Medialia

Right, this is a topic I've been thinking and working with a lot lately. The authors discuss this as a tool for secondary school (mostly), but the principles apply equally to adult learners and collaboration, learning communities and communities of practice.

The reference list is also a valuable resource. More to add to my reading list...

Robin Good's insight:

Paul Mihailidis, has an interesting essay on "Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital an Media Literacy Education" in which he offers "a prospective attempt to build curation into the media literacy conversation..." by analyzing the analyzing effective curation practices, and six highly relevant teaching points for using a news curation tool like Storify in the classroom.

His essay "seeks to encourage instructors, particularly on secondary and tertiary education levels, to bridge the gap between informal learning outside of the classroom with formal learning to create a more dynamic place for students to advance critical inquiry, dialogue, and engagement through new forms of content creation, curation, and dissemination."

He writes: "Through student-driven, creation-driven, collective and integrated teaching approaches to curation, the framework aims to build towards savvy media consumption and production, critical evaluation and analysis, and participation in local, national and global dialog.

The framework also addresses the ability to see diversity and civic voice as core competencies in the curation process.

As students learn to build cohesive stories and ideas from a wide variety of sources, they can learn about the diverse types of content that inform a story, and the avenues they have-through social media tools and platforms-to be part of the discussion."

Curation can be an extremely effective approach to develop critical thinking skills and practices, as it forces students to evaluate, vet, verify and decide what really matters.

"When students develop a credible list of professional and personal sources around an issue and/or event, they must acknowledge how much subjective weight they place on a tweet, a blog, or a Facebook post and in relative comparison to an advocacy group, cable television operation, or news service. Arguing for the credibility of a myriad of voices online forces students to build valuable justifications for what they choose to believe, and why."

Informative. Examples-rich. Educationally useful. 8/10

Full essay: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-02/html

I am very excited to find this work to share with my teachers. I continue to get pushback as I try to encourage them to allow time for students to curate.  The fact of the matter is that true curation takes time, but the skills gained by students cannot be ignored, and research and critical analysis are found throughout the Common Core Standards. Curation is also a pathway to personalized learning as students pursue their own areas of interest through the art of curation.

A look at transmedia storytelling from within the Australian education system.

An area I'd like to be more familiar with, transmedia literacy. This blog post is from MacICT and reflects on the new Australian Curriculum so appears very practical to our region and also current.

Children and young adults in Australia will embrace the transmedia way of learning.

All the more reason to take a transmedia storytelling approach to film marketing :)

teaching about film can be enhanced with the use of trailers. Analyzing the importance off them, the structure of them and the key features is a great way in to film study.

Whether you are a small independent web publisher or a large organization publishing content on the web, you must be aware of the opportunities offered by Creative Commons licensing options when it comes to re-using video, images and content created by others.

This good infographic provides all of the general information and facts you need to know to get acquainted with CC licenses.

Very useful. Informative. 8/10

Original article and infographic: http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/creative-commons-infographic-licenses-explained/

(Thanks to Ana Cristina Pratas for finding this great resource)

Een nieuwe Mindmap tool, wie wil die eens uittesten?

another online mind mapping tool

A great editor

intriguing concept 

Estupendo, sencillo y útil. Muy adecuado para el tercer ciclo de primaria- lo añado a mi presentación sobre mind mapping  http://www.mindmeister.com/240294949/mind-mapping-in-our-classes y a la comparativa de aplicaciones http://bit.ly/YHc3Cg

Aircus is a web publishing service which allows you to create, edit and publish a professional looking one-page web site or landing page without needing to know any HTML code and without needing to have any design skills.

Once you are registered and logged into Aircus you can easily add pre-designed content modules into your web page, and fill them with specific information or images. These modules can be easily sorted in any way you want.

An aircus web site grows as long as you need it to be as you can keep adding new content modules to it. These may include (among others):

• Title
• Menu
• Services listing
• Map
• Contact form
• Text box
• Image galleries
• Video
• Social links
• Comments

To make navigation easy you can also add at any point of your page a navigable menu which allows visitors to jump to any part of the page.

There are a few alternative "themes available" and you can select among different color schemes on some of them. You have no other control on fonts, text size, color and other styling elements, which I think - once given some good templates - a good thing to have.

