December 2011
57 posts
22 Free Hitchcock Movies Online | Open Culture
Via Scoop.it - Free Library Watch 22 films online by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. Completely free. Via openculture.com
Philosophy: Free Courses | Open Culture
Via Scoop.it - Free Library Get free Philosophy courses from the world’s leading universities. You can download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. Via openculture.com
70 Tools 70 Minutes
Via Scoop.it - teaching with technology Presented to Teacher2Teacher Conference, Bow Island, Canada March 2010… Via slideshare.net
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The Arab Counterevolution →
Fired Up: The Year's Best Science Fiction And...
Via Scoop.it - Science Fiction Research | Resources Science fiction and fantasy books aren’t just getting more popular, they’re interbreeding with other genres to produce wild new hybrid forms — swapping DNA with literary novels, commenting on current events, morphing into historical science… Via npr.org
How Cyberpunk Warned against Apple’s Consumer...
Via Scoop.it - Science Fiction Research | Resources […] Even before the Internet Age blossomed, the Cyberpunk movement anticipated the potential for this new breed of (cyber-)Utopianism and offered itself as a sort of vaccine against the irrational exuberance that we, nevertheless, witnessed in the 1990s. The genre is characterized by the marriage of a deep interest in (and embrace of)...
What Makes Steampunk So Special? | The Gatehouse
Via Scoop.it - Science Fiction Research | Resources “The joy of exploration, the path untravelled”: doesn’t that describe a lot if not all of science fiction, a large chunk of fantasy, and a fair portion of crime (an exploration to find out the truth: who did it how and why). Via ottens.co.uk
Strange Horizons Reviews: After the Golden Age by...
Via Scoop.it - Science Fiction Research | Resources […] Does “the golden” refer to the golden age for reading SF—i.e., twelve? If so, whoever chose the title did not mean to invoke post-ness at all. Or does it refer to the Golden Age of comics? If that is the case, surely the post-ness indicates that the text will be offering critical beyond-ness of some sort. […] Via...
Fundación Robo, by Robo
Via Scoop.it - Horizonte Eléctrico Digital Album Immediate download of 12-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. Free Download Via esunrobo.bandcamp.com
What we talked about in 2011 - The Boston Globe
Via Scoop.it - Digital Research for Humanities Occupy, bunga-bunga, planking, and tiger moms: Ben Zimmer takes a look at the front-running words of the year for 2011. Via bostonglobe.com
The First Sci-Fi Movie A Trip to the Moon Fully...
Via Scoop.it - Everything goes sci-fi The First Sci-Fi Movie A Trip to the Moon Fully Restored (The First Sci-Fi Movie A Trip to the Moon Fully Restored http://t.co/bKSwDPcZ…)… Via tor.com
Games-Based Learning Experiences: Testing the...
Via Scoop.it - Learning Technology The paper describes: the participants, the workshop activities, the findings of the workshops, and in particular teacher and student attitudes towards each of the key learning elements and which they felt were most important to include if creating games-based learning experiences for the classroom. Via futurelab.org.uk
Interview with Frosted Leaves: Symphonic Heavy...
Via Scoop.it - Music&Creativity JorZine is Arabian Metal E-Zine to Support Underground Middle Eastern Rock & Metal Scenes… Via jorzine.com
Ben Thomas Mini Cities
Via Scoop.it - Everything goes sci-fi Paris From Melbourne, to Tokyo, passing by Paris, London, Berlin and going to New York, Ben Thomas did it all. Via bestbookmarks.net
Ipad Apps for Teachers | Educational Ipad Apps |...
Via Scoop.it - Teaching English to Young Learners Are you interested in bringing technology into your classroom? There’s a suite of education Ipad apps available to help you do just that. Learn about them here. Via teach.com
How Stephen Wolfram Is Preparing For The...
