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bernard tan

IconsPedia - 6 views

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ICON TWITTER

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  • bernard tan on 12 Jul 11
     
    A lot of high quality polished icons here! They come mostly with creative common. It would be handy resources for us or the lecturers.
  • jasonyai on 12 Jul 11
     
    Wow! Nice. Should have used some of these for my assignments.
wittyben

Digital Literacy: Find Free (and Legal) Images for Your Classroom « Indiana Jen - 3 views

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images

shared by wittyben on 21 May 13 - No Cached
  • wittyben on 21 May 13
     
    For MDs and the rest in CeL, here's some URLs for you to find free & legal images for teaching and learning purposes.
  • bernard tan on 22 May 13
     
    Thanks. will be very useful for our open platforms appoach. Very good list of creative commons resources put together
  • Rachel Tan on 29 May 13
     
    Compfight digged my curiosity, http://compfight.com/search/rubber-band-ball/1-0-1-1, photo stock at $1 - cheap but not free. We have to really open our eyes to read the fine prints to ensure its free
yeuann

VidWiki - Microsoft Research - 0 views

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research video annotation flipped-classroom

shared by yeuann on 14 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Recent efforts by organizations like Coursera, edX, Udacity and Khan Academy have produced thousands of educational videos logging hundreds of millions of views in their attempt to make learning freely available to the masses. While the presentation style of the videos varies depending on the author, they all share a common drawback: videos are time-consuming to produce and cannot be easily modified after release. With that in mind, we present VidWiki, an online platform to leverage the massive numbers of online students viewing videos to iteratively improve video presentation quality and content, similar to other crowdsourced information projects like Wikipedia. Through the platform, users annotate videos by overlaying content on top of the video, lifting the burden on the instructor to update and refine content.
  • yeuann on 14 Apr 13
     
    Crowdsourcing the flipped classroom - one step further?
bernard tan

Google preparing to roll out paid subscription channels on YouTube - TechSpot - 0 views

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YouTube

shared by bernard tan on 07 May 13 - No Cached
  • Google is preparing to roll out a paid subscription service for some of the specialist video channels on YouTube.
  • The subscription service is expected to be rolled out soon, meaning it could be launched as early as this week.
  • As professionally produced videos that were once only available on network television become more common on the Internet, YouTube is looking at ways to leverage the medium and expand their revenue stream using the subscription-based model. In the past 18 months, YouTube has reportedly spent more than $200 million on advances to dozens of start-up channels.
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  • Earlier this year it was also suggested that YouTube could be working on pay-per-view and à la carte options for video channels.
  • bernard tan on 07 May 13
     
    Paid subscription for youtube channel services to roll out soon, as soon as this week. It could be bad or good news. More people will surely hope onboard YouTube when there is more money and folks living off YouTube will finally get to earn some money. Contents may now come with price tag to be able to view. for Niko and Video Team
yeuann

Harvard-MIT's edX Brings Research Focus to Cloud Ed | Cloudline | Wired.com - 0 views

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learning instructional web feedback research

shared by yeuann on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • While edX shares the common theme of scaling the online experience to very large groups, it adds an important component lacking from the various Stanford spin-offs, namely research.
  • EdX partners will be doing more than putting content online, they will be studying how people learn in these environments in an effort to improve both classroom and online learning.
  • yeuann on 08 May 12
     
    According to this article, the most significant factor is not the scaling of online instruction (which isn't a new thing already) _but_ the ability for educators to study how people learn in various environments. Timely and accurate feedback is an essential component, not only for students, but also for educators, in improving the quality and relevancy of education for smaller groups. Personally, I think that the rise of massively open online courses (MOOCs) will ironically lead to a huge increase in the number of customized and localized courses tailored for niche sub-groups. Instead of seeing a huge dissemination of one-size-fits-all education, we will see an increasing diversity of different educational strategies, similiar to how the diversity of an ecosystem increases when its geographic size increases. It's a very exciting time for educators out there indeed...
Kartini Ishak

7 Tips for Igniting Your Content With Social Media - 1 views

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socialmedia reference tips content social media education learning

