Sick of all those HR-sourced motivational that swathe you in cutesy images and twee Reader's Digest philosophies? Then try Automotivator and build your own. Just try to put a wee bit more creativity (and less bile) into the process than this one.Motivation
Sick of all those HR-sourced motivational that swathe you in cutesy images and twee Reader's Digest philosophies? Then try Automotivator and build your own. Just try to put a wee bit more creativity (and less bile) into the process than this one.
Livingston, August 2004
On the eve of Inverness Caledonian Thistle being presented with the Scottish First Division Trophy, here's a photograph (scanned from a Caley Thistle programme which I never managed to get hold of) of the crowd at the first ever ICT Premier League game, a 3-0 defeat at Livingston. As the provider said, "Lonely In A Crowd". Still, being a Dundee fan must be even more depressing... Eh, Donald???
Google Street View (UK)
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Why I don't really have a problem with Google Maps Street View:
- The car is clean (for once);
- Can't read the number plate;
- Just left the Cawdor Tavern;
- I ain't driving!
Michael Foot ,1913-2010
"In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind" - At a Morning Star rally in 1980.
Youblisher
Two years ago I tried to convert our college prospectus to a flippable e-book /e-zine format. Each page had to be scanned, saved as a jpg, embedded in our Joomla-based website with a commercial component / plug-in, and... I gave up. Too much bloody work & not too wonderful to look at.
Well, I suppose that prospectuses (prospecti?) are not supposed to be wonderfully interesting.
Cut to the chase. A tip from Pat Donaghy on her excellent Free Resources for Education blog this morning & it's game over. 3 prospectuses uploaded to the Youblisher website & available as flippable e-books in less than half an hour. Ready to be embedded into your website with a wee bit of HTML cut 'n' paste.
So this isn't really cutting edge any more? Well, our marketing people, on their weekly trawl through the library website for any delinquent language, e.g. vaguely humorous entries, were much impressed. Need I say more?
Anyway here's an example, the JISC Guide to Second Life:
http://www.youblisher.com/
You didn't really want a prospectus, did you?
The deal goes down...
At last. The wanderer returns. A new album from Gil Scott Heron out next Monday (7th)
Holocaust Memorial Day
Some educational materials.http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/default.htm
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive (USHMM)
http://resources.ushmm.org/film/search/index.php
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive. The Archive serves as a comprehensive informational and archival resource worldwide for moving image materials pertaining to the Holocaust and related aspects of World War II.
Witnessing The Holocaust (BBC Archive)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/index.shtml
This site provides free access to a collection of online archive films and recordings relating to the Holocaust of the Jewish population during the Second World War.
Yad Vashem's Channel (YouTube)
http://youtube.com/user/YadVashem
Containing the world's largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Holocaust education, commemoration, research and documentation.
The Holocaust History Project
http://www.holocaust-history.org/
The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.
Image: Remember by tochis from Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons licence.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43217080@N00/1302364866
2010 Horizon Report
Just published, the Tomorrow's World annual ( of Higher (& Further) education. Sorry. Too cynical. The annual Horizon Report is always interesting.
The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.
Some technologies may not be relevant to FE but much of them are. The report is broken down into three sections: technologies on the brink of adoption; those which may be adopted in 2-3 years; and in 4-5 years.
Imminent? Mobile computing & Open Content. Fair enough.
2-3 years? Simple Augmented Reality & electronic books. 4-5 years? I'm not looking that far ahead!
Interesting that they consider that the day of the (academic) e-book is not here yet. With this I would concur. We need e-book readers); we need sympathetic publishers or a new publishing model; we're going to get David Cameron. [Sorry. A perfectly structured post (in my head) is being overcome by the office Radio One & endless wittering].
Maybe this is what the future will look like:
But, given that our ICT & ICLT people can't get their heads Windows Server 2003, DNS, LMSs & the alphabet soup that is education, maybe we shouldn't go to this year's BETT show but 2005's. They could handle that.
7 Things You Should Know About...
Educause has been publishing these useful little (2 pages) guides for some time now. And I've been punting them at my teaching (academic) colleagues...for some time now. I've even uploaded the more relevant ones to the staff development area of the college SharePoint (sic) shrine. Thus far, seemingly to little avail. Little change there then.
As they say:
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:
* What it is
* How it works
* Where it is going
* Why it matters to teaching and learning.
* What it is
* How it works
* Where it is going
* Why it matters to teaching and learning.
Subjects / technologies covered recently include next-generation presentation tools, Google Wave, collaborative annotation, microblogging, personal learning environments... This list goes on and very informative they are too. All worth a look. Even (especially?) for those with very short attention spans.
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