Aircus web sites can be mapped to your own domain (for a fee) and are all fully responsive, meaning that they can be visualized properly on all kinds of devices from computer desktops to smartphones.

Free to use.

Find out more: http://www.aircus.com/

For more info contact Tomas Zeman at: info@aircus.com

An interesting alternative to building your own responsive landing pages on your own site.

Leuk als opdracht voor de klas.

In part 2 of an excellent set of articles, Tyler Weaver puts the controversies surrounding video games and comics into historical context; and chooses the dawn of Marvel's Universe as "the most perfect encapsulation of a shared storyworld out there".

 Transmedia en colegias y bibliotecas

Check it out, very interesting...

Müsste eigentlich Pflichtlektüre sein für alle, die Powerpoint oder Keyword starten :-)

Tried but true information. Might be useful to give to intermediate+ students who are preparing presentations.

Tint is a web servive which allows you to create very easily, and without any technical knowledge a web presence by aggregating, curating and displaying your favorite feeds, social media channels into an elegant visual layout.

Tint-created websites can be easily embedded into any existing web site or integrated into any CMS such as WordPress or Tumblr very easily.

Techcrunch reports: "In other words, Tint’s platform is designed to help brands create social hubs on top of their digital properties and, in turn, create a deeper level of engagement with their audiences...

...Businesses can link their Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook and RSS feeds to their Tint accounts, whereupon the service auto-populates the page from those feeds, serving the social content in a river that is Pinterest-like in design."

Users can personalize their "tint" web pages by changing fonts, background colors, the headline, URL and image of each piece of content.

"Tint also allows you to choose the dimensions you want the embedded stream to be and the number of cascading columns you want to appear, automatically serving up the embed code."

All plans include one "tint" (one web page), the connection of 2 social accounts, mobile support and analytics.

Depending on the paid service plan you select, you can also have additional social accounts added, a white-label implementation, moderation/curation features, additional themes, Facebook Tab, support for events, hashtag moderation, full custom CSS support and more.

Free basic version available to everyone.

My comment: If you wanted an alternative to RebelMouse here it is. Just like its competitor it lets you display social media feeds from specific hashtags, social media channels and Pinterest boards, adding as a unique extra support also for YouTube channels.

Examples: http://www.tintup.com/clients

Templates: http://www.tintup.com/pages/choosetheme

Try it out here: http://www.tintup.com/

Pricing: http://www.tintup.com/pricing

Forum: http://forum.tintup.com/

Tint é um serviço web que permite  criar, facilmente e sem qualquer conhecimento técnico, uma presença na web ( agregando, curando conteúdos e exibindo os seus feeds favoritos ou médias sociais) com um layout visual elegante.

Digital Creativity

Strumento davvero fichissimo per creare mag interattive: ReadyMag

Such a great concept!  I'm a big fan of Hackathon's in general ... and transmedia hackathons in particular.

An interesting look at the future of reading and our relationship with what we read.

Very good insight on Google tools

How to take basic story structure and turn it into great screenwriting ....

The art and the discipline of screenwriting. A long read but worth it.

The art of screenwriting.

Formerly known as WallWisher, Padlet is a cool web app which allows anyone to easily create, share and publish multimedia contents with extreme ease.

Padlet provides an empty canvas on which you can upload and freely position any image, link, video or file you want. Actually you have two options for layout: a) Stream (as in a blog) and b) Freeform.

Your final composition can be published as a public page, shared on social media or embedded fully inside your website or blog.

Padlet works across all types of devices and screens.

Free to use.

Examples: http://padlet.com/gallery

http://padlet.com/wall/pocketfullofdesign1

FAQ: http://jn.padlet.com/knowledgebase

Chrome app: http://sl.padlet.com/chromeapp

WordPress plugin: http://sl.padlet.com/shortcode-plugin

Try it out now: http://padlet.com/

Create a wall now: http://padlet.com/create

Vroeger heette deze leuke webtool "Wallwisher", een gratis digitaal prikbord en heel leuk om in de klas te gebruiken.

