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A Surge in Online Learning Is Helping Revive Indigenous Languages | by Lindsay VanSomeren | Sep, 2020 | OneZero
As indigenous language classes become more accessible to people living away from tribal lands, they risk becoming less accessible to those living on them
K: The Overlooked Variable That's Driving the Pandemic - The Atlantic
Unfortunately, averages aren’t always useful to understand the distribution of a phenomenon, especially if it has widely varying behavior. If Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos walks into a bar with 100 regular people in it, the average wealth in that bar suddenly exceeds $1 billion dollars. If I also walk into that bar, not much will change. Clearly, the average is not that useful a number to understand the distribution of wealth in that bar, or how to change it. Sometimes, the mean is not the message. Meanwhile, if the bar has a person infected with COVID-19, and if it is also poorly ventilated and loud, causing people to speak loudly at close range, almost everyone in the room could potentially be infected—a pattern that’s been observed many times since the pandemic begin, and that is similarly not captured by R. That’s where the dispersion comes in.
How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face | benkuhn.net
I spend a lot of my day on video calls. Wave is a distributed company, so they’re the main way we communicate. But compared to talking in person, they feel unnatural: Most people have low-quality microphones and webcams that make them look and sound bad. There’s a lag between when you say something and when the other person hears it, making it hard to navigate conversational turn-taking. If you’re using headphones, you can’t hear your own voice very well. Because of echo cancellation, you often can’t talk when someone else is also talking, which makes the conversation flow less well. I started wondering how much nicer video calls would feel if I fixed these problems. So I spent way too much time fiddling with gear and software. This post summarizes what I’ve learned. Collectively, these recommendations have had a pretty big impact: when talking one-on-one to friends with equally good setups, I’ve been able to go 4+ hours without feeling fatigued.
How to Style Images With Markdown
Markdown is a convenient HTML-focused shorthand syntax for formatting content such as documentation and blog articles, but it lacks basic features for image formatting, such as alignment and sizing. This post presents a variety of ways to format images with Markdown, from brute force to proprietary syntax extensions, unwise hacks, and everything in between.
Unexpected Learnings From Coding Artwork Every Day For Five Years — Smashing Magazine
For more than five years I have been creating one digital artwork a day, using code to generate patterns, shapes, and animations. My daily art project has helped me to explore my artistic style and learn the practice of coding in a playful way. When I started the project it was a challenge to come up with something each day and publish it online. Now it’s simply a part of my daily life. Time spent on my “daily” is a time during which I’m free to explore and be creative. When things get boring, I know I need to challenge myself again in order to create something fresh and different. I’m happy to share my thoughts and experience, and hope to yield the inspiration you need to start similar projects of your own.
Recording…
I’m spending most of my time at the moment recording lectures for the autumn term. It is taking me roughly two full days to record an hour’s video. I could just record me talking over powerpoint, but that would be boring, both for me and for our students. So I’m trying to take advantage of the medium, and record something closer to mini-documentaries. So far, I’ve recorded 11 videos; in this post, I’ll explain what I’ve found works and what doesn’t.
Out of the Block: OpenStreetMap – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
A map block for Gutenberg which uses OpenStreetMap and Leaflet.js. It needs no API keys and works out of the box (or, out of the Block, if you prefer). Benefiting from Gutenberg’s potential, the plugin tries a different take on how to add your locations on the map and rethinks a few things, UX-wise.
Blacklight – The Markup
Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet? Enter the address of any website, and Blacklight will scan it and reveal the specific user-tracking technologies on the site—and who’s getting your data. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Deep Reckonings
Deep Reckonings is a series of explicitly-marked synthetic videos that imagine public figures having a reckoning. The public figures include: Brett Kavanaugh wrestling with the way he responded to the sexual allegations against him; Alex Jones grappling with his spread of deceitful conspiracy theories; and Mark Zuckerberg confronting his techno-utopianism. These figures don't admit to actions that aren't publicly known, but instead take responsibility for actions that are. Deep Reckonings exists in dialogue with the broader conversation about the ethical implications of synthetic media, and how artificial intelligence impacts our understanding of truth. The project seeks not to deceive nor demean, but to imagine and inspire. The videos make their fakery explicit not only to prevent misinformation, but also to leverage a superpower of synthetic media — that we can know they're fake and they still affect us. In this spirit, Deep Reckonings explores the question: how might we use our synthetic selves to elicit our better angels?
Can you Spot the Troll?
