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Open Source Schools
Open Source Schools
Open Source Schools is here to share information about open source software in schools. Our aim is to help you decide whether open source software might offer benefits for learning, teaching, engaging pupils and parents, managing information and resources, or school administration. The website provides information and articles about open source software, advice on getting started, case studies of its adoption in schools, a directory for exploring what is available, and a glossary. All registered members are welcome to create content for the site. We are building a community of people who have experience of open source software in schools, and those who are just getting started. There are a number of forums for you to share ideas and experiences and contribute to the debate about the use of open source software in schools.
#opensource#education#software#technology#community#hz10#hz09biz#hz09au#hznmc#hzau09
·opensourceschools.org.uk·
Open Source Schools
Top News - Cell phones used to deliver course content
Top News - Cell phones used to deliver course content
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says schools and colleges should deliver course content to the cell phones that students use to talk and text every day. Some campus officials are listening, and classes via web-enabled cell phones could be mobile learning's next evolution. Higher education is exploring course material via cell phones as smart phones gain traction among students
#mobiles#mobile#education#learning#hzk10#hz10k12#hz10#hznmc#hz09biz
·eschoolnews.com·
Top News - Cell phones used to deliver course content
AMEE - The World's Energy Meter
AMEE - The World's Energy Meter
AMEE’s aim is to map, measure and track all the energy, raw consumption and activity data on Earth, and its environmental impact. To enable this, the AMEE Platform provides the following services, at any scale and at any time-resolution; 1. The collection of raw consumption and activity data in an auditable manner 2. The calculation of environmental footprints based on government and international standards 3. The retention of a verifiable audit-trail against both metrics (changing consumption and changing standards) – while delivering new standards in functionality, transparency and interoperability. AMEE is aggregating every model, method, standard and emission factor related to CO2, GHG, energy and environmental assessment (for business, buildings, products, individuals, supply chains, countries, etc.), and all the raw activity/consumption data (fuel/energy, water, waste, quantitative and qualitative factors).
#technology#reference#opensource#api#publishing#sustainability#carbon#green#energy#environment#nmcfuture
·amee.com·
AMEE - The World's Energy Meter
Public Media 2.0 Field Report: Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University
Public Media 2.0 Field Report: Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University
This field report traces how a committed group of volunteers harnessed the micro-blogging tool Twitter to create innovative public media 2.0 experiments—first to actively engage users to report on their voting experiences in the 2008 U.S. election, and then to document their experiences of the 2009 presidential inauguration. Along the way, these two projects demonstrated how journalists and advocates can effectively leverage a range of both commercial and open source social media tools to organize, publicize and implement citizen reporting projects, creating infrastructure for related future projects. Organizers have since worked to archive and repurpose the code and collaboration materials from these efforts for use in 2009 election monitoring initiatives in India and Iran.
#research#hz10#socialnetworking#microblogging#twitter#news#hznmc#hz09biz#nmcfuture
·centerforsocialmedia.org·
Public Media 2.0 Field Report: Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University
lianzacon06 Report Back Slide 7 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
lianzacon06 Report Back Slide 7 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Having discussed these themes, I then highlighted to two reports which had only just been published two weeks before, both of which I felt related to the overall themes that I felt had arisen during the conference. I felt they also brought together nicely both my background (coming from an academic library) and the location where my talk was taking place (a high school library). The Horizon Report is a paper produced by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Institute. It discusses the top emerging technologies and general trends for higher education over the next five years from 2006 to 2011.
#nmcpr#horizonproject
·flickr.com·
lianzacon06 Report Back Slide 7 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
lianzacon06 Report Back Slide 7 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
lianzacon06 Report Back Slide 7 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Having discussed these themes, I then highlighted to two reports which had only just been published two weeks before, both of which I felt related to the overall themes that I felt had arisen during the conference. I felt they also brought together nicely
#nmcpr#horizonproject
·flickr.com·
lianzacon06 Report Back Slide 7 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Video: Nearest Tube iPhone app augments reality with directions
Video: Nearest Tube iPhone app augments reality with directions
AcrossAir, a nascent app builder for the iPhone, has conjured up a slickly executed digital guidance application that augments video with real-time distance and directions to the nearest subway station. With the iPhone 3GS pimping an improved camera, inbuilt compass and GPS, we had a hunch that it wouldn't be long before someone slammed them all together and gave commuters and tourists alike a reason to smile. Presently only capable of serving up directions in London, this app should find plenty of user interest that will hopefully drive its development for other metropolises around the world.
