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Google’s Nifty Guide To Web Technology; It’s iBooks-Like But Built With HTML5 In what they’re calling a throwback to the original comic book they released to announce the launch of Chrome, Google has today unveiled a new site meant to educate users about browsers and the web. 20 Things I Learned About Browsers & The Web is actually an interactive web app meant to look like a children’s book. And while the book’s content is all about web technology, the interactive book itself shows off some of that technology as it’s built entirely in HTML5. And it’s very slick. In fact, it looks a lot like an Apple iBook — the book platform that Apple created for the iPad. Other cool things include the bookmark which doubles as a share button. As you might expect from Google, the entire book is also searchable. Google worked with illustrator Christoph Niemann on the book.

World Map Of Social Networks Shows Facebook’s Ever-Increasing Dominance What is Digital Culture? Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I may not look it, but I am 35 years old. This means I grew up with things like Merlin, Speak n’ Spell, and Atari! I surround myself with toys even to this day, including on the Internet. There are people my age, however, who don’t use mobile devices or even the Internet. In this day and age, that’s unheard of! We are now living in a digital age – the age of information. I think that digital culture is pervasive technology. Could you sit in front of a computer today and use it without an Internet connection? When I think of digital culture, I think of it as a part of ourselves, and an extension of society. Digital culture is amazing to me today as it was back when I first began my journey. Want to embed this video on your own site, blog, or forum?

Why SweetSearch Is the Best Search Engine for Students SweetSearch is the product of 100,000+ hours of research that went into creating findingDulcinea's 700+ Web Guides and thousands of articles. This content links to tens of thousands of Web sites that have been evaluated as credible by our research experts and librarian and teacher consultants. SweetSearch searches a "whitelist" comprised only of these 35,000 links, as well as sites we uncover by sifting through recommendations of librarians and teachers on their blogs and social bookmarking sites. You know those great lists you've been bookmarking for years? It's likely that, had we sat down at the beginning to find a list of 35,000 credible sites, we would not have done it nearly as well as we did by instead finding, evaluating, organizing and annotating hundreds of Web Guides to the best 25-75 sites about a particular subject, or the best 5-8 sources about thousands of events in history, famous people, or timeless news topics. The result? But enough of the "press release."

INSC 598 Digital Culture Spring 2006 Digital Culture Instructor: Terrence A. Brooks Wednesday 9:30 am - 12:30 pm MGH 248 Student essay topics More profundities Quantity: More information can be delivered New information processing centers: Patient bedside, cockpit of jet fighter, etc. The Self Digitized The Truth Digitized The Nation State Digitized Blue.us To create a Dot for INSC, the only thing *required* is to: - Select to share 'All Blue.Us Users' - Enter the tag: INSC 598 All the other items are optional. Profundities Terry Brooks: (1)The digital pipe permits more throughput than ever, and (2) The end of the digital pipe can be anywhereAdam Hindman: The things that people do in a digital culture are not new. The idea that 'Digital Culture' is really about the greater availability of information, technologies and the impact they have on the behavioral patterns of society as a whole - it drives a need for the 'culture' to adopt a greater level of discernment.

109 marzano Take Action: Involve Parents, Improve Achievement In his book What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action, Robert Marzano shows that 35 years of research reveal that parent and community involvement has an even greater impact on student achievement than orderly schools or teacher professionalism. Robert J. The importance of parent involvement on student achievement is explicit in the research, whereas the importance of community involvement is more implicit. Action Step 1. Communication does not occur automatically. All school communications should be issued in the major languages of the school's linguistically diverse students. One of the more important aspects of the SFUSD initiative is that it doesn't stop at simply listing ways that a school might enhance the flow of information. Studies indicate that phone calls to parents by the principal are particularly effective in decreasing truancy and absenteeism (Parker & McCoy, 1977; Sheats & Dunkleberger, 1979). Action Step 2.

Human Rights in the Information Society: Utopias, Dystopias and Human Values by Giovanni Sartor European University Institute Law DepartmentNovember 11, 2010 Abstract: I shall discuss the relevance of human rights for the information society. First I shall introduce the opportunities and dangers pertaining to the information society, referring to some literary or philosophical utopias and dystopias. I shall argue that human rights may provide some guidance for addressing such opportunities and dangers. I shall then consider how different human rights are involved in the deployment of information technologies, and the connections between such rights. Number of Pages in PDF File: 21 working papers series Suggested Citation Sartor, Giovanni, Human Rights in the Information Society (November 11, 2010).

