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Roland Gesthuizen

'Dating' Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission | Epicent... - 0 views

  • “Facebook, an endlessly cool place for so many people, becomes at the same time a goldmine for identity theft and dating — unfortunately, without the user’s control. But that’s the very nature of Facebook and social media in general. If we start to play with the concepts of identity theft and dating, we should be able to unveil how fragile a virtual identity given to a proprietary platform can be.”
  • Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s founder, made his name at Harvard in 2003 by scraping the names and photos of fellow classmates off school servers to feed a system called FaceMash. With the photos, Zuckerberg created a controversial system that pitted one co-ed against another, by allowing others to vote on which one was better looking.
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    "How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. .. an approach taken by two provocateurs who launched LovelyFaces.com this week, with profiles - names, locations and photos - scraped from publicly accessible Facebook pages."
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    Is scraping data off Facebook art or does this raise privacy issues? Interesting.
Roland Gesthuizen

Children on Learning Spaces - 0 views

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    This week our Year 4 team visited the RM REAL centre to look at how we might realise our ideas on learning spaces with the purchase of some new flexible furniture. Before we went I realised that whilst our teaching team have put considerable thought into how we might transform our learning spaces, we had not yet consulted the children.
John Pearce

Welcome to the Ultranet, by Ms Jo Blannin - 0 views

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    "This course will introduce users the Ultranet, the new Victorian Education Department initiative for 21st Century Learning. What is it, how does it work, how will teaching change, where should I start? "
John Pearce

Virtual Software Tours - Simbeck-Hampson - 0 views

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    "I would just like to know how 'it' works, what the benefits are, how complicated it is and what costs are involved? I wish there was someone who could give us a quick overview, a birds-eye view tour... " Using Skype you are taken on 45 minute tours of a range of software portals. Interesting
Roland Gesthuizen

BBC News - School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme - 1 views

  • "Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word or Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations," he said.
  • "Children are being forced to learn how to use applications, rather than to make them. They are becoming slaves to the user interface and are totally bored by it,"
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    The current programme of information and communications technology (ICT) study in England's schools will be scrapped from September, the education secretary has announced. It will be replaced by an "open source" curriculum in computer science and programming designed with the help of universities and industry.
John Pearce

YouTube - Born to Learn - 0 views

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    "Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how humans learn! Narrated by Damian Lewis"
Roland Gesthuizen

Free Technology for Teachers: Google Docs for Teachers - A Free eBook - 0 views

  • Some highlights from Google Documents for Teachers: Creating self-grading quizzes Creating, sharing, and publishing documents and presentations. And creating a personal Google Account.
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    "Yesterday I sat down and built a new guide, Google Documents for Teachers. The 40 page guide (embedded below) is designed to help teachers who have never used Google Documents. This document is part of a larger project that I hope to complete this month. Please leave a comment if you have suggestions about how to improve this document."
Roland Gesthuizen

How to: Create a bootable OS X Mavericks USB Flash Drive from original App Store packag... - 1 views

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    "Delivering Mavericks via a download is super conveient and easy for everyday users but can be unhelpful in several troubleshooting or advanced OS modification situations.  The only way to obtain a bootable OS X Mavericks USB flash drive is to create your own:"
John Pearce

Teach Collaborative Revision With Google Docs - 0 views

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    "Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom."
John Pearce

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    "Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how."
John Pearce

Knowledge 2.0 - 0 views

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    Our society has been irreversibly affected by a new phenomenon in InfoWhelm - an unparalleled access to a wealth of online information, never before seen or heard of. Learning has truly become a lifelong pursuit, and it can happen anytime and anywhere in our Information age. But how do we determine good from the bad, interpret right from wrong, and distinguish complete, accurate, and usable data from a sea of irrelevance and digital inundation? The skills to help us best understand and make use of the wealth of knowledge at our fingertips is essential to life and success both in the classrooms and workforces of the 21st century.
Roland Gesthuizen

How to change a file's last modified and creation dates on Mac OS X | Tangential Musings - 0 views

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    "This a very simple guide on how to change a file's date modified and date created attributes on Mac OS X (this should work on both 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard)."
Roland Gesthuizen

iClarified - Mac OS X - How to Find the Codecs and Specifications of a Video File - 0 views

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    "These are instructions on how to find the codecs used, as well as the other specifications, of a video file using your Mac and VideoSpec (Windows users can do the same using GSpot). "
Roland Gesthuizen

Screenr - @mrrobbo: Video explaining how we are using design spaces in the #ultranet to... - 0 views

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    " Video explaining how we are using design spaces in the #ultranet to organise the school daily bulletin"
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    Handy as I am also at a multi-campus school. Nice integration with GoogleDocs for online editing.
John Pearce

How Cybersmart are you? - 1 views

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    From ACMA Cybersmart this very catchy video has stats on what students are doing online as well as lots of targetted advice on what to do to prevent problems and what to do when problems arise. It also contains visual links to the support docs that Cybersmart can provided.
Roland Gesthuizen

What we learned from 5 million books | Video on TED.com - 0 views

  • Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
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    "Jean-Baptiste Michel looks at how we can use large volumes of data to better understand our world."
Roland Gesthuizen

What are the 4 R's Essential to 21st Century Learning? | HASTAC - 0 views

  • the beauty of teaching even the youngest kids algorithms and algorithmic or procedural thinking is that it gives them the same tool of agency and production that writing and even reading gave to industrial age learners who, for the first time in history, had access to cheap books and other forms of print.
  • Interestingly, unlike math, which can often be difficult to teach in all of its abstraction, algorithms do stuff.   Algorithms are operational.  You show kids how to use a program like Scratch or Hackasaurus and, very soon, they can actually manipulate, create, and do, in their very own and special way.   
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    "The classic "3 R's" of learning are, of course, Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic.  For the 21st century, we need to add a fourth R--and it will help inspire the other three:  Algorithm. "
Roland Gesthuizen

How to Run the iOS Simulator App in Windows for Testing Websites - 0 views

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    "The iOS Simulator is primarily targeted at Apple developers for them to develop iPad and iPhone apps on a Mac. That said, if you create websites, you can also use the iOS Simulator app to test your web designs on an iPhone or iPad without actually having the device. The iOS Simulator includes the native Safari app that is very close to the real thing. "
Roland Gesthuizen

Technical Integration - K12 Guide to going Google - 0 views

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    "This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, and alumni. Review these 8 steps outlining a typical Google Apps for Education technical deployment."
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    Includes professional development, templates and examples how to use GoogleApps on campus.
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