Awesome convergence of Facebook and film 'making'.
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Mobile Media Production & Training https://www.facebook.com/transmediaNT
Friday, July 30, 2010
The Designer’s Guide to Taking Better Photos
Becoming a decent photographer can save you time and money and provide you with a serious competitive edge in the form of truly unique imagery that no one in the world possesses but you.
more from the Design Shack...
more from the Design Shack...
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Understanding Digital Natives
They see life as a game. They enjoy nothing more than outsmarting the system. They don’t trust politicians, medias, nor brands. They see corporations as inefficient and plagued by an outmoded hierarchy. Even if they harbor little hope of doing better than their parents, they don’t see themselves as unhappy. They belong to a group — several, actually — they trust and rely upon.
“They”, are the Digital Natives.
Understanding the Digital Natives | Monday Note
“They”, are the Digital Natives.
Understanding the Digital Natives | Monday Note
© Fair Use
I'd like to take this opportunity to celebrate "fair use," the general principle that copyrighted materials can legitimately be used by other parties, without payment, within reasonable limits. It's not just legally acceptable, it's a paradigm that could provide a foundation for a richer, fairer, better future for everyone.
Why Fair Use is Not Just Acceptable, It's Essential for the Future
Why Fair Use is Not Just Acceptable, It's Essential for the Future
Vision, Storytelling and Digital Media
The course we've designed for them is a bit unusual; it's a multi-dimensional fabric of social, spiritual, technological and vocational threads - but they have taken everything we've given them and made full use of it. Let me take you back to the first week, for example, where we asked each of them to begin thinking about what having a vision might mean for them...
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Monday, July 26, 2010
OpenCulture »The Funding Game
There are funders, and there are the funded. There are funding programmes, grants, calls for applications, initiatives and priorities. We have industrialised the process of distributing public and private money to achieve particular purposes. But what purposes? And is this really the best way to do it?
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning
The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
* Media Sharing
* Digital Storytelling
* Manage and Organize
* Social Networking and Communication
* Curriculum Sharing
* Content Resources: Lesson Plans and More
* Content Collaboration
American Association of School Librarians
* Media Sharing
* Digital Storytelling
* Manage and Organize
* Social Networking and Communication
* Curriculum Sharing
* Content Resources: Lesson Plans and More
* Content Collaboration
American Association of School Librarians
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Participatory Economics - A Theoretical Alternative to Capitalism
Participatory economics is an economic system developed to foster six broad values: equity, or fair and just outcomes; solidarity, or caring and mutual respect among all people; diversity of outcomes which would benefit everyone; participatory self-management, or having a say in decisions to the extent that one is affected by their outcomes; efficiency, or not wasting resources; and environmental sustainability, which requires leaving behind stocks of each kind of natural capital as large as those we enjoy today.
Participatory Economics - A Theoretical Alternative to Capitalism
Participatory Economics - A Theoretical Alternative to Capitalism
Monday, July 19, 2010
The key to sparking a more vibrant, thriving economy is a higher purpose.
The crisis of the noughties is kind of like Jaws: just when you think it's dead, it keeps coming back for more. Unemployment, European stability, interest rates, and the specter of another Great Depression are just a few of the issues that have economists concerned...again.
Yet, a great schism divides them. Each side's answers seem incomplete to the other. On one side, Keynesians. On the other, "austerians." The former argue: spend, spend, spend, for the real problem in the economy's a lack of demand — not enough buying power to create jobs and trade. The latter argue: cut, cut, cut, for the real problem's a lack of supply — a shortage of financial capital, to fuel ever-growing debt.
Yet, though it might be fervent, the debate's anything but new. As this ridiculously nerdsome (yes, that's nerdly plus awesome) rap duel between them explains, in fact, it's been raging since Keynes and Hayek went for each others' jugular in the wake of the Great Depression.
Sounds intractable, right? It just might be — because both sides are arguing over the same thing: how to kickstart growth in gross domestic product. Because, in turn, the assumption from both sides is the same: that "growth" is necessary and sufficient for prosperity. In other words, common to both sides is the dogma that the purpose of the economy should be (maximizing) the volume of gross product.
