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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
18 Free Online Multimedia Editors
Multimedia files (photo, audio, vedio etc.) always need to pass through popular desktop applications such as Photoshop, GIMP, and Adobe Premier etc. But when it’s time to edit a photo or audio where the software like Photoshop is not available then web applications come very useful. You have to just connect your web browser to the internet. So enjoy these resources.
You Are Not a Curator
The Information Superabundance. It flows all around us and drowns us. It saturates our increasingly mobile computers. It follows us around through our increasingly powerful phones. It engorges our still-infuriating television. It invades more and more space.
It managed to turn the music industry inside out. It turned the film industry into a paranoid delusional inmate. It scares the living daylights out of the newspaper and journalism industry. It has proved the fiction publishing industry to be delightfully stubborn.
In response to the Superabundance, the buzzword has become “curator”. There’s too much stuff and even that stuff is being repeated so how do we get to the good stuff? Well, curators just select stuff, don’t they? We need curators to sort this stuff out for us. The definition of a curator is becoming mutated. So, I’ve come up with the carefully designed test.
Ask yourself: Am I a curator? The correct answer is: If you had to ask yourself that, you are not a curator. You are, at best, a filter.
Digital Natives with a Cause?
Youth are often seen as potential agents of change for reshaping their own societies. By 2010, the global youth population is expected reach almost 1.2 billion of which 85% reside in developing countries. Unleashing the potential of even a part of this group in developing countries promises a substantially impact on societies. Especially now when youths thriving on digital technologies flood universities, work forces, and governments and could facilitate radical restructuring of the world we live in. So, it’s time we start listening to them.
Download the report.
Download the report.
Living Networks - Free Chapter Downloads
Every chapter of Ross Dawson's Living Networks is available for free download here.
Virtual reality tackles tough questions
A Spanish team has designed a trial that allows men to step inside the body of a woman subjected to violence. Is this an emergent therapy that can be applied to the NT? Read the article here.
25 Productivity Apps for the iPhone
Technology today allows us to do things that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. However, sometimes it can feel like all the gadgets at our disposal are slowing us down rather than making things easier. Here are 25 iPhone apps that really can help you to manage your time and increase the efficiency with which you work – making you a better and more effective worker.
Change Media
Community Development Media Production Company: I like what they commit themselves to in their manifesto
See also Community Prophets and Dulwich
See also Community Prophets and Dulwich
4 Digital Alternatives to the Traditional Resume
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Digital Education Project for Museums
In the fall of 2007, the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation solicited proposals from museums in Texas for mini grants to support the creation of digital materials for visual arts education and related activities. The foundation’s goals were to build on the training provided to Texas art museums in the first phase of the project; to stimulate and facilitate the production of high quality digital presentations; and to realize the potential sea change new media promises for visual arts education in Texas.
Amazing things were achieved. Check them out here.
Amazing things were achieved. Check them out here.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Storybird
Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids and families. Two (or more) people create a Storybird in a round robin fashion by writing their own text and inserting pictures. They then have the option of sharing their Storybird privately or publicly on the network. The final product can be printed (soon), watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library.
Storybird is also a simple publishing platform for writers and artists that allows them to experiment, publish their stories, and connect with their fans.
Read more here.
Storybird is also a simple publishing platform for writers and artists that allows them to experiment, publish their stories, and connect with their fans.
Read more here.
Jason Ohler’s new book
The author of the classic ‘Digital Storytelling in the Classroom’ has finished writing his latest book.
See also Google search and Jason Ohler's blog.
“It looks at the rise of digital communities, the evolution of citizenship (local, global and digital), the complications (and opportunities) arising from kids communicating in cyberspace and how education can help prepare students for a world that will need them to use technology effectively, creatively and wisely. Topics addressed: character education for digital kids, how school boards need to respond to everything from sexting to cyberbullying, how to help teachers and students ’see’ the technology that has become invisible to them and make wise choices about its use.”Via Aberth Digital Storytelling
See also Google search and Jason Ohler's blog.
50 Creative iPad Application Websites
Ever since the iPad has been released, the application market has been growing rapidly. If you are a web designer looking to get some inspiration for an iPad based web design, this resource will help. Most of designs show the beautiful life sized iPad with their app running on the screen. This is a great elegant method of attracting customers. To see what i mean check out number #4 Sorted, it has a very clean and worry free design that makes you feel organized. We hope you will find this helpful and inspirational.
