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on photography as mindful seeing | D'Arcy Norman dot net
on photography as mindful seeing | D'Arcy Norman dot net
Photography can be both a noun and a verb. It is both the act of, and the product of, capturing images through photographic processes. When someone asks “what do you recommend to help me get better at photography” – I think they are meaning photography-as-noun. They want their photographs to look better. They want to take better pictures. But, what they really mean, whether they realize it or not, is how to improve photography-as-verb. How to “get better” at taking pictures. How to be a better photographer.
#thruthelens#photography
·darcynorman.net·
on photography as mindful seeing | D'Arcy Norman dot net
InfoQ: Machine Learning: A Love Story
InfoQ: Machine Learning: A Love Story
Hilary Mason presents the history of machine learning covering some of the most significant developments taking place over the last two decades, especially the fundamental math and algorithmic tools employed. She also exemplifies how machine learning is used by bit.ly to discover various statistical information about users.
#nmfs_f11#hznmc#machinelearning
·infoq.com·
InfoQ: Machine Learning: A Love Story
Check My Links - Chrome Web Store
Check My Links - Chrome Web Store
Check My Links basically crawls all the links on a web page, highlighting which ones are valid and which ones are broken (Status Codes are provided and full URL is published to the Console log).
#browsertrick
·chrome.google.com·
Check My Links - Chrome Web Store
t The World Clock
t The World Clock
The timeanddate.com World Clock has been an accurate and reliable source of time for over 15 years and is constantly being updated to suit the needs of users. There are four World Clocks that are offered on our site: The Main World Clock The Extended/Full World Clock The Personal World Clock The Fixed Time World Clock
#browsertrick
·timeanddate.com·
t The World Clock
If We Ditch The LMS, What Else Could We Re-think?
If We Ditch The LMS, What Else Could We Re-think?
So if we take the Social Learning Environment Manifesto seriously and re-imagine the LMS as a personal teaching environment (PTE), what other parts of education could we re-think along with that?  There are two ideas that I want to look at – one is how to re-think the entire structure of colleges if we were to use PTEs instead of LMSs, and the other is what if the PTE was actually a browser instead of a website.  I’ll get to re-thinking college structure in the next post (because I am still chewing on that one), but first I want to ponder using a browser instead of a website. In the past, I have thought about using the browser as an LMS, but it seems like the whole Opera Unite concept never really took off.  But I was looking at the new Rockmelt browser and the thought kind of hit me – this could be the new online classroom – open, outside of the walled garden, and flexible.
#secretrevolution#ideas#ple#cms
·edugeekjournal.com·
If We Ditch The LMS, What Else Could We Re-think?
The OAuthpocalypse and Keynote Tweet
The OAuthpocalypse and Keynote Tweet
Keynote Tweet is a simple AppleScript utility that allows you to send tweets from your Keynote presentations. Keynote Tweet uses the curl command-line utility to submit tweets to the Twitter API. Unfortunately there is no easy way to implement OAuth using the curl command-line. It also appears that it would be very difficult to implement OAuth directly in AppleScript. One solution to making Keynote Tweet work again is to replace curl with twurl. twurl is a curl-like command-line utility for the Twitter API written in Ruby. twurl’s installation and OAuth setup is simple. The twurl syntax is not identical to curl’s, but it is simple to swap twurl out for curl in the Keynote Tweet AppleScript. Simply change the call to curl:
#code#twitter
·splatdot.com·
The OAuthpocalypse and Keynote Tweet
mySpark
mySpark
The mySpark Education Platform is a powerful Android-operated tablet computer with the most useful and usable student productivity software in the market. It’s versatile and very affordable, and provides unprecedented connectivity between students and their textbooks, their instructors, their classmates and friends
#mobiles#hznmc#hz11#hz11k12#tablet
·mysparktech.com·
mySpark
Spring Revival: Alternate Reality Game Breathes New Life into Old Course by Ben Betts : Learning Solutions Magazine
Spring Revival: Alternate Reality Game Breathes New Life into Old Course by Ben Betts : Learning Solutions Magazine
Nick Barclay was a man on a mission: re-define the opening week of the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management at Warwick Business School. The Diploma is an entry-level business management qualification targeting the Exec Ed market. Designed to give a solid grounding in business for graduates without a business degree, the course already had a successful seven-year track record, but it was time for an update. Nick stalked the corridors of the business school, keen for new ideas. He was no stranger to experiential learning and when he’d gone looking for ideas for the diploma, one key message had come back to him: gamification.
