David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence. Creating a Culture of Innovation. Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit--And You Should Too. Innovate Like Google. Faking It. October 11, 2012–January 27, 2013 The urge to modify camera images is as old as photography itself—only the methods have changed. Nearly every type of manipulation we now associate with digital photography was also part of the medium's pre-digital repertoire: smoothing away wrinkles, slimming waistlines, adding people to a scene (or removing them)—even fabricating events that never took place.
This international loan exhibition traces the history of manipulated photography from the 1840s through the early 1990s, when the computer replaced manual techniques as the dominant means of doctoring photographs. Most of the two hundred pictures on view were altered after the negative was exposed—through photomontage, combination printing, overpainting, retouching, or, as is often the case, a blend of several processes. In every instance, the final image differs significantly from what stood before the camera at any given moment. PicStory- A Digital Storytelling App. Mock App - PicStory. Design thinking re-envisions higher education. BrainStore - The Idea Factory. Dyson likes 'wrong thinking' James Dyson harks back to an era when corporations named after people became household words -- think Pillsbury, Honeywell and Dayton.
Now Dyson, the British creator of the pricey Dyson bagless vacuum cleaner and the company's TV pitchman, is approaching household-name status. He's a world-famous inventor, a familiar face on TV and, through his firm, Dyson Ltd., holds about one-fifth of the U.S. vacuum cleaner market. As evidence of his stature, Dyson was in Minneapolis last week to speak at Target Corp.'s Design Month, a series of meetings held for the firm's several hundred internal product designers and engineers who create company-branded clothing and housewares.
Dyson's message: "I encourage wrong thinking, which is the unconventional or obtuse way of doing things. " To underscore this point, Dyson says he went through 5,127 prototypes to design his first vacuum cleaner. "Wrong thinking can end up in failure,'' he explains. Manufacturing advocate "I didn't have anything when I started. Edward Tufte: Beautiful Evidence (Highlights) Privacy Icons Legal Hackathon. People rarely read privacy policies, but they're important. So let's make it easier for users to understand the most meaningful things a website does with their data. To accomplish this Disconnect is hosting a project to crowd-source -- think Wikipedia -- turning websites' privacy policies into a set of Creative Commons licensed privacy icons. The project also will publicly launch with an API so that any developer can build tools using the icons and crowd-sourced data. Here's a link to the current iteration of the project and a rudimentary Firefox add-on we created for the hackathon: Participants Our goal for the hackathon is for participants to iconify 1,000 (or more) privacy policies, so we ask each participant to read the privacy policies of 10 websites and apply the privacy icons to those sites.
Everyone is welcome to participate, no coding skills are required. The 6-3-5 Method (BrainWriting) YouTube. Most ed-tech startups suck! Here’s where they’re going wrong. This is a guest post by professor, Reynol Junco We’re in the middle of an Educational Technology (“ed-tech”) startup boom. Research by GSV Advisors shows a sharp increase in investments in education companies almost doubling between 2007 and 2011 to $930 million. Data from the National Venture Capital Association shows that investment in ed-tech companies has almost tripled between 2002 and 2011. It’s no surprise that the number of ed-tech startup companies has grown exponentially and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. The market is flooded with these startups and clearly, there is a great deal of interest from venture capital firms.
Many ed-tech startups typically build their product because one of the founders had a particular issue in college that they think can be addressed with a new technology or by building an education version of an existing technology. I hate to break it to you… Ed-tech startups rarely, if ever, talk with educators about designing their product. Udacity Just Raised A Staggering $15 Million In Funding.
The money is flying around MOOCs like you wouldn’t believe. One of the leaders in the Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) industry, Udacity , just raised a staggering amount of money to help propel its vision of increasing the depth and breadth of its online offerings. Udacity, the online learning platform founded by former Stanford professor / Google X founder Sebastian Thrun, made the big announcement yesterday. In it, he disclosed that some of the biggest names in venture capital are now on board the Udacity train.
They include Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and Steve Blank. In total, Udacity has now raised more than $22 million. Udacity is currently seeing more than 750,000 enrolled students (since January) and currently offers 14 courses. What Will They Do With The Money? So what’s Thrun and Udacity going to do with the new funds? See Also: 5 Potential Ways MOOCs Will Evolve The Good News For Teachers The Current Courses Offered.