Coachelletta
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, 2010. Fantastic tilt-shift video
pinboarded
YouTube - RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
Sir Ken Robinson on Changing Education Paradigms.
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail
The iconic writer reveals the shape of things to come, with 45 tips for survival and a matching glossary of the new words you'll need to talk about your messed-up future.
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail
The iconic writer reveals the shape of things to come, with 45 tips for survival and a matching glossary of the new words you'll need to talk about your messed-up future.
From Alan Kay’s Dynabook to the Apple iPad | Edible Apple
What you’re looking at above might seem like an early to mid-90’s predecessor to the iPad, but you might be surprised to learn that the device, called the Dynabook, was conceptualized in 1968 by famed computer scientist Alan Kay. The device was envisioned as an educational tool and was naturally geared towards children, as evidenced by a 1972 research paper titled “A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages” that Kay published while working at the legendary Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
From Alan Kay’s Dynabook to the Apple iPad | Edible Apple
What you’re looking at above might seem like an early to mid-90’s predecessor to the iPad, but you might be surprised to learn that the device, called the Dynabook, was conceptualized in 1968 by famed computer scientist Alan Kay. The device was envisioned
Grant Robinson : Guess-the-google
Guess-the-google is an addictive guessing game based on Google's image search. It turns the mental activity of searching into a fun, visual and engaging game where people can enjoy the challenge of being the fastest and most efficient at making that connection between search terms and their results.
Grant Robinson : Guess-the-google
Guess-the-google is an addictive guessing game based on Google's image search. It turns the mental activity of searching into a fun, visual and engaging game where people can enjoy the challenge of being the fastest and most efficient at making that conne
MakerCulture in the Making - Ryerson and Western Online Journalism students discover the Maker Culture
This blog is being created by the Online Reporting Class 09 at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and by the Online Journalism Class at the University of Western Ontario. It tracks our progress as we produce a 10-part feature series (stories, podcasts and video) about the MakerCulture movement in North America. The final series will appear on rabble.ca and thetyee.ca.
Possiplex : An Autobiography of Ted Nelson : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Ted Nelson's autobiography was just announced
OAPEN Library
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The OAPEN Library aims to improve the visibility and usability of high quality academic research by aggregating peer reviewed Open Access publications from across Europe.
Entri | Free & Simple Collaborative Document Sharing Tool
Entri is a free collaborative tool for writing and sharing documents. Say you are writing an article for your blog and you want to share with your readers before you publish it to get feedback and allow changes.
Social Media - Life-Saving Technology at WomansDay.com
Learn about seven real-life cases where a tweet, status update or an application was a lifesaver.
Open Access, Open Secrets: Peer Review and Alternative Scholarly Production « Victoria Telecom
For scholarship in general, but especially in the humanities, what open access does is shine a bright light on why access was ever closed. Open access has helped us access our open secrets, particularly in the context of the production, dissemination and review of scholarly work. It opens questions about journals and copyright and the business of publishing and consuming scholarship. And it opens questions about peer review—the remaining stalwart in any defense of a closed publishing model in the humanities, or so it seems to me
Open Access, Open Secrets: Peer Review and Alternative Scholarly Production « Victoria Telecom
For scholarship in general, but especially in the humanities, what open access does is shine a bright light on why access was ever closed. Open access has helped us access our open secrets, particularly in the context of the production, dissemination and
Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin
I believe that any problem can be solved with a picture. And that anybody can draw it.
Clive Thompson on the Power of Visual Thinking | Magazine
In essence, I used “visual thinking”—drawing pictures to solve a problem. And if you believe the visualization experts, a new language of pictures may be precisely what we need to tackle the world’s biggest challenges.
Clive Thompson on the Power of Visual Thinking | Magazine
In essence, I used “visual thinking”—drawing pictures to solve a problem. And if you believe the visualization experts, a new language of pictures may be precisely what we need to tackle the world’s biggest challenges.
