https://julie-lemoine.squarespace.com/
What happened to Qwaq, and then Teleplace? This used to be a promising platform for 3D immersive collaboration. Here is what happened: Check out Terf. Same tools, same people, same story. And it’s an interesting one.
Interesting to follow a Norwegian company all the way into the hallways of Google, Disney and others in California. This is the story of company that started out as Creaza, at Bryn in Oslo in 2007. By 2011, the company WeVideo was spun out and it moved HQs to Palo Alto and Menlo Park, in Silicon Valley. The rest is not only history, as they say – it’s digital history.
https://julie-lemoine.squarespace.com/
What happened to Qwaq, and then Teleplace? This used to be a promising platform for 3D immersive collaboration. Here is what happened: Check out Terf. Same tools, same people, same story. And it’s an interesting one.
The changing face of face to face conversation in an age of texting, twittering, sms-fidgeting, and all sorts other diversions:http://nyti.ms/1VedmI9
http://nyti.ms/1V8NN5N
EDUCATION GAP GROWING WIDER: NYT – “The wounds of segregation were still raw in the 1970s. With only rare exceptions, African-American children had nowhere near the same educational opportunities as whites.
The civil rights movement, school desegregation and the War on Poverty helped bring a measure of equity to the playing field. Today, despite some setbacks along the way, racial disparities in education have narrowed significantly. By 2012, the test-score deficit of black 9-, 13- and 17-year-olds in reading and math had been reduced as much as 50 percent compared with what it was 30 to 40 years before.”
A NYT scenario article on the consequences of global warming, based on recent science findings – an interesting array of comments in the comments section, too. Read it.
http://nyti.ms/1QJfMae
San Francisco feeling the pressure from the start-ups – soaring rents and slowing traffic.
From the July 2016 Democratic Party National Convention on the US — by far the most engaging moment of the entire convention: As a father, an immigrant, a muslim, and a world citizen he took the stage to say what needs to be said time and time again in the face of Donald Trump — an antidote to his fear speech. A speech to remember for a long time:
Khizr Khan, father of deceased Army Captain Humayun S. M. Khan, spoke at the 2016 convention in Philadelphia. His son, Huayun S.M. Khan was one of 14 American Muslims who died serving the United States in the decade after 9/11.
You will find it on a website called GRIST. Also check out their grist50 – a review of the 50 most influential people on environmental issues, according to these guys. And check also their page describing themselves –
Westworld — BBC comment; http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161020-would-sex-with-a-robot-be-infidelity
Imagine you’re rich enough to spend $40,000 to visit a town for a day where rules don’t matter. You can be whomever you want. You can kill whomever you want. You can rape whomever you want. You can force every single person you encounter to honour your every sadistic whim. There are no consequences for your actions in this town. Only a few people will find out about your behaviour, and they will encourage you to keep acting this way.
Of those from whom little is expected, much is forgiven. And of those from
whom much is expected, little is forgiven. Such are the standards by
which Donald Trump’s deliberate assaults on the news media need to be
understood and feared.
I write this following Trump’s latest tirades against the Fourth Estate,
including an early morning tweet on Tuesday denouncing “Fake News CNN”
for having been “caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories.”
That was followed 17 minutes later by a larger eruption, in which the
president named NBC, CBS, ABC, The Washington Post and this newspaper as “all Fake News!”
The Trump administration is really into Weeks. Perhaps you remember Infrastructure Week, which coincided with the appearance of former F.B.I. Director James Comey before a Senate committee.
Video, game, narrative:
A comprehensive application of narrative theory to video games, and presents the player-response paradigm of game criticism. Video Game Narrative and Criticism explains the nature of gameplay – a psychological experience and a meaning-making process in the fictional world of video games.
https://julie-lemoine.squarespace.com/
What happened to Qwaq, and then Teleplace? This used to be a promising platform for 3D immersive collaboration. Here is what happened: Check out Terf. Same tools, same people, same story. And it’s an interesting one.
https://www.wevideo.com
Interesting to follow a Norwegian company all the way into the hallways of Google, Disney and others in California. This is the story of company that started out as Creaza, at Bryn in Oslo in 2007. By 2011, the company WeVideo was spun out and it moved HQs to Palo Alto and Menlo Park, in Silicon Valley. The rest is not only history, as they say – it’s digital history.
https://julie-lemoine.squarespace.com/
What happened to Qwaq, and then Teleplace? This used to be a promising platform for 3D immersive collaboration. Here is what happened: Check out Terf. Same tools, same people, same story. And it’s an interesting one.
http://squarespace.com
If you want to build an unusual website – check out these guys.
http://www.edtechsweden.se/registrering-24984671
Latest on the EdTech front, in Sweden — -conference in November 2015.
