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ID and Other Reflections: Working Out Loud 101 | Some Thoughts
ID and Other Reflections: Working Out Loud 101 | Some Thoughts
"Today's post is triggered by a question a colleague asked me yesterday. I happened to mention "working out loud" as a practice that is fundamental to social and collaborative learning, and drew a completely blank stare. While "social learning" as a phrase, concept and strategy is fairly well-known by now, the concept of "working out loud" hasn't yet garnered that level of popularity. It is still restricted to a community of folks interested in Personal Learning Networks and Personal Knowledge Management, followers of blogs by Harold Jarche, Jane Hart, John Stepper and such."
#narratingWhatWeDo
·idreflections.blogspot.ca·
ID and Other Reflections: Working Out Loud 101 | Some Thoughts
How to Listen to Music: A Vintage Guide to the 7 Essential Skills | Brain Pickings
How to Listen to Music: A Vintage Guide to the 7 Essential Skills | Brain Pickings
"From the wonderful vintage book Music: Ways of Listening, originally published in 1982, comes this outline of the seven essential skills of perceptive listening, which author and composer Elliott Schwartz argues have been “dulled by our built-in twentieth-century habit of tuning out” and thus need to be actively developed. Perhaps most interestingly, you can substitute “reading” for “listening” and “writing” for “music,” and the list would be just as valuable and insightful, and just as needed an antidote to the dulling of our modern modes of information consumption."
#ds106#music#audio#listening
·brainpickings.org·
How to Listen to Music: A Vintage Guide to the 7 Essential Skills | Brain Pickings
Hatch · Tell stories with purpose
Hatch · Tell stories with purpose
"Hatch connects you to a suite of tools and a growing community that can help you leverage the power of narrative to increase reach, resources and impact for your social impact organization."
#storytelling#web2storytelling
·hatchforgood.org·
Hatch · Tell stories with purpose
Warming up to the official start of #msloc430 Working Out Loud Week May 4-10 | Jeff Merrell
Warming up to the official start of #msloc430 Working Out Loud Week May 4-10 | Jeff Merrell
"I’ll be here, narrating some of my own work and thoughts on this effort as we go through the week ahead. But we’re already witnessing the kind of experimentation that a short-burst work-out-loud event seems to inspire – both on Twitter and within our graduate program’s private enterprise social network. And what can happen when you do, in fact, have a safe place to share."
#narratingWhatWeDo
·jeffdmerrell.com·
Warming up to the official start of #msloc430 Working Out Loud Week May 4-10 | Jeff Merrell
How To Tell Stories
How To Tell Stories
"Most recently, as I was listening to a class of trainees try to tell stories, I realized that it is a helpful way to think about how you connect the elements of a story together. The classic mistake that novice storytellers make is that they tell a story by saying, “And then this happened….And then that happened….And then this happened….And then that happened.” The result is a story where all the plot points are related as if they were of the same importance. But that’s never the case in good storytelling – some moments are bigger and more important than others. That’s structure, and it enables us to thread our way through stories – and indeed life – and make sense of them. So instead of telling a story as a series of equally important “and thens” trying the Fortunately-Unfortunately game. "
#storytelling
·forbes.com·
How To Tell Stories
jQuery custom content scroller
jQuery custom content scroller
"Highly customizable custom scrollbar jQuery plugin. Features include vertical and/or horizontal scrollbar(s), adjustable scrolling momentum, mouse-wheel (via jQuery mousewheel plugin), keyboard and touch support, ready-to-use themes and customization via CSS, RTL direction support, option parameters for full control of scrollbar functionality, methods for triggering actions like scroll-to, update, destroy etc., user-defined callbacks and more."
#jquery#plugin#javascript#webdesign
·manos.malihu.gr·
jQuery custom content scroller
Story of the web #web25
Story of the web #web25
"The World Wide Web has gone from “never heard of it” to “can’t live without it” in 25 years. It took off because of its instant user appeal, but also because it’s open and free. From HTML to hacktivism, the W3C to MP3s, lolcats to LulzSec, from one website to over 180 million, here are its defining moments."