Via Scoop.it - Top CAD Experts updates “Computing and mathematics legend Stephen Wolfram is worried about bigger problems than climate change or overpopulation. He just joined the Lifeboat Foundation, a think tank devoted to ways of protecting humanity from deadly nanoweapons and rogue artificial intelligences.” Via fastcoexist.com
Citigroup (NYSE:C) stock analysis and investing
Via Scoop.it - Teaching Economics Create your own valuation of Citigroup (NYSE:C), based on forecasts and analysis of fundamental business drivers with Trefis. Via trefis.com
OpenSimulator: School Quick Start Guide
Via Scoop.it - Learning Technology You know WHY you want to get started with 3D virtual worlds in your school. Well, now you can know HOW. This e-book provides an introduction to OpenSimulator, step-by-step setup instructions Via scribd.com
Symmetry
Via Scoop.it - TeachingEnglish This lesson is based on 2 short films which both reflect the concept of symmetry. The first film Symmetry by Everynone, is a fascinating split-screen short film which explores the poetic parallel… Via film-english.com
Autodesk - WikiHelp
Via Scoop.it - Top CAD Experts updates Product help with community knowledge… Via wikihelp.autodesk.com
Current issue | communications online
Via Scoop.it - Digital Research for Humanities The European Journal of Communication Research is an established forum for scholarship and academic debate in the field of communication science and research from a European perspective. Communication science is concerned with the investigation of the structure and function of communication processes and their impact on society, social groups and...
How Scrum Blends the Philosophies of Lean...
Via Scoop.it - Agile (project) management Some management or governance philosophies should not be mixed. Because the mix will be a blurry amalgam and the unique flavor of the individual ingredients will get lost in the mix. In general it’… Via ullizee.wordpress.com
AIGA | Video: Roger Martin
Via Scoop.it - Spaces for Innovation Roger Martin argues that businesses can do a better job at innovating —and advancing knowledge —if they embrace design thinking. Via aiga.org
Six Emerging Technologies in Education
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Future Work Skills 2020
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Identity Crisis – Theory and Research
Via Scoop.it - personal storytelling The researches found that those who have made a strong commitment to a particular identity tend to be happier and healthier than those who have not done so. Those with a sense of identity diffusion tend to feel that they didn’t find their place in the world and fail to gain an identity. Via freud-sigmund.com
Fired Up: The Year's Best Science Fiction And...
Via Scoop.it - Science Fiction Research | Resources Science fiction and fantasy books aren’t just getting more popular, they’re interbreeding with other genres to produce wild new hybrid forms — swapping DNA with literary novels, commenting on current events, morphing into historical science… Via npr.org
Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Quiz
Via Scoop.it - EFL interactive games and quizzes for IWBs Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources. Via merriam-webster.com
Think Fast!: The Reality of Augmented Cognition
Via Scoop.it - Everything goes sci-fi Science fiction (at least the good stuff) has always been explorations of potential hypotheses (what if scenarios) often projected far out, but always having to link with the present in some way. Good science fiction also poses … Via speedforce.org
3D Printed Flute
Via Scoop.it - Top CAD Experts updates This isn’t a perfect instrument, some of the keys didn’t close well and Seth had to improvise, and to use some fingers to close keys that didn’t seal well. T… read more here http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/01/a-flute-made-on-a-3d-printer-and-the-possibilities-to-come/ Via youtube.com
THE LECTURER's EFL Smartblog: What would have...
Via Scoop.it - TeachingEnglish Activities to learn and practise 3rd conditional Via efllecturer.blogspot.com
A glimpse of what is possible - Sydney Morning...
Via Scoop.it - Utopia and Its Derivatives […] ‘Utopia London’ traces the history of London modernism from its 1930s beginnings. From Berthold Lubetkin’s 1938 Finsbury Health Centre, through the 1951 Festival of Britain - a deliberate postwar tonic for a depressed nation - to George Finch’s famous Lambeth Towers and public housing in Brixton, which later became the...
If education was really about learning...
Via Scoop.it - Spaces for Innovation Via venspired.com
The creative pages
Via Scoop.it - Spaces for Innovation http://www.jpb.com/creative/index.php Great articles in this website including this one by Wayne Morris : Creativity in Education http://www.jpb.com/creative/Creativity_in_Education.pdf?subject_code=1 “Creative pupils lead richer lives and, in the longer term, make a valuable contribution to society. Surely then, it is worth the effort to provide...
What Does 'Innovation' Even Mean?