I'd like to propose a third position in this great debate. Call it "prosperianism." Prosperians believe the economy's central problem isn't a lack of demand, or a lack of supply — but a lack of purpose. Prosperianism's foundation can be summed up in a single sentence: 21st century economies can, should, and must have a higher purpose than product.
Prosperians believe that the real challenge of the 21st century isn't kickstarting "growth" and churning out more "product" — but reconceiving what is growing, how it grows, and why it grows. The prosperian agenda is redefining prosperity, so it's more meaningful, authentic, and durable. It's not about just restarting the same old industrial-age engine of GDP, but building a better one.
More from Umair Haque @ Harvard Business Review
Yet, a great schism divides them. Each side's answers seem incomplete to the other. On one side, Keynesians. On the other, "austerians." The former argue: spend, spend, spend, for the real problem in the economy's a lack of demand — not enough buying power to create jobs and trade. The latter argue: cut, cut, cut, for the real problem's a lack of supply — a shortage of financial capital, to fuel ever-growing debt.
Yet, though it might be fervent, the debate's anything but new. As this ridiculously nerdsome (yes, that's nerdly plus awesome) rap duel between them explains, in fact, it's been raging since Keynes and Hayek went for each others' jugular in the wake of the Great Depression.
Sounds intractable, right? It just might be — because both sides are arguing over the same thing: how to kickstart growth in gross domestic product. Because, in turn, the assumption from both sides is the same: that "growth" is necessary and sufficient for prosperity. In other words, common to both sides is the dogma that the purpose of the economy should be (maximizing) the volume of gross product.
I'd like to propose a third position in this great debate. Call it "prosperianism." Prosperians believe the economy's central problem isn't a lack of demand, or a lack of supply — but a lack of purpose. Prosperianism's foundation can be summed up in a single sentence: 21st century economies can, should, and must have a higher purpose than product.
Prosperians believe that the real challenge of the 21st century isn't kickstarting "growth" and churning out more "product" — but reconceiving what is growing, how it grows, and why it grows. The prosperian agenda is redefining prosperity, so it's more meaningful, authentic, and durable. It's not about just restarting the same old industrial-age engine of GDP, but building a better one.
More from Umair Haque @ Harvard Business Review
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Junto is Born!
Many of us have been inspired by the cooperation meme lately, and it appears that our collective spirit has given birth to Junto!
In case you haven’t been following along, Junto is a concept we’ve been discussing for a global communications and collaboration platform. It starts with a simple interface, combining video chat with a text box and a twitter backchannel, all streaming in public, real-time. It could be used for any number of projects or goals – organizations could use it for open innovation or to show how they are taking social responsibility in the world, groups with similar initaitives could use it for huge group discussions and meetings in order to accelerate the process of organizing and taking projects from idea to action, and individuals could use it to engage in dialogue and create shared meaning and shared understanding across geographic and cultural barriers.
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In case you haven’t been following along, Junto is a concept we’ve been discussing for a global communications and collaboration platform. It starts with a simple interface, combining video chat with a text box and a twitter backchannel, all streaming in public, real-time. It could be used for any number of projects or goals – organizations could use it for open innovation or to show how they are taking social responsibility in the world, groups with similar initaitives could use it for huge group discussions and meetings in order to accelerate the process of organizing and taking projects from idea to action, and individuals could use it to engage in dialogue and create shared meaning and shared understanding across geographic and cultural barriers.
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Plenitude
In Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, economist and bestselling author Juliet B. Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.
Responding to our current moment, Plenitude puts sustainability at its core, but it is not a paradigm of sacrifice. Instead it’s an argument that through a major shift to new sources of wealth, green technologies, and different ways of living, individuals and the country as a whole can actually be better off and more economically secure.
And as Schor observes, Plenitude is already emerging. In pockets around the country and the world, people are busy creating lifestyles that offer a way out of the work and spend cycle. These pioneers’ lives are scarce in conventional consumer goods and rich in the newly abundant resources of time, information, creativity and community. Urban farmers, D.I.Y renovators, Craig’s List users, cob builders — all are spreading their risk and establishing novel sources of income and outlets for procuring consumer goods. Taken together, these trends represent a movement away from the conventional market and offer a way toward an efficient, rewarding life in an era of high prices and traditional resource scarcity.