#arg#game#gamebasedlearning#hznmc#hz11
·learningsolutionsmag.com·
Spring Revival: Alternate Reality Game Breathes New Life into Old Course by Ben Betts : Learning Solutions Magazine
EpiCollect.net
EpiCollect.net
EpiCollect.net provides a web application for the generation of forms and freely hosted project websites (using Google's AppEngine) for many kinds of mobile data collection projects. Data can be collected using multiple mobile phones running either the Android Operating system or the iPhone (using the EpiCollect mobile app) and all data can be synchronised from the phones and viewed centrally (using Google Maps) via the Project website or directly on the phones.
#mobiles#hznmc#hz11#data#research
·epicollect.net·
EpiCollect.net
Formatting ebooks - EPUB Straight to the Point
Formatting ebooks - EPUB Straight to the Point
EPUB Straight to the Point explains how to create ebooks in the standard EPUB format, starting with tools you may already be familiar with: Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign, and how to use either one (not to mention the documents you may already have in those formats) to generate the files necessary for creating an EPUB format ebook. But because neither of those programs creates a fully valid EPUB file, the book also takes a closer look at the inner workings of an EPUB format file, and shows you how to use a text editor to complete the EPUB file, including the creation of a cover and navigational table of contents.
#epub#publishing#ebooks#hznmc#hz11#hz11k12
·elizabethcastro.com·
Formatting ebooks - EPUB Straight to the Point
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
n case you’re wondering, in Emerson’s time and today’s, the term “hobgoblin” symbolizes the unknown. A hobgoblin is a mischievous or malicious little critter, most commonly from fairy tales. The significant term in this quote is in the “foolish consistency.” Emerson, above all, advocated self awareness and independent thought, sometimes challenging that authority should not be accepted unless validated by a brutally honest inner truth.
#quotable
·quotesnack.com·
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
To students of Marshall McLuhan who have experienced the frustration of scribbling illegible notes in the narrow margins of a paperback, the rationale for a Hypertext Field Guide to Understanding Media will be obvious. It is one of those works that cries out for commentary, prompting a return to the oral tradition of manuscript culture; and there is not a more flexible medium for entering marginal notes and the simulation of manuscript culture than an HTML document.
#nmfs_f11#mcluhan#hypertext
·home.roadrunner.com·
Marshall McLuhan
The Most Amazing Press Release Ever Written -- CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
The Most Amazing Press Release Ever Written -- CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitch Delaplane of PitchPoint Public Relations has issued the most amazing press release ever written.  While hundreds of press releases are distributed daily, Delaplane feels this particular release will go down in history as the most amazing press release that has ever been written. "I've been in the business for over ten years and have to say, I'm speechless," claims Delaplane.  "The title alone grabs you and demands that it be read.  Then there's this quote that completely takes things to an entirely new level.  I'm proud of this press release.  In fact, I think it is [really] amazing."
#funny
·prnewswire.com·
The Most Amazing Press Release Ever Written -- CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
Wordpress Slider Plugin, WordPress Slideshow Plugin WP - SlideDeck
Wordpress Slider Plugin, WordPress Slideshow Plugin WP - SlideDeck
SlideDeck was created by our user experience design company, digital-telepathy. We stumbled into the concept when trying to simplify our own message and process. We use SlideDeck to share ideas, processes and products in a clear and simple way. Get in touch with us if you want to start communicating with your website visitors in a more clear and concise manner.
#wordpress#plugin
·slidedeck.com·
Wordpress Slider Plugin, WordPress Slideshow Plugin WP - SlideDeck
PSFK’s Future Of Mobile Tagging
PSFK’s Future Of Mobile Tagging
PSFK’s latest ‘Future Of’ report presents key trends in the mobile tagging space, so as to inspire marketers and their creative agencies about their future use of technologies that include QR codes, barcodes and Microsoft Tags in their branding activity and communication campaigns. Mobile tags offer a unique opportunity for brands and their agencies to interact with potential and existing customers. These two dimensional barcodes can be applied to almost any surface and the information contained within them can be leveraged to create incentives and drivers that lead consumers along the purchase path.
#mobiles#hz11#hz10mu#tagging#augmentedreality
·psfk.com·
PSFK’s Future Of Mobile Tagging
The Director's Blog: Olin Library's Mobile Ready Website
The Director's Blog: Olin Library's Mobile Ready Website
Over the last few weeks, Paul Gindlesperger has been building a mobile ready website for us. As readers of this blog know, I think smartphones will play a significant role in the future of access to the digital library, so I am delighted that we can now provide access to our services and information resources for our users from these devices. The big issue for us now is to make sure the vendors we work with are also making their resources "mobile-friendly." This is a work in progress. Frankly, most of the databases and publishers have not made enough progress on this yet as you will see if you try and do any searching and reading of documents on the site. While I am at ALA Midwinter in San Diego, I will talk to vendors about this issue. In the meantime, in a continuing series of posts from guest authors I have asked Paul to describe the process of developing the site and some of the issues he faced
#mobiles#hznmc#hz11#library
·rollins-olin-library.blogspot.com·
The Director's Blog: Olin Library's Mobile Ready Website
Considerations for Creative Commons Licensing of Open Educational Resources: The Value of Copyleft
Considerations for Creative Commons Licensing of Open Educational Resources: The Value of Copyleft
Creative Commons licenses are important instruments for sharing open educational resources. This article will focus on the debate over two of the most widely used and contentious licenses: Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike. Drawing on lessons from the open source community, rhetorical theory, and my own perspectives as an advocate of copyleft, I offer some insight into the debate over these licenses, with particular emphasis on how Attribution-ShareAlike can help to build a sustainable education commons.