The lost Steve Jobs interview // wow! Watch this.
An intelligent refection from someone who’s been in the media limelight: Monica Lewinski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwSyjz1off4
Steve Wozniak on TedTalks // watch this. It is really, really good.
Another Steve W video
http://www.ted.com/playlists/26/our_digital_lives
A basic must-have from Youtube: “Our digital lives”
http://www.ted.com/playlists/141/moocs_101
TedTalk’s select MOOC discussions – watch them all.
http://www.ted.com/playlists/141/moocs_101
The originating MOOC talk> Peter Norvig
https://www.youtube.com/education
YouTube Channel for education videos, found on BBC Channel 4.
Lærerbloggen; some smart stuff by teachers and thinkers who should get better known internationally. http://martinjohannessen.blogspot.no/2015/06/boktips-ditch-that-textbook-av-matt.html
Our joint NICE Nordic Edupreneuring project from 2013
http://www.futurelearninglab.com/nordicedupreneuring/top/index.php#.VgjsxBOqqko
Bett Latin America 2015
https://en.latam.bettsummit.com/
Google Virtual-Reality System Aims to Enliven Education
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/technology/google-virtual-reality-system-aims-to-enliven-education.html?ribbon-ad-idx=16&rref=homepage&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=DealBook&action=click®ion=FixedRight&pgtype=article&mtrref=www.nytimes.com
Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?ribbon-ad-idx=7&rref=technology&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Technology&action=click®ion=FixedRight&pgtype=article
FROM THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY – THE ACCIDENTAL POWER OF MOOCS
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/the-secret-power-of-moocs/396608/
http://oiw.no/about/
OSLO INNOVATION WEEK
http://www.globalgoals.org/
Support the UN Global Development Goals 2015
BETT LA Ocotber 2015
https://en.latam.bettsummit.com/
https://www.miceconcierge.com/events/BETTLatinAmerica
Free Speech Inidia – an important opinion article in tomorrowæs New York Times: Liberals face a concrete challenge in India, according to the article: Staying alive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/sonia-faleiro-india-free-speech-kalburgi-pansare-dabholkar.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0
The changing face of face to face conversation in an age of texting, twittering, sms-fidgeting, and all sorts other diversions:http://nyti.ms/1VedmI9
http://nyti.ms/1V8NN5N
EDUCATION GAP GROWING WIDER: NYT – “The wounds of segregation were still raw in the 1970s. With only rare exceptions, African-American children had nowhere near the same educational opportunities as whites.
The civil rights movement, school desegregation and the War on Poverty helped bring a measure of equity to the playing field. Today, despite some setbacks along the way, racial disparities in education have narrowed significantly. By 2012, the test-score deficit of black 9-, 13- and 17-year-olds in reading and math had been reduced as much as 50 percent compared with what it was 30 to 40 years before.”
From EdSurge:2015 DILAs – awards for pioneering in teaching: Worth checking.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-10-15-announcing-the-winners-of-the-2015-digital-innovation-in-learning-awards
New York Times on Life-long learning; http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2015/03/19/national/nationalspecial/index.html?ref=education
New York Times with an interesting analysis of the resurgence of analog media, not as a space for mass consumption but more as a space for cultivating the unique and the physical in an age of digital borrowing, streaming and flattened consumption.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/opinion/sunday/digital-culture-meet-analog-fever.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=image&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region
Go Lab
http://www.go-lab-project.eu/
Zuckerberg to give away upwards of 45 billion? It’s what it says….
