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Reflections on “Beacons at the museum: Pacific Science Center to roll out location-based Mixby app next month” [Bishop]

On 09/03/2014, in 21st century, active learning, art, attention, Augmented Reality (AR), blended learning, Bring your own device (BYOD), Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital storytelling, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), hybrid learning, ideas, innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, IT in HE, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning hubs & pods & microschooling, learning spaces, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, mobile learning, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), participation, platforms, real-world assignments, tablets, teaching & learning, technology (general), training / L&D, trends, ubiquitous learning, user experience (UX), workplace, by Daniel Christian

Beacons at the museum: Pacific Science Center to roll out location-based Mixby app next month — from geekwire.com by Todd Bishop

Excerpt:

Seattle’s Pacific Science Center has scheduled an Oct. 4 public launch for a new system that uses Bluetooth-enabled beacons and the Mixby smartphone app to offer new experiences to museum guests — presenting them with different features and content depending on where they’re standing at any given moment.

Also see:

Pacific Science Center to Debut New Digital Experience — from pacificsciencecenter.org

From DSC:
The use of location-based apps & associated technologies (machine-to-machine (M2M) communications) should be part of all ed tech planning from here on out — and also applicable to the corporate world and training programs therein.

Not only applicable to museums, but also to art galleries, classrooms, learning spaces, campus tours, and more. Such apps could be used on plant floors in training-related programs as well.

Now mix augmented reality in with location-based technology. Come up to a piece of artwork, and a variety of apps could be launched to really bring that piece to life! Some serious engagement.

Digital storytelling. The connection of the physical world with the digital world. Digital learning. Physical learning. A new form of blended/hybrid learning. Active learning. Participation.

Addendum on 9/4/14 — also see:

Aerohive Networks Delivers World’s First iBeacon™ and AltBeacon™ – Enabled Enterprise Wi-Fi Access Points
New Partnership with Radius Networks Delivers IoT Solution to Provide Advanced Insights and Mobile Experience Personalization

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aerohive Networks® (NYSE:HIVE), a leader in controller-less Wi-Fi and cloud-managed mobile networking for the enterprise market today announced that it is partnering with Radius Networks, a market leader in proximity services and proximity beacons with iBeacon™ and AltBeacon™ technology, to offer retailers, educators and healthcare providers a cloud-managed Wi-Fi infrastructure enabled with proximity beacons. Together, Aerohive and Radius Networks provide complementary cloud platforms for helping these organizations meet the demands of today’s increasingly connected customers who are seeking more personalized student education, patient care and shopper experiences.

Also:

Building Proximity Applications with iBeacon — from shop.oreilly.com
Pinpoint Location Services with Bluetooth Low Energy
By Matthew Gast
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
May 2014

Does Studying Fine Art = Unemployment? Introducing LinkedIn’s Field of Study Explorer [Hwang]

On 08/14/2014, in art, Augmented Reality (AR), biology, business, career development, chemistry, computer science, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, design, drama/theater, engineering, entrepreneurship, geography / geology, higher education, history, instructional design, interaction design, interface design, K-12 related, leadership, liberal arts, library / librarians, marketing/social marketing, marketplaces, mathematics, MBA, media/film, music, new media literacies, organizational change, photography, political science, professional development, programming, psychology, publishing, reinvent, staying relevant, student-related, tools, user interface design, web design and production, workplace, writing, youth, by Daniel Christian

Does Studying Fine Art = Unemployment? Introducing LinkedIn’s Field of Study Explorer — from LinkedIn.com by Kathy Hwang

Excerpt:

[On July 28, 2014], we are pleased to announce a new product – Field of Study Explorer – designed to help students like Candice explore the wide range of careers LinkedIn members have pursued based on what they studied in school.

So let’s explore the validity of this assumption: studying fine art = unemployment by looking at the careers of members who studied Fine & Studio Arts at Universities around the world. Are they all starving artists who live in their parents’ basements?

Also see:

The New Rankings? — from insidehighered.com by Charlie Tyson

Excerpt:

Who majored in Slovak language and literature? At least 14 IBM employees, according to LinkedIn.

