An Introduction to The Internet of Things. Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a four-part series on The Internet of Things. Imagine a world where devices, household objects, and even people are connected on a series of wireless networks. A world full of constant communication and limited privacy is closer than we may think. Earlier this month, the Pew Research Internet Project released a research report regarding the future of the Internet and its applications. The report specifically focuses on the newly adapted “Internet of Things”, or otherwise known as the “Cloud of Things”. Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. conducts opinion polling, demographic research, and other social scientific research to inform the public about trending national and international issues. A sample of the many areas of life that will be connected through the Internet of Things.
The Internet of Things suggests a world where all humans and objects are connected via WiFi, constantly sending data back and forth. Hikari Matsuo. Technology for Education - Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation. Five Best Personal Project Management Tools. I am a social librarian. Digital world demands from a librarian to skillfully use one more tool – social media. Library Connect together with Joe Murphy prepared a wonderful infographic that pictures many faces of the social librarian. The social librarian is enmeshed in the fabric of the Internet of Things as curator, educator, filter and beacon. In this complex, dynamic and demanding environment, librarians are extending themselves and empowering library users.
You don’t have to undertake all the activities listed below. Which portrait is closest to what you’re already doing? Click on the image to enlarge. More posts about libraries: About Ola Kowalczyk Collecting bits and pieces from the web about books, libraries, and reading. PostsTwitterFacebook Leave a comment Get free updates via email Powered by MailChimp Featured products Google Case for Nexus 7 Grey/Red This original Google case for the 7-inch Nexus 2013 is available in four color patterns, and features a built-in stand for viewing and typing.
Amazon $38.20. Is your social profile in line with your professional persona? | Spherion. As much as we might like to believe social media is just for our personal use and pleasure, the truth it is being used just as much for business purposes—from hiring and collaborating with coworkers, to client relationship-building and professional networking. With this in mind, it is wise to ensure you are not discrediting yourself professionally by presenting an opposing image on social sites. Take a close look at your online profiles and ask yourself this question: Is my social profile working in harmony with my professional objectives? If not, here are a few options to help you manage your online image more strategically: Create a universal social profile that’s audience appropriate.
A universal profile that works for family and friends as well as business associates is going to require some scrutiny and polishing. If you are currently posting personal tidbits alongside business-related material, you are speaking to two very different audiences that don’t necessarily jive. Facebook Study On Language And Personality. A group of University of Pennsylvania researchers who analyzed Facebook status updates of 75,000 volunteers have found an entirely different way to analyze human personality, according to a new study published in PLOS One. The volunteers completed a common personality questionnaire through a Facebook application and made their Facebook status updates available so that researchers could find linguistic patterns in their posts.
Drawing from more than 700 million words, phrases, and topics, the researchers built computer models that predicted the individuals’ age, gender, and their responses on the personality questionnaires with surprising accuracy. The “open-vocabulary approach” of analyzing all words was shown to be equally predictive (and in some cases moreso) than traditional methods used by psychologists, such as self-reported surveys and questionnaires, that use a predetermined set of words to analyze. Basically, it's big data meets psychology. PLOS One Here's the breakdown by age:
What inner city kids know about social media, and why we should listen — I.M.H.O. I know which of my teenage students smokes weed in the park after class on Fridays, and which other students are with him. I know which ones are struggling with making friends in their first few weeks at college, and which ones aren’t. I know which of my students chafe against overly strict parents on a regular basis. I know which one spends every weekend in the hospital due to a chronic condition.
I know which ones got arrested last night. I know all these things because I follow them all on various social media services. Are actual teachers—that is, those employed by the school system—tapped into this wealth of information from their students? Becoming Techie Teacher First, I want to clear the air before I muddle it up again. Which is why, when I found myself speaking in front of ~150 teenagers for six weeks this summer, it was unlike anything I’d ever done before.
One of the goals behind Civic Innovation Summer was, in fact, violence reduction. I was a bit surprised. Every Day I’m Tumbling. By R. Toby Greenwalt on June 7, 2013 If there’s a theme to The Wired Library, it’s this: technology and libraries are a natural fit because of their shared democratic potential. More than anything else, the tools of the web allow libraries to build diverse networks of library users and create conversations involving all types of personalities.
Sometimes that involves detailed research. But sometimes people just want to see hilarious cat photos. Like Pinterest, Tumblr allows users to collect interesting things they find (or create) online and share them with people in their network. As with all-you-can-eat sushi, it’s easy to be skeptical of Tumblr. The method for creating content on Tumblr is simple: a basic text editor and a selection of tools for uploading media. By combining all of these features, Tumblr has introduced a level of transparency to its own measurement tools. Streamline your workflow. Boost your own signal. Think in pictures as well as words. Get comfortable with GIFs. 35 Powerful Cloud Tools for Modern Librarians. In a world where "everything is on the Internet," public perception is that libraries are antiquated. The reality is that in a world of information overload, libraries are a valuable resource to vet credibility and, often, are the only guardians of content created in the pre-Web world.
