Multinational Typeface — GSK Unit @Grey Singapore
On 04/11/2014,
in 21st century, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, art, biology, Bring your own device (BYOD), chemistry, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, computer science, content development, aggregation, repositories, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, engagement / engaging students, engineering, Google, graphics, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, maker movement, mobile learning, multimedia, new media literacies, open courseware and systems, passions, physics, platforms, play, political science, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, programming, publishing, science, simulations, STEAM-related, storytelling, student-related, tablets, teachers, teaching & learning, writing, youth,
by Daniel Christian
From the About Us page (emphasis DSC):
App Ed Review is a free searchable database of educational app reviews designed to support classroom teachers finding and using apps effectively in their teaching practice. In its database, each app review includes:
- A brief, original description of the app;
- A classification of the app based on its purpose;
- Three or more ideas for how the app could be used in the classroom;
- A comprehensive app evaluation;
- The app’s target audience;
- Subject areas where the app can be used; and,
- The cost of the app.
Also see the Global Education Database:
It’s our belief that digital technologies will utterly change the way education is delivered and consumed over the next decade. We also reckon that this large-scale disruption doesn’t come with an instruction manual. And we’d like GEDB to be part of the answer to that.
It’s the pulling together of a number of different ways in which all those involved in education (teachers, parents, administrators, students) can make some sense of the huge changes going on around them. So there’s consumer reviews of technologies, a forum for advice, an aggregation of the most important EdTech news and online courses for users to equip themselves with digital skills. Backed by a growing community on social media (here, here and here for starters).
It’s a fast-track to digital literacy in the education industry.
GEDB has been pulled together by California residents Jeff Dunn, co-founder of Edudemic, and Katie Dunn, the other Edudemic co-founder, and, across the Atlantic in London, Jimmy Leach, a former habitue of digital government and media circles.
Addendum:
Favorite educational iPad apps that are also on Android — from the Learning in Hand blog by Tony Vincent
On 03/31/2014,
in career development, creativity, graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, online media, productivity / tips and tricks, professional development, usability, user experience (UX), user interface design, web design and production,
by Daniel Christian
W3C: Web Design & Applications
Web Design Groups on LinkedIn.com
Relevant hashtags on Twitter:
Top Designer Google+ Communities You Should Follow — from hongkiat.com by Charnita Fance. Filed in Web Design.
Excerpt:
If you are active on Google+ there are a lot of communities for web designers or UI designers to join. Google+ Communities are like online groups or forums where people can come together to talk about a common hobby, interest or career (such as Design). Only members of a given community can see your posts in their stream. As a designer, this is great because you can share your work and get feedback from thousands of other designers, for free.
In the design communities below, you’ll find lots of great information, freebies, tips and tricks, and personal design work from members. Plus, you can ask for help or offer help to others. Let’s find the perfect Google+ design community for you.
Fresh Resources for Designers and Developers — March 2014 — from hongkiat.com
Infographic: HTML5 vs. native mobile app development [updated] — from kony.com by Dipesh Mukerji — also see his posting: Developing apps with HTML5: benefits and challenges
Responsive e-learning in a Multi-Device World — from elearning-reviews.traineasy.com
Excerpt:
“Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows. Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift in how we’ll build websites for the decade to come,” says Jeffrey Veen, CEO & Cofounder of Typekit.
New ebook all about web design for Google Glass — from glassalmanac.com by Christian Bullock
Excerpt:
Well that was fast.
As someone who didn’t really know too many people were currently all about ensuring a site’s web design was fit for Google Glass browsing, there’s now an eBook by author Joe Casabona (known for his blog People Reacting to Glass) that’s a guide to web design for Glass.
Pretty cool idea and something I could see as being crucial when Glass launches publicly. I’m sure Glass adoption won’t be as high as tablet or smartphone adoption rates, but as we’re seeing now, it’s necessary for web designers to think of other ways people are interacting with websites aside from normal desktop or laptop computers.