#iphone#mobiles#mobile#augmentedreality#video#hz10#hz09au#hzau09#hznmc#hz09biz
·engadget.com·
Video: Nearest Tube iPhone app augments reality with directions
Hear That? It’s The Sound Of Your New Hearing Aid, The iPhone
Hear That? It’s The Sound Of Your New Hearing Aid, The iPhone
the iPhone, with its App Store and recently-added support for third party peripherals, may soon become an extremely powerful medical tool. We’ve still got a ways to go before we start seeing glucose monitors and blood pressure pumps pop up with iPhone support, but some health and disability-related apps are already beginning to emerge. One of the first is a new application called soundAMP The application is pretty straightforward: it takes everything that reaches the phone’s microphone, and makes it louder.
#apple#iphone#science#mobiles#mobile#medical#hz10#hznmc#hz09biz
·techcrunch.com·
Hear That? It’s The Sound Of Your New Hearing Aid, The iPhone
Open Web Tools Directory
Open Web Tools Directory
As we’ve explored different tools we could create here as part of the Developer Tools Lab, we’ve come to the opinion that in addition to creating new tools, one of the best things we could do is help developers understand the broad universe of tools that already exist and expose some of the fantastic and amazing work that’s being done. We’re launching today a first step in this direction: an Open Web Tools Directory.
#tools#opensource#webdesign#hznmc#hz10
·tools.mozilla.com·
Open Web Tools Directory
Open Source is Infiltrating the Enterprise - O'Reilly Radar
Open Source is Infiltrating the Enterprise - O'Reilly Radar
There's a persistent perception that open source software is being ignored in the enterprise, that IT management fears it and it ends up being more costly to deploy than proprietary solutions. That's certainly the perception that some major software vendors would like you to have. But it's Jeffrey Hammond's job to dispel those perceptions, at least when they aren't accurate. As an analyst for Forrester Research, Hammond covers the world of software development as well as Web 2.0 and rich internet applications, so he sees how open source is being used on a daily basis.
#hz09biz#hznmc#hz10#opensource
·radar.oreilly.com·
Open Source is Infiltrating the Enterprise - O'Reilly Radar
Open Research Online
Open Research Online
Open Research Online is the Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs. It is an Open Access resource that can be searched and browsed freely by members of the public. Launched in 2006 as part of the ‘open access movement’ – an initiative to make peer-reviewed research free to readers – ORO is visited by around 7000 people across the world each week and is now the eighth largest higher education repository in the UK. Currently around 20 per cent of the articles deposited on ORO provide access to the full-text, with research ranging from dating climate change on Mars to investigations of rhythm in North Indian music.
#research#education#library#reference#resources#opencontent#opened#hz09au#hzau09#hznmc#hz10#oet09#openedtech
·oro.open.ac.uk·
Open Research Online
mapspread : Create, edit, share and publish your business data as an interactive mapping application within minutes
mapspread : Create, edit, share and publish your business data as an interactive mapping application within minutes
Mapping solutions for your business Easy to use and gratifying way to put your data on a map. Mapspread is perfectly suited to organizations and businesses that need to centrally manage geodata. No database needed, no setup cost, no overly complex GIS. Import your data from spreadsheets, maintain it with fun tools, share with coworkers and friends, publish to the world.
#maps#googlemaps#collaboration#analytics#visualization#geolocation#layeredinfo#hz10#hz09biz#hz09au#hznmc#hzau09#hzk10#hz10k12#collabspaces
·mapspread.com·
mapspread : Create, edit, share and publish your business data as an interactive mapping application within minutes
Socrata | Making Data Social
Socrata | Making Data Social
Opening Government. One Dataset at a Time.. Opening government to new audiences and constituencies is the 21st century battle cry in societies everywhere. At the heart of this movement is open government data, readily accessible over the internet, in a form that maximizes comprehension, interactivity, participation, and sharing, delivered at a fraction of the cost of today's data download sites. At Socrata, we call this social data discovery, and we've engineered a comprehensive suite of Web solutions for delivering social data discovery on government data sites around the world.
#database#socialnetworking#social#research#web2.0#opencontent#hz10#hznmc#hz09biz
·socrata.com·
Socrata | Making Data Social
OWLE: A Mount That Turns Your iPhone 3GS Into A Mobile Video Workhorse
OWLE: A Mount That Turns Your iPhone 3GS Into A Mobile Video Workhorse
A new startup called OWLE (Optical Widgets For Life Enhancement), is currently working on a mount that should resolve most of these issues. The mount, which you can see in the images and videos below, gives you a much more stable way to hold the phone, making it much less prone to bumps and shakes.
