Tracery Maker
a generator for randomness, can be used to create files for use here
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Authors over automation: 3 Steps for better alt-text and image descriptions in academic writing | Impact of Social Sciences
Alt-text is an important and increasingly required element of online publishing that provides accessibility to visual images for those using screen readers to listen to digital publications. Reflecting on a recent experience when writing up her PhD thesis, Lettie Y. Conrad discusses the value of author produced alt-text for images in academic writing and shares resources and a three-step guide for authors looking to improve their alt-text practice.
Remove Your Personal Information from Google - Optery
When you want to prevent data brokers from exposing your personal information, you can use Optery to have your profiles removed. Our free platform also provides unprecedented and unparalleled visibility into your exposed profile data at 100+ people search sites. Our mission is to put consumers in control of their personal data. Thousands of companies collect personal information about you and then sell or expose that information without your permission. These companies are known as “data brokers” and they’ve been taking advantage of consumers for decades.
How Scribbling in the Margins Transformed My Reading - The New York Times
This grounding practice changed me from a passive reader into a thinker among other thinkers.
bytecastaudio.com
Bytecast was created with funding through the Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge. Our mission is to create an easy-to-use native app for iOS and Android that allows our journalists to quickly capture audio for our news products.
Experts share their tips for making the most from many audio formats – RJI
New apps, platform agnosticism and getting the basics right: taking your audio to the next level The audio industry is in the middle of a transformation: Social audio is emerging; there is more investment and consumption of podcasts; and traditional radio listening is showing resilience in this mix. I asked five experts to share the audio trends and habits they encourage producers to implement now, as well as those they should prepare for in the not too distant future.
Open Publishing Fest
Open Publishing Fest is a decentralized public event that brings together communities supporting open source software, open content, and open publishing models. Held over two weeks in November this year, Open Publishing Fest will feature discussions, demos, and performances that showcase our paths toward a more open world.
Find It WP
Find It WP is a searchable resource archive for all of WordPress. Find what you need in one place for free.
Basic face recognition with Tensorflow.js - DEV Community
Tensorflow is an open-source software library that’s used to develop and train machine learning models. It’s available in a number of different languages including JavaScript which we’ll be using in this tutorial to perform basic face recognition from an image.
rot8000.com
ˈrō-ˌtāt ˈthau̇-zən(d)\ (ro-tate-thousand) [Usenet: from "rotate alphabet 0x8000 places"], v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each Unicode character with the one 0x8000 places forward or back along the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!" becomes "籝籱籮 籫籾籽籵籮类 籭籲籭 籲籽簪" It is used to enclose the text in a sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open - e.g. for posting things that might offend some readers, or spoilers. While rot13 is the self-inverse for a 26-character system, and rot47 for ANSI, the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode requires rot32768 (or 8000 in hex) for a reciprical cypher -- meaning that executing it twice restores the original text. It also bypasses 32 control characters, technically making it rotFFE0, sometimes with an additional offset.
Walled Culture – A Journey Behind the Copyright Bricks
The Walled Culture project looks into the evolution of access to knowledge and culture in an increasingly digitised world, as well as the new relationships being built between creators and their fans. The project combines blog posts with a series of interviews in podcast and vlog format, to gather a maximum of practical information from people that face culture walls on a regular basis and, in some cases, have found ways to go around them.
Howard Rheingold on the past and present of virtual communities
Howard Rheingold is a writer known for his work covering the development of virtual communities. He was one of the first authors, critics, and teachers to treat the internet as a social and cultural environment and pioneered new ways of talking about social media in his book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. He went on to write numerous books about the power of the human mind and social media such as Higher Creativity, Virtual Reality, and Tools for Thought. These books pulled from his experiences being involved in one of the first virtual communities called the WELL, being the executive editor of Wired Magazine’s HotWired, and founding Electric Minds, another prominent early virtual community. More recently, Howard taught about virtual communities at UC Berkeley, Stanford, Rheingold U, and runs a Youtube channel covering his many diverse interests. He's also known for his spectacular painted shoes.
Community Building Online – OneHE
Equity Unbound has been working with OneHE to create and curate a bank of free resources that help educators create equitable, caring and inclusive online communities that support learning. In this learning path, the team help you navigate those resources by picking out successful strategies and techniques that can be used at the beginning and throughout your courses
10up Engineering Best Practices
When querying the database in WordPress, you should generally use a WP_Query object. WP_Query objects take a number of useful arguments and do things behind-the-scenes that other database access methods such as get_posts() do not.
Checkboxland
Checkboxland is a JavaScript library for rendering anything as HTML checkboxes. You can use it to display animations, text, images, video, and arbitrary data. It also supports plugins, so you can add your own APIs. Checkboxland is dependency-free, framework-agnostic, and fun!
