"This talk by the late David Foster Wallace might just change the way you see the tiny, sometimes annoying, details of life. This simple unChristian talk might just blow your mind & Make You a Better Christian. This was the commencement speech he gave at Kenyon College in 2005. The speech is published in a short book called This is Water."
Effects of Increasing Digital Connections on Relationships and Community | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR
"A revolution in technology has connected us online more than ever before: Nearly 60 percent of Americans now have a Facebook account. Digital connections have replaced informal interaction with neighbors and acquaintances. And a quarter of Americans say they have no best friend to confide in. Some caution the decline in face-to-face interactions has led to polarization and congressional gridlock, while others argue that digital connections provide invaluable connections with far-flung family and friends. Diane and guests discuss how virtual relationships affect real life connections and building community. "
Joho the Blog » Tim Berners-Lee’s amazingly astute 1992 article on this crazy Web thing he started
"Dan Brickley points to this incredibly prescient article by Tim Berners-Lee from 1992. The World Wide Web he gets the bulk of the credit for inventing was thriving at CERN where he worked. Scientists were linking to one another’s articles without making anyone type in a squirrely Internet address. Why, over a thousand articles were hyperlinked. And on this slim basis, Tim outlines the fundamental challenges we’re now living through. Much of the world has yet to catch up with insights he derived from the slightest of experience. May the rest of us have even a sliver of his genius and a heaping plateful of his generosity."
"The BlendKit Course is a set of subject matter neutral, open educational resources related to blended learning available for self-study or for group use. Periodically, these materials will also be used as the basis for a facilitated open, online course. (See below for information on the most recent facilitated offering: BlendKit2014.) The goal of the BlendKit Course is to provide assistance in designing and developing your blended learning course via a consideration of key issues related to blended learning and practical step-by-step guidance in helping you produce actual materials for your blended course (i.e., from design documents through creating content pages to peer review feedback at your own institution). Disclaimer: The BlendKit Course does not address technical issues associated with specific course management systems (e.g., Blackboard, Canvas, Desire2Learn, Moodle, Sakai, etc.). Please consult with the appropriate personnel at your institution for Learning Management System (LMS) training and for any required credentialing prior to offering a blended learning course."
The beginner's guide to understanding Twitter terms - Daily Genius
"Reading your Twitter stream can feel like you’re reading code. It has #hashtags, shortened URLs, and a lot of @mentions. If you don’t know what those things are, then you’re not alone. There are a lot of beginners who are struggling to grasp the crazy mixed-up world of tweets. This simple guide from the social media experts at Mashable details the very basic symbols and terms you’ll need to know whilst using the service. It’s by no means exhaustive but it’s a great way to start."
Are You Experiential 101? Place Based Storytelling Panel Video | PERSONALIZE MEDIA
"Australia is a place bubbling with enthusiastic new Transmedia talent and I was lucky to present and moderate a great panel at the Sydney Opera House early in July 2011 with representatives from pervasive film making, advertising, art and industry R&D. It was all about experiential storytelling and services and part of the Creative Sydney fortnight and a Metro Screen organised evening"
How To 'App Smash' And Implement Digital Storytelling On The iPad - Edudemic
"App smashing, the process of using more than one apps in conjunction with one another to create a final product, is a concept that allows students to create engaging educational projects and illustrate their creativity in multifaceted ways. One of the most gratifying and effective ways to use app smashing in the classroom is to create digital storytelling projects. The concept of digital storytelling is emerging as a form of personal and collective expression of knowledge, ideas, and perceptions. Its numerous and positive effects on students’ communication skills are well documented. Digital storytelling is the perfect vehicle for the delivery of visual and audio stimuli that greatly enhance a storyline or a simple narrative."
"I spend a great deal of time looking at new APIs from companies, institutions, and government agencies during my weekly monitoring of the API space, and over the last couple years, I've come across an increasing number of APIs tht are out of higher educational institutions around the world. It began with a centralized developer area at the University of Washington (UW), and then I saw the same from UC Berkeley, with more recently noticing the impressive conversion of 250+ services from a traditional Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), to a more modern web API approach, at Brigham Young University (BYU). Along the way I began seeing that APIs at higher education institutions were going to be an important piece of the overall API puzzle, and as I do with any research area, I setup a Github repository (university.apievangelist.com), and began tracking on universities who were doing anything interesting with APIs, no matter how small. I now track on twelve separate higher education institutions that have active API efforts, and I have been engaging in active conversations with two of the institutions, regarding their strategy, working to understand how I can provide any guidance, but also learn from each team about the unique challenges higher education institutions face when designing, deploying, manage, and even evangelize their APIs--this white paper is a result of that ongoing research"
"A tremendous amount of data is kept as CSVs, or Comma-Separated Values. Working with spreadsheets through programs like Google Spreadsheets can let you perform pretty magical calculations, but as the spreadsheet grows, it grinds your machine to a halt. Nevertheless, the ubiquity of the CSV means even tremendous files are kept that way. How can we make them easier to process? Enter orc-csv, a command-line tool for uploading CSVs to Orchestrate, bundled with a web server to work with them from your local machine. We’ll use it to explore top Reddit posts."
Center for Media & Social Impact | Empowering Media That Matters
The Center for Media & Social Impact at American University, formerly the Center for Social Media, is an innovation lab and research center that studies, designs, and showcases media for social impact. Focusing on independent, documentary and public media, the Center bridges boundaries between scholars, producers and communication practitioners across media production, media impact, public policy and audience engagement. The Center produces resources for the field and academic research; convenes conferences and events; and works collaboratively to understand and design media that matters.
This Exquisite Forest is an online collaborative art project that lets users create short animations that build off one another as they explore a specific theme. The result is a collection of branching narratives resembling trees.
