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John Pearce

IFTF: Home - 0 views

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    FTF is an independent, non-profit research organization with a 45-year track record of helping all kinds of organizations make the futures they want. Our core research staff and creative design studio work together to provide practical foresight for a world undergoing rapid change.
John Pearce

Solve for X - 1 views

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    Solve For X is a place to hear about and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems. Radical in the sense that the solutions could help millions or billions of people. Radical in the sense that the audacity of the proposals makes them sound like science fiction. And radical in the sense that there is some real technology breakthrough on the horizon indicating that these ideas could really be brought to life.
John Pearce

7 Steps on How to Use the New Edmodo - Teq Blog - 0 views

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    "Edmodo recently released a new look for their website. Many times when a website changes. there's a ton of confusion about old features, new feature, and where everything is now located. Not with Edmodo! The simple and clear design makes it easy to navigate between all of the tools. So there shouldn't be too much confusion for existing users, and teachers who want to learn how to use Edmodo for the first time are met with a sleek and simple interface."
John Pearce

5 iPad upgrades iOS 7 brings to education | Education Dive - 8 views

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    "The striking new design of iOS7 features a flatter, more colorful appearance and has garnered a lot of attention for its looks, but the improvements are more than pixel deep. Here are the five changes in iOS7 that will make the most difference to educators:"
John Pearce

10 Amazing Uses for Wolfram Alpha - 3 views

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    "You may have heard of Wolfram Alpha, which is a "computational knowledge engine." That makes it sound a bit scary, but it's a great tool once you can wrap your head around it. Apple's Siri uses Wolfram Alpha for 25% of its searches. You can leverage that magic and put Wolfram Alpha to work for you - the empty search box on its homepage holds endless possibilities."
John Pearce

This Is Why No One Follows You on Twitter - 1 views

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    "Twitter users often make the decision of whether or not to follow someone in seconds, meaning that you have very little time to impress. We looked into why people chose not to follow profiles on Twitter, and crowdsourced a variety of reasons that users give for not hitting that "Follow" button."
John Pearce

Anybody can learn | Code.org - 2 views

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    Code.org is a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science education by making it available in more schools, and increasing participation by women and underrepresented students of color. Our vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer programming. We believe computer science should be part of the core curriculum in education, alongside other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, such as biology, physics, chemistry and algebra.
Roland Gesthuizen

A Tag With Killer UX That Finds Lost Keys and Pets | Design | WIRED - 0 views

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    "Keys hiding in couch cushions. Wayward wallets causing panic. It's estimated that each of us will spend six months of our lives looking for things we've lost. San Diego startup XY wants to make locating lost items as easy as Googling for directions. "
Seenea Thronwe

Topmost Reasons That Make Bad Credit 12 Month Loans A Favorable Financial Choice! - 0 views

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    Bad credit 12 month loans are provide the small amount to the all mind of applicant in a hassle free way. Online lenders of these loans scheme don't demand to pledge any collateral from borrower side.
John Pearce

Learning Guide:QR Codes - Wiki - 3 views

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    "QR Codes are similar to bar codes making it possible to access Web sites and messages through a camera phone. " This wiki from the University of Wyoming is a great collection of ideas, guides and tutorials.
Rhondda Powling

How To Embed Practically Anything On Your Blog or Website - 3 views

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    A post from Mashable. People want the hands-down, easiest way to embed practically things onto their blog or website. nThere are many7 tools to help you do that. "The nature of the web is such that sharing and republishing content is common - and often even encouraged. The problem is, we increasingly store bits of our data on various services scattered across the web. Aggregating that content into one centralized personal hub can be time consuming - requiring user to manually copy text and links or upload files and photos - or fiddling with RSS feeds trying to make content automagically appear"
John Pearce

What it Takes to Power the Cloud [Infographic] - ReadWriteCloud - 9 views

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    "Our infographic to end the week is one of the better ones I've run across recently. It's about data centers, one of the more talked about topics in recent months. This one explores power consumption by making comparisons between standard usage and what can be accomplished with more efficient technologies."
John Pearce