Addendums on 4/1/14:
- The importance of psychology in web design — from creativebloq.com
- Ethan Marcotte on how responsive web design came about — from creativebloq.com
On 03/22/2014,
in adult learning, change, Daniel S. Christian, education reform, graphics, heutagogy, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, lifelong learning, reinvent, staying relevant, student-related, surviving,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I was thinking about how we might help move people from situations whereby their learning is directed by others, to situations where they are owning and directing their own learning. It made me think of a process…a journey…implementing gradual changes over time.
As I like to work with graphics, it made me think of a gradient. A gradient, in the graphic design world, is a gradual change of colors. For example:
But then, I thought about how there are gradients of life. Such as:
(This image from early years to later years was one that I hesitated to even put on here…
as a smooth gradient is not the case for many of us in our “careers.” But roll with me here.)
So, how can we implement the type of gradient in life whereby we help move people from learning that is directed by others to learning that is self-directed?
The reason this is important is that we all need to continually tend to our learning ecosystems. We need to be constantly reinventing ourselves to stay relevant. As such, we all need to be lifelong learners. We all need to own and direct our own learning now. That is, no longer is it the case that a person can go to college for 4-8 years and then be set for life.
How can we best provide the people, content, processes, and tools that provide the scaffolding to help these gradual changes take place?
On 03/14/2014,
in Daniel S. Christian, faith, graphics, relationships, religion,
by Daniel Christian
On 09/04/2013,
in Apple, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-readers, education technology, graphics, innovation, interactivity, multi-touch, multimedia, photography, publishing, reading, tablets, user experience (UX),
by Daniel Christian
The Amazon
By Marcos Antonio de Lima Filho | Master in Design | Federal University of Pernambuco – Brazil
This is a free book which is available in iBooks 3.0+ on the iPad and/or using iTunes on your computer. Marcos designed this book to take advantage of all the interaction enabled by iPads.
156 images, 14 infographics, 18 galleries, 11 maps and 8 videos join with the text, which here is not the primary. Why? Because the nature is much too rich to be described only by words. The Amazon seeks to take advantage of all the technology advancements enabled by the tablet.
Great work Marcos! Nice interactivity, use of digital audio and video, graphics, and more. Check it out!
On 07/23/2013,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, animation, communications, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital video, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, expectations, graphics, internet, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, marketing/social marketing, multimedia, participation, second screen apps, social learning / networks, social media, story, storytelling, tablets, technologies for your home, television, transmedia, user experience (UX),
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I love multimedia because it enables me to craft a message using audio, video, text, graphics, and even animations. The Internet extends the power of this communication by allowing that message to go forth 24 x 7 x 365 in multi-directional ways — even allowing others to join in the conversations and participate.
The following item made me reflect upon on how important this is becoming to business:
- Is transmedia storytelling the new digital marketing? — from rethinkeverythingblog.com by Jason Thibeault (as Scooped by siobhan-o-flynn onto Tracking Transmedia)
Excerpt:
How (and why) is Marketing Changing?
The first thing to understand about marketing today is that it’s all about shared experience. Consumer behavior is radically changing with respect to content consumption. No longer are people consuming most of their content on the TV, a newspaper, or even their computer. Rather, they are using a combination of channels:
From DSC:
- Won’t this trend also impact students’ expectations/hopes/engagement?
- What do we need to do to help youth build these skillsets?
Also related/see:
- The rise, implications & benefits of the second screen — from newsworks.org.uk by Mark Challinor
Telegraph Media Group’s director of mobile Mark Challinor says in this new era of second screens, news companies must create content that helps consumers to multi-task on multiple platforms with multiple devices.
Excerpt:
Watching television – or even reading a newspaper – with a smartphone and/or tablet device is becoming one of the most popular leisure activities of this “mobile age”. In turn, publishers such as ourselves are trying to find ways to capitalise on this somewhat new consumer behaviour of real-time interaction, which, more often than not, includes social media. This type of interaction, referred to as “the second screen” or “the companion device”, has become not just a latest hot topic of discussion all over social media blogs; it is a huge development for the mobile app industry and a target-rich environment for our advertisers.
