![>>> s = open('marlboro2.xml').read()>>> s[0:80]'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www'>>> xml = minidom.parseString(s)>>> xml<xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x0159F7B0>>>> items = xml.getElementsByTagName('item')>>> len(items)6>>> titles = item.getElementsByTagName('title')>>> len(titles)1>>> title = titles[0]>>> title.toxml()u"<title>Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar</title>"](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/marlboro2-101008201100-phpapp01/85/technical-fluency-5-320.jpg)
![>>> title.firstChild<DOM Text node "u'Developing'...">>>> title.firstChild.nodeValue"Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar">>> collection = {}>>> for item in items:... title = item.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.nodeValue... url = item.getElementsByTagName('link')[0].firstChild.nodeValue... collection[title] = url...>>> collection.keys()["The principle of indirection - O'Reilly Radar", 'Collaborative curation as a service', 'To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start ', "Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar", 'A new answer to an old question', "The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar"]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/marlboro2-101008201100-phpapp01/85/technical-fluency-6-320.jpg)
![>>> collection.values()['http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/the-principle-of-indirection.html', 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/', 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/21/to-elmcity-from-curator-message-start/', 'http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/developing-intuitions-about-da.html', 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/18/a-new-answer-to-an-old-question/', 'http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-power-of-informal-contract.html']>>> for key in collection.keys():... print key + ': ' + collection[key]The principle of indirection - O'Reilly Radar:http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/the-principle-of-indirection.htmlCollaborative curation as a service « Jon Udell:http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start:http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/21/to-elmcity-from-curator-message-start/Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar:http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/developing-intuitions-about-da.htmlA new answer to an old question:http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/18/a-new-answer-to-an-old-question/The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar:http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-power-of-informal-contract.html](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/marlboro2-101008201100-phpapp01/85/technical-fluency-7-320.jpg)
![>>> for key in collection.keys():... print '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % ( collection[key], key)<a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/the-principle-of-indirection.html">The principle of indirection</a><a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/">Collaborative curation as a service</a><a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/21/to-elmcity-from-curator-message-start/">To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start</a><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/developing-intuitions-about-da.html">Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar</a><a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/18/a-new-answer-to-an-old-question">A new answer to an old question</a><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-power-of-informal-contract.html">The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar</a>>>>](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/marlboro2-101008201100-phpapp01/85/technical-fluency-8-320.jpg)
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technical fluency
- 1. technical fluencyexamples from the elmcity case studyJon UdellMarlboro College Graduate SchoolOctober 2010http://jonudell.nethttp://delicious.com/judell/marlboro1
- 5. >>> s = open('marlboro2.xml').read()>>> s[0:80]'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www'>>> xml = minidom.parseString(s)>>> xml<xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x0159F7B0>>>> items = xml.getElementsByTagName('item')>>> len(items)6>>> titles = item.getElementsByTagName('title')>>> len(titles)1>>> title = titles[0]>>> title.toxml()u"<title>Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar</title>"
- 6. >>> title.firstChild<DOM Text node "u'Developing'...">>>> title.firstChild.nodeValue"Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar">>> collection = {}>>> for item in items:... title = item.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].firstChild.nodeValue... url = item.getElementsByTagName('link')[0].firstChild.nodeValue... collection[title] = url...>>> collection.keys()["The principle of indirection - O'Reilly Radar", 'Collaborative curation as a service', 'To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start ', "Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar", 'A new answer to an old question', "The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar"]
