In July, 2009 we completed a Smithsonian Web and New Media Strategy that describes an updated digital experience, a new learning model that helps people with their "lifelong learning journeys," and the creation of a Smithsonian Commons, a new part of our
Social Learning Academy: How to use Social Media in Education & the Workplace
The Social Learning Academy is intended for learning professionals - in Workplace Learning and Education - who are new to social media and would like to find out more about the different social technologies and their application to learning. The Academy offers a number of online resources - see below, Most are free to access although some client programmes are password-protected.
Determined to Trend - Guest Post by James Leventhal - Beth's Blog: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change
The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years. When the New de Young opened it did a 32-hour party and community celebration, starting a trend that was then picked up by the Contemporary Jewish Museum with Dawn in 2008 and now the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). “The newly transformed Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) opens Saturday, May 1, with 31 hours of continuous, round-the-clock free programs and events until we close at 6 p.m. Sunday.” Wow. For a lot of folks, the Oakland Museum of California is something of a standard bearer of community engagement and the building itself is a harbinger of today’s museums.
What color is your nonprofit's blog? - Beth's Blog: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change
For some reason, I landed on this excellent post by Nina Simon that categorizes different types of museum blogs. I really like how she has presented the different approaches to blogging. This framework could make a terrific card/training game for blogging workshop, too.
The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art that presents art you can get into — room-sized environments, created by in-residence artists. Located in the historic Mexican War Streets of Pittsburgh’s North Side since 1977, the Mattress Factory is one of few museums of its kind anywhere.
In this Museum Practice, Simon Stephens looks at the rise of mobile phone software applications - or apps - and explains why it pays for museums to think ahead before they jump on the app bandwagon. You can also find out how four very different museum apps were developed and share your views on mobile phone apps in the museum sector
he Civil War Augmented Reality Project is the brainchild of Jeff Mummert, a high school history teacher, college history adjunct, and consultant for the House Divided Project at Dickinson College. The objective of the project is to effectively fund the development and implementation of augmented reality services related to the American Civil War in Pennsylvania. The project's inception is planned to give ample development and publicity time in the run up to the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, beginning in April 2011. The project is also timed to take advantage of recent technological developments, and developments in the foreseeable future. The project's heart will be a collection of points of interest regarding the Civil War in Pennsylvania, particularly related to Lee's invasion of the north in 1863. This collection will be made available to the public through several "augmented reality" applications.
For centuries, writers have experimented with forms that evoke the imperfection of thought, the inconstancy of human affairs, and the chastening passage of time. But as blogging evolves as a literary form, it is generating a new and quintessentially postmodern idiom that’s enabling writers to express themselves in ways that have never been seen or understood before. Its truths are provisional, and its ethos collective and messy. Yet the interaction it enables between writer and reader is unprecedented, visceral, and sometimes brutal. And make no mistake: it heralds a golden era for journalism.
For centuries, writers have experimented with forms that evoke the imperfection of thought, the inconstancy of human affairs, and the chastening passage of time. But as blogging evolves as a literary form, it is generating a new and quintessentially postm
The leading theft-recovery app for the Mac is now available for the iPhone. Undercover is the first iPhone app that uses push notifications to track and locate your stolen phone.
Building a Better Submission Form - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
f you participated in our invitation to photograph a “Moment in Time” earlier in May, you used our new photo submission software, which we call Stuffy. Built to enable users to upload media files — and to allow our producers to review uploaded files quick
Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun! - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
I had been using Amazon S3 service for some time and was quite impressed. And in late 2006 I had begun playing with Amazon EC2. So the the basic idea I had was this: upload 4TB of source data into S3, write some code that would run on numerous EC2 instances to read the source data, create PDFs, and store the results back into S3. S3 would then be used to serve the PDFs to the general public. It all sounded pretty simple, and that is how I got the folks in charge to agree to such an idea — not to mention that Amazon S3/EC2 is pretty easy on the wallet.
Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun! - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
I had been using Amazon S3 service for some time and was quite impressed. And in late 2006 I had begun playing with Amazon EC2. So the the basic idea I had was this: upload 4TB of source data into S3, write some code that would run on numerous EC2 instanc
How Cloud Computing Can Transform Business - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
This example provides a sense of why cloud computing is transforming the face of IT, with the potential to deliver real business value. The rapid availability of computational resources in a cloud computing environment enables business agility — the dexterity for businesses to quickly respond to changing business conditions with IT-enabled offerings.
Mobile PittState - How We Did It With No Money or Resources | .eduGuru
I promised a followup to the mobile site roundup, and by jimminy I deliver. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably caught wind of the release of Pittsburg State University’s new mobile web site. This has been a big step for us for a number of reasons. Our deployment isn’t perfect, we aren’t as feature rich as some, but what we have done is create a great foundation to move forward on. Here’s how we did it. I’m a one man army, like many of you. This project wasn’t the result of the effort of a team of a dozen people over 6 months. It was me, a couple weeks, and a lot of lost sleep.
We are proud to be leading the way in Kansas to give our community the best cutting edge tools. This site has been designed to give our friends, students, and fans a way to keep up and interact with the university while you're on the go. Whether you need to see the time of an event, read the latest athletics news, or check in to a building on Foursquare, we want to help make it easier for you!
We are proud to be leading the way in Kansas to give our community the best cutting edge tools. This site has been designed to give our friends, students, and fans a way to keep up and interact with the university while you're on the go. Whether you need
Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog. Out of the box, Lifestream is just streams in RSS/Atom feeds and prettying them up, but deep down it's a very flexible platform allowing developers to integrate any kind of activity they desire.
Lifestream is a plugin built on top of the WordPress platform. It allows you to effortlessly integrate your social network activity across the web with your blog. Out of the box, Lifestream is just streams in RSS/Atom feeds and prettying them up, but dee
Well, it’s an online initiative aimed at creating a Pokemon card type resource but with real creatures on display in full “artistic” wonder. Not only that – but we plan to have the scientific community weigh in to determine the content on such cards, as well as folks who love gaming to try and design interesting ways to use the cards. Then to top it all off, members of the teacher community will participate to see whether these cards have educational merit. Best of all, the hope is that this will all occur in a non-commercial-open-access-open-source-because-basically-this-is-good-for-you-your-children-and-your-planet sort of way.
A 7th grade student gives a tour of her personal learning environment. This project was conducted as part of dissertation research implementing the use of networked learning and construction of personal learning environments in a 7th grade life science class.
The Fifth Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security
Theme: The Social Implications of Location-Based Services and Other Emerging Technologies Workshop Organizers: Katina Michael, M.G. Michael Hosted by the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, Faculty of Law at UOW, in conjunction with the School of Information Systems and Technology, Faculty of Informatics at UOW
How to Hold Virtual Office Hours in Google Wave | Smarterware
The best use of Google Wave's new anonymous access feature is public group chats on a specific topic that anyone can watch or refer to on a vanilla web page, no Wave login required. Last week, in lieu of IRC, I started holding virtual "office hours" with the ThinkTank community, and it's been super fun and productive. Here's how I set things up.
While no one was looking, someone revolutionized the textbook, higher education, and learning itself in one crazy, bold move. Yes, it’s a digital textbook. Yes, it’s a whole new ecosystem. Two spacious panels. Touch-screen interaction. A fully-stocked store. Video. Note-taking. Sharing and community. Kno is everything a textbook was
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