Now more than ever, the job of Librarian is about helping people access information. Curation, cataloging, and discovery — librarians sift through the continuing avalanche of written information to unearth the gems. The question facing the modern librarian is how to connect with today's tech-savvy populace and keep content accessible despite budget cuts.
Interestingly, harnessing "the Cloud" may be the solution to both problems. Here are 35 ways librarians can use the Cloud to improve services, streamline their job and do more with less. These tools work as an alternative to Microsoft's expensive Office Suite. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. For librarians stuck using proprietary technology, the Web is a lonely place. The 15 best blogging and publishing platforms on the Internet today. Which one is for you? Want the latest recommendations? Read our 2015 guide to The 18 best blogging and publishing platforms on the internet today. Updated June 2014 Reading the signs a couple of years ago it was easy to assume that the art of blogging was set to die a painful death at the hands of social networks like Facebook and Twitter and others. While social has changed how we communicate online, blogging remains a core part of things.
In fact, the truth is that there’s never been a better time to blog. Social networks help build audiences and deliver content to readers, and more established blogs and websites often link to or aggregate smaller sites, sending swarms of viewers to read articles — The Daily Mail aside. So, whether you’re a blogger returning from a break, seeking a new home or are looking to write online for the first time, here’s our guide to what blogging platforms are out there. Recommended Business Apps. Tales of the Library Lady... There Is No Digital Divide. We all know poor people are on the wrong side of an uncrossable technological chasm known as the “digital divide.” Their lack of iPads and data plans and broadband is just one more way they’re doomed to stay poor right up until they become the shock troops of the zombie apocalypse, am I right?
Indeed, a recent New York Times piece, “Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era” (or, as Gawker put it, “Poor People Are Wasting Time on the Internet!”) Asserts that while all kids are spending more time with media, those with lower socio-economic status were spending even more of it, and on activities like Facebook that aren’t exactly conducive to learning. In other words: even when you give poor people access to technology, they don’t know what to do with it! Might as well give a paleolithic tribe access to a chip fab, pffft.
Given her background in the subject, I asked Daniels to amplify her concerns about how the Times piece on the “New Digital Divide” missed the point. 1. 2. 3. Social Media - General. Use Your Smartphone At The Library, But Not To Read Books. While American libraries sprint to digitize their books, one Japanese library is using technology to enhance the experience of reading ink and paper. The Hanno library in Japan has just enabled a new use of near-field communication, or NFC. NFC is a wireless technology, sort of like a low-power Bluetooth that can transfer very small amounts of information just by tapping (learn more about it in our primer). That might be a URL or a payment--pretty small-fry considering what Bluetooth can do these days, but the key to NFC is that the item that's sending information doesn't need any power whatsoever.
So you can have a badge or a sticker that delivers information to your phone with a tap. The library has installed about 100 tags, called "Tatchitagu," on its shelves, provided by Fujitsu. Even better, the system lets you check out books or add them to a sort of wish list so you can remember to check them out later. [via NewLaunches] 2013's Complex Social Media Landscape in One Chart. Should my class blog, tweet, Google App, Moodle, Desire2Learn, or Edmodo? Arrghhh!!! Do you want to use social media, web 2.0 tools, and/or a learning management system for your class or course program?
Do you feel overwhelmed with the absurd amount of choice, and those ‘techie’ annoying types that make you feel like a Super Noob? I’m hoping this post can help you out. Every year around this time I reflect on the tools and spaces we’ve been using throughout the year. Will we use them again? Were they effective? Did they help us expand our learning, or were they just pretty things in a tool box? Here are some of my own criteria, based on being a teacher of middle schoolers in a class with an assortment of technology. Device agnostic: I have a multi-device environment in which mobile dominates. Simple, elegant, minimalist design: ‘Nuff said. Engineering: It’s fast, and it works.
Used by people outside of education: This isn’t because I have some bizarre inferiority complex with apps and LMSs, feeling like it’s illegitimate if someone else doesn’t use it. Like this: Combining Web 2.0 – The Fruit Cake. Written by Mark Brumley The Fruit Cake Method In Combining Web 2.0 Part 1, we looked at a method I call Troika Doll. This post will explore an easier and certainly more obvious way to combine sites and use web 2.0 in the classroom. I call this method Fruit Cake. In the fruit cake method, all of the various web 2.0 elements are still clearly discernible, even in the final project. For the “cake”, I often use Glogster. Take a look at this example: This is a sample Glogster page used as a teacher classroom page.
If you are looking to boost your use of web 2.0 in the classroom, give this method a try. Mark Brumley (112 Posts) Mark Brumley is an educational technology leader, presenter and founder of Teach Amazing, who has lived and worked around the globe in his commitment to provide authentic learning experiences to enhance the education of 21st Century learners.
46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom. Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences). The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency. It’s curious they haven’t really “caught on” in schools considering how well they bridge both the old-form textbook habit of cramming tons of information into a small space, while also neatly overlapping with the dynamic and digital world. So if you want to try to make infographics–or better yet have students make them–where do you start?
The 46 tools below, curated by Faisal Khan, are a good place to start.