Via Scoop.it - Spaces for Innovation The first step toward coming up with better ideas? Get your words right. (RT @TheAtlantic: People always talk about “innovation,” but what does that even mean? Via theatlantic.com
Optimizing Innovation in Praxis | Spaces for...
Via Scoop.it - Spaces for Innovation If we are to truly transform education, imagining new possibilities and realities, then we need to embrace different models of education, structuring our systems accordingly. What do these new models need to be like? What are the factors that will enable new possibilities to emerge? Via karensteff.wordpress.com
7 key questions to ask about ed technology, online...
Via Scoop.it - Learning Technology What we most need right now is to pause before we pontificate and to patiently untangle the many intertwined strands in the arguments for and against ed tech. By separating out different threads in this conversation, we can make better decisions about if, when, and in what situations we can really learn effectively online. Via washingtonpost.com
ELT Experiences: Classroom Activities to Prompt...
Via Scoop.it - TeachingEnglish Via eltexperiences.com
Network Thinking « Interaction Institute for...
Via Scoop.it - Mobilizing Knowledge through Complex Systems Last week, I had the opportunity to work with a cross-sectoral group of emerging and established leaders from around southern Maine through the Institute for Civic Leadership, an initiative IISC had a hand in establishing some 18 years ago. For the past six years I’ve offered three days of collaborative capacity building entitled...
» Storytelling and Social Media: Story Route –...
Via Scoop.it - personal storytelling For anyone as intrigued by storytelling in social media as I, this new work by Ruth Page sounds like a fascinating exploration of the phenomena. Via storyroute.com
The corridor of uncertainty: YouTube for schools -...
Via Scoop.it - Corridor of learning There has been a vast collection of educational video material on YouTube for years now, mostly under the YouTube EDU brand but even on TeacherTube as well as the open YouTube. However all these suffer from ads in the margins, irrelevant (and irreverant) comments and other distractions. Now Google has cleaned up the act with a new service YouTube for Schools...
China built a ridiculously science fictional...
Via Scoop.it - Everything goes sci-fi Remember Ordos City, that ritzy urban planning project in the Gobi Desert where most people can’t afford to live? Design firm MAD Architects recently completed the blob-like local museum. Via io9.com
Editor & Publisher ® -...
Via Scoop.it - Digital Research for Humanities Demographics: The average age of a digital audience member is 44, seven years younger than the average age of 51 for a print household. In the 30 and under segment, there are 60% more digital households than print. The average household income of a digital household is $65,480, which is 21% higher than a print average household income of $53,776. Even...
Read Dystopia Challenge 2012
Via Scoop.it - Utopia and Its Derivatives My hope with this challenge is to maybe pick up some of you newbies that think that this is not a genre for you. You (as I) may be surprised. I have compiled a list here of books that fall under this genre. Via novelchallenges.blogspot.com
BBC News - Panorama - Should everyone be allowed...
Via Scoop.it - Reading News for IELTS As more children are being taken into care, documentary film-maker Roger Graef asks how society should help the growing number of youngsters left in limbo. Via news.bbc.co.uk
Full version of a conversation with Google's...
Via Scoop.it - Virtual Identity +Natalie Villalobos, +Frances Haugen, +Bradley Horowitz, +Vic Gundotra: is this really your idea of fostering a good community and providing customer service? Please remember that below, Brian is speaking officially on behalf of Google. Via plus.google.com
Spling - Share your internet. Discover the rest.
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SIE Interviews Marleen Stykker of the Waag Society...
Via Scoop.it - Digital Research for Humanities Waag Society is an Amsterdam-based institute for art, science and technology. Waag Society makes mobile city-games for youth, develops story-tables for the elderly and researches the possibilities for networked performances, among other things. The Creative Learning Lab focuses on new ways of education. Waag Society is also concerned with the social...
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)
Via Scoop.it - Digital Research for Humanities “Learning is at the center of higher education. It is an essential part of the mission of all colleges and universities. The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is a community of higher education institutions and organizations committed to advancing learning through information technology (IT) innovation. ELI is a strategic initiative of...
Oxford New School: Excellence and Innovation-...
Via Scoop.it - Spaces for Innovation Opening Minds RSA video Via onschool.org.uk
