Originally saw this at:
http://illusion.scene360.com/video/19201/living-in-a-paper-world-2/
On 07/05/2011,
in animation, art, career development, communications, creativity, ideas, multimedia, new media literacies, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
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.
On 06/27/2011,
in digital storytelling, new media literacies, story, storytelling,
by Daniel Christian
Interview: Bryan Alexander, author of The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media — from Blog Critics by Scott Butki
On 06/16/2011,
in 3D, art, career development, content development, aggregation, repositories, ideas, multimedia, music, new media literacies, reading, science, simulations, staying relevant, STEAM-related, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning,
by Daniel Christian
In science and math classes across the country, digital tools are being used to conduct experiments, analyze data, and run 3-D simulations to explain complex concepts. Language arts teachers are now pushing the definition of literacy to include the ability to express ideas through media. This report, “Multimedia Transformation,” examines the many ways multimedia tools are transforming teaching and learning as schools work to raise achievement and prepare students for careers that require increasingly sophisticated uses of technology.
On 04/21/2011,
in collaboration, digital learning, multimedia, new media literacies, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
What are digital literacies? Let’s ask the students — from DMLcentral.net by Cathy Davidson
It was with these critiques in mind that I asked undergraduate students in my two classes, “This Is Your Brain on the Internet” and “Twenty-First Century Literacies” to come up with a list of skills they had mastered in my peer-driven, peer-assessed, peer-led classes they had not gained elsewhere. We might call these skills “digital literacies.”
Check out their list, and then tell me if you recognize those self-absorbed, no-nothing, isolated, and distracted students described by the pundits. To my mind, this is a list of digital literacies any of us might aspire to:
On 04/18/2011,
in change, learning ecosystem, new media literacies, pace of change, social media, technology (general), tools,
by Daniel Christian
Fluency in a technology accelerated age — from Shift to the Future by Brian Kuhn
From DSC:
The following images that Brian featured in his blog posting — images from Sylvia Rosenthal Tolisano (@langwitches) — remind me of some of the elements in our current learning ecosystems:
On 04/09/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, change, colleges, convergence, 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 reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, entrepreneurship, future of higher education, game-changing environment, generational differences, global / globalization, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), hybrid learning, immersion, informal learning, innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interaction design, interactivity, interface design, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, learning agents, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, lifelong learning, marketplaces, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, pace of change, personalized/customized learning, platforms, play, podcasting, professional development, reinvent, RSS, simulations, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, social media, society, storytelling, strategy, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, surviving, tablets, teaching & learning, teaching online, technologies for your home, technology (general), telecommunications, telepresence, television, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, universities, user experience (UX), using teams, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, webinars,
by Daniel Christian
Daniel Christian:
A Vision of Our Future Learning Ecosystems
In the near future, as the computer, the television, the telephone (and more) continues to converge, we will most likely enjoy even more powerful capabilities to conveniently create and share our content as well as participate in a global learning ecosystem — whether that be from within our homes and/or from within our schools, colleges, universities and businesses throughout the world.
We will be teachers and students at the same time — even within the same hour — with online-based learning exchanges taking place all over the virtual and physical world. Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) — in the form of online-based tutors, instructors, teachers, and professors — will be available on demand. Even more powerful/accurate/helpful learning engines will be involved behind the scenes in delivering up personalized, customized learning — available 24x7x365. Cloud-based learner profiles may enter the equation as well.
The chances for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship that are coming will be mind-blowing! What employers will be looking for — and where they can look for it — may change as well.
What we know today as the “television” will most likely play a significant role in this learning ecosystem of the future. But it won’t be like the TV we’ve come to know. It will be much more interactive and will be aware of who is using it — and what that person is interested in learning about. Technologies/applications like Apple’s AirPlay will become more standard, allowing a person to move from device to device without missing a beat. Transmedia storytellers will thrive in this environment!
Much of the professionally done content will be created by teams of specialists, including the publishers of educational content, and the in-house teams of specialists within colleges, universities, and corporations around the globe. Perhaps consortiums of colleges/universities will each contribute some of the content — more readily accepting previous coursework that was delivered via their consortium’s membership.
An additional thought regarding higher education and K-12 and their Smart Classrooms/Spaces:
For input devices…
The “chalkboards” of the future may be transparent, or they may be on top of a drawing board-sized table or they may be tablet-based. But whatever form they take and whatever is displayed upon them, the ability to annotate will be there; with the resulting graphics saved and instantly distributed. (Eventually, we may get to voice-controlled Smart Classrooms, but we have a ways to go in that area…)
Below are some of the graphics that capture a bit of what I’m seeing in my mind…and in our futures.