Late last month LinkedIn unveiled a “field of study explorer.” Enter a field of study – even one as obscure in the U.S. as Slovak – and you’ll see which companies Slovak majors on LinkedIn work for, which fields they work in and where they went to college. You can also search by college, by industry and by location. You can winnow down, if you desire, to find the employee who majored in Slovak at the Open University and worked in Britain after graduation.

Gorgeous work! –> Painted Typography by Pawel Nolbert [Jobson]

On 06/29/2014, in art, creativity, graphics, by Daniel Christian

Painted Typography by Pawel Nolbert — from thisiscollossal.com by Christopher Jobson

Examples:

Reinventing libraries for ‘hanging out, messing around and geeking out’ — from CNN.com by Emanuella Grinberg

Excerpt:

The staff takes special pride in its mentor-led activities, offered in partnerships with various community organizations: a spoken word workshop, a video game program and a makerspace, or workshop, where teens create birdcages, duct tape wallets and other art projects.

It might be a library, but for 18-year-old Alexis Woodward, the atmosphere is more like a “family reunion,” she said.

“It’s always packed until it closes. Everybody goes to the library after school,” said Woodward, who began participating in the spoken word program when she was 14.

4 items featuring some incredible creativity

On 05/19/2014, in art, creativity, digital photography, photography, by Daniel Christian

Anonymous artists turn school chalk dust into inspirational masterpieces — from psfk.com by Angeli Rafer

Examples:

Designer Alexandra Khitrova discovers a new career through her stunning fantasy concept art — from thisiscolossal.com by Christopher Jobson

Example:

Rare mushroom photos reveal the visual diversity of fungi — from mymodernmet.com by Steve Axford, posted by Jenny Zhang

Example:

Photographer swims out to sea to capture spectacular storm shot — from mymodernmet.com by Jem Cresswell

Hypermedia storytelling — from kirkbowe.com
Museum exhibitions as dynamic storytelling experiences using the latest technology

Excerpt:

The secret of many great storytellers lies in their ability to adapt delivery to their audiences, even as they speak. Storytelling is at its best when it is not a one-way monologue but rather an experience which is shaped by the teller and the listener together. Underpinning this is the notion of real-time mutual discovery.

Great museum exhibitions tell great stories. But for practical reasons they lack a dynamic edge, unable to see the faces and hear the thoughts of the people walking around them. This is because many exhibitions are, to some extent, static place-holders for the mind and soul of the curator or curation team.

One of my passions is researching into how to use technology to bring a vibrant storytelling relationship to the fore. Recently, advances in certain areas of mobile technology have begun to show me that the potential is now there for the cultural heritage sector to take advantage of it.

…

But how about the cultural sector? Many museums have already experimented with mobile interaction through the use of printed codes, such as QR codes, which visitors must scan with their devices. Bluetooth Smart removes that cumbersome step: visitors need only be with proximity of a beacon in order for your app to provide them with the contextual information you wish to deliver. The technology has many different potential applications:

– Place a beacon in each room of the exhibition. Your app then triggers a screen of scene-setting background information for the room as the visitor enters. No need to have congestion points around wall-mounted text at the door.

– Place a beacon under selected objects or cases. As visitors walk up to the object, your app detects the beacon and provides commentary, video, or a three-dimensional representation of the object. No need for visitors to type in an object number to a traditional electronic guide.

From DSC:
This has major implications — and applications — for teaching and learning spaces! For blended/hybrid learning experiments. Such technologies can bridge the physical and virtual/digital worlds!

Another interesting application, providing access to published content from a specific location only:

Imaginative use of iBeacon gives bar patrons free access to Newsstand magazines

Incredible artwork by Shania McDonagh, who is only 16 years old!

On 04/19/2014, in art, youth, by Daniel Christian

Sixteen-year-old artist wins national art competition with masterful hyper-realistic pencil portrait — from thisiscolossal.com

Sixteen Year Old Artist Wins National Art Competition with Masterful Hyper Realistic Pencil Portrait portraits illustration drawing

There will be many, many more of these applications of the iBeacon technology!

On 04/17/2014, in 21st century, Apple, art, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, education technology, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interactivity, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, platforms, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

New iBeacon App Stations of the Cross at St. Thomas — from mrspepe.com by Courtney Pepe

Excerpt:

This app was developed by a fellow ADE Jay Anderson. It uses iBeacon technology to sense how close you are to different pieces of art related to the 14 Stations of the Cross in a church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The app has three different settings: meditation for children, meditation for adults, and the comments of the artists. Great use of the iBeacon technology.

