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John Pearce

Microsoft Research Launches Code Hunt Game to Teach Programming - 1 views

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    "Microsoft Research today launched Code Hunt, a browser-based game for anyone interested in learning how to code by playing. The premise is straightforward: the player must write code to advance in the game."
John Pearce

The Collection Online | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 4 views

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum's world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum's website for non-commercial use-including in scholarly publications in any media-without permission from the Museum and without a fee. The number of available images will increase as new digital files are added on a regular basis.
John Pearce

Guest speakers - Skype in the classroom - 3 views

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    "Ever wanted to introduce your class to a physicist? An explorer? How about an author? Explore a world of Skype lessons from experts and our partners to find a fantastic speaker for your class."
John Pearce

Twitter Exec Reports that Educators Dominate the Twitter sphere | EdSurge News - 1 views

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    "Educators like to tweet! Out of the 1/2 billion tweets that post every day, 4.2 million are related to education, according to Brett Baker, an account executive at Twitter.com. To put this in perspective, while you read this past sentence, over 3,000 edu-related tweets have flown across the Twitterverse."
John Pearce

Teacher training goes high tech | Articles | Pearson | The Learning Curve - 0 views

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    "Taylor Bousfield is practicing her teaching skills by leading a seventh-grade science class. She asks the students to give examples of a "solid," and gets a gamut of responses: the boy in the front row answers immediately; students in the back don't participate or fool around. Ms Bousfield draws the students out in turn and affirms their responses. All in all, a typical day of teacher training - except that the students are computer-generated avatars."
John Pearce

GravitySketch - Sketch in 3D space using Augmented Reality - 5 views

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    Gravity is a tool for creatives to quickly sketch their ideas in 3D space using immersive augmented reality. A pen and a pad specifically designed for sketching in the augmented environment. Free from any screen or computer, Gravity allows you to focus on what really matters, developing your ideas in an intuitive way. As you start to draw, objects will take shape in front of you. Through the landing pad controls, you can adjust the plane in which you sketch, giving volume to your creation. With augmented reality glasses, Gravity reinvents how you and your collaborators visualize and contribute to each other's ideas.
John Pearce

Programming Isn't Manual Labor, But It Still Sucks - 1 views

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    A very wry and humorous reflection on the life of a coder.
John Pearce

Microsoft - Education Empowered - Why Microsoft? - 1 views

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    "How does Office 365 compare to Google Apps? See how they work during a day in the life of a typical student to find out." An interesting view from Microsoft :)
John Pearce

Microsoft Office: Could The Cash Cow's Long-Awaited Death Finally Be Imminent? - 2 views

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    "For a long time, customers on volume licensing plans have just assumed its logical to keep paying for each desktop or notebook to get a copy of Office. But SoftWatch has highlighted in great detail what a lot of IT departments probably already suspected: That's an awful lot of expense for not a lot of return. Alternatives like Google Apps and Apple's free Office-like Pages, Numbers and Keynote come in at much lower prices and offer file compatibility along with much of the functionality of Microsoft's suite. While none are perfect substitutes, what IT has come to realize in the past half decade is that often productivity isn't about perfection."
John Pearce

Introducing Classroom for Google Apps for Education - 7 views

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    "Classroom helps teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly. When teachers create assignments, they can choose to share a single document, or automatically make a copy for each student. They can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback."
John Pearce

Smartphones: The Silent Killer Of The Web As You Know It - 4 views

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    "The PC is dying, long live the PC! These headlines have been thrown around for years, as sales of laptops and desktops have continually dwindled downward. The tablet has long been pinned as the murderer of the traditional computers and it certainly looked like it was going to be the one to do away with them (perhaps in a few years), with the focus of many companies such as Apple and Microsoft shifting towards a tablet-first world."
John Pearce

