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Judy Brophy

nsf.gov - Special Report - Science Nation - 0 views

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    online magazine that's all about science for the people published by Natl Sci Foundation. Quirky articles good for a general science class
Judy Brophy

Publish Digital Magazines and More Online for Free | YUDU - 0 views

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    "Simply upload your PDFs and other documents to create search engine friendly page-turning publications that can be added to your website or sent out on email. Create your own personalised library to store and share your digital magazines and other content. "
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    use for embedding document in web page
Judy Brophy

University of Oklahoma Libraries Digital Collections : Browse - 0 views

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    Illustrations to Dickens http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fdickens2 During his life, Joseph Clayton Clarke was known for illustrating the novels of Charles Dickens. Born in 1856, Clarke also designed postcards and cigarette cards. His first illustrations of Dickens' work appeared in 1887 in Fleet Street magazine, and he continued by publishing complete illustration collections in books like "The Characters of Charles Dickens". This digital collection from the University of Oklahoma Libraries brings together 185 of his illustrations from this fine tome. Visitors can read the description of each illustration on the site, and view each item listed by character name. Here visitors will find such Dickens favorites as Clarence Barnacle from Little Dorrit and Martin Chuzzlewit from the novel of the same name
Jenny Darrow

Blog U.: Why My Bookmarks Are Not Delicious - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Reading content on the web feels so 2007. I don't Delicious because I don't bookmark, and I don't bookmark because I'm no longer searching for and jumping around the web looking for content. Nowadays I consume most content on my iPad or Touch, using apps such as the one from the NYTimes. The app may restrict where I go, meaning less variety but a higher quality consumption experience. I imagine that over time more of the magazines and journals I read will morph into apps, providing high quality multimedia reading and viewing experiences on portable devices. Reading the NYTimes on my Touch or iPad is better than through a browser because I'm in "lean back" consuming mode. If I'm on my browser it means that I'm on my computer, with all the attention pulls from e-mail and writing projects.
Judy Brophy

Monitor Your Social Media Results in Google Analytics | Converge Consulting - 0 views

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    As you go down the road of web measurement, always start with a goal in mind. When you have your goal in place, then provide context for the measurement. Let's break this down a bit more: How are we defining effectiveness? If the goal is for a user to download a PDF file of an alumni magazine, then you are successful if someone downloads the PD
Judy Brophy

In Praise of the Hashtag - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Over time, though, the hashtag has evolved into something else - a form that allows for humor, darkness, wordplay and, yes, even poetry. 
Jenny Darrow

elearn Magazine: It's the Pedagogy, Stupid: Lessons from an iPad Lending Program - 0 views

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    "It's the Pedagogy, Stupid: Lessons from an iPad Lending Program" honest assessment of iPad rollout in academic setting.
Matthew Ragan

What Is It About 20-Somethings? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • A cover of The New Yorker last spring picked up on the zeitgeist: a young man hangs up his new Ph.D. in his boyhood bedroom, the cardboard box at his feet signaling his plans to move back home now that he’s officially overqualified for a job. In the doorway stand his parents, their expressions a mix of resignation, worry, annoyance and perplexity: how exactly did this happen?
  • The traditional cycle seems to have gone off course, as young people remain un­tethered to romantic partners or to permanent homes, going back to school for lack of better options, traveling, avoiding commitments, competing ferociously for unpaid internships or temporary (and often grueling) Teach for America jobs, forestalling the beginning of adult life.
  • JEFFREY JENSEN ARNETT, a psychology professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., is leading the movement to view the 20s as a distinct life stage, which he calls “emerging adulthood.” He says what is happening now is analogous to what happened a century ago, when social and economic changes helped create adolescence — a stage we take for granted but one that had to be recognized by psychologists, accepted by society and accommodated by institutions that served the young. Similar changes at the turn of the 21st century have laid the groundwork for another new stage, Arnett says, between the age of 18 and the late 20s. Among the cultural changes he points to that have led to “emerging adulthood” are the need for more education to survive in an information-based economy; fewer entry-level jobs even after all that schooling; young people feeling less rush to marry because of the general acceptance of premarital sex, cohabitation and birth control; and young women feeling less rush to have babies given their wide range of career options and their access to assisted reproductive technology if they delay pregnancy beyond their most fertile years.
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    Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?
Matthew Ragan

Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • We see the embedded philosophy bloom when students assemble papers as mash-ups from online snippets instead of thinking and composing on a blank piece of screen. What is wrong with this is not that students are any lazier now or learning less. (It is probably even true, I admit reluctantly, that in the presence of the ambient Internet, maybe it is not so important anymore to hold an archive of certain kinds of academic trivia in your head.)
  • Roughly speaking, there are two ways to use computers in the classroom. You can have them measure and represent the students and the teachers, or you can have the class build a virtual spaceship. Right now the first way is ubiquitous, but the virtual spaceships are being built only by tenacious oddballs in unusual circumstances. More spaceships, please.
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    Jaron Lanier's article in the NY times. --- Adding to an already rich life, my father decided in middle age to become an elementary-school teacher in a working-class neighborhood in New Mexico. To this day, people who run grocery stores and work on construction sites, and who are now in late middle age themselves, come out when I'm visiting to tell me how Mr. Lanier changed their lives. Go up to any adult with a good life, no matter what his or her station, and ask if a teacher made a difference, and you'll always see a face light up. The human element, a magical connection, is at the heart of successful education, and you can't bottle it.
Jenny Darrow

Introducing News Dots - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine - 0 views

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     But you wonder if something like this isn't the future of news browsing. Can you imagine what happens when tagging technology gets truly semantic--when stories can be linked not just with keywords, but ideas?
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