Archive for January, 2008
Tagging speech
Tag clouds have started to really interest me recently. Tag clouds can be described as a weighted list in visual design. Usually the tags are keywords assigned to web content, such as blog posts. It is difficult to decribe tag clouds visually. Essentially they consist of single words which are listed […]
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Library of Congress Releases 3100 photos on to Flickr
Related an ongoing discussion with regards to sharing and copyright (here) the Library of Congress have just placed 3100 photos on on to Flickr, (a photo sharing site). And the selected photos have no known copyright restrictions.
What’s interesting is that the library is harnessing the power of the Flickr community takes over, “We want […]
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Academic use of Twitter
From academHAck (Web Link).
Twitter again. It seems to becoming quite popular. For info Twitter is a social networking (aka micro-blogging) service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service or instant messaging. The act of doing this is called ‘Twittering’ and when […]
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The 4 slide Contest
Could you sell yourself in four (4) picture-only slides? And not use audio, video, hyperlinks or any multimedia miscellany?
Taken from the blog of Dan Meyer. He posted this starting a 1 week contest with readers submitting using the comment facility.
This is quite interesting and I wonder if it could be extended to other uses, […]
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Anyone for TED?
From the Bionic Teaching blog. There’s a pass to the TED Conference available. It’s not available through the usual channels but through Ebay. It’s currently at $33,535.00
TED stands for Technology Entertainment Design and is an annual conference held in Monterey, California. It is described as a “group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas […]
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Social Networking in Education
From Steve Hargadon’s post on the Infinite Thinking Machine blog
Social Networks online communities of people interested in the same ’stuff’ - for want of a better word. They are very linky environments in which the user, often through profile matching, makes contact with other users and exchanges ideas, information etc. Because […]
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21st Century Education: Thinking Creatively
From the Student 2.0 blog:- a blog kept by pre university students.
“Twenty-first century education won’t be defined by any new technology. It won’t be defined by 1:1 laptop programs or tech-intensive projects. Twenty-first century education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching—a shift towards […]
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Why is it so Hard for Educators to Focus on Their Own Learning?
From the blog of Will Richardson. Thought provoking and provocative it asks as that whether in showing staff how to use e-learning tools we should show how the same member of staff can actually engage in their own learning while using these tools and in doing so they gain greater insight when […]
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Finally an educational use for Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking service that allows users to send updates (”tweets”) to the Twitter website, via instant messaging. the updates are in the form of a text-based post which has 140 characters limit.
The sender can restrict delivery of the updates to specific individuals and so can be used for […]
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Crayon Physics on the Tablet PC
Fantastic use of the tablet PC.
“Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.”
Can anyone suggest any educational […]
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