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Mathieu Plourde

6 Ways To Use Instagram Hashtag Data to Set Social Media Campaign Goals - 1 views

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    ". By analyzing the data behind past, current and competitive Instagram hashtags, it's easy to set objectives by showing what works, monitoring progress and keeping track of audience reaction.  Whether you're interested in a high-level view or deep-dive data, the best way to set informed goals is to start with the numbers."
Mathieu Plourde

Since It Can't Sue Us All, Getty Images Embraces Embedded Photos - 0 views

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    Creating an embedding tool is a tacit acknowledgment that Getty simply can't police the use of its images to the four corners of the Internet. Craig Peters, a senior vice president at Getty, is more explicit about the futility of trying to maintain control of its images.
Mathieu Plourde

Obama Is Advised to Let Market Forces Decide Fate of MOOCs - 0 views

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    "The council's advice to the president is to hang back for the time being and "let market forces decide which innovations in online teaching and learning are best," rather than leaping to subsidize a favorite."
Mathieu Plourde

Best Places to Find Free Images Online - dustn.tv - 0 views

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    "If you are frequently sharing images online it's essential to have a virtual rolodex of go-to websites where you can quickly and effectively find free images. Not only that- but it's important that you have websites in which the legal restrictions are clear and concise. Below you will find my go-to list of the best sources for finding free photos for sharing online. I've also included some of my favorite paid resources as well just in case."
Mathieu Plourde

Faulkner heirs' lawsuit against Sony dismissed - 0 views

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    "The lawsuit said a character in the movie took a line from Faulkner's book, "Requiem for a Nun." "The past is never dead. It's not even past," Faulkner wrote in the book. In the movie, actor Owen Wilson, says: "The past is not dead. Actually, it's not even past. You know who said that? Faulkner. And he was right. I met him too. I ran into him at a dinner party.""
Mathieu Plourde

Please Don't Help My Kids - 0 views

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    I am not sitting here, 15 whole feet away from my kids, because I am too lazy to get up. I am sitting here because I didn't bring them to the park so they could learn how to manipulate others into doing the hard work for them. I brought them here so they could learn to do it themselves. They're not here to be at the top of the ladder; they are here to learn to climb. If they can't do it on their own, they will survive the disappointment. What's more, they will have a goal and the incentive to work to achieve it.
Mathieu Plourde

I'm an academic, but I do other things - 0 views

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    "Working 24/7 is not the only way to achieve success in academia. There, I've said it. A recent article described the working week of people across academia. This included the science professor who "compensates for the time he spends with his young children in the evening and at weekends by getting up before they do", and the early career researcher who "tries to take at least a half-day off a week". While many colleagues have similar working patterns and are happy (or at least not unhappy) working in this way, I am meeting increasing numbers of promising academics who reject it."
Mathieu Plourde

Werner Herzog texting while driving documentary "From One Second to the Next" is worth ... - 0 views

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    ""From One Second to the Next," the rather unlikely film below, came together when AT&T approached the legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog and asked if he would direct a series of short films warning people about the dangers of texting while driving."
Mathieu Plourde

Open Content, An Idea Whose Time Has Come - 0 views

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    Today the Getty becomes an even more engaged digital citizen, one that shares its collections, research, and knowledge more openly than ever before. We've launched the Open Content Program to share, freely and without restriction, as many of the Getty's digital resources as possible. The initial focus of the Open Content Program is to make available all images of public domain artworks in the Getty's collections. Today we've taken a first step toward this goal by making roughly 4,600 high-resolution images of the Museum's collection free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose.
Mathieu Plourde

A Comparison of Learning Management System Accessibility - 1 views

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    "Learning management systems have become the primary delivery platform in most higher education systems for course-related activities such as lecture presentations, readings and assignments, discussions, and quizzes. Until a few years ago, access for learners and instructors with disabilities was either poorly supported or not considered at all in many popular tools. Due to lack of, or limited, accessibility in learning management systems, students were not able to fully or independently participate in key course activities."
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    Thank you!!
Mathieu Plourde

Tech Savvy Is Essential to Student Affairs, Survey Finds - 0 views

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    People who work in student affairs say that using modern media-including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube-has become a big part of their jobs, according to the results of a new survey.
Mathieu Plourde

How to Make Prudent Choices About Your Tools - 0 views

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    After working with a tool for a while, you forget all the familiarity you've built up, all the muscle memory, all the ways that the tool is useful to you. Instead, all you see are the annoyances. But on the other hand, all you see about a new tool are the shiny new features, and you can't see all the hours and days you'll spend learning and adapting, fiddling and breaking the new tool.
Mathieu Plourde

You know what the rest of the world has figured out? The metric system. It's time the U... - 0 views

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    "But the metric system is another matter. "I don't understand why y'all don't use the metric system" is something I've heard too often. I don't argue with them because there is no technical argument for why we haven't adopted the Système Internationale - our refusal is based on emotion and familiarity."
Mathieu Plourde

University Pages: LinkedIn Launches New College Profiles - 0 views

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    The professional connections site LinkedIn is launching a new section of its social network Monday: University Pages targets younger users who want to connect with colleges. More than 200 schools now have profile pages, according to LinkedIn. As part of the new effort, the company also dropped its minimum age to 14 in the U.S. The new college profiles allow prospective students to see how many of a school's graduates are on LinkedIn, as well as a breakdown of the main fields in which they work. The pages also list the top employers of alumni.
Mathieu Plourde

Mooc.org: Google EdX online-classes partnership is "YouTube for MOOCs" - 0 views

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    "Google is teaming up with EdX, an open-source online education nonprofit started by Harvard and MIT, to create a new site that EdX's president compared to a "YouTube for MOOCs." The site is called mooc.org-MOOC being the unfortunate acronym for "massive open online courses." It will use the same EdX platform through which professors at Harvard, MIT, and other EdX-partner universities now offer their online courses. But it will be open to everyone, including businesses, governments, and private individuals as well as professors at non-EdX colleges."
Mathieu Plourde

The "Open" Education Alliance - 0 views

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    "It's time to call these fake open initiatives out for what they really are. It is time for us to stand up for and protect the idea and name that are so critically important to improving the affordability, quality, and equity of education around the world. If you need a handy, slightly derogatory term to use in describing fake open initiatives, I highly recommend the term "fauxpen": Faux in French means "false" or "fake." So fauxpen means "fake open." Examples of how to use this term appropriately would include "Fauxpen Education Alliance.""
Mathieu Plourde

Anthologize - 0 views

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    Use the power of WordPress to transform online content into an electronic book.
Mathieu Plourde

Bookless Public Library Opens In Texas - 0 views

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    "An all-digital public library is opening today, as officials in Bexar County, Texas, celebrate the opening of the BiblioTech library. The facility offers about 10,000 free e-books for the 1.7 million residents of the county, which includes San Antonio. On its website, the Bexar County BiblioTech library explains how its patrons can access free eBooks and audio books. To read an eBook on their own device, users must have the 3M Cloud Library app, which they can link to their library card. The app includes a countdown of days a reader has to finish a book - starting with 14 days, according to My San Antonio."
Mathieu Plourde

6 Open Educational Resources - 0 views

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    There's a subtle but steady shift happening in classrooms across the nation. More and more, schools are seeking efficient, cost-effective alternatives to using paper and supporting over-priced textbook companies. One way is by supporting technology in schools. Schools are seeking ways to upgrade and sustain wireless infrastructures and integrate mobile devices that broaden teaching and learning opportunities. Similarly, schools are decreasing their dependency on paper and incorporating digital workflows.
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