shared by Kartini Ishak on 07 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • "Content is fire. Social media is gasoline."
  • 1. Know Your Audience If you don't know who your audience is, how will you ever connect with them? Most brands have an understanding of their audience's demographics - age, gender, HHI, ethnicity. But you have to go beyond these statistics to get a better understanding of their interests, needs, mindsets, and behaviors to truly make a connection and become an important part of their lives. In addition to the standard methods of audience discovery - industry research, focus groups, and brand surveys - you can also use social media data to build audience personas. Social monitoring software, Facebook Custom Audience, social referrals to your website, and question-and-answer sites are just a few of the sources you can use to learn more about your audience.
  • 2. Provide Value Your content must provide some type of value to your audience. That value could be education, increased productivity, entertainment, or cost savings. To the consumer, it shouldn't seem like marketing, even though we know it is by nature. It's providing long-term awareness and brand recall. It's making sure your brand is right there with the consumer at each step along their path to purchase so that when it comes time to make a decision, you're the first brand that comes to mind.
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  • 4. Look Beyond Facebook and Twitter Creating content doesn't automatically mean users will come consume it and engage with your brand as a result. You must draw attention to the content through owned, earned, and paid methods across a variety of channels, not just the big ones. Ask yourself how else you can maximize the value of each piece of content and each campaign: Can you make the content more visible and sharable on your website? What other social channels does your audience use besides Facebook and Twitter? Can you use sites that accept submissions of specific content, like Visual.ly for infographics or Online-Sweepstakes.com for contests? How much are you able to pay to distribute your content on sites such as Outbrain or Taboola? Are you using Google+ to link to content on your website? (If the answer is no, I urge you to start today. Google+, while lacking in the engagement department, has a major impact on organic ranking.)
  • People share things not only because those things look good, but because those things make them look good.
  • 7. Measure Success Before creating a single piece of content or posting one Facebook message, determine the objective of your content and what metrics you will use to measure performance.
  • hile the specific metrics in each bucket will vary based on your strategy, objectives, and resources, some common ones are: Awareness - impressions, reach, mentions Consumption - clicks, visits, referrals Engagement - likes, shares, +1s, time on site Actions - leads/sales, PDF downloads, newsletter sign-ups, site navigation
  • Kartini Ishak on 07 Mar 14
     
    ""Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.""
  • Obi-Wan Fareed on 07 Mar 14
     
    Light my fire - The Doors :-)
Ashley Tan

Open educational practices - 0 views

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oer open educational resources practices cel

shared by Ashley Tan on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • I spoke about Open Educational Practices, (including Open Educational Resources and Open Scholarship) a subject which I am learning more about all the time as the movement grows and gains traction. You see, the idea behind open practices is that anyone can gain access for free, at any time and in any place - courses, software, ideas, knowledge, people... OEP requires everything to be open - for access, scrutiny and repurposing. So whether it's licensing agreements such as Copyleft or Creative Commons, or open access journals, or even massively online open courses, the open educational practices are gaining ground and influence in the academic world.
  • It's not going to be easy to change a model where knowledge has become a commodity though. Too many powerful people and organisations stand to lose a lot if everything becomes 'free' and open. But things are changing slowly. The publishing houses who once had a strangle hold on academic journals are beginning to lose their grip. Some are having to change their business models. Google Reader and Google Books for example, are giving us all more than a glimpse of the pages of just about every book that has ever been published. And open access journals are opening up knowledge for all without payment. So when a student comes up against a paywall - what will they do? They will go elsewhere of course - to the free versions that are out there on the web.
Pratima Majal

Wylio.com - free pictures - 2 views

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creativecommons wylio photos

shared by Pratima Majal on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
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  • Free Creative Commons pictures the Wylio way:
Shamini Thilarajah

TODAYonline | Tech | Mobile Apps | Find your friends on foound - 0 views

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shared by Shamini Thilarajah on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Information on hangouts can also be pushed to Facebook and Twitter.
  • The startup was initially funded by Spring Singapore for $50,000 and it recently raised US$500,000 in seed funding in September. It has received backing from big names in the global technology scene. Joichi Ito from venture fund Neoteny Labs, who's also chief executive of Creative Commons and an early investor and board member of Twitter, and Batara Eto, who is co-founder and former chief technology officer of Mixi, Japan's largest social network, have joined foound's board of directors and advisory board respectively.
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      Shamini Thilarajah on 19 Nov 10
       
      if it's a free app, it's worth trying :)
  • Kartini Ishak on 19 Nov 10
     
    Singapore's version of "Twitter". 
Shamini Thilarajah

License your photos and more on Facebook - 1 views

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creative commons facebook

shared by Shamini Thilarajah on 08 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Facebook has a great deal of content you are creating, uploading, posting, and sharing.  Why not license that as well so that your Flickr photos and your Facebook photos are both included. So that your blog posts and your status messages are both licensed.
bernard tan

Challenges of Interface Design for Mobile Devices » Yahoo! User Interface Blo... - 1 views

