May 2012
32 posts
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Arista Transcoder →
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Subtext →
Read any book with your friends in Subtext. You can exchange ideas and share all types of information and Web content as you read. Join now and discover the world’s first collection of community-enriched books!
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Watch(via Clay Shirky on the relationship between physical space and creativity - Boing Boing)
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“Overall, the biggest joy point [for ‘silver surfers’ using iPads]...”
– iPad: A push for Silver Surfing: Testing the iPad with a 65 target audience | Leo Burnett - Cultural Fuel
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mark[sweep]: When Kids Start Doing Root Cause... →
marksweep:
When I was playing the 5 Whys with my son, we discovered that 5 times is close to the perfect number of times to ask the question. He wanted to experiment with more than 5 Whys, trying to go all the way to 10. We found that once we got past five it became harder and harder to answer the question - we ended up many times stopping short of the 10th why because the answer would end up...
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“Literacy itself is a complex term that encompasses a broad spectrum. In our...”
– Learning, coding, systems of power, and Mozilla « Persona
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Bananigans!: Resource Decision Map →
bananigans:
After writing down a long list of resources to point folks who are interested in badges to, I realized it might be helpful to provide some level of directionality. So I created a decision map. This is my first attempt at it.
What you see here is a framework upon which I can…
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21 Systems to Boost Business Productivity for Good →
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“If the 21st century is all about making things beautiful, customised, shared and...”
– Learning to match a world of beauty (Jesse Schell) - TESS
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“At the same time I am told that I will have to work for another 36 years. That I...”
– I Should Be Marking
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“The Conservatives cannot tell us how the land really lies, which is why Gove...”
– Yes, Mr Gove, I went to private school – but I want to challenge the system | George Monbiot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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“We do not make demands from governments, corporations or parliament members,...”
– The ‘GlobalMay manifesto’ of the Occupy movement | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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NeverSeconds →
A primary school pupil blogs about her £2 school lunches. Daughter of @ballibeg
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“Forget about productivity and numbers. They matter not at all. If you are driven...”
– » How to Live Well :zenhabits
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Living in Public: What Happens When You Throw... →
Really interesting experiment, with some stellar links sprinkled in for extra awesomeness.
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darktable | the photo workflow software →
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
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Home | CloudFlare | The web performance & security... →
Serves up a snapshot of your site if it’s down.
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“The argument often heard about primitive people living on average less than 30...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb, quoted in ‘Fitness for Geeks’
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Waterbear is Like Scratch, but for JavaScript →
” Waterbear is a Scratch-like visual programming language for JavaScript. It was created by Dethe Elza, who gave a presentation on the project today at JSConf in Portland, OR. Waterbear brings the concepts of kid-friendly, educational programming languages, such as Logo and Scratch, to the modern, browser-oriented computer. Users can create programs by snapping together blocks.’
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Steve Jobs on collaboration and ideas: "You know... →
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The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change →
This report aims to identify, understand and visualise major changes to learning in the future. It developed a descriptive vision of the future, based on existing trends and drivers, and a normative vision outlining how future learning opportunities should be developed to contribute to social cohesion, socio-economic inclusion and economic growth.
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Digital Fluency | Sheffield Hallam University →
The Digital Fluency Initiative was commissioned by the University Executive in 2007. The aim of this initiative is to raise the profile of digital fluency, to embed it as a core graduate attribute and a key element of professional development for all staff. Put simply digital fluency at Sheffield Hallam University is characterised by the necessity to ‘live learn and work in the digital...
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Report on a new Digital Agenda for Europe: 2015.eu... →
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Jazz hands - how to run a Skype meeting | Nominet... →
Awesome. Using some of the Occupy movement’s stuff.
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Badges/GetStarted - MozillaWiki →
A page on the Mozilla wiki about getting started with badges. Points out the different roles of the earner, issuer, etc.
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“Piracy is a problem of convenience. A pirated copy is
*Faster to download.
...”
– YQL and The Pirate Bay | Terence Eden has a Blog
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Events/London Learning Jam - MozillaWiki →
A two-day hack jam with Mozilla, Nesta, and 10 partners in the UK to build learning projects, and then a playtesting event with youth at a nearby school.
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Wikipedia founder to help in government's research... →
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Open Badger · mozilla/OpenBadger Wiki · GitHub →
OpenBadger is a lightweight OBI compliant badge issuing platform. It will make creating and issuing badges easy for non-technical users.
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“Humility plays a key role in the design of any system, including badge system...”
– Open Badges & Badge System Design « Persona
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“Over the last few months I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Open Badges and...”
– Open Badges & Badge System Design « Persona 