Alternatively available as a PowerPoint Presentation (audio forthcoming in a future version)
— from Daniel S. Christian | April 2011
- Hunch brings predictions to Internet TV — from ReadWriteWeb.com by Mike Melanson
- Group video calling comes to iPhone & Android in Fring beta test – from Mashable.com by Jennifer Van Grove
- State of the Art Tutoring is Going Online — from chatam.patch.com by K.F. Rogers (originally saw at Ray Schroeder’s blog)
- Storytelling: Video games’ next killer app — from CNN.com by Scott Steinberg
- YouTube finally launches live streaming portal to select partners — from ReadWriteWeb.com by Marshall Kirkpatrick
- The art of immersion, digital storytelling and transmedia — from Six Pixels of Separation
- Reversing course, U. of California to borrow millions for online classes — from The Chronicle by Josh Keller
- Non-stop Learning Futures conference spans three time zones to mirror demands of 24/7 global society — from 24dash.com
- Call for presentations: Online learning, teaching, and research in the new media ecology — from Ray Schroeder and the Sloan Consortium
…It is clear that we are in the midst of rapid and ongoing changes in the way that we communicate and represent ideas and these changes have profound consequence for how we know, learn, think, and teach in higher education and beyond. The dizzying pace of change is highlighted by the fact that even the relatively new conventions of online education associated with asynchronous learning networks are being challenged by emerging means of access, such as mobile and cloud computing, new forms of communication, such as video streaming and instant messaging, as well as the innovative modes of participation represented in social media.
Addendum on 4-14-11:
- Surprise! Online TV is billion-dollar biz — from cnn.com
On 04/07/2011,
in e-books, e-readers, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, new media literacies, publishing, tablets,
by Daniel Christian
EDUCAUSE Review
Volume 46, Number 2 | March/April 2011
Getting a Handle on Mobile: Perspectives
Features
On teaching
Mobile Literacy
Mobile Literacy
David Parry
“The future our students will inherit is one that will be mediated and stitched together by the mobile web, and I think that ethically, we are called on as teachers to teach them how to use these technologies effectively.”
David McCarthy
“The current optimal e-reading solution for higher education is a robust laptop home base with an ecosystem that interacts with tablets and e-readers for mobile consumption.”
On iPads
Why Mobile?
Why Mobile?
Mary Ann Gawelek, Mary Spataro, and Phil Komarny
“With their students, faculty have become co-learners and pioneers in the classroom. With no models to work from, they had to explore, practice, and discover the iPad’s potential for expanding learning.”
On websites
Mobile Matters: Communication Trumps Technology
Mobile Matters: Communication Trumps Technology
Susan T. Evans
“Mobile is the future for content delivery. Colleges and universities need to establish a strategy now and make the decisions necessary to take advantage of this communication opportunity.”
Jim Davis and Rosemary A. Rocchio
“This device-agnostic framework and approach has huge practical advantages in that we can reach the vast majority of our mobile community regardless of what device they are using and we can readily accommodate ever-changing devices.”
“The best I can hope to do is keep an eye on the high level industry trends and directions, and then once we’ve identified those trends, ride them as best we can to where we think they’ll take the market.”
On 04/04/2011,
in Adobe, digital learning, education technology, higher education, new media literacies, social learning / networks, social media, technology (general),
by Daniel Christian
April 2011:
Hear from analyst Ellen Wagner as she covers research showing the expansion of technology in higher education. Evolving expectations for digital skills for students and faculty require use of technology that have traditionally been used by art and design schools.
Also see:
On 03/30/2011,
in new media literacies, teaching & learning, Uncategorized, writing,
by Daniel Christian
About NWP Digital Is
The NWP Digital Is website is a teaching-focused knowledge base exploring the art and craft of writing, the teaching and learning of writing, along with ideas that provoke us to think in new ways about education and culture in the digital age.
Learn more about the NWP Digital Is website and how to participate.
About the National Writing Project
The National Writing Project (NWP) is a nationwide network of educators working together to improve the teaching of writing in the nation’s schools and in other settings. NWP provides high-quality professional development programs to teachers in a variety of disciplines and at all levels, from early childhood through university. Through its network of more than two hundred university-based sites located in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, NWP develops the leadership, programs, and research needed for teachers to help students become successful writers and learners.
Support for the National Writing Project is provided by the U.S. Department of Education, foundations, corporations, universities, and K–12 schools.