Goal 1: Be a Beam #30Goals Posted by Shelly Terrell on Tuesday, February 1st 2011 Goal 1 of The 30 Goals Challenge 2011 Goal Short-term- Offer a student or other educator you see struggling support. It could be a colleague who is stressed or a student struggling with another subject. Long-term- In what ways can we help students learn to support each other throughout the learning process? Quote “You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. by Peter Senge, suggested by John Evans (@joevans) Need Ideas? Create a Wallwisher to celebrate someone’s birthday, achievement, anniversary, etc! Challenge: Be a beam and show support for a colleague or student by the end of today! Did you reflect on this goal?

Cities Without Borders: Digital Culture and Decentralization November 05 , 2004 | Digital Culture: What Matters? Place matters. Sounds simple doesn’t it? A no-brainer. And yet, sociologist Saskia Sassen at the University of Chicago has spent over a decade articulating precisely that point. But what of digital culture? The Global Cities Network "Cities are strategic places that concentrate command-and-control functions for the global economy" — Saskia Sassen, The Global City. The great economist Maynard Keynes warned against the effects of transnational capital mobility in the early 1900s. But Sassen points out that this tide only lifts a few boats: those within the global cities network. But the centralization of global finance is only one criteria one can use to discover global networks of cities. Cultural (Re)Production Digital culture is potentially global culture. By contrast, Sassen notes that global cities take on a distinct identity as they disconnect from their regional geography. Digital Cultural Networks Persons act. People matter. Paul B.

Researcher finds “network privacy” an online oxymoron | Northeastern University News Computer science professor Alan Mislove's research focuses on the structure, growth and applications of online social networks such as Facebook. Photo by Lauren McFalls. Online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LiveJournal are for most of us a tranquil diversion, a way of killing time and keeping in touch by uploading photos, streaming videos and posting pithy updates on our lives. But for Northeastern assistant professor of computer and information science Alan Mislove, they¹re the subject of serious investigation into how data on these networks can be used, and possibly, manipulated. Mislove, whose scholarship focuses on the structure, growth and applications of online social networks, recently developed an algorithm that can predict the personal information of any given Facebook user in the Rice University network, including campus residence, matriculation year and academic focus. Facebook users who belong to the same community tend to be each other’s friends.

A Distracting Article About Digital Distraction This morning, I pulled out my iPad to read The New York Times feature entitled Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction. After reading a few hundred words, I tweeted about reading it. Then I realized it was something like 4,000 words, so I took a break to go check Twitter. This is pretty much the standard way I read things nowadays. There are two underlying currents in the NYT piece that are never fully stated: 1) That 17 year-old Vishal Singh is actually drawing something very educational and meaningful from his technology addiction. 2) That eventually someone will come up with some sort of cure for this digital overload. There is no cure for this. That latter idea isn’t going to be easy for some people to swallow. The Internet was a magical place at that time. High school, at least when I attended it, was much more about learning social skills than educational information. I’m also reminded of what Bill Gates said at the Techonomy conference this past August.

The emotional words contained in hundreds of millions of messages posted to the Twitter website may hold the answer. | College of Computer and Information Science News ‘Huntington 100’ Students Honored for Their Achievements Northeastern’s newest “Hunt­ington 100,” a group of extra­or­di­nary stu­dents selected for their impres­sive achieve­ments and impact both on campus and around the world, was hon­ored last week at a recep­tion with uni­ver­sity leaders, fac­ulty, and staff. Learn More New Experiential Master’s Program Aligns Talent with High-​​Demand Industries North­eastern Uni­ver­sity has launched a new master’s degree pro­gram with a built-​​in expe­ri­en­tial learning com­po­nent, specif­i­cally designed for pro­fes­sionals who want to tran­si­tion into high-​​growth indus­tries, but do not have under­grad­uate degrees or work expe­ri­ence to match the needs of these industries. Learn More Video: PhD Program Energy 24/7 The Ph.D. program at the College of Computer and Information Science has a rapidly growing faculty engaging in cutting edge research with our students. Learn More

Don Tapscott: New York Times Cover Story on "Growing Up Digital" Misses the Mark The November 21 Sunday New York Times front-page story "Growing Up Digital" created quite a stir, with among other things more than 430 comments on the New York Times site within 48 hours. As the author of the actual book Growing Up Digital, its recent sequel Grown Up Digital, the person who originally defined the Net Generation back in 1997 and the director of the biggest research projects to date on this generation, many people have asked me for my thoughts (which curiously were not solicited in the writing of the article). In the article Matt Richel argues that the experience of growing up in the digital age is producing a generation that is "wired for distraction." Richel follows the life of a bright 17-year-old Vishal Singh who is behind on his studies and not doing well in school because he chooses to do activities on his computer over reading a book and doing his assignments. The article cites anecdotal evidence that teachers are having difficulty getting kids' attention.