We are now in the middle of asecond Gutenberg shift frombook fluency to screen fluency,from literacy to visuality.”- Kevin Kelly, Senior Editor of WIRED. Lots of great information about visual literacy in this presentation. Gutenberg Revisited from CHTCT
A little bit old but really interesting in terms of thinking about twitter: This Is What Learning Looks Like: Using Analytic Tools to Visualise Classroom Twitter Conversations from sharstoer
If you’ve never seen the terracotta army of 8000 soldiers in person, they are truly amazing. Each face is unique and handformed. How they made these was an advancement in art and technology for the time, but on top of that, they were painted in a now extinct form of paint called Chinese Blue (Han Blue). In researching Chinese Blue,
I’d love to give an Auotgrapher camera a try. How could a camera that records temperature, speed,compass (direction), motion, GPS and time be used? Really interesting idea isn’t it? It could add a whole new range of contextual information to videos and photography. Although I do wonder if you would need an altimeter or if the GPS and compass to
Source:LiveScience
Global Data Change Queue Notes (Compiled by Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl ; http://www.contentdivergent.blogspot.com) http://works.bepress.com/julene/ (many batch edit presentations) Eluna presentation: http://works.bepress.com/julene/5/ What can GDC do? Can edit marc tags, fields can delete, edit, add can set preferences can limit by user names including create rules but not implement – so some one person could create rules but someone else has authority
20 years ago the world wide web went public. What a wild ride it’s been.Will our next digital landmark be the rise of social media, mobile or big data? http://info.cern.ch/
Other common sources of irritation were the pointless presence of instructions as well as any other use of the English language. While human users rarely read instructions, the users in this study didn’t read at all. (there are definitely some user experience and usability points being made here… despite the obvious fun of the whole article – enjoy!) http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-usability-cats/
Some really good tips courtesy of TrendMicro and Pcmagazine