- 7. >>> collection.values()['http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/the-principle-of-indirection.html', 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/', 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/21/to-elmcity-from-curator-message-start/', 'http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/developing-intuitions-about-da.html', 'http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/18/a-new-answer-to-an-old-question/', 'http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-power-of-informal-contract.html']>>> for key in collection.keys():... print key + ': ' + collection[key]The principle of indirection - O'Reilly Radar:http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/the-principle-of-indirection.htmlCollaborative curation as a service « Jon Udell:http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start:http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/21/to-elmcity-from-curator-message-start/Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar:http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/developing-intuitions-about-da.htmlA new answer to an old question:http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/18/a-new-answer-to-an-old-question/The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar:http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-power-of-informal-contract.html
- 8. >>> for key in collection.keys():... print '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % ( collection[key], key)<a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/the-principle-of-indirection.html">The principle of indirection</a><a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/26/collaborative-curation-as-a-service/">Collaborative curation as a service</a><a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/21/to-elmcity-from-curator-message-start/">To: elmcity, From: @curator, Message: start</a><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/developing-intuitions-about-da.html">Developing intuitions about data - O'Reilly Radar</a><a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/03/18/a-new-answer-to-an-old-question">A new answer to an old question</a><a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-power-of-informal-contract.html">The power of informal contracts - O'Reilly Radar</a>>>>
- 11. versus
- 12. where=honolulu,hitz=hawaiian contact=elmcity@alohavibe.com facebook=yes where: honolulu,hitz: hawaiian contact: elmcity@alohavibe.comfacebook: yes
- 14. http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/alohavibe/trusted+ics+feedtransformationtransformationevaluationtransformation<item> <title>Hawaii Reggae Guild</title> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:52:21 +0000</pubDate> <guidisPermaLink="false">http://www.delicious.com/url/d107b1cb6d87eb32858daa7fa25b68a9#alohavibe</guid> <link>http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/usb3tucgslji5pdrfgf1luij94%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics</link> <source url="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/alohavibe">alohavibe's bookmarks</source> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">trusted</category> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">ics</category> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">feed</category> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">category=music,reggae</category> <category domain="http://www.delicious.com/alohavibe/">url=http://hawaiireggaeguild.com</category> </item> Is alohavibe’s metadata URNtagged with trusted AND ics AND feed?If yes, add to list aggregated by hub.If no, ignore.feedurl: http//www.google.com/calendar/ical..basic.icscategory: music,reggae url: http://hawaiireggaeguild.com
- 15. queryhttp://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/alohavibe/tags_jsontransformationdata for computers [{"music":333},{"reggae":171]queryhttp://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/alohavibe/tags_html data for people
- 16. queryhttp://elmcity.cloudapp.net/services/alohavibe/metadataPartitionKey: alohavibeRowKey: alohavibeTimestamp: 10/8/2010 6:08:18 PMcontact: elmcity@alohavibe.comeventbrite_events: 17eventful_events: 1346events: 4050events_per_person: 0.01facebook: yesfacebook_events: 49feed_count: 7ical_events: 592population: 374676tz: hawaiianupcoming_events: 2095where: honolulu,hi data merged from delicious
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- 19. message from a person messages from a computer
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- 26. sources: delicious, twitter, wordpress, technoratieffect: query for a tag across all sources result: rss feed merging results from all queries
- 29. 1. the elmcity service operates on twitter as @elmcity_azure2. the curator for the westborough, ma, hub operates as @westborough3. if the elmcity sees twitter=@NAME in a hub’s metadata, it follows @NAME 4. because @elmcity_azure follows @westborough, @westborough can send a direct message to @elmcity_azure5. if @westborough just added a feed and wants @elmcity_azure to aggregate now, instead of waiting 8 hours, he can send the start message:
- 30. the elmcity project did not have to build or buy software or services to:enable curators to create and edit hub metadataenable curators to create and edit a feed registryenable curators to categorize (tag) feedsenable curators to assign or revoke trust on a per-feed basisenable curators to specify default links for feedsnotify everyone when key project events happen:a curator finds and adds a new icalendar feed
- 31. the project manager issues a status update
- 32. the project manager writes an article about the project
- 33. any item tagged with the subproject icalvalid is posted to delicious or twitter or wordpressreceive authenticated messages from curators
- 34. jeannettewing’s manifestoTo reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child’s analytical ability.It is a universally applicable attitude and skill.other names for computational thinkingdigital literacy, systems thinking, 21st-century skillsthere isn’t an app for thatto make the most of the local internet – and the global one! – we need to learn, teach, and apply core principles