#web#timeline#history
·storyoftheweb.org.uk·
Story of the web #web25
Sage | WordPress Starter Theme
Sage | WordPress Starter Theme
"Sage is a WordPress starter theme based on HTML5 Boilerplate, gulp, Bower, and Bootstrap, that will help you make better themes."
#wordpress#theme
·roots.io·
Sage | WordPress Starter Theme
Bedrock | WordPress Stack
Bedrock | WordPress Stack
"Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack that gets you started with the best development tools, practices, and project structure."
#wordpress
·roots.io·
Bedrock | WordPress Stack
In the age of digital comics, we are all comic book fans | The Verge
In the age of digital comics, we are all comic book fans | The Verge
"The truth is that comics are increasingly the thing you read on your phone or tablet, and store in the cloud. Sure, lots of comics fans still read in print, but the digital world is booming. To understand the relationship between print and digital, we talked to comics theory guru Scott McCloud, Comixology founders John Roberts and David Steinberger, and Symbolia creative director and webcomic creator Joyce Rice."
#comics#storytelling#ds106
·theverge.com·
In the age of digital comics, we are all comic book fans | The Verge
FOLD
FOLD
FOLD is an authoring and publishing platform for creating modular, multimedia stories. Authors can search for and add “context cards” to their stories directly within the platform. Context cards can contain everything from videos, maps, tweets, music, interactive visualizations, and more.
#digitalstorytelling#web2storytelling#50ways
·readfold.com·
FOLD
Reclaiming freshwater sustainability in the Cadillac Desert
Reclaiming freshwater sustainability in the Cadillac Desert
"Numerous critiques of the sustainability of freshwater infrastructure in the western United States have appeared (5, 9–12). Most poignant of these is Marc Reisner's book Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Reisner sketches a portrait of the political folly of western water projects; his principal argument is that impaired function of dams, reservoirs, and crop lands, coupled with rapidly growing western cities, would eventually pit municipal water users against farms and catalyze an apocalyptic collapse of western US society.† In this article we explore some of the trends described by Reisner more than 2 decades ago using a more up to date and scientific approach. Specifically, we compare hypothetical calamity in the West with a control by means of direct comparison with watersheds east of the 100th meridian. The 100th meridian has some historical importance because it was the line implicated by Powell—and advocated by Reisner—as a dividing line between climates capable of supporting rainfed agriculture and regions where irrigation was necessary for dependable harvest. For the remainder of this article we use the 100th meridian as the dividing line between east and west regions in the coterminous United States. Thus, we explore whether the problems Reisner envisioned in Cadillac Desert exist and are unique to western watersheds. More importantly, we present a suite of metrics and indicators that summarize freshwater sustainability (or departures from sustainability) in the Cadillac Desert region."
#science#water
·pnas.org·
Reclaiming freshwater sustainability in the Cadillac Desert
When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online? | PLOS SciComm
When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online? | PLOS SciComm
"Blogs, social media, and Open Access publishing of scientific literature, data, and software were trends then visible on the horizon but not yet central to the experiences of most working scientists. For this PLOS-commissioned survey, which I view as a bookend to my 2000 report, I’ve investigated how researchers are collaborating to transform scientific communication in an Open Access environment. I’ve found that adoption remains incomplete, but progress has been dramatic and encouraging. New modes of collaboration, unforeseen in 2000, are emerging in a variety of scientific subcultures. From interviews I’ve conducted with researchers and software developers who are modeling aspects of modern online collaboration, I’ve highlighted the most useful and reproducible practices."
#science#online#research#open#access
·blogs.plos.org·
When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online? | PLOS SciComm
Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement | White | First Monday
Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement | White | First Monday
"This article proposes a continuum of ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’ as a replacement for Prensky’s much‐criticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Challenging the basic premises upon which Prensky constructed his typology, Visitors and Residents fulfil a similar purpose in mapping individuals’ engagement with the Web. We argue that the metaphors of ‘place’ and ‘tool’ most appropriately represent the use of technology in contemporary society, especially given the advent of social media. The Visitors and Residents continuum accounts for people behaving in different ways when using technology, depending on their motivation and context, without categorising them according to age or background. A wider and more accurate representation of online behaviour is therefore established."
