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Digital Living Network Alliance certifies more than 1,000 television models in first quarter of 2011

On 07/24/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, communications, convergence, technologies for your home, television, by Daniel Christian

Digital Living Network Alliance certifies more than 1,000 television models in first quarter of 2011
Rapid acceleration in certifications demonstrates continued importance of television as centerpiece in digital home

Excerpt:

PORTLAND, OR – July 19, 2011 – The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) experienced unprecedented growth in the number of DLNA Certified® televisions during the first quarter of 2011, certifying more than 1,000 models in North America, Europe, Korea and Japan. The number of television models Certified by the Alliance in the first three months of the year was greater than the total number Certified in the first four years of the program. There are now more than 4,000 Certified television models available, providing consumers with a convenient way to connect and enjoy content throughout the digital home.

Total shipments of connected televisions in 2015 are expected to reach 138 million worldwide, according to DisplaySearch, a global market research and consulting firm specializing in the flat panel display supply chain and display-related industries. As the number of connected televisions grows on a global scale, and the television remains the hub of today’s digital home, DLNA is making the sharing of content across consumers’ home networks easier via standards-based products.

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Steelcase sets out to discover where HD video links will take the next-generation office [Gryczan]

On 07/20/2011, in business, communications, corporate / business world, digital audio, digital video, productivity / tips and tricks, telepresence, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Steelcase sets out to discover where HD video links will take the next-generation office — from Crain’s Detroit Business by Matthew Gryczan

 

MATTHEW GRYCZAN/CMB

Ideo Chairman David Kelley (on screen) in Palo Alto, Calif.,
and Steelcase CEO Jim Hackett are constantly connected
from Hackett’s office in Grand Rapids.

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Talk about an amazingly creative, animated resume! : )

On 07/05/2011, in animation, art, career development, communications, creativity, ideas, multimedia, new media literacies, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Skoda -- Curriculum Vitae -- from June 2011 -- An amazingly creative resume!

 

Originally saw this at:
http://illusion.scene360.com/video/19201/living-in-a-paper-world-2/

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Teaching students to be multimedia storytellers [Spotlight]

On 06/29/2011, in communications, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education, ideas, innovation, interactivity, library / librarians, multimedia, new media literacies, story, storytelling, teaching & learning, transmedia, writing, by Daniel Christian

Teaching students to be multimedia storytellers — from Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning

From DSC:
With a special congrats out to Laura Fleming on her curation efforts:

We wanted to point Spotlight readers to a new, powerful collection on the National Writing Project’s Digital Is website. Reading and Writing Transmedia is curated by Laura Fleming, a library media specialist in River Edge, N.J., who blogs regularly about the connection between transmedia and education.

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Excellent use of motion graphics to drive home the message; the power of team-created content

On 06/10/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, attention, Augmented Reality (AR), business, communications, corporate / business world, design, economics, engagement / engaging students, higher education, ideas, innovation, instructional design, internet, leadership, MBA, online learning, online media, strategy, trends, using teams, vision/possibilities, visualizing information, by Daniel Christian

Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment — by Gary Hamel; from the University of Phoenix Distinguished Guest Video Lecture Series.

From DSC:
No matter whether you agree with what Gary is saying or not, can you imagine if every lecture contained this type of team-based assistance in creating the motion graphics, recording the video, editing the video, executing proper sound design principles, etc.? Most likely such an endeavor would be more achievable/successful when producing content in a controlled, studio type of environment — and then presenting it online (vs. trying to do this in front of a live classroom/audience/face-to-face.)

Anyway, very powerful communication channels here! Excellent use of motion graphics to backup his message. A transcript with bolded headings and colored main points would be great too. By the way, wouldn’t it be cool for “call outs” to appear — somewhat in an augmented reality sort of way — when a main point was just made?!


Gary Hamel -- Reinventing Managment for the 21st Century

Description of video:
Watch Gary Hamel, celebrated management thinker and author and co-founder of the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), make the case for reinventing management for the 21st century. In this fast-paced, idea-packed, 15-minute video essay, Hamel paints a vivid picture of what it means to build organizations that are fundamentally fit for the future—and genuinely fit for human beings. It’s time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends. Here’s how we start.

This video is an excerpt from the University of Phoenix Distinguished Guest Video Lecture Series.

 

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From DSC:
Again, can you imagine the bump in engagement/attention spans if a faculty member could be backed up by these types of motion graphics!?

 

From DSC:
I realize that many of the for-profits are already using teams of specialists…but many others are not.

 

–Originally saw this at the
Higher Education Management blog by Keith Hampson

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Sharp! ObscuraDigital.com

On 05/31/2011, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, architecture, art, Augmented Reality (AR), communications, creativity, emerging technologies, immersion, interaction design, interactivity, by Daniel Christian

 

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Do you Webdoc? [Ana Cristina Pratas]

On 05/27/2011, in communications, multimedia, tools, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Do you Webdoc? — from cristinaskybox.blogspot.com by Ana Cristina Pratas

From DSC:
Multimedia-based communication — the new language — continues to develop and find additional tools/ways to communicate one’s message.

