Tuesday, February 28th, 2012. Studying. « ? Your ad could be here, right now. Studying. Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 :: 12:01 am. And that's just the instruction manual for the DVD player! -Ray. R...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Classroom 2.0 - David Weinberger
The recording of Steve Hargadon's discussion with David Weinberger is now available.
Excellent session!
Excellent session!
Join me Tuesday, February 28th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with David Weinberger about his new book, Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't t...
Awesome idea for recycling CDs.
Incredible work. Reminds me of the Golden Venture paper sculptures.
Australian artist Sean Avery takes old CDs and makes them into wild pieces of art. Crave chats with Avery to find out how he brings his animal sculptures to life. Read this blog post by Bonnie Cha on ...
Preserving (digitizing) older music collections
We desperately need better models for preserving (digitizing) older music collections and making them available for listening.
When it comes to the history of modern popular music, the importance of the late radio DJ John Peel can hardly be overstated. During his nearly 40-year tenure at the BBC, Peel welcomed hundreds of art...
Monday, February 27, 2012
Not the eternal life I had in mind...
Do you know what happens to your virtual accounts after you die?
The laws about who controls your online property when you die are too vague
What should we do for the students who aren't succeeding?
Vickie Kline - 9:39 AM - Public
What should we do for the students who aren't succeeding?
By Shelly Blake-Plock. Imagine if schools were judged not by how well students achieved while they were in school, but in how well they achieved once they left. If schools saw their worth not in how m...
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Visualization of almost-current activity on Yahoo
Yahoo has launched a new homepage, which visualizes what's happening on the web in real time -- and it's totally beautiful.
Do you shift devices by time of day?
When the sun goes down, that's when the iPad gets busy for folks with news readers. The iPhone? It's more of a daytime habit. If you're building an app for both devices, heed the lesson. Read this blo...
Excellent discussion of film preservation.
Peter Rotsaert and Vico De Vocht examine a digital version of a silent film at the Brussels Cinematek. DB here: Today Dawson City, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, has fewer than two thousand people,...
What happens when you ask the internet for medical advice....
Medical Advice. What the internet lacks in medical expertise, it makes up for in cats. -Raf.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
If you haven't seen this 14 minute animation, it's definitely worth the time. Free download in iTunes.
The Animated Film. Inspired in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, "Morris Lessmore" is a story of people who devote their lives to b...
2012 Mobile Future in Focus
No surprises here, at least not for a digital omnivore!
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the 2012 Mobile Future in Focus report. This annual report examines the mobile and connected device landscape, co...
Content providers vs. platform providers
This will be an important one to watch. I can see this happening with other partnerships.
A licensing agreement between the publisher Cengage Learning and the e-textbook vendor Kno has gone sour. Details recently surfaced of a legal battle between the two companies over the publisher's...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
"The library is a place where magical things happen" - Grant McCracken
The original value proposition of the library was not just free books but something more, something I learned as a seven-year-old at the Dunbar Public Library in Vancouver, B.C. The library looked lik...
This is one of my favorite thought pieces so far on the whole Amazon/Overdrive/libraries conundrum...
Toward an e-library ecosystem: Public libraries will screw themselves if they don’t learn from Amazon’s comprehensive ‘seamless’ approach
One more for the Google+ wishlist - ability to publish posts to Blogger....
Today a group of us discussed Google Plus for education. It was the third such open and informal videoconference-based discussion NITLE has held recently, using, appropriately enough, Google+'s Ha...
Active learning for professional development. I like.
In this post Dr. David Wedaman, Director for Research and Instruction Services, Brandeis University and NITLE Advisory Board Member speculates on how we can integrate active learning into professional...
Would you pay monthly for Wolfram Alpha premium...
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Would you pay monthly for Wolfram Alpha premium?
 Data Analysis for the People - Technology Review
Wolfram Alpha can now analyze data you provide, so you can do things like map out your e-mail relationships.
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Why Most People Say They're Addicted to the...
|  Why Most People Say They're Addicted to the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]
Some 61% of people feel addicted to the Internet and are unable to quit compulsive browsing, according to an informal survey.
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Could we convince our institutions to value...
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Could we convince our institutions to value publication in other venues?
 Why do we need academic journals in the first place?
The same disruption that is occurring in the traditional media industry is starting to affect academic publishing, with many scientists boycotting publisher Elsevier because of its control over the in...
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ResearchGate - a social network for scientists...
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ResearchGate - a social network for scientists
 How ResearchGate plans to turn science upside down
The tools that have revolutionized the way we live are only just starting to have an impact on scientific research. Now ResearchGate -- the "Facebook of science" -- is hoping to speed up the change, w...
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*the things friends send me in email part...
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the things friends send me in email part 11
book tank Raul Lemesoff, an Argentine art-car artist, has taken a 1979 Ford Falcon that used to belong to the Argentine armed forces and turned into a 'Weapon of Mass Instruction.' http://  |
I'll have to try this...
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I'll have to try this...
 TechCrunch | Storify Brings Drag-And-Drop Social Curation To The iPad
Storify has become one of the main ways that people can create stories from social media — the startup says it has been used by 22 of the top 25 news sites in the United States, and that its users hav...
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Loved this doodle today...
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Loved this doodle today...
 Google doodle celebrates Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Today's Google doodle celebrates the birthday of Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist who expanded the electromagnetic theory of light.
Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Learn more
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