#creativecommons#copyright#opencontent#hznmc
·bgsu.edu·
Considerations for Creative Commons Licensing of Open Educational Resources: The Value of Copyleft
GPSmyCity
GPSmyCity
GPSmyCity.com publishes self-guided city walk apps on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Once installed, the apps turn your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad into a trusted personal tour guide, helping you navigate independently and with ease through cities around the world . With over 2,000 walking tours available - spanning over 180 cities worldwide - GPSmyCity.com is the largest travel portal of its kind. Powered by the GPS technology, each walking tour offers accurate turn-by-turn directions to famous attractions, monuments and interesting sights as well as hidden gems; as if you had brought along a local guide. No need to hop on a bus tour or join a tour group! Now you can explore all the best attractions at your own pace; on your own time, at a cost that is only a fraction of what you would pay for a guided tour.
#maps#mobiles#hznmc#hz11#hz11k12
·gpsmycity.com·
GPSmyCity
Using learning analytics to understand student behavior and inform faculty development programs |
Using learning analytics to understand student behavior and inform faculty development programs |
With all of this content comes a staggering amount of data about how it is being used; traditionally they data is from web hits, the learning management system and students surveys. Beginning in Autumn quarter of 2010, the College of Nursing instituted a significant upgrade to the ways we are capturing lectures, and as part of that, were able to implement a new piece, analytics. The analytics collects much of the data that we were collecting manually and brings some additional data that will allow us to understand more about our students.
#hznmc#hz11#learninganalytics
·blogs.con.ohio-state.edu·
Using learning analytics to understand student behavior and inform faculty development programs |
Designing mLearning
Designing mLearning
Mobile devices are here, there, and everywhere. Can we use them to support learning? The answer is a definite “yes”! Mobile provides a new channel for learning -- whether it be formal or informal -- and offers unique properties for just-in-time, just-in-place learning. But it’s not about augmenting learning, it’s about augmenting performance. Because mobile is not about courses, but instead supports a broad definition of learning, including innovation, collaboration, research, design and more, generating new products, services, and problems solved. Whether providing needed tools, augmenting learning, or connecting individuals, mobile is a powerful new tool for supporting performance.
#mobile#mlearning#books#hznmc#hz11#mobiles
·designingmlearning.com·
Designing mLearning
More On Instagram (or why Facebook hasn’t won everything)
More On Instagram (or why Facebook hasn’t won everything)
nstagram’s magic seems to lie a bit deeper.  In talking to friends of mine who are Instagram addicts, one trait seems to be coming up over and over again.  Most of them did not consider themselves serious photographers pre Instagram (by serious photographers, I mean people that would deliberately go out of the way to capture a special shot). Not the case now.  Now my friends are pulling their cars over and putting themselves in otherwise dangerous situations to capture the perfect shot. Somehow, it seems that Instagram is able to bring out the photographer in people that had never considered themselves photographers before.
#photography#thruthelens#iphone#app
·thenextweb.com·
More On Instagram (or why Facebook hasn’t won everything)
3Gear Systems "Gestural user interfaces for the rest of us"
3Gear Systems "Gestural user interfaces for the rest of us"
3Gear Systems was founded in 2010 by Robert Wang while he was a graduate student at MIT. Robert's thesis research explored novel computer interfaces based on 3-D motion capture. Inspired by early work in virtual reality, Robert sought to bring 3-D gestural interfaces to the masses. Thus 3Gear Systems was born. 3Gear's mission is to develop application specific gestural interfaces that are competitive with the mouse and keyboard in usability. Our experience with computer vision technology allows us to deliver a comfortable and enjoyable user experience, avoiding obstructive sensors or bulky gloves typically used in motion capture. Our focus is on empowering users by enabling them to transfer the gestures they already know from the physical world to explore and manipulate a virtual world.
#gesturecomputing#hznmc#hz11#hz10mu
·threegear.com·
3Gear Systems "Gestural user interfaces for the rest of us"