Creative Commons V4.0 for Education (new) - 4 views

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    "In 2013, we launched version 4.0 of the CC license suite and it is ready for anyone to use now to apply to their educational resources or other creative works. But what does that mean? What's new in 4.0 that wasn't there in 3.0? And just as importantly, what has stayed the same so that you don't have to worry about changes to licenses you weren't expecting? Lastly, I'll go over some examples of organizations and institutions who have already upgraded to the 4.0 version of whatever license they were using. Note: These slides are meant to be used as a resource by presenters - please download the file and see the detailed notes accompanying each slide for the actual information. "
John Pearce

A Eulogy for Twitter - Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic - 2 views

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    "Something is wrong on Twitter. And people are noticing. Or, at least, the kind of people we hang around with on Twitter are noticing. And it's maybe not a very important demographic, this very weird and specific kind of user: audience-obsessed, curious, newsy. Twitter's earnings last quarter, after all, were an improvement on the period before, and it added 14 million new users for a total of 255 million. The thing is: Its users are less active than they once were. Twitter says these changes reflect a more streamlined experience, but we have a different theory: Twitter is entering its twilight."
John Pearce

Meet The Woman Who Did Everything In Her Power To Hide Her Pregnancy From Big Data | Th... - 3 views

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    "Here's what she found: hiding from big data is so inconvenient and expensive that even Vertesi doesn't recommend it as a lifestyle choice. (She presented her findings at the Theorizing the Web conference in New York last week.) So what does that mean for companies who say users can just "opt out" if they aren't happy with (so-called) privacy policies? Can you be a person on the internet without sacrificing all your data to the Google Powers That Be? I talked to Vertesi about her experiment, its implications, and why hiding from big data can make you look like a criminal"
John Pearce

KFC Snack! In the Face is back: a fusion of gaming and marketing - 0 views

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    "KFC Australia has created its first ever branded mobile gaming app to directly target the young adult market. KFC teamed up with DT - part of Ogilvy Australia and STW - in October last year and released the KFC Snack! In the Face mobile gaming app for android and apple devices. The campaign ran from October 8 to December 2, 2013 where 2,500 free prizes were given away every day of the campaign plus multiple achievement prizes were available. All rewards were mobile-based and redeemable in all 600 KFC stores across Australia."
John Pearce

Printoo: Paper-Thin, Flexible Arduino™-Compatible modules! by Ynvisible - Kic... - 2 views

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    "Printoo is a platform of paper-thin circuit boards and modules. It gives makers an open-source, lightweight, flexible, and modular Arduino-compatible platform to create just about anything you want! What makes Printoo amazingly unique is that it comes with a range of printed electronics modules previously unavailable to the public. These are electronics building "blocks" of the future, only not so rigid."
John Pearce

My awkward week with Google Glass - 0 views

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    Hayley Tsukayama was prepared for the glasses to be buggy, and maybe even cause tension headaches. But what she wasn't prepared for was the attention.
John Pearce

The Crazy S**t People Search for on Google [infographic] - 2 views

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    "In 2010 I was in a panel at SXSW about how the Adobe Creative team was adapting to the way people were learning how to operate their products. The way people learned the program wasn't by taking classes or using tutorials anymore. People would now 'google' what they wanted to program to do and follow instructions from random people's forum posts - sometimes using very unorthodox methods to find a solution. Hey, I know that google search isn't just for learning skills and traits - we all have some stupid S**t we've search."
John Pearce

Gmail - View Activity Log and Remotely Log Off All Gmail Sessions - Google Docs - 0 views

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    If you have concerns someone is using your password to get into your Gmail or realized you left yourself logged in on a public computer/device, this tip will help you see where your gmail is being logged in from, and allow you to remotely log off any open sessions.
John Pearce

Helpouts by Google - 0 views

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    With Helpouts you can get help anytime from people with expertise across a range of topics - teachers, counselors, doctors, home repair specialists, personal trainers, hobby enthusiasts, and more. You can choose who to get help from based on qualifications, availability, ratings and reviews. Also, you can choose to get help right away or schedule a Helpout for later. While some Helpouts are free, you'll need to pay for some. Paying for help is easy using Google Wallet.
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