Book and Toes | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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Spring in 3 seconds - YouTube
If you had three hours to live, what would you do? - YouTube
Outside looking in | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Ol' Cyrus Ella's Sunglasses
Yellow | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
1901: A Spatial Odyssey
Black Swan Silent Film Trailer
10 seconds of beauty
King Kong Silent Era Trailer
MapBox | MapBox
For nearly eight years, we grappled with the challenges of designing and sharing beautifully custom maps and interactive data visualizations. In 2011, we launched MapBox, a service that meets these challenges with three simple products: fresh, stunning cartography like MapBox Streets, made from rich open data; an open source map design application called TileMill for building custom interactive maps; and a blazingly fast platform for publishing maps on web and mobile applications.
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The Keepers | electrovert's digital creations
Matt Martin's final ds106 assignment was a multi character story told completely via twitter. Use the conversational, short segment, chronologically organized mode of twitter to relay events between real or fictitious characters.
Catvertising
Mockumentaries or mock documentaries (think This is Spinal Tap) can make for great ds106 projects. In this example, they profile how the advertising industry is revolutionized by the use of cat videos in advertising campaigns: "To stay on top of the ever-changing advertising landscape, john st. has opened the world's first cat video division. With production, filming and seeding all in-house. Ask yourself, what can cat videos do for your business?"
Draw a Stickman
A clever animation generator that reacts to the things you draw on screen- it tells a story. What story can you tell with stick figures?
Create Infographics
Build an infographic (a visual representation of data or events) using this tool from Visual.ly. Find a way to tell a story through charts, graphs, and visuals.
Give A Kid A Blog | Intrepid Teacher
In conclusion, I hope I have laid out the value of online spaces for students from kindergarten to grade 10. Give a kid a blog as a space to tend their garden. Let them learn how to be just as independent and confident online as they are off. Teach them how to balance the digital and the organic. Let them present and talk to peers face-t0- face, but also create lasting portfolios of their work online. This is the road ahead. These understandings are what people mean when they speak of 21st century skills.
Every Monograph a Movie - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education
I see ample reason for scholars to begin translating written history into video history. But we need not do it alone, for we are not the only party with a strong interest in seeing our work reach a wider public. Imagine a music company that holds a huge catalog of excellent songs but prefers to sell them only as sheet music, despite the fact that they could be performed, recorded, and distributed at low cost. That, I think, is a close approximation of the position serious presses find themselves in today: They have plenty of good stories (which we write for them), but all they sell is books even though they could be producing, selling, and profiting from videos. This, then, is the challenge of video history—to take what is now available only in unattractive text and make it available in watchable videos. If we do not meet that challenge, we will remain unheard. If we do, then we will begin to educate our students and the public about matters historical in a more effective way than we
Welcome Dart
Writing a web app can be lots of fun, especially at the beginning when you experience instant gratification: code, reload, repeat. Unfortunately, finishing and maintaining a web app are not so fun. JavaScript is great for small scripts, and it has the performance chops to run large apps. But when a script evolves into a large web app, debugging and modifying that app can be a nightmare, especially when you have a large team. Enter Dart, an open-source project that aims to enable developers to build more complex, highly performant apps for the modern web. Using the Dart language, you can quickly write prototypes that evolve rapidly, and you also have access to advanced tools, reliable libraries, and good software engineering techniques.
What Puts the Pseudo in Pseudoteaching? | Action-Reaction
The point of this post is not to promote one-way presentations or video lectures. It is to raise the level of discussion about multimedia (and about teaching and learning more generally). I think the transmission/construction dichotomy is unproductive and misleading. It creates a very narrow view of education (like Animal Farm – “Four legs good, two legs bad,” “hands on good, hands off bad,” “doing good, listening bad,” “newfangled good, traditional bad,” etc.) Does constructivism really support hands-on, doing, not telling? I’m not sure it does. Constructivism says ‘learners construct there own understanding actively, by thinking,’ but it does not say how this can best be facilitated. Listeners and viewers are not necessarily passive. I argue what is presented determines how the presentation is viewed which determines how much learning occurs.
How Much Is Your Data Worth? Mmm, Somewhere Between Half a Cent and $1,200 - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
How confused are our notions of user data? Well, let's look at how much it might be worth. There are several different ways we could try to ascertain the fair value of your data. For buyers, user data is dirt cheap. User profiles -- slices of our digital selves -- are sold in large chunks, i .e. at least 10,000 in a batch. On the high end, they go for $0.005 per profile, according to advertising-industry sources. But maybe that's not the right way to value the data. After all, each profile of you being sold only takes advantage of some subset of your information. Facebook and Google make roughly $5 and $20 per user, respectively. Without your data in one form or another, their advertising would be mostly worthless, so perhaps your data is worth something in that range.
Culturomics Looks at the Birth and Death of Words - WSJ.com
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on Google's massive collection of scanned books. They claim to have identified universal laws governing the birth, life course and death of words. The paper marks an advance in a new field dubbed "Culturomics": the application of data-crunching to subjects typically considered part of the humanities. Last year a group of social scientists and evolutionary theorists, plus the Google Books team, showed off the kinds of things that could be done with Google's data, which include the contents of five-million-plus books, dating back to 1800.
Top 10 Famous Scenes (And the Movies They Were Inspired By) | Top 10 Lists | TopTenz.net
The cinema is an ever evolving art form that has made countless changes in the short time that it has existed. Great masters and auteurs have risen and fallen, inspiring countless other filmmakers. One of the most common ways that filmmakers pay tribute to their influences is to quote, or “homage,” their favorite movies or directors. Whether it is a replicated character type, location, editing technique, or even entire scene, modern filmmakers keep the past alive with through mimicry and recreation. Sometimes the influences are subtle. Other times, they are more blatant. Here are ten great examples of famous scenes inspired by earlier works.
Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software
Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.
Visual Conversations with Data
presentation by Tony Hirst
'Piracy is the new radio', says Neil Young - Telegraph
Music legend Neil Young says that piracy is "how music gets around" in the internet age.
Songfacts
Song Meanings, Lyrics and Trivia.
Deconstructing YouTube: One Man's Attempt To Go Viral | Cracked.com
The trends abounding within YouTube's narcissistic walls are plentiful. A good nut shot or reporter accidentally saying "fuck" will always be able to make its rounds across the cyberweb. But what of the little guy? The poor subscriberless schlub who just wants to become the next big YouTube star, like the bafflingly popular Fred Figglehorn, or the understandably popular adorable Asian child singing Hey Jude? There is still hope for you, schlub, because I am about to prove that by simply producing some of the most popular YouTube memes, YouToo can become an Internet superstar. Come with me as I lead you on a video journey to fame and fortune (or at least a mention on Attack Of The Show or some shit).
The 6 Most Baffling Video Genres on YouTube | Cracked.com
There are millions of videos on YouTube, but if you look closely you'll notice there are only like twenty different types of them. My first ever article here at Cracked aped several of these YouTube Standards in a glorious attempt to either destroy YouTube or become it. Needless to say, neither of those things happened. I am now older, wiser, and I hate YouTube even more, so I think it's about time I gave this another shot.
The You in YouTube, Collective Identity Formation in YouTube