Archive for April, 2008
Sites like Facebook are proving the value of the “social graph”
From MITS Technology Review by Erica Naone, (Web Link).
A great article which looks at how you can represent a persons social graph - a person’s network of friends, family, and acquaintances.
The Blogosphere
Matthew Hurst, a scientist at Microsoft’s Live Labs, used a search tool, called Blogpulse, to generate visualizations of the blogosphere.
Credit Matthew Hurst (blog) via […]
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One Avatar, Many Worlds
This will be useful. Personally I don’t like the avatars in Second Life - I’d rather be represented by an abstract concept.
“DAZ 3D, a company based in Draper, UT, that makes software and models for creating 3-D art, recently announced the MogBox, a program that would allow users to design a high-resolution […]
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We Think
Another video currently doing the rounds. This considers as to how the internet allows people the freedom to voice thoughts and ideas. And as more people join in the ideas become pooled and shared and taken on life. Quite rightly it states that new ideas come about through conversation and thus describes the web of […]
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Integrating photos into 3D worlds
Or as some have put it “Viewfinder: tool for “Flickrizing” Google Earth”
(here) or “A 3-D Viewfinder for a Shoebox of Digital Photos” (here)
Well this is an absolute belter. I would suggest playing the video straight away and then reading the text.
A group of researchers and digital artists at the University of Southern California (USC) has […]
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Children flock to social networks
“More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds who are online in the UK have a profile on a social network, research shows.”
Form the BBC a lengthy article on the continued rise of social networking. There’s some very interesting stats, for example:
* 49% of children 8-17 have an online profile
* 22% of 16+ have an […]
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Beg Borrow But Don’t Steal.
OR How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law
Presented at the eTech Ohio 2008 conference by Alvin Trusty and hosted on TeacherTube (www.teachertube.com).
A very good PowerPoint presentation which manages to make the subject of copyright actually interesting. Half of the talk focus’s on copyright while the other considers how you can create a […]
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University, YouTube, Google Earth and the wider community
Well I did it. I finally managed to embed a YouTube video within Google Earth for all to see. Google Earth is virtual globe , which sits on your desktop, and is created from superimposed images obtained from satellite imagery and aerial photography, (for more info click here and download it from here - its […]
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Digital story telling using Web 2.0
Interesting. Using web 2.0 technology to create a narrative and tell a story. The whole process appears to have been captured using screencasting software in which zoom-ins and motion were used to emphasis key points within the story.
Via the Bionic Teaching site (here) consider how this might be taken further: “You’ve got lots of room […]
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Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education
From the blog of Steve Hargadon (click here).
Steve believes that “the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press.” In particular he emphasises as to how difficult it will be to imagine the changes that will take […]
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Embracing the Millennials’ Seamless Embrace of Technology
From the blog post by Mark McVay via The Chronicle of Higher Education
An interesting and very short article about how we might consider re designing the traditional lecture theatre to accommodate current and future students.
“But maybe the most serious consequence of the digital revolution is that it is redefining the social aspect of learning. Millennials […]
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