#online#identity#dipp
·journals.uic.edu·
Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement | White | First Monday
Small stories in a big data world
Small stories in a big data world
"So my vision of the future of Linked Open Data, is not of the Giant Global Graph linking all knowledge. But a revolutionary army of data-artisans, hand-crafting their richly contextualised stories into a glorious, messy, confusing, infuriating, WONDERFUL tapestry. "
#storytelling#data
·discontents.com.au·
Small stories in a big data world
Hypertext As Semantic Tailorability — Medium
Hypertext As Semantic Tailorability — Medium
"As a programmer who has struggled with cross-browser layouts challenges and issues of scope, closures, and functional programming, I respectfully disagree that HTML and Javascript are easy enough for nonprogrammers to learn. But I do agree that one modern hypertext innovation empowers nonprogrammers to tailor semantic text in a very simple way. "
#hypertext#hashtag#history
·medium.com·
Hypertext As Semantic Tailorability — Medium
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
The free web hosting service Geocities.com was founded by “Beverly Hills Internet” in July 1995 — exactly the time when the web left academia and started to be made by everyone of us. Soon it became one of the most popular and inhabited places of the WWW and stayed that way through the second part of 1990′s. In January 1999, on the peak of Dot.com mania, it was bought by Yahoo!. The new millennium proved Geocities to be a bad investment. Having a page on there became a synonym for dilettantism and bad taste. Furthermore, the time of personal home pages was counted, being replaced with profiles on social networks. Ten years later, in April 2009, Yahoo! announced that they are going to shut down the service. On the 26th of October 2009 Geocities seized to exist. In between the announcement and the official date of death a group of people calling themselves Archive Team managed to rescue almost a terabyte of Geocities pages. On the 26th of October 2010, the first anniversary of this Digital Holocaust, the Archive Team started to seed geocities.archiveteam.torrent. On the 1st of November 2010 Olia and Dragan bought a 2 TB disk and started downloading the biggest torrent of all times.
#internet#history#geocities
·contemporary-home-computing.org·
One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
Car Metaphors » About
Car Metaphors » About
"I teach Interface Design and Digital Cultures at a design school. Its a great job. The only thing that poisons my professional life are the numerous analogies I read every day in articles on new media and computer related topics. The most popular analogy contemporary authors use to explain the computer’s development and its role in our life is to cars. In this blog, the car and other metaphors and comparisons will be collected. The examples will be in Russian, English and German, annotated and commented on in English."
#computer#metaphor
·contemporary-home-computing.org·
Car Metaphors » About
Every Movie Poster that Saul Bass Ever Made - Film.com
Every Movie Poster that Saul Bass Ever Made - Film.com
"Legendary graphic designer Saul Bass is rightly remembered for his incredible skill and seemingly unending creativity, a man who cared deeply about making things beautiful, even if no one else did. His work exists as a testament to the idea that good design can exist even in the most monetarily concerned places. From the late 1940’s until the early 1990’s, he created more than a dozen campaigns for films, with an even higher number dedicated to title sequences. Bass' work was risky, his posters were largely stripped down affairs that focused and strengthened attention rather than overwhelmed and scattered it into a million pieces. Colors were few, but bold in their application. The text and imagery itself was often treated similarly to a logo or a symbol: strong, simple, memorable, metaphorical, and easily applied to any number of other graphic applications. Here is a gallery of every significant movie poster Saul Bass ever designed (absent are ones for which he is falsely credited, like "West Side Story"), including one for an Irvin Kershner film that never reached production."
#design#ds106#youshow
·film.com·
Every Movie Poster that Saul Bass Ever Made - Film.com
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Butterick’s Practical Typography
this is a bold claim, but i stand be­hind it: if you learn and fol­low these five ty­pog­ra­phy rules, you will be a bet­ter ty­pog­ra­pher than 95% of pro­fes­sional writ­ers and 70% of pro­fes­sional de­sign­ers. (The rest of this book will raise you to the 99th per­centile in both categories.)
#typography#design#book#ds106#youshow
·practicaltypography.com·
Butterick’s Practical Typography