Mi limito a tradurre in italiano quanto scritto da Robin Good: Precedentemente conosciuto come WallWhisher, Padlet è una webapp che consente a chiounque di realizzare, condividere e pubblicare facilmente  contenuti multimediali. 

Padlet fornisce uno spazio nel quale è possibile caricare e posizionare dove si vuole qualsiasi tipo di immagine, link, video, o file. Attualmente le opzioni per il layout sono di due tipi: 1. Stream (come in un blog); 2. caricamento di uno sfondo personalizzato.

Il risultato finale può essere pubblicato come pagina pubblica, condiviso nei social media o incorporato in un sito web o blog o forum.

Posso aggiugnere che mi sembra un servizio che può essere facilmente utilizzato nella didattica in quanto offre la possibilità di creare spazi organizzati in cui presentare temi e problemi disciplinari o multidisciplinari e aggregare informazioni dal web su temi specifici. Un utile strumento per l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento.

Per utilizzarlo è sufficiente registrarsi, l'uso è libero e gratuito.

Link

http://padlet.com/

Esempi:

http://padlet.com/gallery

http://padlet.com/wall/pocketfullofdesign1

FAQ: http://jn.padlet.com/knowledgebase

Chrome app: http://sl.padlet.com/chromeapp

Transmedia, Learning through Play, for for children aged 5 - 11 years. 

Truer words ... " we have to make sure we're on the top of our game when it comes to social, because if it feels like we're faking it, the audience will know right away."

We don't look at social as something we do, we look at social as part of who we are.

"Ideally before any show begins production we'll sit down with our TV development team, the show's creators and our marketing and digital teams to kick around social ideas and discuss what we think makes the most sense for that particular show. We focus on ideas that complement the show's content, that will have a wide reach and that are technically feasible to achieve.

Our major emphasis is that any social TV content has to feel organic to the audience and authentic to the show, not like it's a force fit, because that's not fun for anyone. We'll discuss dozens of ideas and then hone in on the one that makes the most sense. Sometimes that's a variation on something we've done before, but most often it's something that no one has tried before. Those are the most gratifying."

TextMaster is a crowdsourced copywriting, proofreading and text translation platform that can be utilized to obtain in a short time good quality texts on any topic assigned or translations of "original" contents you submit yourself.

TextMaster offers different three different levels of quality depending on whether you need just a basic editor or someone who is linguistically professional or even an expert in the specific topic area in which you need your content to be prepared.

Techcrunch writes: "TextMaster offers a platform for content creators to crowdsource their copywriting, translation and proofreading needs via its community of ‘professionals’ who have each gone through a quality vetting process and are paid per word.

We’ve previously described the service as a bit like Mechanical Turk but for a very specific niche.

TextMaster claims that 4,000 clients have used the service in its 12 months of operation, including AlloCiné, Cityrama, and Zagat, while its ‘crowd’ has grown to 35,000 copy editors, writers and translators who have processed “more than 12.5 million words.”

...TextMaster is available in eight languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and Chinese."

I have requested an instant quote for a full translation from English to Italian by copying and pasting an article of mine of 1382 words into this page http://us.app.textmaster.com/clients/fastlane#content and got two estimates:

a) Basic level $36.76 - suggested bundle C 5,000 credits for $66.50

b) Standard level $104.48 - sugg. Bundle D 15,000 credits for $189

Free signup.

Useful links:

FAQ: http://us.app.textmaster.com/frequently-asked-questions#registration-clients

Pricing: http://us.app.textmaster.com/clients/pricing

More info: http://us.textmaster.com/

(Image credit: Shutterstock - Young businessman)

well, if this really works, it could be a great deal, but it is has to be proofed

Prepare your own posters (Inn Apple dispositives) and share it everywhere

Works on iPad and iPhone. Makes not only posters but also flyers and cards.

A lot of formatting options, you can share your poster on all the most popular social sites.

Με κομψό πρότυπα τα οποία είναι ήδη μέσα από την εφαρμογή, θα είστε σε θέση να δημιουργήσουν αφίσες, χωρίς μεγάλη προσπάθεια. Όταν κάνετε το πρώτο βήμα για τη δημιουργία αφισών, μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε διάφορα εφέ και διακοσμητικά για να ολοκληρώσει το κομψό αφίσες της δικής σας.