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Barbara Lindsey

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2009- Page 1 - 0 views

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shirky internet

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 08 Jan 10
     
    To the question "How is Internet is changing the way we think?", the right answer is "Too soon to tell." This isn't because we can't see some of the obvious effects already, but because the deep changes will be manifested only when new cultural norms shape what the technology makes possible.
Barbara Lindsey

T+L Top Story - Banning school technology: A bad idea? - 0 views

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technology education banning

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 01 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Banning school technology: A bad idea? Educators ponder which technologies are pedagogically useful, say planning is the key to success
  • panelists in a session titled "Leveraging Banned Technologies to Create Ubiquitous Learning Environments" offered their advice to educators on why technology shouldn't be banned from classrooms--and why saying "yes" is worth the time and effort
  • 50 percent of participants said they had schoolwide wireless access; most said they don't allow students to bring their own technology devices to school; and many don't have a policy in place about students bringing their own devices to school
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  • perhaps the most revealing data came from the next question: Do you allow cell phones in school? Most participants said students can carry cell phones as long as they keep them turned off during class; yet, most also agreed that cell phones could be useful for instruction. Participants also said that if students bring personal devices to school, 40 to 60 percent of those students bring a device with broadband access.
  • "Educators want their students to be able to use these technologies, but they don't know how they can be applied in the classroom."
  • "Schools first need to develop a plan of action for when new technologies are introduced and then determine their bandwidth needs. Then they'll be getting somewhere," she said.
  • Steve Hargadon, director of the K12 Open Technologies Initiative at the Consortium for School Networking, and founder of www.classroom20.com. Hargadon developed his social networking site for educators as a way to get educators used to the idea of social networking not always as a scary, educationally empty phenomenon. "We have to look at the tools and the devices behind popular technologies. Just because bad things sometimes happen on Facebook doesn't mean the technology itself can't be useful. It just depends how it's used," he said. Hargadon says that for educators, profile pages can be portfolios and background information for others to see. The "friends" you are making are really "colleagues," he said--and uploading content and adding commentary provides authentic feedback to your ideas. "Common interest groups can be turned into group projects, and the discussion forums allow for asking questions and getting engaged in meaningful conversation. The wisdom of the group will always help when trying to solve problems," he said.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 01 Nov 08
       
      This is a good way to describe the 'Facebook-like' features to colleagues and admins as well as what some of the benefits are to using these environs.
  • For these panelists, the shift in education from a teacher-centric, factory-style model to a more dynamic model filled with ubiquitous access to information, newly created content, and personal devices is not a struggle if you start with a plan--because only by being open to new ideas will today's students be tomorrow's innovators.
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      Barbara Lindsey on 01 Nov 08
       
      This is key.
Barbara Lindsey

Why Indie Directors Are Releasing Movies Online - For Free - TIME - 0 views

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viral videos

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 27 Dec 09 - Cached
  • So Vuorensola took matters into his own hands: he used a Finnish social networking site to build up an online fan base who contributed to the storyline, made props and even offered their acting skills. In return for the help, Vuorensola released Star Wreck in 2005 online for free. Seven hundred thousand copies were downloaded in the first week alone; to date, the total has now reached 9 million.
  • "Whether it's through piracy or distribution your film is out there on the Internet, so we decided to harness this."
  • "I have my blog, but I essentially gave the film to the audience and they ran with it," Paley says. "It wasn't self-distribution, it was audience distribution."
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  • "What I have learned is that the more freely you show the film, the more audiences will buy the DVD and surrounding merchandise," she says.
  • The Internet has become a free distribution machine, so what can you sell that makes money? Things you can't copy. They need to be things that are based around your audience. Directors cuts, merchandise, 35mm prints of your film."
Barbara Lindsey

Why Indie Directors Are Releasing Movies Online -- For Free - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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viral videos

shared by Barbara Lindsey on 27 Dec 09 - No Cached
  • "What I have learned is that the more freely you show the film, the more audiences will buy the DVD and surrounding merchandise," she says. "
  • And in May, documentary filmmaker Franny Armstrong launched a website called www.indiescreenings.net, where people can buy a license and then screen her climate-change documentary, The Age of Stupid. Armstrong incentivizes buyers by allowing them to keep any profits from ticket sales.
  • So Vuorensola took matters into his own hands: he used a Finnish social networking site to build up an online fan base who contributed to the storyline, made props and even offered their acting skills. In return for the help, Vuorensola released Star Wreck in 2005 online for free. Seven hundred thousand copies were downloaded in the first week alone; to date, the total has now reached 9 million.
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  • "Whether it's through piracy or distribution your film is out there on the Internet, so we decided to harness this." And he has managed to make quite a bit of money out of it.
  • The Internet has become a free distribution machine, so what can you sell that makes money? Things you can't copy. They need to be things that are based around your audience. Directors cuts, merchandise, 35mm prints of your film."
  • Barbara Lindsey on 27 Dec 09
     
    "What I have learned is that the more freely you show the film, the more audiences will buy the DVD and surrounding merchandise," she says.
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