Based on recent developments in economic theory, social analysis, and ecological design, as well as evidence from the cutting edge people and places putting these ideas into practice, Plenitude is a road map for the next two decades. In encouraging us to value our gifts — nature, community, intelligence, and time — Schor offers the opportunity to participate in creating a world of wealth and well-being.
www.julietschor.org
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Renegotiating The Contract (And Other Tales Of Horror)
You’ve met with the client, done the creative brief and gotten some kind of written agreement or contract. Work has been creative and progressing nicely. The joy and hope for life slowly return as the scent of money looms. So, with an overdose of sleeping pills no longer your retirement plan, you start to delete your suicide note and dispose of the envelopes containing instructions on terminating your accounts on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Then, someone crunches some numbers and realizes that you can’t be paid what was agreed on. Suddenly, your contract becomes either a weapon in a brutal fight or a token to keep the job going in the hope of some pay and a return client.
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Then, someone crunches some numbers and realizes that you can’t be paid what was agreed on. Suddenly, your contract becomes either a weapon in a brutal fight or a token to keep the job going in the hope of some pay and a return client.
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Museum Mobile Mantra
1. Anything paid for with public money should be owned by, and put into the hands of, the public.
2. Public institutions may not privatize cultural heritage.
3. Content should be shared freely to permit everyone to investigate, use and grow that knowledge base.
2. Public institutions may not privatize cultural heritage.
3. Content should be shared freely to permit everyone to investigate, use and grow that knowledge base.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Tagmap
Tagmap is a new and exciting digital program of tools and training developed by Bold Creative.
Using a mash up of innovative film making, social networking sites and Google Maps, young people can make and watch films and start conversations about important issues they face on a daily basis.
Website and Documentation
Using a mash up of innovative film making, social networking sites and Google Maps, young people can make and watch films and start conversations about important issues they face on a daily basis.
Website and Documentation
The Integral “Killer App” Challenge
What made computers indispensable?
* The first database programs, plus word processing and accounting software.
What first made the Internet a necessity instead of a curiosity?
* Email, singlehandedly.
Why did cell phones become nearly ubiquitous so quickly, despite concerns about their health impacts?
* Mobile connectivity, plus the magic of texting, made cellphones an essential tool for postmodern lifestyles.
Why do we salivate over the iPhone, and now the iPad?
* Because the sleek tool lets us use thousands of amazingly cool, intuitive apps.
We undertake the ordeal of upgrading our operating systems only in order to access new applications. A “killer app” legitimizes any innovative approach, making the expense and hassle of an upgrade worthwhile.
* The first database programs, plus word processing and accounting software.
What first made the Internet a necessity instead of a curiosity?
* Email, singlehandedly.
Why did cell phones become nearly ubiquitous so quickly, despite concerns about their health impacts?
* Mobile connectivity, plus the magic of texting, made cellphones an essential tool for postmodern lifestyles.
Why do we salivate over the iPhone, and now the iPad?
* Because the sleek tool lets us use thousands of amazingly cool, intuitive apps.
We undertake the ordeal of upgrading our operating systems only in order to access new applications. A “killer app” legitimizes any innovative approach, making the expense and hassle of an upgrade worthwhile.
Digital Habitats
Quoted from Learning Alliance
“Sociocultural approaches to learning have recognized that kids gain most of their knowledge and competencies in contexts that do not involve formal instruction. A growing body of ethnographic work documents how learning happens in informal settings, as a side effect of everyday life and social activity, rather than in an explicit instructional agenda.”
That’s a very polite way of saying that school is, in some important respects, irrelevant. It applies to kids as well as to grown-up technology stewards.
