My Bookmarks and Annotations 11/21/2009
Using Visual Literacy: Eye Opening Apps / FrontPage
Presentation from IETC 2009 by Dawn Moore and Heidi Kay
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
My Bookmarks and Annotations 11/18/2009
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
"Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.
* It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
* Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
* The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
* No membership required.
Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web."
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
My Bookmarks and Annotations 11/17/2009
Visualising the Guardian Datablog | Information Is Beautiful
"There’s been a furore over here in the UK about the dangers of illegal drugs. The Government has sacked its most senior drugs advisor, Dr Professor Nutt, after he claimed cannabis was no more harmful than alcohol. And that horse-riding, and specifically ‘equasy’ (Equine Addiction Syndrome) was riskier than taking ecstasy. (Statistically he’s correct. His study here.).
Anyway, digging at the numbers behind his statements and how drugs are reported in the popular press, I found some stuff I didn’t expect about drug harms.""You're fired. I only want people who already know how to do their jobs." - Dangerously Irrelevant
"When will we, as educational systems, redefine the job descriptions and expectations of educators to include their regular and effective incorporation of relevant digital technologies?"
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Monday, November 16, 2009
My Bookmarks and Annotations 11/16/2009
K12_SocialNetworkingSurvey.pdf (application/pdf Object)
To benchmark attitudes, perceptions and
utilization of social networking websites
and content-sharing tools by teachers,
principals and school librarians.nielsen_howteensusemedia_june09.pdf (application/pdf Object)
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype
around teenagers. The notion that teens
are too busy texting and Twittering to be
engaged with traditional media is exciting,
but false.
To develop the best strategy around
teens and media, start by challenging
popular assumptions about teens. Don’t
focus on the outliers, but on the macrolevel
trends of media and preferences for
the segment. The averages will show you
that teens can often be reached by the
same means as their parents.
In this report, “How Teens Use Media,”
we debunk the myths and give you the
hard facts.
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
My Bookmarks and Annotations 11/14/2009
Don’t-Miss Video: Incredible Look at U.S. Airways Flight 1549 | Autopia | Wired.com
We’ve seen a lot of simulations of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 going into the Hudson River, but a new video painstakingly compiled by an engineer offers the most comprehensive and compelling look yet at the airliner’s short but incredible flight.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
My Bookmarks and Annotations 11/13/2009
The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009 | EDUCAUSE
"Since 2004, the annual ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology has sought to shed light on how information technology affects the college experience. We ask students about the technology they own and how they use it in and out of their academic world. We gather information about how skilled students believe they are with technologies; how they perceive technology is affecting their learning experience; and their preferences for IT in courses. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009 is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 studies. It is based on quantitative data from a spring 2009 survey of 30,616 freshmen and seniors at 103 four-year institutions and students at 12 two-year institutions; student focus groups that included input from 62 students at 4 institutions; and review of qualitative data from written responses to open-ended questions. In addition to studying student ownership, experience, behaviors, preferences, and skills with respect to information technologies, the 2009 study also includes a special focus on student ownership and use of Internet-capable handheld devices.
Citation for this work: Smith, Shannon, Gail Salaway, and Judith Borreson Caruso, with an Introduction by Richard N. Katz. The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009 (Research Study, Vol. 6). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2009, available from http://www.educause.edu/ecar."Education Summit Report.pdf (application/pdf Object)
The impetus for the summit came in response to an increased public interest in neuroscience research and how it might
inform the teaching/learning process. Brain science is a key element in the rich milieu of knowledge contributing to the
science of learning. Future research and efforts to translate it and communicate findings for use in practical settings by the
education community and others must occur as a multidisciplinary effort.
Successful translation and application of brain science research for use in practical settings has inspired new areas of focus
such as neuroethics and neuroeconomics. Like other professionals, educators are eager to harness and decipher findings in
neuroscience and related disciplines to inform the design of instructional strategies and learning environments whether it be
a school classroom or informal educational setting. With research advances in areas such as memory, attention, and stress,
information about how people learn is becoming readily available and educators are eager to translate it for their use.GreenPrint Software - Millions of Trees Can't be Wrong.
* FREE license for homes, schools & non-profits
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* Includes all basic GreenPrint features
* 32-bit XP/Vista
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
My Bookmarks and Annotations 11/12/2009
Visualization of choose your own adventure books
At its atomic level, a cyoa book is a collection of numbered pages of a few different types. Most pages tell a portion of the story, then finish by telling you to jump to another page. A smaller number of pages tell a conclusion to the story and represent an endpoint with no further jumps. We can subdivide these ‘narrative’ and ‘endings’ groups further based on the number of choices offered or the goodness of the ending. To visualize this, imagine color-coding every page in the book and then laying the pages out next to each other:Dangerously irrelevant libraries - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
10 questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools - Dangerously Irrelevant
10 questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools
The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions | Information Is Beautiful
Hierarchy of digital distractions
Trillions: A Short Expedition into the History of Computing
History and future of computers.
Produced by design consultancy corporation Maya, Trillions is a short film putting some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the pervasive computing age.
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