Addendum on 4/19:

iBeacon at the National Slate Museum is a world-first mobile link for tourists — from walesonline.co.uk by Martin Shipton

The National Slate Museum in Llanberis which is operating an iBeacon smartphone information point.

APP Ed Review (appedreview.org) & the Global Education Database (gedb.org)

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

App Ed Review

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:

From the About Us page:

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

Film: Time-lapse film of a coral reef = mind blown [Skidmore & Stoupin]

On 04/10/2014, in art, Australia, creativity, faith, by Daniel Christian

Film: Time-lapse film of a coral reef = mind blown — from itsnicethat.com by Maisie Skidmore

Excerpt:

They may look like scenes from an animated kids’ film based underwater, but these stills are in fact all taken from PhD student Daniel Stoupin’s mind-blowing time-lapse film, Slow Life. The film combines over 150,000 photographs taken of some of the world’s most stunning coral reefs over excruciatingly long periods of time, allowing us land-based viewers to watch the otherwise imperceptible changes on the the ocean beds, which actually happen incredibly slowly.

Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo.

From DSC:
All’s I could say while I watched this was, “Glory to God! GLORY!”
It’s like the fingerprints of God. The source of creativity. Astounding. Truly amazing.

In defense of a liberal arts degree [Benett]

On 04/10/2014, in art, career development, corporate / business world, creativity, higher education, history, liberal arts, psychology, reinvent, staying relevant, STEAM-related, student-related, surviving, writing, by Daniel Christian

In defense of a liberal arts degree — from fastcompany.com by Andrew Benett
They might be getting overshadowed by STEM degrees in the news, but liberal arts degrees have a lot to offer their students.

Excerpt:

I know a lot of liberal arts graduates. I have hired a bunch of them. And I am one myself, having studied both psychology and art history. What I have found is that people with degrees in subjects such as history and literature–and, yes, even philosophy–tend to possess many of the qualities, skill sets, and aptitudes that are in highest demand in my own industry (marketing communications) and in others that rely on creative thinking and foresight.

In my experience, these are the areas in which liberal arts graduates really stand apart:

— Agility and adaptability
— Storytelling and persuasion
— Historical consciousness

Some sharp, creative ideas and practices from the iPad Art Room blog

On 03/31/2014, in art, creativity, education technology, ideas, K-12 related, multimedia, productivity / tips and tricks, tablets, by Daniel Christian

Multi-media Workflows — from iPadArtRoom.com by Cathy Hunt

Excerpt:

Let’s get making using some mixed-media workflows that include the iPad.

The following three ‘workflows’ are progressively designed and do increase in complexity, but the midst and learning focus is the same – the creative process is not linear.

Students will have an opportunity to discover that as they construct imagery, ending points can become starting points and ‘finished’ work is a matter of decision making. I have found that highly original work evolves as students re-evaluate what they see in their work, and are empowered to reconsider what they make.

Deep engagement and understanding of the creative process is often the powerful result of working through rich tasks that challenge students to constantly reimagine and reconstruct work they produce.

Handy hardware for your iPad Art Room — from iPadArtRoom.com by Cathy Hunt

Excerpt:

Multi-media workflows – Mixing ‘hands-on’ & digital tools — from iPadArtRoom.com by Cathy Hunt

Excerpt:

The concept of mixing media is certainly not a new idea in Visual Arts, however across curriculum areas in schools technology and ‘digital tasks’ are often separated from the ‘hands-on’ learning opportunities. In many classrooms and studio space even mobile devices, perceived as an expensive and fragile commodity, are excluded as a matter of course from ‘making’ tasks, conspicuously absent when the messy business of creation begins.

Clay-Mation — from iPadArtRoom.com by Cathy Hunt

Excerpt:

Addendums on 4/1/14:

Using the arts to turn schools around — from Harvard Education Letter by Suzanne Bouffard | Volume 30, Number 2 | March/April 2014
Evidence builds in favor of integrating arts for positive outcomes
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The best iPad apps for videographers — from apppicker.com by Cherry Mae Torrevillas

Video Splash

DIY and IDEO Inspire the Next Generation of Innovators — from IDEO.com

The ultimate summer camp. The perfect snack for a picky eater? Why are we designing things for our kids when only they can truly know what they want? DIY and IDEO ask kids to tackle these challenges and more, to develop their inner innovator. Bonus: they get a Scout-style patch for their efforts.