- Emerging markets’ second-screen boost with 1BN smart devices by 2014 — from rapidtvnews.com by Joseph O’Halloran
Excerpt:
New research by IDC has revealed that it won’t just be Western Europe and North America forming happy hunting grounds for second-screen services and applications. The analyst says it is clear that demand for smart connected devices is quickly shifting from developed to emerging markets and that by the end of 2014, global shipments of smart connected devices such as PCs, tablets, and smartphones will exceed surpass 1.7 billion units, with roughly one billion units delivered to emerging markets. The emerging markets are expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17% over the 2012-2017 forecast period, compared to the 7% CAGR expected in developed markets.
On 07/03/2013,
in career development, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, expectations, graphics, teachers, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Nuts and bolts: How to be an overnight success — from learningsolutionsmag.com by Jane Bozarth
Excerpts (emphasis DSC):
I was in a conversation the other day with Lynda.com’s Koreen Olbrish and Float Learning’s Chad Udell. We were poking at a workshop on gamification with a description that promised: “You will build a learning game in 60 minutes!” When Koreen said, “I could build a game in 60 minutes,” Chad responded, “Yes, 60 minutes and the rest of your life up to that point.”
We deal with that a lot in this business: the oversimplification of complex tasks, the marginalization of hard-earned knowledge. It often takes the form of a problem I think of as “develop before design.” People want a quick tool that will crank out a beautiful and effective eLearning program without putting any time into crafting a sound solution or a sound treatment for the content. Or they want a product that will take a static, template-based, text-heavy slide deck and, with the push of a magic button, turn it into an engaging, performance-enhancing course. The expectation is akin to driving a Kia into a carwash and expecting it to come out a Lexus.
…
The “Nuts and Bolts” part of this? It’s meant as advice to newish folks: A huge part of your job will be expectations management.
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From DSC:
Right on Jane! I’ve personally seen/experienced this as well – even within the church. I’ve seen it happen to the teaching profession and to those in the graphic arts.
On 06/19/2013,
in Adobe, digital audio, digital photography, digital video, graphics, tools, web design and production,
by Daniel Christian
Major update to Adobe Creative Cloud now available — from Adobe
Also see:
- What’s new in Creative Cloud
- Adobe Creative Cloud: everything you need to know — from creativebloq.com
On 04/24/2013,
in design, graphics, productivity / tips and tricks, professional development,
by Daniel Christian
The ultimate guide to logo design: 40 pro tips — from creativebloq.com
On 03/22/2013,
in 21st century, Australia, business, Canada, corporate / business world, economics, Europe, future, global / globalization, graphics, sociology, United States, visualizing information,
by Daniel Christian
Visualizing the future urban world — from fastcoexist.com by Ariel Schwartz
A new app called Urban World beautifully projects how cities around the world are going to explode in growth and economic power by 2025.
Also see:
On 12/17/2012,
in corporate universities / corporate training, creativity, design, digital learning, education technology, elearning, engagement / engaging students, graphics, instructional design, marketing/social marketing, multimedia, online learning, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, quality, tools, training / L&D, user experience (UX),
by Daniel Christian
Excerpt:
- Best in Show: Vesone Dean, What is SignUp?
- EDU category: Valerie Pennington, Anatomical Terms of Direction and Planes of Section
- Sales & Marketing category: Nino Paglia, Mantic – RealeFlow
- Tutorial & Training category: Ron Hogue, Top Five-ish Screencast Tips
- Wildcard category: Mel Aclaro, Best Screen Capture Software Series (Episode 3 – Camtasia Studio 7)
Description:
Enter up to three (3) screencast videos. Videos will be assigned a category based on the information you provide (so please be as detailed as possible!). Categories are: Education (videos with a focus on teaching and/or schools, at any level); Tutorial/Training (videos with a focus on training or tutorial content); Sales and Marketing (videos made to sell or persuade); and Wildcard (videos that don’t fit in the previous categories).