7 Ways Mobile Apps are Enriching Historical Tourism
Some of the most famous historical sites would be just another old house or pile of rubble if you didn’t have any background information about their significance. Tourists have always had options for educating themselves about what they’re looking at. They can read relevant books beforehand, they can hire a tour guide, or, if everyone in the group has the patience, they can take the time to read every plaque and sign on the premises.
Now, many programmers are also offering tourists the option to learn about these sites via their smartphones. While many of the world’s significant historical locations have some sort of interactive app connected to them, the seven we picked are among the most innovative and impressive.
Now, many programmers are also offering tourists the option to learn about these sites via their smartphones. While many of the world’s significant historical locations have some sort of interactive app connected to them, the seven we picked are among the most innovative and impressive.
Monday, October 4, 2010
iPad Media Strategy framework
Ross Dawson on opportunities for business and society in a hyper connected world via his blog Trends in the Living Networks
Can you social network your way to revolution?
Critique of Gladwell's commentary by George Por a.k.a. @technoshaman in The Economist
Sunday, October 3, 2010
#hashtags I like
#mtogo - an ongoing conversation about media and technology on the go
#collectionfishing Museums promoting content
#m4d Mobile Phones for Development
#ict4d Information Communication technology For Development.
#storytelling
#digitalstorytelling
#gov2au Tweets associated with theory and practice of Gov 2.0 in Australia
#EdApp: Tweets associated with theory and practice of using apps in education.
#EdTech: Tweets associated with the theory and practice of using technology in education.
#ELearning: Tweets associated with any type of learning through electronic (“e”) means
#MLearning: Tweets associated with any type of learning through mobile (“m”) devices
40 hashtags for Social Good
#collectionfishing Museums promoting content
#m4d Mobile Phones for Development
#ict4d Information Communication technology For Development.
#storytelling
#digitalstorytelling
#gov2au Tweets associated with theory and practice of Gov 2.0 in Australia
#EdApp: Tweets associated with theory and practice of using apps in education.
#EdTech: Tweets associated with the theory and practice of using technology in education.
#ELearning: Tweets associated with any type of learning through electronic (“e”) means
#MLearning: Tweets associated with any type of learning through mobile (“m”) devices
40 hashtags for Social Good
The Top 10 Buzziest Blogs in Geolocation This Week
There are many things going on in the world of location and mapping. It's a red-hot sector, producing innovative new technologies and use-cases every day. Read about the Top 10 at RWW
How web video powers global innovation
TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness. Hear his talk here.
How to Encode Video for All Your Mobile Devices
With H.264 solidly planted as the codec of choice for just about every mobile device, we've come to a point where you can encode a video once and play it back on pretty much anything.
Here's how.
Here's how.
Friday, October 1, 2010
The Cartesian view of knowledge
I think therefore I am vs We participate therefore we are.
Both Plato and Descartes have many strong points. They also have some weak points in their philosophies. The Cartesian view of knowledge, which by the way, all of us have been explicitly or implicitly trained in, and has dominated Western philosophy for over three hundred years is the belief that there is a clear separation between mind and body, a clear separation between the thinkers and the doers, between management and the employees.
On top of that there is this notion that knowledge is a substance. And what you really need to do, is that you now want to talk about teaching. You look at theories of pedagogy, which treat knowledge as a substance. The game of pedagogy, or corporate training by and large, is: how do you find a way to optimally pour knowledge into a kid’s head with the recognition that there is already something already in the kid’s head. And so pedagogy has to do with impedance matching in terms of how do you pour a substance into this receptacle. And that has a lot to do with practically every conceivable theory of pedagogy that we know about. The trouble is, it is based on the presupposition of knowledge as a substance, and that there is a sense of a separation between mind and body, which is probably not correct.
Read more at Storytelling
Both Plato and Descartes have many strong points. They also have some weak points in their philosophies. The Cartesian view of knowledge, which by the way, all of us have been explicitly or implicitly trained in, and has dominated Western philosophy for over three hundred years is the belief that there is a clear separation between mind and body, a clear separation between the thinkers and the doers, between management and the employees.
On top of that there is this notion that knowledge is a substance. And what you really need to do, is that you now want to talk about teaching. You look at theories of pedagogy, which treat knowledge as a substance. The game of pedagogy, or corporate training by and large, is: how do you find a way to optimally pour knowledge into a kid’s head with the recognition that there is already something already in the kid’s head. And so pedagogy has to do with impedance matching in terms of how do you pour a substance into this receptacle. And that has a lot to do with practically every conceivable theory of pedagogy that we know about. The trouble is, it is based on the presupposition of knowledge as a substance, and that there is a sense of a separation between mind and body, which is probably not correct.
Read more at Storytelling
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