The document discusses principles for harnessing technology at the local community level, including using structured data and syndication to share information about events. It advocates publishing event information to a single URL that can be subscribed to, rather than just posting files to websites, so the information remains fresh and can be automatically combined in new ways. Mastering these types of computational thinking principles is important for fully leveraging technology.

1. The Local Internet principles to learn, teach, and apply Jon Udell Marlboro College Graduate School October 2010 http://jonudell.net http://delicious.com/judell/marlboro1

2. LibraryLookup circa 2002

3. principles http://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-Solutions-Americas-Energy/dp/031257021X resource identifiers http://ksclib.keene.edu/search/i=031257021X http:// + www.amazon.com + / + Lights-Out-Solutions-Americas-Energy + / + dp + / + 031257021X data structure transformation (X) + 031257021X -> (Y) + 031257021X http://ksclib.keene.edu/search/i=031257021X query abstraction and generalization Step 1: http://ksclib.keene.edu/search/i={ANY BOOK} Step 2: {ANY LIBRARY}={ANY BOOK}

5. LibraryLookup circa 2008 (http://elmcity.info/library)

6. principles http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/BNQ1T3SLPJS7/ public data http://www.librarything.com/catalog/jon_udell explicit: amazon, barnes+noble, delicious, … web services implicit: librarything, … “Use my Amazon wishlist” indirection “Use my LibraryThingwishlist” composition service A: jon’swishlist + service B: look up a book in the library service C: look up books on jon’swishlist in the library =

7. wait! this is computer science lingo! abstraction and generalization resource identifiers data structure public data transformation web services composition indirection query i’m not a geek, why do i care?

8. 2006: jeannette wing

9. jeannettewing’s manifesto To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child’s analytical ability. It is a universally applicable attitude and skill.

11. the elmcity project

12. alameda, ca ann arbor, mi atlanta, ga baltimore, md berkeley, ca cambridge, ma evansville, in falls church, va ferndale, mi fredericksburg, va greenville, sc honolulu, hi huntington, wv ithaca, ny keene, nh menlopark, ca myrtle beach, sc perkasie, pa polk city, ia prescott, az providence, ri san diego, ca snoqualmie, wa sonora, ca troy, ny virginia beach, va west lafayette, in westborough, ma westbountiful, ut http://elmcity.cloudapp.net

13. principles http://extension.unh.edu/events/index.cfm?e=app.subscribeICS http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/367m8bqo3i4077646nvi8p0r24@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics resource identifiers BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar 70.9054//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20101006T113000Z SUMMARY:-Rain date for AP Env. Sci. trip to Monadnock data structure transformation elmcity hub syndication

14. events at Marlboro College Graduate School

15. where’s the data? Not on the web page at http://gradschool.marlboro.edu/news/events : <h3><strong><a name="udell"></a>The Local Internet</strong> - a free seminar about how local communities can harness technology</h3> <h4>Saturday, October 9, 11:30am - 12:30pm</h4> Not in the press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Chris Lenois, 802-251-7644 or pr@marlboro.edu SEMINAR ON COMMUNITY-LEVEL INTERNET USE AT MARLBORO COLLEGE GRADUATE SCHOOL, OCT. 9 Brattleboro, VT (September 20, 2010) Marlboro College Graduate School will offer a free seminar, entitled "The Local Internet" from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm on Saturday, October 9.

16. principle of structured data How we describe calendar events: “The Local Internet, Saturday at 11:30, Marlboro College Graduate School" How computers understand calendar events: DTSTART:20101009T113000 SUMMARY:The Local Internet LOCATION:Marlboro College Graduate School

17. events at Stanford

18. Stanford events in the Menlo Park hub Eventful Stanford’s iCalendar feed Upcoming Redwood City’s icalendar feed

19. Stanford events in the Menlo Park site Eventful Stanford’s iCalendar feed Upcoming Redwood City’s icalendar feed

20. principle of syndication elmcity hub

21. syndication to cable tv

22. syndication gone wrong (NITLE: National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education) The structured Information must be here, right? Actually, no, it isn’t anywhere.

23. syndication missing in action

25. many people and organizations can subscribe

26. when you update an item, all subscribers see it

28. what people see what computers see what computers need to see or or or to read, print, and interact with information to enable people to read, print, and interact with information to enable data to flow and recombine why?

29. jeannettewing’s manifesto To 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 thinking digital literacy, systems thinking, 21st-century skills there isn’t an app for that to make the most of the local internet – and the global one! – we need to learn, teach, and apply core principles