Thursday, November 11, 2010
swinglet CAM by senseFly
The swinglet CAM ( http://sensefly.com/products/swinglet... ) is an easy-to-use flying camera weighing a mere 500 grams. It is completely autonomous so that no piloting skills are required to operate it. After a few seconds of self-check and GPS signal acquisition, it can been thrown in the air and will automatically take aerial pictures according to a programmable flight plan. Once its mission is completed, it will get back home and land automatically. For more information, have a look at http://sensefly.com
Academic Excellence in 140 Characters
This is a video created by one of my students to summarize the research we conducted on the effects of Twitter on student engagement and grades. The journal article summarizing the study and our findings will be available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journa...
Abstract
Despite the widespread use of social media by students and its increased use by instructors, very little empirical evidence is available concerning the impact of social media use on student learning and engagement. This paper describes our semester-long experimental study to deter-mine if using Twitter -- the microblogging and social networking platform most amenable to ongoing, public dialogue -- for educationally relevant purposes can impact college student engagement and grades. A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre-health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co-curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement. To assess differences in engagement and grades, we used mixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, with class sections nested within treatment groups. We also conducted content analyses of samples of Twitter exchanges. The ANOVA results showed that the experimental group had a significantly greater increase in engagement than the control group, as well as higher semester grade point averages. Analyses of Twitter communications showed that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process in ways that transcended traditional classroom activities. This study provides experimental evidence that Twitter can be used as an educational tool to help engage students and to mobilize faculty into a more active and participatory role.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Coro Health
Coro Health’s technology adapts to the resident and can deliver content anywhere throughout a facility. The system provides customizable audio hardware for all levels of patient needs including speakers, pillow speakers, headphones and adjustable volume control, and can play content according to a pre-determined schedule or on-demand as needed for therapeutic purposes.
Automated updates keep the media current and appealing, while caregivers can easily adjust content, times and delivery location (individual or group areas), or provide feedback directly to a resident’s therapist to make modifications as needs and situations change. Prescriptions are developed by a team of board-certified music therapists and music and media designers with content tailored to an individual’s schedule, needs and preferences, in conjunction with their existing plan of care.
Believe It Or Not: Plug In America’s Electric Vehicle Hype Campaign
Believe It Or Not: Plug In America’s Electric Vehicle Hype Campaign
Here comes another spoof on the Mac vs. PC ad campaign, this one promoting electric vehicles over combustion engines. Plug In America, an advocacy organization that wants to reduce the United States’ dependence on petroleum, created the electric vehicle hype spots and calls them public service announcements.
Here comes another spoof on the Mac vs. PC ad campaign, this one promoting electric vehicles over combustion engines. Plug In America, an advocacy organization that wants to reduce the United States’ dependence on petroleum, created the electric vehicle hype spots and calls them public service announcements.
The Women's Conference 2010TWC-Tue-Conversation: When Women Lead
Watch live streaming video from twc2010 at livestream.com
The Women's Conference 2010
The Women's Conference 2010
The Nation's Premier Forum for Women October 24-26, 2010
The Nation's Premier Forum for Women October 24-26, 2010
Watch live streaming video from twc2010 at livestream.com
1960's BTF Film
British Transport Films was an organisation set up in 1949 to make documentary films on the general subject of British transport. Its work included internal training films, travelogues (extolling the virtues of places that could be visited via the British transport system - mostly by rail), and "industrial films" (as they were called) promoting the progress of Britain's railway network.
It was headed by Edgar Anstey until 1974, and from then until its demise by John W. Shepherd. Initially it made films mostly for the British Transport Commission, but after that organisation was broken up in 1963 the majority of its films were for the British Railways Board. However it also made films for London Transport, the British Waterways Board, the travel company Thomas Cook and the coach company Thomas Tilling.
A new "social" browser: RockMelt
RockMelt is a new browser, made for people who live on social sites like Facebook and Twitter. Here's the interview I had Friday with the founders.
A new "social" browser: RockMelt
Yves Smith - interviewed
Yves Smith - "Why Are We Rewarding Failure?"
US author Yves Smith spoke with RT about the cover-ups that went on leading up to and during the economic crisis, the real secrets of the crooks on Wall Street, and the doom and gloom of the future of America's economy. Yves Smith of nakedcapitalism.com and author of "Econned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism" told RT that there seems to be a big disconnect between sentiment in Washington and New York and the rest of the country. "Something like over 60% of the policy makers in Washington think the country is on the right track. Over 70% in America as a whole think it is on the wrong track," she said.
Yves Smith: Naked Capitalism, Sterling and Econned
Creator of the Naked Capitalism blog and author of Econned Yves Smith tells
Robert Miller why economists bear much of the blame for the credit crisis
and why the UK would be better off if sterling were devalued.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
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