#iphone#video#mobiles#mobile#hz10#hznmc#hz09biz
·crunchgear.com·
OWLE: A Mount That Turns Your iPhone 3GS Into A Mobile Video Workhorse
Tech blog titan Michael Arrington’s next big thing: Hardware - San Francisco Business Times:
Tech blog titan Michael Arrington’s next big thing: Hardware - San Francisco Business Times:
In four years, Michael Arrington has gone from knowing relatively little about the Internet or journalism to presiding over the hugely popular, influential and profitable Palo Alto-based TechCrunch network of blogs. Now, Arrington appears to be on the verge of entering the computer hardware business, promising big news this month about a product he has been developing with reader input called the “CrunchPad,” a touch-screen tablet designed for web surfing, video chat and light email use.
#hz10#hznmc#hz09biz#netbook#portable#web
·bizjournals.com·
Tech blog titan Michael Arrington’s next big thing: Hardware - San Francisco Business Times:
Museum 2.0: Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora
Museum 2.0: Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora
How is a museum like a radio station? Both are collections of discreet, loosely organized content pieces that are both familiar and new. Your overall enjoyment of the content experience is determined to a large extent by the balance of items you like and those you don’t, those you know and those that are new... Pandora uses collaborative filtering to create a real-time radio station for you based on your preferences. The extraordinary thing about Pandora is the complexity of its filtering. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians. Instead, it uses hundreds of tags, signifiers assigned to each song by a team of musicians, to find correlated songs that may be of interest... in which musicians define the individual “genes” of a song via signifiers and use those to generate song “vectors” that can then be compared to create highly specific and complex musical narratives.
#museum#expert#collaboration#collaborativefiltering#hz10#hznmc#hz09biz#marcusidea#MarcusInstitute#midea#hz10mu
·museumtwo.blogspot.com·
Museum 2.0: Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora
LA Scholars - Summer Young Adult Employment for the Video Game Industry
LA Scholars - Summer Young Adult Employment for the Video Game Industry
LA Scholars, a summer youth employment program, prepares local college students in Los Angeles for highly coveted jobs in the video game industry. The program supports students that live just a few miles from some of the biggest video game companies in the world get their foot in the door
#students#game#video-games#hznmc#hz09biz#educational_games
·lascholars.com·
LA Scholars - Summer Young Adult Employment for the Video Game Industry
News: The Next Open Source Movement - Inside Higher Ed
News: The Next Open Source Movement - Inside Higher Ed
Last week, in a move that could lead to a shake-up of the industry, Colorado State University and San Joaquin Delta College both went live with the first large-scale installations of full financial systems produced by the Kuali Foundation, a consortium of colleges that have pooled resources to create open source systems that could compete with corporate offerings. The University of Arizona is well on its way to following, as is Michigan State University. Cornell University is planning for a likely conversion. Indiana University has been involved from the beginning and has tested many modules, which are expected to expand. The University of British Columbia is also expected to be using Kuali soon.
#software#opensource#education#hz10#hznmc#hz09biz
·insidehighered.com·
News: The Next Open Source Movement - Inside Higher Ed
Technology Review: The Display That Watches You
Technology Review: The Display That Watches You
Researchers in Germany have created a display that doubles as a camera.. For decades, engineers have envisioned wearable displays for pilots, surgeons, and mechanics. But so far, a compact wearable display that's easy to interact with has proved elusive. Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS) have now developed a screen technology that could help make wearable displays more compact and simpler to use.
#display#hznmc#hz10
·beta.technologyreview.com·
Technology Review: The Display That Watches You
Technology Review: The Display That Watches You
Technology Review: The Display That Watches You
Researchers in Germany have created a display that doubles as a camera.. For decades, engineers have envisioned wearable displays for pilots, surgeons, and mechanics. But so far, a compact wearable display that's easy to interact with has proved elusive.
#display#hznmc#hz10
·beta.technologyreview.com·
Technology Review: The Display That Watches You
Symbol Caddy
Symbol Caddy
The Symbol Caddy Dashboard widget keeps a bunch of common special characters at your fingertips. Keyboard mode copies the special character and HTML mode copies the HTML entity code.
#apple#design#webdesign#osx#widgets
·doubleforte.net·
Symbol Caddy
Symbol Caddy
Symbol Caddy
The Symbol Caddy Dashboard widget keeps a bunch of common special characters at your fingertips. Keyboard mode copies the special character and HTML mode copies the HTML entity code.
#apple#design#webdesign#osx#widgets
·doubleforte.net·
Symbol Caddy
iTool
iTool
a free multifunction utility for a complete system maintenance and cleaning. It’s even easer to use now with the new version 2, especially for the “first time” users. It’s new GUI will help you choose quickly the needed task. iTool not only maintains you system healthy, it also lets you tweak hidden functions of you Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) system. iTool is your Swiss Army Knife. Keep it in hand!
#mac#software#osx#tool
·italianapple.wordpress.com·
iTool