Geo exif data in WordPress — kristarella.com
Did you know that WordPress imports EXIF data from your images when they’re uploaded? If your image contains certain information (aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focal length, camera, creation time, credit, copyright, caption, title), it is in the database and you can use it as I do on my photoblog, Matt Mullenweg uses on his photo pages, and as described on Blogging Tips in WordPress Gallery and EXIF and Mixing Gallery and Blog Posts
Cell Phone Spectrometer
A Guided Inquiry Approach to Teaching How to Think About Analytical Instrumentation-- University of Illinois chemistry professor Alexander Scheeline wants to see high school students using their cell phones in class. Not for texting or surfing the Web, but as an analytical chemistry instrument. Scheeline developed a method using a few basic, inexpensive supplies and a digital camera to build a spectrometer, an important basic chemistry instrument. Spectrophotometry is one of the most widely used means for identifying and quantifying materials in both physical and biological sciences.
BCcampus - SOL*R
SOL*R is a repository service provided by BCcampus that allows BC public post-secondary educators to license, contribute, and access FREE online learning resources. It facilitates sharing, discovery, reuse, and remixing of a growing collection of content.
BCcampus - SOL*R
SOL*R is a repository service provided by BCcampus that allows BC public post-secondary educators to license, contribute, and access FREE online learning resources. It facilitates sharing, discovery, reuse, and remixing of a growing collection of content.
OpenStudy
OpenStudy is a social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things. Our mission is to make the world one large study group, regardless of school, location, or background. OpenStudy uses AI recommendation engines to match students, and really real-time technologies to facilitate online interaction. It's like walking into a library or coffee shop and finding just the right group of students who can help you with what you're studying right now or someone struggling with a problem who could really use your help…halfway across the globe.
A bird app that adapts on the fly - O'Reilly Radar
This iPhone-only birding application -- a co-creation of Pete Myers and Todd Koym -- blends crowdsourcing, database access, and location awareness. Unlike that book in your pocket or that static app on your phone, BirdsEye adapts on the fly. In the following interview, Myers and Koym discuss BirdsEye's functionality and they explain how customization and software can turn a passive hobby into an active experience.
When K-12 Moves to the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud
When Oregon announced in April that it was opening Google Apps for Education to its public schools, the state estimated that the move would save its Department of Education about $1.5 million a year. For cash-strapped school systems, that sort of savings is hard to ignore. But talking to many education technology coordinators, the budget piece is only a small part of the appeal of the Google's cloud-based applications. Howard Chan, the Director of Technology for K-12 public charter schools in San Diego, California, has helped 8 schools migrate to Google Apps for Education, for example. He describes the savings from not having to administer email servers in terms of both time and money, and points to the new tools that his IT staff have been able to develop with Google Apps, including a Tech Support System using Google Voice and Google Docs.
Chegg.com: Rent Textbooks. Cheap Textbook Rentals for College
Rent your textbooks and save hundreds of dollars a year!
The Future of the Book
Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch global design and innovation consultancy IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around bo
Say It in Photos (Sept 2010)
(Sept 23, 2010 KU Village online conference) In this session we will explore the use of communication via photos, diving into the deep treasure trove of creative commons licensed images but also seeing how you can really stand out by using your own photos. To generate your own visual metaphors, you need not be a digital SLR über camera geek. We will look at a self-organized community of ordinary people who have grouped together to share their daily photos where most are finding a whole new way of looking at the world, often using simple pocket or mobile phone cameras. Taking photos or just finding and using them is a skill that improves tremendously just in the dedicated act of doing and reflecting, and makes for a useful model for self-directed learning.
Say It in Photos (Sept 2010)
(Sept 23, 2010 KU Village online conference) In this session we will explore the use of communication via photos, diving into the deep treasure trove of creative commons licensed images but also seeing how you can really stand out by using your own photos
Loud and Louder - Turn It Up Guitar Documentary
"Turn It Up!" is a feature-length celebration of the electric guitar. Hosted by Kevin Bacon, the film explores mankind’s passion for the electric guitar, and its effect on artists, everyday players, pop culture, history, and even politics. Turn it Up! is the STORY of the electric guitar, from the invention in the 1930s to its golden years, right through the phenomenon of the Guitar Hero video-game and the digital guitars of the future. But, it’s also a series of guitar STORIES, where we’ll meet all kinds of people from rock stars, to congressmen, CEOs, and teenage virtuosos, to try to understand their emotional connection to their guitars.