supportive, and loving wife. Together we love to travel, fish, snowmobile, paddle...
- Christine Reganti@christinere17
Christine Reganti created a wiki page TME 8 Reflection February 28, 2021 - 5:30pm

I found it quite difficult to write a lot for this unit. This is mostly due to the many pros and cons of each topic – which is ironic. It was hard to determine which pros and cons were actually worth writing about. I definitely found all of...
- Daniel Wilton@danielwi
Daniel Wilton uploaded the file COHERE-CIDER Session 21 April 2021 thumb in the group Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research - CIDER February 28, 2021 - 5:12pm

COHERE-CIDER Session SeriesAppreciative Inquiry based faculty development: A mixed methods case studyLeeann WaddingtonApril 21, 2021

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