Learn More About the National Writing Project
- Digital Is: Interdisciplinary Writing Resources — from The Chronicle by Prof. Hacker
Also see:
On 03/25/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, Adobe, art, content development, aggregation, repositories, creativity, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, ideas, instructional design, interactivity, interface design, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, media/film, multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, online media, presentations, quality, teaching & learning, teaching online,
by Daniel Christian
Adobe Museum of Digital Media, A lecture by John Maeda
From DSC:
If online courses could feature content done this well…wow! Incredibly well done. Engaging. Professsional. Cross-disciplinary. Multimedia-based. Creative. Innovative. Features a real craftsman at his work. The Forthcoming Walmart of Education will feature content at this level…blowing away most of the competition.
This is also true for materials like the item below!
On 03/21/2011,
in Adobe, art, creativity, design, graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interactivity, media/film, new media literacies,
by Daniel Christian
Adobe Museum of Digital Media announces new exhibition: John Maeda: Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC) — from finance.yahoo.com
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SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Adobe Museum of Digital Media (www.adobemuseum.com) is pleased to announce its second exhibition, John Maeda: Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC), on view March 23 to Dec. 31, 2011. The exhibition is a digital representation of Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), leading an interactive lecture on how artists are connecting the worlds of digital creativity and analog (or handcrafted) creativity. Titled Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft (ABC), the lecture underscores the mission of the AMDM to provide an interactive venue for presenting digital media works as well as providing a forum for expert commentary on how digital media influences culture and society.
According to Maeda, “Computers let us imagine digitally what we once could only validate by handcraft in physical form – the infinite malleability and reusability of bits have forever changed the creative process. But just as it took Icarus to first imagine human flight by carefully observing how birds can fly, digital tools have relied on many of the original tools and media used by artists in the pre-digital world.” Maeda sees the thread that runs between the tools of physical art making – such as pens, brushes and pigment – and the way new media has co-opted many of the same tools to manipulate bits in digital art. Through the exhibition, he examines the history of linking analog and digital creativity within his own work and the works of others.
On 03/15/2011,
in 21st century, change, leadership, new media literacies, strategy,
by Daniel Christian
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On 03/01/2011,
in emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, innovation, mobile technologies, multimedia, new media literacies, social learning / networks, social media, technologies for your home, technology (general),
by Daniel Christian
New technologies introduced at the DEMO Spring 2011 Event
Promising new products and prototypes of 2011 that have never been seen before. These are real products that are ready for market.
February 28:
Consumer Technologies
- AboutOne.com from AboutOne, LLC
- ecoATM from ecoATM
- flyRuby.com from flyRuby.com
- Manilla from Manilla
- MindWave BrainCubed Education Bundle from NeuroSky
- PhotoRocket from PhotoRocket
- Primadesk from Primadesk, Inc.
- SocialEyes from SocialEyes
- Cyclic Variations in Altitude Conditioning™ from CVAC Systems, Inc.
- ICaR Expert Systems from ICaR Systems (Alpha Pitch)
- KloudDock from InfiniWing, Inc. (Alpha Pitch)
- Qffers App from Dvmmy (Alpha Pitch)
Enterprise Technologies
- DataRoket from DataRoket, Inc.
- GageIn from GageIn, Inc.
- Swivel from FaceCake Marketing Technologies
- VIOLIN Platform from EMBRIA Technologies
- Workface from Workface, Inc.
- The Webcam Social Shopper from Zugara
- Outline.com from Outline.com (Alpha Pitch)
Cloud Technologies
- ApSynth from ApSynth
- Cloud9 IDE from Ajax
- Defensio for Facebook from Websense
- EPflow from EyePredict
- Kuggaa from Kuggaa
- Nimble from Nimble
- Stratosphere from V3
- VECTOR™ from HBMG, Inc.
MARCH 1
Social and Media Technologies
- eLive from eLive Entertainment
- FetchFans.com from Fetch Plus Asia Pacific, Pte. Ltd.
- GutCheck from GutCheck
- HeyStaks from HeyStaks
- Ecobe.com from Ecobe (Alpha Pitch)
- Marginize from Marginize
- Next Island virtual world from Next Island
- OneGoodLove.com from OneGoodLove.com
- Pixable Photofeed (on iPad) from Pixable
- Speaku from Speaku (Alpha Pitch)
- SocialReplay from Silentale
- Thoora for Tablets from Thoora
- TrendSpottr from TrendSpottr
- Viafoura from Viafoura
- The Geco from The Geco (Alpha Pitch)
Mobile Technologies
- Dynamic Device Identity from mSIGNIA
- Guardly from Guardly
- HighNote from HighNote
- JetStreamHD from Nuvyyo, Inc.
- MobileNation from MobileNation
- News360 for iPad from News360
- Screach from Screenreach Interactive, Ltd.
- ShowUhow Product Experience Platform from ShowUhow, Inc.
- Small Business iPhone and Android Apps from Bizness Apps
- ON Voicefeed from Life Is Better ON