The quiz where YOU examine images of real social media content and decide whether it's from a legitimate account or an internet troll. A troll is an inauthentic social media account. Often created to spread misinformation and distrust, trolls have been deployed on every major social media platform. This quiz tests users’ ability to identify which accounts are genuine and which are professional trolls. Along the way, advice is provided for what to look for and how to be a better consumer and producer of social media. The quiz presents users with 8 profiles, each of which includes both profile information and a brief selection of posts from a single social media account. The user is asked to decide if the content comes from an authentic account or a professional troll. Each question is followed by some tips that might help in the future, as well as the opportunity to explore more details. There are a number of well-known tactics employed by bots and trolls on social media you may have seen in the past. These include unsolicited messages, hyper-active accounts, accounts with no profile image, accounts with stolen profile images, or computer generated account names. While some of the troll accounts we discuss in the quiz used these tactics, they are not the focus of what we cover. All of the accounts and posts used in this quiz, both the genuine accounts and the trolls, have been taken directly from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Nothing has been changed. While fake accounts are created for a variety of reasons, the troll accounts and posts in this quiz have all been linked to Vladimir Putin’s troll factory, the Internet Research Agency, based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Many foreign and domestic actors, however, have learned from the Russians and have begun to use some of their tactics. These include operations in Iran, China, and around the globe. Learning to understand Russian trolls will help you understand others.
Hand Mirror, for Mac
It's a macOS app that lives in the menu bar, and when you click on it you get a view from your camera.
The 100 Word Stories Podcast – A 100 word story every day until the day I die.
Wow. Ambition. ----------------- This is a podcast of stories that are 100 words long. I post a new story every day and The Weekly Challenge topic every Sunday. The results of The Weekly Challenge are posted the next Sunday, along with a new topic. I started writing drabbles after a friend in college wrote a set of them in a 100×100 project. Woody Allen’s play about Abraham Lincoln obsessing over “How long must a man’s legs be? Long enough to reach the ground” inspired me. Then, a group of writers started the site “100 Words Or Les Nessman” where they challenged themselves to write about a topic, or they had to write about Les Nessman. Featured writers posted on the site, and guest writers joined in the comments section of each post. On a whim, I recorded my stories, and those recordings became a separate podcast feed and archive on May 31, 2005. I swore that I would write a story a day until the day I die. Since I’m not dead yet, I’m still writing these things. When the Nessman group went under for the last time, I started the Weekly Challenges and invited the commenters to join in.
NCSA What's New Archive
What's New began as a simple service to the WWW community, and has grown into one of the most popular documents on the Web, winning the Most Important Service Concept award in the The Best of the Web '94 contest. The NCSA What's New Page is officially in the public domain. This means that you are free to do anything you wish with this listing. However, this does not imply anything about the documents which are referenced via this page or any other pages found on this server.
The PDF Accessibility Guide: How to Make Your Portable Documents Accessible | by Kris Rivenburgh | Medium
PDF accessibility starts at the source document level, say for example Microsoft Word. If you don’t structure the original document properly (in Word, Open Office, Libre Office, etc.), this is what makes it a pain to fix later. Remember, PDF is a conversion from an original document to a final, theoretically uneditable document, so the more the original source is inaccessible, the more the converted doc will be a beast to slay. Another huge factor in this whole game is Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. While you can create a baseline accessible document using just Microsoft Word, Acrobat Pro can take your document’s accessibility to another level, optimizing it — and even taking care of some items (such as advanced tables) that Word doesn’t provide for. The gap in accessibility between Word and Acrobat Pro is going to depend on how complex the document you’re creating is (e.g. a text only essay vs. a presentation with tables and videos).
Center for Engaged Learning | Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education offers detailed guidance to scholars at all stages—experienced and new academics, graduate students, and undergraduates—regarding how to write about learning and teaching in higher education. It evokes established practices, recommends new ones, and challenges readers to expand notions of scholarship by describing reasons for publishing across a range of genres, from the traditional empirical research article to modes such as stories and social media that are newly recognized in scholarly arenas. The book provides practical guidance for scholars in writing each genre—and in getting them published. Published open access as PDF
How Mozilla Was Born
The story of the first mascot on the Internet
Troll Factory
It’s your first week at the new job at Troll Factory. Your task is to grow your influence on social media — by whatever means necessary. How many people can you reel in? Troll Factory shows you first-hand how information operations work on social media. The goal of the game is to illustrate how fake news, emotive content and bot armies are utilized to affect moods, opinions and decision-making. The game uses examples of authentic social media content. The theme of the game was chosen based on background research. Data shows that anti-immigration material is circulating widely in Europe, North America and Asia. Continuing information operations around immigration using fake news, internet memes and the polarization of public discourse are systematic and organized.
Antidepressants or Tolkien
It's a quiz!
Introduction to HTML
Copy of Eric Meyer's early 1990s tutorial
Design Issues for Web-Based Teaching Materials
Computer-based training (CBT) is an often-ignored area for development on the World Wide Web. Authors have the ability to teach readers across the globe. Similarly, readers can take advantage of Web-based CBT at any time, choosing the site that works best for them. Authors need to account for the impact their material will have on readers, taking into account what effect new information will have, how much material to introduce at once, how the visual design is important to the conveyance of information, and the fact that interactive quizzing will dramatically improve the readers' ability to retain what they have read.
