Comic Books as Journalism: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction - Kirstin Butler An unusual summer reading roundup of books that blend meaty subject matter with engaging visual storytelling Who doesn't love comic books? While infographics may be trendy today (and photography perennially sexy), there's just something special about the work of the human hand. Good old-fashioned manual labor, literally, brings a unique richness to storytelling where words alone sometimes fall flat. I've put together a list of some of my favorite graphic non-fiction. I've long loved authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. The Beats invokes the immediacy of 1940s and '50s art, music, and writing; even better, it provides political context and introduced us to an entire panoply of artists whose contributions to the era are lesser known. How do you make 500,000 declassified documents yield their stories? Through the parallax narratives of Neufeld's five characters, we come away with a fittingly complex perspective of the human experience of this news story.
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Les éco-centres 2.0 : nouvelle approche green du travail ? Après les réseaux intelligents d’électricité (smart grid) et d’eau (smart water), les bâtiments intelligents (smart building) ou encore la mobilité intelligente (covoiturage, autopartage…), voici le travail intelligent ! Face aux enjeux environnementaux, l’organisation du travail dans les villes pourrait être profondément transformée avec l’arrivée des éco-centres 2.0. Cette nouvelle génération de télécentres, également connue sous l’appellation Smart Work Center, repose sur des lieux de travail partagé, proches des bassins d’habitation, offrant un panel de services et d’équipements mutualisés. Connectés au très haut débit, équipés de salles de téléprésence, ces éco-centres 2.0 visent à décongestionner le trafic urbain et à réduire l’empreinte carbone des villes. La France se penche sur les écocentres Développés en réseau, ces nouveaux centres de travail sont l’une des briques de la construction de villes durables. Smart Work Center ? Comment fonctionnent ces fameux Smart Work Centers ?
50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Learning Lesson Planning and Tools Useful Tools
Mondes virtuels Plongez dans l'histoire et le futur des mondes virtuels afin de mieux comprendre, derrière l'enthousiasme ou l'agacement que génère un monde comme Second Life, les enjeux techniques et sociétaux des univers virtuels. Lors du succès de Second Life, de 2003 à 2007, les « univers virtuels » eurent de nouveau le vent en poupe. Ce ne fut pas la première fois, en deux décennies, qu'ils bénéficièrent ainsi des feux de la rampe. La réalité virtuelle fit la Une des médias dès la fin des années 1980, l'époque des expérimentateurs de la Nasa vêtus de combinaisons de cuir moulantes et coiffés d'énormes casques d'immersion, et du film Le Cobaye, pour ceux qui s'en souviennent. Puis, la réalité virtuelle sombra dans l'oubli jusqu'en 1995, année de l'apparition du Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML, langage de description d'univers virtuels en trois dimensions) qui devait, pensait-on, transformer le Web en un gigantesque espace 3D. Nouvel échec ; nouvel oubli.
index ranks ICT-savvy cities by benefit for citizens Ericsson and Arthur D. Little's latest Networked Society City Index ranks cities in terms of their ability to use ICT to benefit their citizens Top-ranking cities Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm show the benefits of engaging a society as a whole London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing complete the top 10 ICT-based applications such as e-government and smart transport can improve citizens' lives, helping to overcome common challenges in urban environments The second edition of Ericsson's (NASDAQ:ERIC) Networked Society City Index ranks 25 of the world's largest cities according to their ability to transform ICT to social, economic and environmental benefits. The top three cities in the index - Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm - have successfully met many social, economic and environmental targets by making extensive investments in ICT. In Delhi, several promising initiatives aim to leverage ICT for the benefit of citizens. Notes to editors:
ToonDoo - World's fastest way to create cartoons! How Data is Making Rio de Janeiro a Smarter City - TNW Latin America Do you plan to attend 2014 FIFA World Cup or 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro? If so, the city is already getting ready to welcome you. Here is how Rio is using technology and data management to get smarter. Manage information to avoid tragedies In April 2010, the State of Rio de Janeiro was hit by a natural disaster, when floods and mudslides killed over 200 people and made 15,000 homeless. Rio Operations Center, the city’s control room Although its initial focus was floods, the scope of Rio Operations Center expanded considerably. The Center is part of the Smarter Cities initiative that IBM has been promoting since 2007. The Center itself is a paradise for data geeks: the amount of information displayed on its 300 screens is impressive, starting with the images streamed from 200 traffic cameras (soon to be 400). Sharing data with the public through Twitter and apps Although the amount of data that is made publicly available is still fairly limited, this could soon change.
NCTE High School Matters: Annotating text using Google Docs by Tara Seale Recently, I wrote an article for the Google Docs Blog titled Google Docs: the tool for the 21st century classroom. The focus was how to use Google Docs and folders in an English classroom. Besides the ideas in the Google post, my students are also using Google Docs to annotate articles, short passages, or poems. See the annotation doc for the poem "Ozymandias". To create this annotation doc go to Create New>Document. Under Alignment, use the drop down to select Horizontal: Left and Vertical: Top. Repeat the steps for the other cell. Share this document with students as a View Only document. Click on To View. and then insert email addresses in the Invite box. Some example annotations: Ozymandias The Sniper If you are new to Google Docs, and you need to learn more about how to use Google Docs in an English classroom, Google and the Writing Magazine teamed up to create a great Revision Lesson for Teens.
New York can’t & shouldn’t try to rival Silicon Valley New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, envisions his city wresting the title of “technology capital” of the U.S. from Silicon Valley and has embarked on an ambitious plan to build or expand a science and engineering campus in New York. But in hearing the talk, it sounds like Bloomberg believes he can build his way to Silicon Valley success, which I don’t think is possible. And as others are pointing out, it shouldn’t be the goal, either. A discussion in the New York Times‘ Room for Debate roundtable explores the question of whether New York can rival Silicon Valley, and most of the participants come away saying no. You can’t teach entrepreneurship Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, points out that you can’t expect a campus to build a spirit of entrepreneurship, which she says can’t be taught. Rather than find a way to transplant Mountain View into Manhattan, New York should provide greater support for risk-taking. New York Flavor Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley
62 Ideas, Lessons and Humor for English Teachers #engchat I start back to school today for my eleventh year of teaching next door to my own high school English teacher. Mrs. Caldwell taught me to write and love literature. She's a fantastic teacher who is always innovating. Just yesterday, she showed me something new she'd created for her class. She never settles and has won STAR teacher over 20 times. There is no wonder I admire and want to be more like her. An indexed list of Common Core English Language Arts standards and lessons aligned with those standards.