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mobile design iphone yui interface usability

shared by bernard tan on 28 Dec 10 - Cached
  • designing for a mobile device can lead to a solution that is worlds different than its desktop equivalent.
  • Context of Use
  • Users have a very specific need and desire to accomplish their goal in the easiest and fastest way possible. This fact alone helps explain why mobile interfaces are designed the way they are
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  • Feature sets are optimized to streamline common use cases Use typography to show hierarchy and importance Features are progressively displayed Large buttons are used to make interactions actionable
  • Designing with awareness to context will yield a more atomic design that instead of introducing users to a proverbial blank canvas, will guide them toward accomplishing important tasks. Having to deal with slow data speeds, high network latency, smaller screens, and an unpredictable mode of use only reinforce the need to isolate an application’s essential features and offer access to them when contextually appropriate. Next time you design an interface for a mobile device, remember to consider context of use and context of the medium as part of your design strategy.
  • Dealing with phone numbers and other mobile friendly data Displaying information on a smaller screen Not using a cursor Device speed and network latency
  • Context of the medium
  • To design an experience that can gracefully coexist with others tools, one needs to understand what kind of media can be processed by specific mobile internet browsers, and when onboard applications are launched.
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      bernard tan on 28 Dec 10
       
      need to find out hows web app can interact with other apps... especially how we can integret that into harmonia and dropbox feature...
  • Using traditional web development techniques of creating fluid designs that scale horizontally is the fastest way to deploy a single design to many different mobile devices.
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      bernard tan on 28 Dec 10
       
      for azhar ... on creating a fluid layout for harmonia so that it fit all devices.
  • bernard tan on 28 Dec 10
     
    While reading for ideas on doing mock up mobile interface, i stumbled this. very interesting read on designing for usability for mobile devices and why it is not just a scale down version of your actual desktop website.
rahim azhar

What Is Ookaboo? | About Ookaboo - 0 views

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shared by rahim azhar on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Ookaboo is a collection of free pictures, indexed by precise terms from the semantic web. All pictures on Ookaboo are in the public domain or are under Creative Commons -- that means that you can use our pictures for your web site, classwork, or other creative projects!
Ashley Tan

Get picky with the Google Picker API - The official Google Code blog - 2 views

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google api apps

shared by Ashley Tan on 26 Jul 11 - No Cached
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  • Users have content across many Google properties: YouTube, Picasa Web Albums, Google Docs, and more. Now we have a common interface for your users to select Google content. The Google Picker API provides a familiar-looking dialog box that’s easy for you to integrate into your apps. Your users can quickly browse their own content without ever leaving your page or app.
bernard tan

8 Bit Color vs 16 Bit Color - Working With 16 bit Images In Photoshop, Page 2 - 0 views

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design photoshop

shared by bernard tan on 12 Sep 11 - Cached
  • So why, then, would it be better to work with a 16-bit image? One word - flexibility. When you're editing an image in Photoshop, sooner or later, if you continue making edits, you're going to run into problems. The most common problem is what's known as "banding", where you've lost so much detail in the image that Photoshop can no longer display smooth transitions from one color to the next. Instead, you get an ugly stair-stepping effect between colors and tonal values.
  • bernard tan on 12 Sep 11
     
    Choice when selecting 8 bit or 16 bit when editing in photoshop
  • bernard tan on 12 Sep 11
     
    William - answer to your question earlier. Can read the whole article if you're interested :)
casey ng

Apps in iPhone is listening to you - 0 views

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iphone apps android

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  • casey ng on 27 Apr 11
     
    Cellphone users say they want more privacy, and app makers are listening. No, they're not listening to user requests. They're literally listening to the sounds in your office, kitchen, living room and bedroom. A new class of smartphone app has emerged that uses the microphone built into your phone as a covert listening device -- a "bug," in common parlance. But according to app makers, it's not a bug. It's a feature! The apps use ambient sounds to figure out what you're paying attention to. It's the next best thing to reading your mind.
Sally Loan

Blackboard: Now More "Open" | Hack Education - 0 views

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shared by Sally Loan on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • The change will allow instructors to publish and share their courses — syllabi, handouts, and so on — under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY).
  • This will mean that, for the first time, content in Blackboard will be available to those who aren’t registered for a course — learners not enrolled, learners not on campus. Professors will be able to share their material to Facebook and Twitter.
  • Blackboard also says that it’s revising its policies so that institutions that do open up their course materials this way don’t incur any additional licensing costs when people access the materials, even via webinars and the like. That means non-traditional, non-enrolled, non-revenue generating students will be able to access the material as “guests” without forcing schools to pay more.
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  • “Sharing educational content is much more complicated that simply clicking the new ‘Share’ button,” he writes. How will universities handle the licensing of courses? Is it up to individual faculty? Will universities devise larger strategies to connect their open course content to other online efforts — both on their own campuses and alongside others?
  • Sally Loan on 20 Oct 11
     
    Not sure this will happen to NIE? I wander..
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