There Are Only 37 Possible Stories, According to This 1919 Manual for Screenwriters | Open Culture
The year was 1919. America's biggest blockbusters included D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms, Cecil B. DeMille's Male and Female, and The Miracle Man, which made Lon Chaney into a silver-screen icon. The many aspirants looking to write their way into the ever more celebrated and lucrative movie business could turn to a newly published manual called Ten Million Photoplay Plots by Wycliff Aber Hill. "Hill, who published more than one aid to struggling 'scenarists,' positioned himself as an authority on the types of stories that would work well onscreen," writes Slate's Rebecca Onion. In this book he provides a "taxonomy of possible types of dramatic 'situations,' first running them down in outline form, then describing each more completely and offering possible variations." Hill's 37 basic dramatic situations include such "happy situations" as "rescue," "loved ones lost and recovered," and "a miracle of God"; such "pathetic situations" as "love's obstacles," "rivalry between unequals," and "a mystery"; and such "disastrous situations precipitated without criminal intent" as "possessed of an ambition," "enmity between kinsmen," and "vengeance." (Naturally, Hill also includes a separate category involving criminal intent.) These dramatic concepts then break down into more specific scenarios like "rescue by strangers who are grateful for favors given them by the unfortunate one," "an appeal for refuge by the shipwrecked," "the sacrifice of happiness for the sake of a loved one where the sacrifice is caused by unjust laws," and "congenial relations between husband and wife made impossible by the parents-in-law."
What is Google AMP, and How Do I Use It for My Website? – CloudSavvy IT
AMP is a framework for making fast mobile sites, and it currently powers over 43% of search results. Switching your site over to AMP can give you a huge boost in traffic. How does it work?
What is the 500 Rule in Photography? | Light Stalking
If you’re into night sky photography in any way then it’s only a matter of time before you run across somebody talking about the “500 Rule” – sometimes referred to as the “rule of 500.” It’s a classic photographic rule of thumb that most experienced photographers will commit to memory for when they are out shooting at night and want to capture one of those beautiful images of the Milky Way that tend to blow audiences off their feet and keeps the stars nice and sharp.
EdArXiv Preprints | What's Lost, What's Left, What's Next: Lessons Learned from the Lived Experiences of Teachers during the 2020 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic
To more deeply understand the practice and professional experiences of educators during the 2020 extended school closures, we interviewed 40 teachers from across the country in public, charter, and private schools, at different grade levels, and in different subject areas. From our conversations, three key themes emerged: 1) Student Motivation: Teachers struggled to motivate their students through two layers of computer screens; 2) Professional Loss and Burnout: As they lost familiar means of teaching, teachers also lost a fundamental sense of their own efficacy and professional identity; and, 3) Exacerbated Inequities: This sense of loss grew deeper as teachers witnessed the dramatic intensification of the societal inequalities that had always shaped their students’ lives. Effective planning for school reopening in Fall 2020 will require understanding and addressing these challenges facets of teachers’ experience. We propose five design considerations to plan for resilience: center equity, focus on relationship-building, address student motivation, address staff motivation and burnout, and mitigate uncertainty.
Storyline Activity – Spin Weave and Cut
This activity builds off of various line drawings exercises I do in class, including Grids & Gestures, along with the use of lines from Tristram Shandy & Vonnegut’s Shape of Stories (see the video of Vonnegut online). For your “story line”, think of an arc of your life – either recent months or your whole life, and make a line that represents your experiences. Interpret as you wish.
The Photography Toolkit
Dave Caleb shares his methods, ideas, and aproaches on the art of photography. "I believe that we learn by doing and that is how I believe you should approach this blog. Trying things out bit by bit. Continue to experiment and add skills to your photography toolkit. A wise mentor of mine once said that at some point you just have to get out there are try it out. You could learn all the theory behind how to play the piano, but at some point you need to actually put your fingers on the keys and give it a shot. The same goes for learning how to best use your camera. You could learn everything you need to know about the settings and menus and customization of your camera but that won’t make you a better photographer. You need to get out there and capture images."
31 Free Public Domain Image Websites
Apublic domain image is defined as a photo, clip art or vector whose copyright has expired or never existed in the first place. These images can be used by almost anyone for personal and commercial purposes. Museums, libraries and photographers sick of “traditional” stock photos have released thousands of public domain images online, making them more easily available to the public and (yep!) that means designers, too. In this article, we’ve compiled a list of websites curating free public domain images and high quality stock photography that can be freely used by anyone worldwide.
Make Super Simple Videos for Teaching Online - YouTube
The hard part can be getting the confidence to talk to the camera, but making simple videos for online teaching can help you engage with students. This video was produced by Michael Wesch, professor at Kansas State University.
Why you should have a blog (and write in it) | Leticia Portella
If you ever told me you are learning to code (or anything, really), chances are I told you you should have your blog and write in it. Although I discussed this topic in person with a lot of people, there are only small texts about it on blog posts I wrote about other topics ([1], [2]). This blog post is dedicated to why you should have your own (independent) blog. Because people have different ways of seeing the world I divided it into two sections of why: Philosophical reasons to have a blog Selfish reasons to have a blog I also wrote a section on common excuses that people give me to not write a blog post and my answers to them! And finally, if you are convinced, there is a section dedicated to what to write about.