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/technology/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-charity.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://says.com/my/news/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-mark-zuckerberg-donating-99-of-his-fortune-to-charity
An “insider story” on what the real Zuck deal is about. The comments read well. …
Educause — 2016 conference website: http://www.educause.edu/annual-conference/speaker-resources
Kiron University — Universty degrees for refugees – free, online, flexible.
http://www.gatesnotes.com/2015-annual-letter?lang=en&page=4&WT.mc_id=01_21_2015_AL2015-PI_COM_BGvideo4_MobileBankingHeader_12
My site for global journalism
http://globaljournalism.tveiten.net/
http://siu.no/Kommende-frister
Check out SIU for funding of international education projects.
The invension of TV; article from NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/science/television-history.html?hpw&rref=television&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
http://nyti.ms/1RGbx5d
How the news media helped build Donald Trump´s platform:
http://nyti.ms/1SxxwIu
A NYT scenario article on the consequences of global warming, based on recent science findings – an interesting array of comments in the comments section, too. Read it.
http://nyti.ms/1QJfMae
San Francisco feeling the pressure from the start-ups – soaring rents and slowing traffic.
NORAD and game based learning:
https://tema.daron.no/om-spillet/
Inc.com on Facebook – Inc.com the Magazine (https://www.facebook.com/Inc) has an interesting article on current development trends/Facebook user activity dropping. Can be read here: http://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/facebook-sharing-crisis.html
Cicero speechwriting awards – rhetoric to go…:
https://www.vsotd.com/sites/default/files/2016_CiceroAwardsWinners_FINAL.pdf?platform=hootsuite
Open Educaton — various articles
http://www.scoop.it/t/openingupuducation
University World News
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20160414215153430
Reporting North South differences in uses and dissemination of MOOCs
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20160414211758202
New Report on Open Education
http://view.e.asu.edu/?qs=21d64e9cf839cd92dbda300d9d77d1539b9ffeef5dd089f8a4f9dde68b01308bde91f5c477f55862f638b7d3ec88e5e7e49c700f9ff942eb2b548e6ff66d70d8
Bill Clinton’s Lapse Into Trumpism
In his convention speech, he suggested that Muslims need to earn the rights that all other Americans enjoy.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/bill-clintons-lapse-into-trumpism/493175/
From the July 2016 Democratic Party National Convention on the US — by far the most engaging moment of the entire convention: As a father, an immigrant, a muslim, and a world citizen he took the stage to say what needs to be said time and time again in the face of Donald Trump — an antidote to his fear speech. A speech to remember for a long time:
Khizr Khan, father of deceased Army Captain Humayun S. M. Khan, spoke at the 2016 convention in Philadelphia. His son, Huayun S.M. Khan was one of 14 American Muslims who died serving the United States in the decade after 9/11.
Published on Youtube, Jul 28, 2016
Website covering US politics – http://www.amerikanskpolitikk.no/
Check out world issues website: https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint
Interesting piece on environmental journalism:
You will find it on a website called GRIST. Also check out their grist50 – a review of the 50 most influential people on environmental issues, according to these guys. And check also their page describing themselves –
http://grist.org/about/
http://grist.org/grist-50/2016/
http://grist.org/climate-energy/climate-change-and-environmental-journalism/
Found this website from MasterClass today. Worth looking at. A series of classes taught by world-known personalities — yet another example of a world of learning changing.
https://www.masterclass.com/classes/aaron-sorkin-teaches-screenwriting?utm_source=Organic%20Social&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_term=Aq-Prospecting&utm_content=WW_FB&utm_campaign=AS#/
Cartoons to last a week; http://www.belltoons.co.uk/bellworks/index.php/if/1992/2951-29-5-92_PCCORRUPTION
Belltoons — home page: http://www.belltoons.co.uk/
From the Atlantic — this provoking article: What if the UN did not exist? Is the organization up to facing the global challenges ahead? http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/united-nations-rudd/498464/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AtlanticInternational+%28The+Atlantic+-+International%29
First televised interview ever with Nelson Mandela — a journalistic gem:
https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
Database on terrorism attacks globally.