"Whether you’re a budding developer, a pixel-perfect designer, or just like helping out, we’re always looking for people to help make WordPress even better. If you want to get involved in WordPress, this is the place to be. We’ve got blogs for each contributor group, general news, and upcoming events."
Gallery Whispers and Lunch in the Cafe: Mapping Museums Through Their Sounds
"“There are so many sounds in museums that we usually ignore that are absolutely engrossing once you take the time to focus on them,” says artist John Kannenberg, who’s been recording museum noise for 15 years. “Standing in a space like the Great Court at the British Museum is so amazing to me — all that reverb and swampy, thick and thin sound. Sitting in a very quiet gallery while people whisper to each other, that dense amount of silence with wispy little bits of unintelligible dialogue, practically gives me goosebumps.” Last month Kannenberg released “A Sound Map of the Art Institute of Chicago” with 3LEAVES, a Hungarian label focused on field-recording-based sound art. The hourlong soundscape is Kannenberg’s second in a series of museum portraits using their quiet and cacophonous elements. Back in 2011, also with 3LEAVES, he released a sound map of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the project that started him on turning his museum field recordings into psychogeographies of the institutions."
Alice in Wonderland as a Subway Map | Brain Pickings
"As a lover of all things Alice in Wonderland and of visual metaphors based on subway maps, I was instantly taken with this transit map of Wonderland, juxtaposing the extreme organizational structure of a subway system with the extreme surreal chaos of the Lewis Carroll classic."
"The photographs in this book constitute a shocking and gripping portrait of contemporary America. Jim Goldberg's photographs of rich and poor people, with the subjects' own handwritten comments about themselves on the prints, give us an inside look at the American dream at both ends of the social scale.His pictures reveal his subjects' innermost fears and aspirations, their perceptions and illusions about themselves, with a frankness that makes the portraits as engrossing as they are disturbing."
"I love almost every part of being a tech blogger: learning, preaching, bantering, researching. The one part about blogging that I absolutely loathe: dealing with SPAM comments. For the past two years, my blog has registered 8,000+ SPAM comments per day. PER DAY. Bloating my database with that trash slows down my blog in every which way, and recently I decided I was done with it. I was also tired of moderating comments and seeing loads of SPAM comment notifications in my email inbox. Done. And like a boss...I stopped it. Dead. Here's how I did it!"
Book Review: Show Your Work, by Jane Bozarth by Bill Brandon : Learning Solutions Magazine
"In Show Your Work, Jane Bozarth addresses an important “something” that is missing from most courses, curricula, and lesson plans: tacit knowledge. Nearly every instructional-design book ever written explains very carefully how to teach explicit knowledge and skills, yet the tacit knowledge and the skills gained from experience are what make the critical difference in performance. The way that people, whether they are bricklayers or physicists (almost everyone, it seems, except instructional designers and educators), transmit their tacit knowledge is by “working out loud, making work visible, making work discoverable, or narrating work.” There are many tools, often freely available, that we can use to do this with text, video, voice recordings, photos—and these tools are very often available at the end of our arm, in a smartphone or other mobile device. So why don’t we work out loud?"
"The Unknown Fields Division is a nomadic design studio that ventures out on expeditions to the ends of the earth to explore peripheral landscapes, industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness. These distant landscapes - the iconic and the ignored, the excavated, irradiated and the pristine - are embedded in global systems that connect them in surprising and complicated ways to our everyday lives. Each year we navigate a different global supply chain and seek to map the complex and contradictory realities of the present as a site of strange and extraordinary futures. Past journeys have traversed the mines of Madagascar and the Australian outback, the faded nuclear futures of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the black military technologies and conspiracy theorists of the Nevada desert and Burning Man Festival."
dy/dan » [Makeover] Central Park & These Tragic “Write An Expression” Problems
"I made another digital math lesson in collaboration with Christopher Danielson and our friends at Desmos. It’s called Central Park and you should check out the Walkthrough."
Teenage boy creates an entire miniature world - BBC News - YouTube
"What started as a simple project to sharpen his photo editing skills has turned into an online sensation for 15-year old Zev Hoover from Massachusetts. Imagining the world from the angle of what he calls "little folk", Zev conceptualises, photographs and then edits his visions - and ultimately posts them on his Flickr page where they receive hundreds of thousands of impressions. The internet fame has brought him onto national TV shows, requests to design movie posters and some free photo equipment. "
Databending using Audacity Effects | Question Something
"If you’ve never heard of Audacity, then here is the website. It’s a free audio editing program with tools to cut and paste sound and to add effects, but it can also be so much more. With just the touch of a few buttons it can take an image and corrupt its form to create something entirely new – and the process is fascinating. Following Antonio’s tutorial, you can trick Audacity in to opening an image file as a sound. Not only does this give you a sound wave which you can manipulate and bend to your will, but a lot of files sound pretty funky. A bit like if you put a Decepticon in a blender with a couple of R2 droids."
"Good graphic design doesn’t happen by mistake, and neither does clever font marriage. With this Ultimate Guide to Font Pairing we show you how to make your designs beautiful, with simple and effective type applications."
Sex Erectile Drugs - 1000Journals Discount Pharmacy
The 1000 Journals Project is an ongoing collaborative experiment attempting to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels. The goal is to provide a method for interaction and shared creativity among friends and strangers. Those who find the journals add something to them. A story, drawing, photograph, anything really. Then they pass the journal along, to a friend or stranger, and the adventure continues. Launched in 2000 by the San Francisco based artist “someguy”, the journals have reached over 40 countries and every US state. They’ve come to rest in hostels, cafes and law offices; been the subject of treasure hunts, brought to remote mountaintops, abandoned at airports and stolen at gunpoint.
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