Informatics Technology in Education

Heiko Idensen reports in his curated newsradar "Online Curating & Social Learning Tools and Applications": "Learnist is a new pinboard where users can organize their learning materials. It resembles Pinterest except that Learnist is just for sharing learning resources.

The website is still in beta but looks really very promising for both teachers and students.

Here is a set of the main features that Learnist offers to its users :

It is free Itis easy to use It has a user friendly interface It lets users create pinboards around a certain topic Users can create different boards and invite others to collaborate on them It lets you pin images,videos, and text to your boards with a single click from Learnist bookmarklet Users can also upload resources to their  boards using URLs

Free to use.

Try it out: http://learni.st 

Because QR is a machine-readable code, there are a few considerations when it comes to designing with these bad boys.

Tο Future Library στηρίζει τις Δημόσιες και Δημοτικές βιβλιοθήκες της Ελλάδας και σας θέλουμε κοντά μας!
Τον Ιούλιο και τον Αύγουστο διοργανώνουμε, σε συνεργασία με 66 βιβλιοθήκες από όλη τη χώρα, και με τη συμμετοχή μικρών και μεγάλων, Καλοκαιρινή Εκστρατεία Ανάγνωσης, Δημιουργικότητας και Καινοτομίας, με τίτλο Διαδρομές με Πυξίδα τη Βιβλιοθήκη.
Αυτό το καλοκαίρι, γίνετε εθελοντές στην Εκστρατεία μας και βοηθήστε μας να αλλάξουμε την εικόνα των στοιβαγμένων βιβλίων και των άδειων ξεχασμένων κτιρίων.....

The internet of things has been here for a while and very soon we will be interacting with our appliances via web, on a daily basis.

"If you want your washing machine to email when your clothes are clean, pick from a growing handful of startup products that are getting the job done."

Designers love free icon sets. Having quality icons can help to make a site's design look complete, and can also help with the usability of the site. Social media icons are some of the most commonly used icons, especially in blog design.

According to writer and digital revolution expert Don Tapscott, the classic university lecture model is an outdated way of teaching a generation that has grown up making, changing and learning from digital communities.

The point is to show how advances in imaging and data visualization technologies enable inter-disciplinary research which just a decade ago would have been impossible to conduct. There is also a somewhat artistic quality to these images, which reinforces the notion of data visualization being both art and science.

CONNECTOME: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=connectome