Figuring Out Life While Aging
Through Stephen Downes’ OLDaily, I stumbled across Typealyzer – http://www.typealyzer.com/index.php?lang=en – and let it analyze my blog (and me;->). Here’s its analysis of me according to this blog:
It goes even further and says my brain has this pattern of activity:
So there you have it, what my words and interests reveal about me!
I’m trying out the new wp for iPhone by writing this using it, and including an iPhone self-portrait 😉
Internet Archive: Details: Communications Primer, A
Fascinating and well worth the time for a number of reasons:
1. The information about communications, including art & symbol, is still relevant & instructive.
2. It was made in 1953 and the image quality, language use, vocal tonalities, and pacing are anthropologically fascinating. via Stephen Downes & Alec Couros – http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1349
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized
Clear, interesting, visual explanation of the credit crisis. Good information AND a gret example of the power of visual communication. via mwesch on Twitter
TinyChat.com – Create a free chatroom
This could be useful for group-work.
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We are living in confusing times because we are living through the biggest change in human communications since the printing press, maybe the biggest change ever. You can see this in the small changes that happen as we leave an old technology for a new. It is clear that newspapers and magazines, even tv, are challenged by the web. (Some tv shows are becoming almost loss leaders for the web. At the end of every news show, watchers are invited to see more information, visuals, and details on the show’s website.)
Today, in Stephen Downes newsletter, OLDaily, he references the newly designed website of the NY Times.
The table of contents on the left is clear and easy to read, and each of the story teasers links directly to the story.
Most other papers have sites that aren’t nearly as easy for users to sort through and read. They are still using layout similar to the paper layout. The New York Times have produced a game-changing news site design; it is no longer a website emulating the newsPAPER. It is a news website that will appeal to readers who aren’t going to the newspaper website as an adjunct to the paper. It is a news site design that those who haven’t grown up reading newspapers will gravitate toward. I think it is one of the small changes that lets go of the legacy format, and truly adapts to the new medium. I wonder what McLuhan would say!
Now the next question is how they will monitize it.
Check out this link too – http://www.megantaylor.org/wordpress/2009/02/18/first-look-at-a-new-news-interface/
danah boyd is one of the best academic researchers “about social media, social software, social networks and other industry-relevant topics”. Here is a list of links, a “best of” to highlight the essays that are most interesting to newcomers interested in social media. Right now, these are just recent essays and blog posts that deal with particular issues in depth.”
What do you commit to when you click to accept the Terms of Service on a social network? An excellent review and explanation. via http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/
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Will Richardson describes the way news is currently collected:
from his blog – http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/the-news-according-to-twitter/
Clay Shirky in Here Comes Everybody says journalism is losing ground as a profession, as it becomes an activity that anyone can practise, and this demonstrates his point.
Research Study on Ubiquitous Learning (uLearning) | Workplace Learning Today
Concept map says it all (or at least alerts you to where you can learn more).
Digitally Global « doug – off the record
Part of digital literacy that students (and any user) need to know is how persistent ANYTHING you put up on line is – because anyone can copy anything and post it anywhere. Even if the place you originally posted it takes it down, it still exists and can be retrieved. DON’T POST INFO OR IMAGES THAT CAN EMBARRASS OR ENDANGER YOU & YOUR FUTURE!
Ghotit Dyslexia Literacy Assistance.
Free for schools, help for dyslexic and ESL students in their spelling. via Twitter
What’s the Matter With Teen Sexting? | The American Prospect – Annotated
“the logical conclusion of the Harvard study: that we should back off, moderate our fears, and stop thinking of youthful sexual expression as a criminal matter.” Very interesting POV
Parental Engagement in Children’s Learning with Technology | Intuitive Media
We’ve found that 60% of children’s learning in IM’s Social Learning Networks, SuperClubsPLUS and GoldStarCafe takes place outside school – and most of it in the home. Intuitive Media’s latest research initiative Learning the Family – Parental Engagement in Children’s Learning with Technology looks at how these children learn with their families at home.
The Future of Reading – In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update – Series – NYTimes.com
What all teachers, esp. those teaching communications & researching should be doing.
Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool – NYTimes.com – Annotated
Cellphones in classrooms? “The study found that students with the phones performed 25 percent better on the end-of-the-year algebra exam than did students without the devices in similar classes.” The dark underside is the almost constant monitoring by teachers to ensure no misuse by students.
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Excerpted from the fascinating”We’re All Gonna Die”
The mythic crone, maiden, and mother, and the mother’s t-shirt combined with her child suggests death’s presence in life.
Articles – Capturing audio for video | iStockphoto.com
Audio for video projects. Via Donna Papacosta on Twitter
Royalty Free Music & Audio: Search Stock Samples, Loops & Tracks | iStockphoto.com
Resources for student projects. via Donna Papacosta on Twitter
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Learning Living 