How to Make an Interactive Network Visualization
Interactive network visualizations make it easy to rearrange, filter, and explore your connected data. Learn how to make one using D3 and JavaScript.
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The Nine Eyes of Google Street View
making artful photographs out of what the camera sees in Google Maps Street View
Tell Me A Story - Radiolab
Robert Krulwich's commencement speech at California Institute of Technology gets at the heart of what we do here at Radiolab. It's a treat to hear his passion. We enjoyed it. And we thought you might too.
Storytelling as an essential scholarly skill? | The Auricle
I love RadioLab’s topic range plus its overall quirkiness and envy Robert Krulwich’s (NPR Science Correspondent and one of the RadioLab co-presenters) ability to simplify and communicate sometimes complex concepts. In particular, I draw attention to the commencement speech he gave at California Institute of Technology in 2008 which is still available as a podcast with the title “Tell me a story” (RadioLab, 23 July 2008). His speech undoubtedly did (and probably still does) disturb some people with particular religious or cultural orientations but his key message was that recognizing the power, the art, and skill of storytelling needs to become a key part of the portfolio in enhancing the public understanding of science and should, therefore, be considered the business of all engaged in all aspects of science and technology.
Explore
Explore is about the evolving definition, process, and promise of learning. It’s a cross-disciplinary lens on what stimulates, what enriches, and what matters—an intellectual and creative incubator for cultivating your interests, and a discovery engine for things you didn't know you were interested in, until you are. Explore embodies Lore’s aspiration to reshape education in the Information Age, and is edited by Maria Popova of Brain Pickings.
One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.
Going Public: Into the Great Wide Open | Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (June 2012)
(Panelist for the CTLT Institute at the University of British Columbia) The last presenter was Alan Levine, an Instructional Technology Specialist at the University of Mary Washington. He created a website that aims to capture all of the “amazing stories of openness on the web.” Levine is exhilarated with the possibility of serendipity on the web.
Projects | Mozilla Webmaker
Some good ideas for web projects
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"Dead Drop & Pirate Boxes!??" - New Blog Post http://t.co/a5LhGyJy #photography #vancouver
Museum of Endangered Sounds
I launched the site in January of 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment. For instance, the textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983 JVC HR-7100 VCR. As you probably know, it's a wonderfully complex sound, subtle yet unfiltered. But, as streaming playback becomes more common in the US, and as people in developing nations like Canada and the UK get brought up to DVD players, it's likely that the world will have seen and heard the last of older machines like the HR-7100. And as new products comes to market, we stand to lose much more than VCRs. Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV.
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Dead drop #1 still lives #SFU #NV12 Att: @cogdog @ Woodward's Building http://t.co/K06yGjKz
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@sleslie @cogdog @mgershovich Is this remix or mashup? http://t.co/8uE55s1m It gets blurry quickly, good remix often creates something new
The Meta-Story: How Wired Published Its GitHub Story on GitHub | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Earlier this week, Wired published a story about GitHub, the “version control” site that’s taking the internet by storm. But it was more than just a story. It was an experiment in version control. In addition to publishing our GitHub story on Wired, we published our GitHub story on GitHub
Coventry University - opening up the BA Hons Photography course : JISC
In January 2009, the new BA Hons Photography course at Coventry University needed to improve the student experience and employment prospects while raising the international profile of the course and the university, without increasing costs. In order to efficiently respond to these challenges, I drew on my experiences as a traditional freelance editorial photographer in a new media landscape. I also made a version of the class freely available online, which would successfully expand the class-community on a global scale. Trials with my professional practice had done just this, ie making my pictures available online while increasing the perceived value of their analogue or “generative” experience. Such “generatives” (as defined by Kevin Kelly) are experiences that cannot be digitised and transmitted virtually – a kiss or a smell cannot be recorded and broadcast. The value of these experiences is actually amplified by the digital. Even the most immersive virtual experience serves only to
WordPress › Vocalyze Widget « WordPress Plugins
Vocalyze's WordPress Widget allows readers to listen to the blogs they follow.
Understoodit - Measure Students' Understanding in Real-Time
Measure students' understanding in real-time.
European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
In this paper we study in detail representative courses from AI and c-MOOC formats. We establish that although they share the use of distributed networks the format associated with c-MOOCs, which are defined by a participative pedagogical model, are unique and different from AI. We further assign to the AI to a cognitive-behaviourist (with some small contribution of social constructivist) and MOOCs to connectivist pedagogy.
Google: Exploring Computational Thinking
Google is committed to promoting computational thinking throughout the K-12 curriculum to support student learning and expose everyone to this 21st century skill.
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@cogdog -- This might help -- Zombie apocalypse survival guide published by US government http://t.co/DOuxJdkB #ds106radio
Run PirateBox on your Laptop from USB [Windows PirateBoxLive]
Don't want to mess up your computer trying to install PirateBox on it? Want to be able to switch between PirateBox and Your normal OS? Don't want anything related to PirateBox on your actual harddrive? Still want Windows as your normal operating system? Try PirateBoxLive Salesmanship aside PirateBoxLive is a liveCD / liveUSB version of PirateBox with everything you need including Pre-installed scripts (By Matthias Strubel) and PirateBoxManager (By Cale Black)
How Google and Microsoft taught search to “understand” the Web | Ars Technica
Despite the massive amounts of computing power dedicated by search engine companies to crawling and indexing trillions of documents on the Internet, search engines still can't do what nearly any human can: tell the difference between a star, a 1970s TV show, and a Turkish alternative rock band. That’s because Web indexing has been based on the bare words found on webpages, not on what they mean. Since the beginning, search engines have essentially matched strings of text, says Shashi Thakur, a technical lead for Google’s search team. “When you try to match strings, you don't get a sense of what those strings mean. We should have a connection to real-world knowledge of things and their properties and connections to other things.” Making those connections is the reason for recent major changes within the search engines at Microsoft and Google. Microsoft’s Satori and Google’s Knowledge Graph both extract data from the unstructured information on webpages to create a structured database
Introducing: The Layar Creator – Layar Blog
The last two issues of LINDA. Magazine, including the L’HOMO issue, all enhanced with dozens of buttons? They did that. The vtwonen magalogue with all of its “Buy” buttons? They did it all themselves as well. The same goes for the latest Eppo comic from Senefelder, the VPRO Gids, the NRC.next newspaper and more. So how did they manage to build augmented reality layers and make their print interactive without any external development assistance? The answer, simply, is the Layar Creator.
Scrumy
Scrumy is a project management tool loosely based off of Scrum.
Interactive Art and Computational Design, Spring 2012 » Eli Rosen – Final Project – Civil War
This interactive data visualization allows for self-directed exploration of the battles of the American Civil War. The aim was to facilitate an understanding of the conflict on multiple scales from the entire war to a single battle.
My LIfe Is True - Main
My Life Is True works with people at the hard edges of the economy to explain, in their own words, a significant experience or a stubborn problem and then submit their two-minute personal stories as public radio commentaries. ?log=out
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Ooh! Love this Chrome browser experiment transforming album covers into real-time audio visualizations http://t.co/ndBuBWTw
codepad
codepad is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool. Paste your code below, and codepad will run it and give you a short URL you can use to share it in chat or email.
Stephen Wildish presents THE FRIDAY PROJECT
Wait, Where’d They Come From? | My DS106 Cosmic Mind
DoLookDown.org | Quadcopters and Aerial Imaging in the Geosciences
Quadcopters and Aerial Imaging in the Geosciences. Quadcopter + HD Camera = Low Altitude, High Definition Aerial Images for use in the Geosciences