Also see:

webdoc.com

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All That Jazz … and Humor, Opera, Dance Music …

On 05/13/2011, in communications, digital audio, history, music, online media, United States, by Daniel Christian

All That Jazz … and Humor, Opera, Dance Music … — from The Library of Congress

[On May 10, 2011] the Library of Congress, in conjunction with Sony Music Entertainment, launched a website – “the National Jukebox” – that streams 10,000 sound recordings from the historic Victor Records collection.  It’s a fun and fascinating ramble for anyone who loves American music and wants to dig down into the roots of jazz, opera, a vast range of popular music, famous political speeches — even early sound effects.  The collection launched today (which will expand over time) is the soundtrack of our grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ early lives – music from the dawn of sound recording just after the turn of the 20th Century to the eve of the Great Depression.  The url is www.loc.gov/jukebox/.

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Passion-based learning in the 21st century: An interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach [Norton]

On 04/22/2011, in 21st century, communications, dangers of the status quo, education reform, education technology, K-12 related, passions, pedagogy, staying relevant, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, teaching & learning, trends, by Daniel Christian

Passion-based learning in the 21st century: An interview with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach — from plpnetworks.com by John Norton

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach often speaks of the “moral imperative” for K12 educators to assure that all students gain the skills, knowledge and dispositions they need to be successful in a connected world “where the ability to think critically, collaborate effectively and master increasingly powerful digital technologies” will determine their success in school, college and careers.

Nussbaum-Beach has been an educator for 20 years, serving as a public school classroom teacher, technology coach, charter school principal, district administrator, university instructor, and digital learning consultant. She is a frequent international speaker and the chief executive officer of Powerful Learning Practice LLC, a company she founded with educator-author Will Richardson to provide “professional development for 21st century educators.” PLP’s client list includes public, parochial and independent schools in the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway.

Nussbaum-Beach is also president of the digital consulting firm 21st Century Collaborative, LLC and a doctoral candidate at The College of William and Mary. She serves on the advisory board for the 2011 Horizon Report on trends in K12 education. Her first book, The Connected Educator, will be published by Solution Tree later this year.

In this interview, Sheryl describes the “shift” she believes must take place in teaching and learning practices if elementary and secondary schools expect to remain relevant in an era when information and communication technologies will continue to expand exponentially.

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Connected Citizens [Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute]

On 04/08/2011, in change, communications, disruption, emerging technologies, journalism, media/film, participation, social learning / networks, social media, society, sociology, the downsides of how people use tech, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Connected Citizens - April 2011

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BBC’s College of Production

On 03/06/2011, in A/V -- audio/visual, communications, media/film, television, by Daniel Christian

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The Connected Life at Home — from Cisco

On 02/28/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, adult learning, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, communications, convergence, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-readers, education, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, informal learning, intelligent tutoring, internet, K-12 related, learner profiles, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, lifelong learning, mobile learning, mobile technologies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, open courseware and systems, personalized/customized learning, social learning / networks, social media, technologies for your home, technology (general), telepresence, television, tools, training / L&D, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, user experience (UX), vendors, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, webinars, workplace, by Daniel Christian

The connected life at home -- from Cisco

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From DSC:

How will these types of technologies affect what we can do with K-12 education/higher education/workplace training and development? I’d say they will open up a world of new applications and opportunities for those who are ready to innovate; and these types of technologies will move the “Forthcoming Walmart of Education” along.

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Cool Tools – Rapid e-Learning with Brainshark or Captivate

On 02/15/2011, in Adobe, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, communications, corporate / business world, multimedia, presentations, tools, vendors, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Cool Tools – Rapid e-Learning with Brainshark or Captivate — from Blackboard’s Next Level Learning blog

Let’s say your company has a new product update and you need to get the information out fast to your team of sales and product managers. Or maybe your company is growing quickly and you need to train a brand new team in a matter of days.  Did a new certification just get released and you need to get information out to your association members ASAP?  No problem!  This is where Blackboard and rapid e-learning tools like Brainshark and Captivate come in.

Also see:

  • Brainshark Mobile & QR Tags: An Exciting Combination
    QR Codes 101    :
    A QR (“quick response”) Code or Tag is a square barcode that you can scan with your smartphone’s camera with the help of a QR Code app to immediately launch a link or URL on the mobile phone’s web browser.   Said another way, QR Codes are a simple way to connect the offline world with the online world. This represents a huge new point of delivery for Brainshark video presentations. Why is this important?  …Because you want your content available when and where your audience is primed for it.
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2020 Workplace

On 02/15/2011, in blogs / blogging / vlogging, Canada, communications, corporate / business world, future, mobile technologies, podcasting, professional development, social learning / networks, social media, strategy, workplace, by Daniel Christian

2020 Workplace — from Harold Jarche

In The 2020 Workplace, Jeanne Meister & Karie Willyerd make 20 predictions at the end of the book. William Gibson said, “the future is already here –  it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Here are my thoughts on where we are with some of these predictions…

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Students Tap iPhone to Film, Distribute TV Series

On 01/29/2011, in communications, media/film, by Daniel Christian

Students Tap iPhone to Film, Distribute TV Series — from mobilized.allthingsd.com by Ina Fried

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