Donald Trump´s remarks comparing Syrian refugees to “Skittles” sparks social media commentary around the world – this story from UK The Guardian
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/778016283342307328/photo/1
Story from The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/20/donald-trump-jnr-compares-refugees-poisoned-skittles-twitter-reacted
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7cbcdbbea22b0e1bab740b68cf5b506049c365e97fd34028265e8b4f03835cae.jpg http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/opinion/an-ugly-campaign-90-minute-version.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region
The first of three presidential debates in 2016. A clear-cut editorial from New York Times.
https://youtu.be/vu6SDsn99_8
http://www.mediaite.com/
Westworld — BBC comment; http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161020-would-sex-with-a-robot-be-infidelity
Imagine you’re rich enough to spend $40,000 to visit a town for a day where rules don’t matter. You can be whomever you want. You can kill whomever you want. You can rape whomever you want. You can force every single person you encounter to honour your every sadistic whim. There are no consequences for your actions in this town. Only a few people will find out about your behaviour, and they will encourage you to keep acting this way.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/11/obama-samantha-bee-halloween-donald-trump; Say what you will about Barack Obama, but the man has humour; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0yONlMjxjs
HERE ARE SOME KEY ARTCLES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THE MORNING AND DAY AFTER…: The NYT opinions feed on Nov. 9th; a lot of insightful comments http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016
The future, with Trump as president?
EDITORIAL: http://nyti.ms/2eCtI9s
Pence: The link to the establishment: http://nyti.ms/2ekEbeI
Reversal of fortunes: http://nyti.ms/2eDCGUd
Trump– victory by understanding the groundswell: http://nyti.ms/2ekdeYm
Victory for Trump; the scary stuff – http://nyti.ms/2eCvaZA
A crisis of white identity: http://nyti.ms/2dZxQoR
White supremacists: No borders; http://nyti.ms/1MZL6QR
Trump´s shocking success: http://nyti.ms/2eCpQp6
Absorbing the impossible: http://nyti.ms/2ekolAG
Don´t break my country: http://nyti.ms/2ejQKXD
Voters, hear me out: http://nyti.ms/2e16lLv
BBC on TRUMP, Nov. 9th
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37922897
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37929982
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37929562
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/business-37875340
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37889032
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-37916908
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37924687
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37918303
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37468751
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37862521
A historic editorial; NYT November 1oth – http://nyti.ms/2eE11Jm
And a very sensible op-ed by Andy Rosenthal; http://nyti.ms/2eDI2P3
Previously, from Rosenthal http://nyti.ms/2dSw485
Rosenthal consistency: http://nyti.ms/2cGMzA0
NYT Editorial; Nov. 10th; http://nyti.ms/2eIXPMt
NYT Editorial; Nov. 11th; http://nyti.ms/2enhfeS
David Brooks: http://nyti.ms/2eIKoMP
Paul Krugman: http://nyti.ms/2enLNge
America elects a bigot: http://nyti.ms/2eEWXbQ
https://youtu.be/-64nfy6i58w
https://youtu.be/xpExmP7ZAyQ
POLITICO
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/john-mccain-trump-press-235177
Politico Magazine;
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/trump-hates-the-press-take-a-number-214795
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/the-next-jfk-214657
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/why-the-media-lose-to-trump-214624
NEWS AND GUTS;
https://www.facebook.com/pg/newsandguts/posts/?ref=page_internal
DAN RATHER;
https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10158205383810716
President Trump´s press conference
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/donald-trump-press-conference-transcript.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/donald-trump-press-conference-transcript.html
New York Times:
Read more: https://nyti.ms/2tnL1Gn
Of those from whom little is expected, much is forgiven. And of those from
whom much is expected, little is forgiven. Such are the standards by
which Donald Trump’s deliberate assaults on the news media need to be
understood and feared.
I write this following Trump’s latest tirades against the Fourth Estate,
including an early morning tweet on Tuesday denouncing “Fake News CNN”
for having been “caught falsely pushing their phony Russian stories.”
That was followed 17 minutes later by a larger eruption, in which the
president named NBC, CBS, ABC, The Washington Post and this newspaper as “all Fake News!”
NYT, reporting: https://nyti.ms/2ulaFJc
Trump´s 50 shades of “whatever”
The Trump administration is really into Weeks. Perhaps you remember Infrastructure Week, which coincided with the appearance of former F.B.I. Director James Comey before a Senate committee.
Video, game, narrative:
A comprehensive application of narrative theory to video games, and presents the player-response paradigm of game criticism. Video Game Narrative and Criticism explains the nature of gameplay – a psychological experience and a meaning-making process in the fictional world of video games.
http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137525536