iPhone Headphones Tricks
categories: iPhone
14 things you didn’t know your iPhone headphones could do
…including forwarding calls to voicemail and putting calls on hold.
http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-headphones-tricks-2015-2
2015 archive
big data history
A Bried History of BIG Data
Volume, Velocity, Variety
Business Intelligence
Internet of Things
privacy, security, intellectual property
mobile Internet
Social Homework Platform-
Social Homework Platform Aims to Boost Student Engagement
Another step ahead/afar from CMS?
Koondis works in traditional large introductory lecture classrooms, blended classes and fully online courses that often are filled with students enrolled from various disciplines who are required to be there for their majors.
Described as a “social homework system,” a “discussion forum that puts students in small groups” and even a replacement for the campus learning management system, Koondis is showing great promise as a pill for student satisfaction.
The idea is that Koondis eliminates the need for teachers to read all of the posts. The program even counts posts for the instructor for grading purposes, and alerts the faculty member to do follow-up when a student isn’t participating.
information literacy and social media
categories: Digital literacy, information literacy, media literacy, Millennials, technology literacy
library approach to information literacy. or WHAT IS information literacy?
is it the 90-ish notion of standing up in front of bored class and lecturing them how important is to use the online databases, which the university subscribe for
52% of teens use YouTube or other Social Media sites for a typical research assignment in school:
slide 29 out of 56:
Infographic from:
Should information literacy be about digital literacy? Geo-spatial knowledge?
Should information literacy include videos? Games?
Should information literacy be multiliteracy? Transliteracy?
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/11/27/scholarly-communication-and-information-literacy/
This is what Gen Z will expect from information literacy in particular, from library and education in general:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=h11u3vtcpaY#t=314
Vygotsky and Piaget
Literature on Vygotsky, Piaget, constructivism etc
http://synaptogaming.com/2013/04/11/what-would-vygotsky-have-thought-of-play-station-4/
https://prezi.com/yactlqywndbo/piaget-vs-vygotsky/
Faster Web is Here: HTTP/2
categories: technology
HTTP/2 standard has been finalized, paving the way for a faster Web
HTTP/2 will enable faster page loads, it is binary instead of textual (more efficient and less error-prone), it is fully multiplexed (to improve network performance), uses header compression and ‘Server Push’ (to reduce overhead).
Google has announced its plans to adopt HTTP/2 for Chrome and we also know that Microsoft’s Project Spartan has built-in support for the new standard.
If you are a web developer you can already test HTTP/2 in Firefox and Chrome with a few downloadable test servers. More information on that can be found here.
from http://www.neowin.net/news/http2-standard-has-been-finalized-paving-the-way-for-a-faster-web
Photoshop Turns 25
categories: Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop: ‘Democratizing’ Photo Editing For 25 Years
“Dreamscape,” courtesy of Jimmy Williams, shows how Photoshop can be used to create fantastical landscapes. But the program’s inventors note that photo manipulation predated Photoshop.
See the full story here:
archiving the Internet
categories: Digital literacy, technology literacy
Father of the internet: ‘If we don’t move now, we risk losing all the data we’ve created in the 21st century’
Last year, it took a group of hackers to decode some old tape decks from a lunar orbiter mission run in the 1960s — as Wired points out, “the drives had to be rebuilt and in some cases completely re-engineered using instruction manuals or the advice of people who used to service them, and “the data they recovered then had to be demodulated and digitized, which added more layers of technical difficulties.”
take an X-ray picture of everything that is in place — not just the picture bits, but the operating system bits and the application bits and the underlying machine description bits — and we take this X-ray image and we package it all up and hang onto that, put it wherever we need to, maybe multiple copies, hoping one of them will last maybe a period of time. So this snapshot idea is quite clever and it captures everything you need to know to reproduce the environment to interpret the picture. And that object, this digital object, is something that could be transported around [from one cloud to another cloud or another machine].