Hypothesis Social Annotation - Presentation
Introductory Podcasting Masterclass at TRU – A Self-Directed Exploration of Scholarly Podcasting
Learning Technology & Innovation is proud to present our self-directed “introductory masterclass” on podcasting. The course lasts four weeks and can be completed at your own pace; if you choose pace yourself along with us, you will complete the course through the month of October and will have access to two “live” on-line sessions to practice skills and ask questions.
On Distributed Communications
Paul Baran's 1964 paper on the ideas that became the internet
Introducing GIS for conservation
A GIS beginner course for wildlife conservation professionals and students
📗 Discourse Admin Manual - Documentation & Support / Collaboration - Edgeryders
Our manual for using the administrative Discourse 19 features. Mostly applicable to all Discourse installations, but some instructions are specific to the plugins and custom modifications we did for edgeryders.eu
The Media Archaeology Lab
Founded in 2009 by Dr. Lori Emerson, the Media Archaeology Lab is a place for cross-disciplinary, experimental research, teaching, and creative practice using one of the largest collections in the world of roughly of still functioning media. Researchers, students, teachers, artists and members of the public are encouraged to turn on, open up, play and create with items from the collection that include phonograph players; magic lanterns; historic personal computers, handheld devices and game consoles including the Altair 8800b, Commodore 64, Apple IIe, Vectrex, and Imagination Machine I and II created by African-American video game pioneer Ed Smith. The MAL is utterly unique not only because it is an open, accessible space for anyone to come and perform hands-on experiments with its extensive collection but also because it demonstrates alternative paths in the history of technology and empowers visitors to imagine an alternative present and future.
EduCoop - online course
The purpose of this course is, first of all, to introduce the concept of open education. We will demonstrate different methods, tools, and practices that encourage and foster openness. You’ll be introduced to the work method of the Open Education Cooperative. You’ll discover why collaboration, learning, adventure, and open educational resources are all integral parts of opening up the educational process. During the course, you’ll have the opportunity to take a look at the methods of other teachers, as well as observe teaching practices in Poland and abroad. You’ll have opportunities to practice newly learned abilities, and learn about a variety of topics, from copyright law to cutting-edge technology in education.
Happy Scribe: Audio Transcription & Video Subtitles
Transcription & Subtitles all-in-one platform State of the art A.I. working side by side with the best language professionals.
Octopus. Built for Scientists.
Designed to replace journals and papers as the place to establish priority and record your work in full detail, Octopus is free to use and publishes all kinds of scientific work, whether it is a hypothesis, a method, data, an analysis or a peer review. Publication is instant. Peer review happens openly. All work can be reviewed and rated. Your personal page records everything you do and how it is rated by your peers. Octopus encourages meritocracy, collaboration and a fast and effective scientific process.
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Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge
A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans
Social Annotation and an Inclusive Praxis for Open Pedagogy in the College Classroom
Open social annotation, while offering opportunities for the creation of new knowledge, empowerment, and dynamic dialogue for learning, also contains inherent risk of safety for marginalized student populations navigating open knowledge practices. In this paper, we will explore both the opportunities for subverting traditional knowledge structures offered by open social annotation, while also bringing to the surface the critical tensions that may make engaging in social annotation more dangerous or ineffective for students from historically marginalized backgrounds. Finally, we will offer a framework for constructing social annotation assignments for the college classroom that functions to maximize the potential for equity while taking into account ways to minimize harm in the inevitable tensions of an inherently unsafe online environment. Critical social annotation will be explored as an alternative pedagogical approach.
Airmeet: Virtual and Hybrid Event Technology Platform
Unlock the power of events & webinars Fully customizable & immersive hybrid events platform designed for exceptional engagement & ROI.
The Asynchronous Cookbook – Simple Book Publishing
Whether you're teaching mostly in person but looking for some regular, asynchronous activities to add to your course, or teaching a fully online course, this resource is for you. The activities in this cookbook draw on research and good practice in online course design to provide recipes - concise and specific instructions and examples - for adding asynchronous activities to a course. Meaningful interaction between students and instructors is a key ingredient in all of these recipes.
Ultra Fast WordPress theme with a built in header builder
Effortlessly Build Fast & Beautiful Websites In Minutes… Built from the ground up for lightning-fast performance, yet filled with modern features that will make building websites fun again.
A guide to Indigenous land acknowledgment - Native Governance Center
Native Governance Center co-hosted an Indigenous land acknowledgment event with the Lower Phalen Creek Project on Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019 (October 14). The event featured the following talented panelists: Dr. Kate Beane (Flandreau Santee Dakota and Muskogee Creek), Mary Lyons (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe), Rose Whipple (Isanti Dakota and Ho-Chunk), Rhiana Yazzie (Diné), and Cantemaza (Neil) McKay (Spirit Lake Dakota). We’ve created this handy guide to Indigenous land acknowledgment based on our panelists’ responses.