Iowa, Did You Know? « Ideas « Iowa Future - 2 views

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    "A new Iowa Future video, "Iowa, Did You Know?," highlights the drastic changes occurring in Iowa and the world, and shows that schools are struggling to keep up in today's dynamic new global environment. The video premiered at this week's School Administrators of Iowa Conference. This fast-paced video emphasizes the magnitude of the challenges ahead, the need for Iowans to support the changes that schools must make if our learners are to be career, college, and citizenship ready, and the imperative to do this now, rather than later."
John Pearce

Qrafter- Good QR Coder reader and generator - 6 views

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    "Qrafter is the first QR Code app that is designed for iPad instead of just taking the iPhone version and making it bigger! Qrafter is a free two-dimensional barcode scanner for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Its main purpose is to scan and parse the contents of QR Codes. It can also generate QR Codes when you purchase the "Pro Pack"."
Glenn McMahon

World Digital Library Home - 0 views

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    The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
John Pearce

Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Project Based Learning - 0 views

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    "Handheld computers are everywhere. From mobile phones to handheld games, it's a very familiar sight to see people of all ages gazing into screens that they can hold. Schools are discovering that handhelds like iPod touch and iPad make great learning tools. In fact, handhelds can play a big part in project based learning. Not only do projects motivate students because they use exciting handheld technology, but they also lend themselves to student voice and choice. Watch or read below to be inspired to bring project based learning into your classroom, learn strategies for creating effective driving questions, and see how an iOS handheld can play a role in the the planning, research/investigation, and presentation of projects."
John Pearce

Avoid Facebook | Social Network Awareness Community - 0 views

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    "Time is precious. Our website is dedicated to helping your loved ones, friends and colleagues. In the world of social media, the corporations believe that responsibility for security rests on the hands of the users. Our community website exists to protect our children and to make sure they know and practice safe surfing on Social media sites. Our aim is simple. We want to help parents how to recognize and deal with most common social media threats. We want to help children identify their responsibilities. Our website would best thrive on support from people like you. Join our community to get your social media questions answered, discuss your concerns and provide guidance to others within the community. Together we can avoid social media mistakes at home and professionally at work."
John Pearce

Preparing Your Mac for Mac OS X Lion - 2 views

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    "About a week and a half ago, Apple released the Golden Master version of Lion to Apple Developers. The final version is expected to hit the Mac App Store soon - perhaps in the next few days. Mac OS X Lion will bring lots of new features to the Mac operating system, including enhanced multi-touch gesture support, the ability to swipe between fullscreen apps and a new auto-save system. Upgrading an operating system can be a time-consuming process - no matter how easy the manufacturer tries to make it. To limit the potential headaches, we've put together this guide that should help you get your Mac ready for Lion."
John Pearce

Google Chrome Extensions - as Suggested by the Google+ Community! - Plus Your Business - 4 views

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    "We thought it would be fun to poll our Google+ Community and see what extensions make your lives easier and put together a friendly guide.  We received TONS of responses and are thrilled to share them with you all. In each section below, you will find a link to the extension in case you'd like to check it out and review's from your fellow Google+ Community members.  For a teaser, we'll let you know that the extension that was most popular out of all the responses comes from the Security/Privacy category.  Any guesses?  It is Last Pass which helps in storing all those pesky passwords!"
John Pearce

The Structure Sensor is the first 3D sensor for mobile devices - 1 views

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    The Structure Sensor is a 3-D sensing camera which clips onto the back of your iPad and hooks into its Lightning port. The camera has its own battery, and grabs a VGA image at up to 60fps. That doesn't sound like much, but it's plenty enough to allow you to make a 3-D map of your room just by swinging your iPad around, or to play 3-D augmented reality games that actually interact with real objects in your environment.
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