In this new RSA Animate, Manuel Lima senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, explores the power of network visualisation to help navigate our complex modern... 
It used to be that it was just us writer people that were responsible for publishing blog posts. But, my, how times have changed. 
An explanation of the six Creative Commons licences... Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest and Google+ All presented nicely in one article, worth checking out. Welcome to Debategraph, a web site that enables you to collaborate with people around the world to discuss, model, analyze and visualize complex debates in a wide variety of fields. 
"25 million laptops later," Mashable announced today, "One Laptop Per Child doesn't increase test scores." "Error Message," reads the headline from The Economist: "A disappointing return from an investment in computing." 
Open-education resources have been hailed as a trove of freely available information that can be used to build textbooks at virtually no cost. But a copyright lawsuit filed last month presents a potential roadblock for the burgeoning movement.
[I am considering this. If I remake a film, using new a new cast and similar yet different locations, scenes and lines are there not rights issues involved? Is that not why authors sell the movie rights? How does this compare to sampling orignal content the way music artists may do? Is a textbook like a story, in which case I might consider that someone owns the rights to tell this story in different mediums. But the ideas within that story including some of the imagery may come from a history passed down through generations and you cannot own that.
I this instance I might consider that the using alternative bear images to illustrate a point may be acceptable if they are the most suitable representation of the idea. Using the same but alternatively sourced images throughout speaks of a lack of originality] Via Tim Seal 
Technically, 3 Dimensions refers to objects that are constructed on three plans (X, Y and Z). The process of creating 3D graphics can be divided into three basic phases: 3D modeling, 3D animation and 3D rendering. Creating 3D models is not easy and the software alone can cost a fortune Therefore, we thought it might be interesting to check out the availability of open source 3D modeling tools out there. What is Drawdio? 
The Open Education Week webinars that we hosted yesterday and today were absolutely bursting with exciting thoughts and interesting exchanges of ideas. This post contains my attempt at capturing a highlight from each of the nine presentations in one sentence, as well as the links to the presenters' slide. Via Gabi Witthaus 
An excerpt from Douglas Rushkoff's latest book, Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for the Digital Age.
When human beings acquired language, we learned not just how to listen but how to speak. When we gained literacy, we learned not just how to read but how to write. And as we move into an increasingly digital reality, we must learn not just how to use programs but how to make them. 
This project is intended to kickstart a discussion, and disrupt practice in how we teach and learn. If successful it will encourage and enable practitioners within a variety of institutions to: + Become more aware of their current e-learning and blended practice Harnessing technology for change in education is only worthwhile if it is accompanied by discussions of pedagogy. It we don't change how we teach then technology is just sustaining existing practice. With this project we want to provide a framework that will enable technology to be used to disrupt practice. |
Lou McGill from the JISC/HEA OER Programme Synthesis and Evaluation team recently contacted me as part of the OER Review asking if there was a way to analyse... Via Tim Seal We were delighted to last week welcome Tabetha Newman and Sarah Payton to run a free, public webinar as part of the JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme. Slideshare/Audio/bb collaborate/video/transcript 
This page gives more information about the Best Practice Models project run in the Learning Development and Innovation team at Staffordshire University and details of how you can get involved. 
Events and ideas outside of my main blog at oliverquinlan.com... 
Gary Marshall shares 50 of the best free web tools to help build your site, from well known tools as WordPress and Drupal through to some you may have never considered... 
" You can hardly mention higher education today without hearing the word "innovation," or its understudies "change," "reinvention," "transformation."
It reminds me of the old joke. Q. How many academics does it take to change a light bulb? A. Change? Change? Who said anything about CHANGE? " 
iPad Kindergarten Research Starts Turning up Results. Maine students showed modest gains in their literacy assessment scores through a combination of systemwide changes. [Would not recommend adopting them based on these assessment results] Via John Rudkin 
Looking for images that have an attributed Creative Commons Lisence? Not only can Xpert search through flickr for appropriate picture, it can add the CC license and attribution to the image itself. It also scans around 10,000 RSS feeds daily for OER material. Xpert now contains metadata and resources for almost 120,000 learning objects. 
Like infographics and data visualizations? Visual.ly is the world's largest community of dataviz and infographics. Come explore, share and create. Leading With Social Media Eric Sheninger ❊ ❊ ❊ ❊ ❊ ❊ Principal: New Milford High School Twitter: NMHS_Principal Websit... Via Heather Peretz 
Never before has gaining access to information been so easy. The imminent arrival of widespread 4G broadband and LTE (Long Term Evolution) will usher in wider availability to information and push even more data to our mobile devices over the same amount of radio spectrum. At least that is the plan. Better coverage and faster download/upload speeds would ensure that just about everyone who is connected would have even greater access to online content and services anytime, anywhere. But in adopting these communication advances, are we also opening the door for a deluge of content? Are we not already swamped by a tsunami of content?
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