World Economic Forum - Visualization Challenge - Jan Willem Tulp What am I looking at? This is a visual representation of data derived from a survey of experts from 72 Global Agenda Councils of the World Economic Forum. The experts were asked to answer three survey questions: Please select a maximum of 5 Global Agenda Councils that your Council would benefit from interacting with by order of priority. GoodMorning! GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool that shows about 11,000 ‘good morning’ tweets over a 24 hour period, rendering a simple sample of Twitter activity around the globe. The tweets are colour-coded: green blocks are early tweets, orange ones are around 9am, and red tweets are later in the morning.
Geoloqi Public Alerts The Hawthorne Bridge will be closed Saturday from 9am to Noon. Energy Saver You forgot to turn the lights off at work again! Good thing we did it for you! Big Red Box Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: February 2011 current state and roadmap Latest version This version Previous version Web technologies have become powerful enough that they are used to build full-featured applications; this has been true for many years in the desktop and laptop computer realm, but is increasingly so on mobile devices as well.
Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan, 2009 - 2010 An installation by Aaron Zinman Ushahidi PhoneGap Build makes apps in the cloud for multiple platforms Just targeting one mobile platform is not good enough anymore but building apps for lots of different mobile phone platforms could be a long and tedious task. Every smartphone platform has its own software development kit (SDK), these will need a developer to use different languages to be able to work with them all. You could easily end up with five or six code bases in order to reach a decent number of devices. So what to do if a mobile web site isn't seen as an acceptable alternative?
CNN ECOSPHERE: #RIO20 Quickly creating a Google Map from a Spreadsheet of data « Dave Foord’s Weblog Posted on September 7, 2009 by davefoord I think that Google Maps are a really useful tool, and everytime that I need to visit somewhere new, the first thing I do is put the postcode into Google Maps, and save the location. This way if I visit that town or city again, but to a different location I can see where the new location is in relation to the previous one, which helps me with my navigating. I recognise that many will use their in car sat nav systems, but because I mainly use the train I still use paper maps for these purposes. The Gates Foundation Funds Facebook Apps for Students The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $2 million in funding to a Facebook application with the hope that it will help improve postsecondary education graduation rates in the U.S. This is the first time the Foundation has made a direct equity investment in a for-profit company as part of its charitable mission. Inigral's Schools App creates a closed community of students within Facebook's platform. Retro Venture Partners and Founders Fund also contributed to what totaled to a $4 million round of Series B funding.
New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies - Ariadne ar In this article I want to reflect on the rhetoric of 'Web 2.0' and its potential versus actual impact. I want to suggest that we need to do more than look at how social networking technologies are being used generally as an indicator of their potential impact on education, arguing instead that we need to rethink what are the fundamental characteristics of learning and then see how social networking can be harnessed to maximise these characteristics to best effect. I will further argue that the current complexity of the digital environment requires us to develop 'schema' or approaches to thinking about how we can best harness the benefits these new technologies confer. The Tension between Web 2.0 and Education So my primary interest is to focus on the educational aspects of new technologies and in particular what might be appropriate 'schema' for describing the ways in which technologies are being used. Realigning New Technologies to Pedagogy
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