Create Goobrics
categories: assessment, online learning
Using Tech4Learning Rubrics with Goobric, Doctopus, and the Google Classroom
“Tired of Rubistar rubrics? Want to use Goobric but don’t want to create your own rubric from scratch? In this episode, learn how to use Tech4Learning’s rubric maker to create excellent rubrics that can be used with Goobric, Doctopus, and Google classroom. Tech4Learning rubrics offer some great topics for working collaboratively, such as teamwork and cooperation. The best part is that these rubrics can easily be pasted into a Google spreadsheet for use with Andrew Stillman’s awesome Goobric extension.”
http://hightechfriday.blogspot.com/2015/02/using-tech4learning-rubrics-with.html?m=1
More on rubrics in other IMS blog entries:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=rubrics
How Students and Schools Use Snapchat
categories: social media
College students love snapchat!It’s personal, creative, quick, fun, and free. |
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“According to research by Sumpto…as much as 77 percent of college students use Snapchat every day.
37 percent of the study respondents cited “creativity” as their main use of the app. “Keeping in touch” and “easier than texting” were reasons for 27 percent and 23 percent, respectively.”
Reasons young adults ages 18-26 use snapchat:
- “I like sharing weird things I see when I’m out…When you get ugly selfies from someone, that’s how you know you’re good friends.”
- “I only ever use it for funny pictures or to show what I’m doing to my friends, but I have people that use it as a replacement for texting.”
- “Snapchat is the ultimate social media tool — users want to share their lives to anyone they choose to elicit possible feedback, but without the necessity of it being stored…Snapchat provides an easier answer to Facebook’s ‘What are you doing right now?’ I use it personally to stay in touch with friends and show people what I’m doing.”
Colleges are also starting to get on the bandwagon — Snapchat launched Our Campus Story in October 2014 to four schools.
How Colleges are using snapchat:
- Orientation: (Tennessee Wesleyan College) “Where’s Wesley” scavenger hunt
- Updates: (Tennessee Wesleyan College) Sharing updates about events and activities on campus
- Recruiting: (Eastern Washington University and the University of Kansas) communicating with young athletes interested in joining their teams
Read more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-millennials-use-snapchat-2015-2
http://sproutsocial.com/insights/how-to-use-snapchat-for-colleges/
NPR Marketplace: Snapchat, a $19 Billion Company?
http://www.briansolis.com/2015/02/npr-marketplace-snapchat-19-billion-company/
More IMS blog entries on Snapchat and its use in education:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=snapchat
Peer-reviewed and popular literature:
Robbins, S. P., & Singer, J. B. (2014). From the editor—The medium is the message: Integrating social media and social work education. Journal Of Social Work Education, 50(3), 387-390.
Waxman, O. B. (2014). Snapchat Grows Up: How College Officials Are Using the App. Time.Com, 1.
JO, M. (2014, March 22). Teacher sees value in online connection. Dominion Post, The. p. A2.
Couros, G. (n.d.). Snapchat and Education. Retrieved from http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/4866
Manjaji, R. (2014, June 4). Six Snapchat Experiments to Engage Students. Retrieved February 23, 2015, from http://www.educationpost.com.hk/resources/education/140604-insight-six-snapchat-experiments-to-engage-students
Wiederman, K. (2014, May 2). Snapchat: The Newest Higher Ed Communication Tool | Merge. Retrieved from http://www.mergeagency.com/digital-marketing/snapchat-newest-higher-ed-communication-tool
Privacy and security:
Stretton, T., & Aaron, L. (2015). Feature: The dangers in our trail of digital breadcrumbs. Computer Fraud & Security, 201513-15. doi:10.1016/S1361-3723(15)70006-0
YOUNG, D. (2014). NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T… OR DO YOU?: SNAPCHAT’S DECEPTIVE PROMOTION OF VANISHING MESSAGES VIOLATES FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION REGULATIONS. Journal Of Information Technology & Privacy Law, 30(4), 827.
http://login.libproxy.stcloudstate.edu/login?qurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ebscohost.com%2flogin.aspx%3fdirect%3dtrue%26db%3dedo%26AN%3d97348107%26site%3deds-live%26scope%3dsite
Ekman, U. (2015). Complexity of the ephemeral – snap video chats. Empedocles: European Journal For The Philosophy Of Communication, 5(1/2), 97-101. doi:10.1386/ejpc.5.1-2.97_1
Flandez, R., & Wallace, N. (2014). Nonprofits Must Guard Against Imposters. Chronicle Of Philanthropy, (09),
O’Neil, M. (2014). Oh, Snap! A Q&A With DoSomething.org’s Snapchat Strategists. Chronicle Of Philanthropy, (01),
MESSITT, M. (2014). Cyberbullying Happens in Code. Break It. Education Digest, 79(9), 51.