“One of the key innovations of situated learning theory was to posit that learning was an act of social participation in communities of practice (Lave and Wenger 1991). By shifting the focus away from the individual and to the broader network of social relationships, situated learning theory suggests that the relationships of knowledge sharing, mentoring, and monitoring within social groups become key sites of analytic interest. In this formulation, people learn in all contexts of activity, not because they are internalizing knowledge, culture, and expertise as isolated individuals, but because they are part of shared cultural systems and are engaged in collective social action.“
Learning to learn about technology (in particular) from this point of view is a fundamental skill that results from hanging out, messing around, and geeking out. To me this suggests that people who learn about technology in school are cheated because they miss out on some fundamental hanging out experiences. In this sense, the “digital divide” between older people who have been subject to training and younger people who came by their knowledge more socially may be more of a “learning divide.” That makes a lot of classroom instruction about technology irrelevant.
“Sociocultural approaches to learning have recognized that kids gain most of their knowledge and competencies in contexts that do not involve formal instruction. A growing body of ethnographic work documents how learning happens in informal settings, as a side effect of everyday life and social activity, rather than in an explicit instructional agenda.”
That’s a very polite way of saying that school is, in some important respects, irrelevant. It applies to kids as well as to grown-up technology stewards.
“One of the key innovations of situated learning theory was to posit that learning was an act of social participation in communities of practice (Lave and Wenger 1991). By shifting the focus away from the individual and to the broader network of social relationships, situated learning theory suggests that the relationships of knowledge sharing, mentoring, and monitoring within social groups become key sites of analytic interest. In this formulation, people learn in all contexts of activity, not because they are internalizing knowledge, culture, and expertise as isolated individuals, but because they are part of shared cultural systems and are engaged in collective social action.“
Learning to learn about technology (in particular) from this point of view is a fundamental skill that results from hanging out, messing around, and geeking out. To me this suggests that people who learn about technology in school are cheated because they miss out on some fundamental hanging out experiences. In this sense, the “digital divide” between older people who have been subject to training and younger people who came by their knowledge more socially may be more of a “learning divide.” That makes a lot of classroom instruction about technology irrelevant.
Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum
A botanical metaphor, first posited by Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus (1987), may offer a more flexible conception of knowledge for the information age: the rhizome.
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What creates and sustains active citizenship?
Using participatory mapping to explore participation
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 explained
Allow yourself some time and make yourself comfortable before activating this link: its a mind bender...
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Monday, July 5, 2010
Video Captioning Services Get 'YouTube Ready' Certification
Youtube has made announcements about the upcoming video caption features in an effort to increase the accessibility of videos for users that speak different languages or have hearing disabilities.
They’ve now introduced an interactive transcript feature that allows viewers to scan through the text and jump to specific sections of the video. While captions can be auto-generated, owners of the video can upload a more accurate transcript, which the system will then use to auto generate time stamps.
RWW article
SFK article
They’ve now introduced an interactive transcript feature that allows viewers to scan through the text and jump to specific sections of the video. While captions can be auto-generated, owners of the video can upload a more accurate transcript, which the system will then use to auto generate time stamps.
RWW article
SFK article
How Digital Media is Attracting New Arts Audiences
The age of features is dead;
Welcome to the age of User Experience.
Lessons here for the NT film & television sector...
Welcome to the age of User Experience.
Lessons here for the NT film & television sector...
Friday, July 2, 2010
Lessons from the Ant Colony: Overcoming the Biases of Web 2.0
The theory of swarm intelligence (or collective intelligence) relates to how the simple actions of individuals can come together to produce the sophisticated behavior of the collective.
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Steve Johnson website
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
The story of bottom-up intelligence, from slime mold to Slashdot.
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Steve Johnson website
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
The story of bottom-up intelligence, from slime mold to Slashdot.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Solastalgia
Solastalgia is a new concept developed to give greater meaning and clarity to environmentally induced distress. As opposed to nostalgia – the melancholia or homesickness experienced by individuals when separated from a loved home – solastalgia is the distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment.
Download a PDF describing solastalgia in detail with case study
Download a PDF describing solastalgia in detail with case study
Very nice packaging
I like the broader concept here: could be used to develop app tutorials...
See also this example of how to value add with packaging
Out of the box - book from adrian333 on Vimeo.
See also this example of how to value add with packaging
NeighborGoods : Share Stuff With Friends
NeighborGoods is like Craigslist for borrowing.
Cool app for a community like Alice Springs.
Cool app for a community like Alice Springs.
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