Saturday, June 30, 2012

Technology - Alexis Madrigal - The Radical Optimism of Eric Schmidt - The Atlantic

Technology - Alexis Madrigal - The Radical Optimism of Eric Schmidt - The Atlantic: ""All of us grew up with an assumption that what we were seeing on television, especially in legitimate news, was edited and properly vetted. That's no longer the case. Furthermore, you can anticipate very powerful forces will attempt to do misinformation campaigns to you for one business objective or another," he said. "It will be worth it to them to spend millions of dollars to spend millions of dollars to create fake websites and so forth to convince you that something that is really bad for you is really good for you. Because they have a business interest to do so and the Internet allows that.""

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Technology - Gabriella Coleman - The Anthropology of Hackers - The Atlantic

Technology - Gabriella Coleman - The Anthropology of Hackers - The Atlantic: "Pasty kids with greasy hair typing on command lines. Dark villains of the networked world. Security magicians with odd political beliefs. We have a lot of ideas about who hackers are, but very few people have actually tried to seriously investigate the anthropology of one of the more fascinating social groups to emerge at the end of the 20th century. NYU's Gabriella Coleman studies their culture, an odd brew of faith in freedom of information and traditional liberalism, along with a generous salt-and-peppering of nerdiness and counterculturalism. In the latest edition of our syllabus-as-essay series, Coleman guides us past the stereotypes and into the many hideouts and projects of the hacker underground."

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Friday Five: Leading Digital Ethnographers | Edelman Digital

Friday Five: Leading Digital Ethnographers | Edelman Digital: "With recent developments in social browsing, understanding online social networks has become critical to the success of any PR or marketing campaign. At the core of social networks are people who are brought together by different interests and ideas. Each social community is shaped by different rules and behaviors, and success depends upon your ability to understand and behave by those rules. In short, you need to become a digital anthropologist. Digital ethnography is the study of online communities and human-technology interactions through the use of qualitative research methods. There is no universal approach to digital ethnography, and there are diverse methods to learn from. Ranging from the study of hackers to Internet Freedom in the Middle East, below are five digital ethnographers on the cutting edge of studying online social networks and digital culture."

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Free Technology for Teachers: Google Body Browser = Google Earth for Anatomy

Free Technology for Teachers: Google Body Browser = Google Earth for Anatomy: "I saw Google's Body Browser earlier this week, but because I didn't have the time to test drive it until this morning. After installing the latest version of Google Chrome (Body Browser won't work without it) I was able to see what all the talk was about. Body Browser gives you a 360 degree view of the human body. You can turn on layers to see bones, muscles, organs, and the nervous system. You can turn on all the layers at the same time and alter the transparency of each layer. Turn on labels to have labels appear each time you click on a part of the body. For example, if I have the bones layer turned on along with the labels, when I click on a bone a label will appear. Watch the video below to see Google Body Browser in use."

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Free Technology for Teachers: Track 2012 Hurricanes in Google Earth

Free Technology for Teachers: Track 2012 Hurricanes in Google Earth: "The Atlantic hurricane season started this month. In past years Google added a hurricane tracking layer to Google Earth. That doesn't seem to be the case this year. Fortunately, you can still track hurricanes in Google Earth if you follow the directions shared by Seattle meteorologist Morgan Palmer. The directions are straight-forward, but you will need to be able to download files to your computer  and have the latest version of Google Earth installed in order to track hurricanes in Google Earth."

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In schools, all you need is web | Official Google Blog

In schools, all you need is web | Official Google Blog: "While students in the northern hemisphere say goodbye to each other and another school year, we’re in sunny San Diego meeting with thousands of educators and administrators at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. While on break from teaching, these folks are here to teach others how they’re bringing innovation into their classrooms—a lot of which centers around the web. "

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Must-Watch Video On Khan Academy (& Must-Read Post About It) | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

Must-Watch Video On Khan Academy (& Must-Read Post About It) | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…: "Justin Reich just posted Don’t Use Khan Academy without Watching this First, and it’s a very important post where he shared this video two teachers (and an important commentary about it), Dave Coffey and John Golden, created:"

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Free Technology for Teachers: Use Storybricks to Create Stories in Virtual Worlds

Free Technology for Teachers: Use Storybricks to Create Stories in Virtual Worlds: "Storybricks is a new service (still in alpha mode) for creating multilayered online stories. Storybricks works online if you have the Unity web player installed. Storybricks provides you with settings and characters that you can use to weave a narrative. All of your characters can have emotions and relationships with other characters. You make the emotions of one character respond to the actions of another."

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Five Act Lesson Cycle – Humor In The Classroom | Ecology of Education

Five Act Lesson Cycle – Humor In The Classroom | Ecology of Education: "Ancient physicians believed that humors ruled the health–both physical and mental–of the human body. Any imbalance was a sure cause for illness and disease. This belief gave rise to the practice of administering curatives such as bleedings, purgatives, diuretics, among others in order to restore the balance of humors within the patient’s body. Similarly, the classroom teacher must perform delicate procedures within the lesson cycle in order to balance the collective humor within each class period."

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Free Technology for Teachers: 15 Free Tools for Storing and Sharing Files

Free Technology for Teachers: 15 Free Tools for Storing and Sharing Files: "Six months ago I shared a list of good file sharing tools for teachers and students. Since then, I've come across some more tools to add to that list. Here is my new list of file sharing tools for students and teachers. Using these tools can help you avoid having an email inbox that is overflowing with file attachments."

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Google Blockly Lets Kids Hack With No Keyboard | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Google Blockly Lets Kids Hack With No Keyboard | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: "Google has released a completely visual programming language that lets you build software without typing a single character.

Now available on Google Code — the company’s site for hosting open source software — the new language is called Google Blockly, and it’s reminiscent of Scratch, a platform developed at MIT that seeks to turn even young children into programmers."

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