DIY is a place for kids to go online to learn new skills and meet others who share their interests. Kids take photos or videos of the stuff they make, assemble personal portfolios on the site, and ultimately build their creative confidence.

IDEO is proud to have collaborated with DIY to launch the “Innovator” skill: 12 challenges that help kids understand people, identify problems, and create novel solutions. We hope these challenges help inspire a new generation of design thinkers. Posted: March 21, 2014

From DSC:
A brief review of this site turns up several interesting things:

Students can explore areas, disciplines, topics that they are passionate about — or they might discover some things that turn into a passion for them; this could be hugely helpful as students see “what’s out there” for them to head towards (career-wise).
Students can submit their own creations
The format of the site is very visual, enticing…drawing one in to see what’s behind each area and to see what other students have contributed
It employs social learning
It employs badging — students can earn badges on their way to mastering a topic
Students can build their own portfolios and show those portfolios to the world!

Some recent postings on their blog:

Artist Completely Wraps Rooms with Famous Paintings [mymodernmet.com; Rafman]

On 03/07/2014, in architecture, art, creativity, by Daniel Christian

Artist Completely Wraps Rooms with Famous Paintings — from mymodernmet.com by Jon Rafman

Excerpt:

While at first glance these rooms may look like something you’d find in one of today’s swanky design hotels (like in the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas), you might be surprised to find out that they’re actually the work of one digital artist. Jon Rafman, known for his Google Street View series, is behind an ongoing project called Brand New Paint Job where he takes modernist paintings, like those from Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marc Chagall, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein, and Willem De Kooning, and completely wraps rooms with them. Of course, these aren’t any ordinary rooms, they’re 3D models taken from Google 3D Warehouse, an online gallery that allows users of Google Sketchup, a free 3D modelling program, to upload to and share their works.

Some possibilities to deliver presentations/portfolios on an iPad — especially meant for art galleries, small museums

On 02/25/2014, in A/V -- audio/visual, art, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, interactivity, internet, machine-to-machine communications, Near Field Communication (NFC), tools, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Some potential tools to display information on an iPad at an art gallery/small museum:

iPadPortfolioApp.com — and ipadportfolioapp.com/howto — they have a lock down feature so patrons to the art gallery can’t edit/change anything on the iPad

artlogic.net/artlogic/ — esp. artlogic’s Privateviews

artsystems.com/products/ipad.htm

yooba.com/LP/museum/

InDesign:
“Use interactive PDFs with hyperlinks to achieve an app-like behaviour. We created the presentation with all buttons and target pages in Adobe InDesign CS5 and exported the whole thing as an interactive PDF.” (From https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4573715)

Keynote for the iPad – though it doesn’t look like you can lock things down; though you can have a password on a file.

TourSphere

iBooks Author

Blurb.com

Book Creator
In the gallery, provide an iPad on a mount/stand and link to a blog or webpage, then lock the browser. If you want to use this method to display several pages, one could build a series of webpages and insert META-HTTP-EQUIV tags in the header sections of the HTML. That tag could be used to time how long a web page was on the screen and then redirect people to another web page after a period of time.

From DSC:
The above listing doesn’t address the numerous design & development firms out there that could create an app for you.

Where I could easily see this sort of thing going is towards a machine-to-machine type of communication whereby a chip on the piece of artwork “talks” to mobile devices to bring up additional information (re: that piece of art) on the patron’s device. iBeacon-like technology comes to mind; or NFC.

Learning Ecosystems

Gorgeous work! –> Painted Typography by Pawel Nolbert [Jobson]

4 items featuring some incredible creativity

Incredible artwork by Shania McDonagh, who is only 16 years old!

Film: Time-lapse film of a coral reef = mind blown [Skidmore & Stoupin]

Artist Completely Wraps Rooms with Famous Paintings [mymodernmet.com; Rafman]

Some possibilities to deliver presentations/portfolios on an iPad — especially meant for art galleries, small museums

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