Take a look at the Sessions from Kunsela C212 that were recorded yesterday and today. You can also view live streams all day, HERE.
CIT 2013 Session Recordings and Live Stream
Well CIT is in full swing here at SUNYIT and there are some pretty fascinating presentations that are going on over the next few days.
We were able to outfit Kunsela Hall C212 with Echo360 and are capturing and live streaming sessions from that room.
To view the recordings or watch a live stream click HERE.
Electronic Newspapers Via 1981
One of the benefits of teaching a media communications class is that your students find some amazing resources. This video comes from 1981 and is a glimpse of the future.
Fantastic Public Domain Images
image from Pixabay.com
I’ve looked at several sites that offer public domain images that can be downloaded and used for free with little or no attribution. But I have to say Pixabay.com has the most stunning images I have seen. Sign up for a free account and you can download images in many format sizes and use them for presentations or in print. It’s really a great free resource.
Google Drive – Docs, Sharing and ANGEL
As you may have guessed, this video covers Google Drive. It focuses on creating a document, sharing it and then adding it to your ANGEL shell so students can either view, comment or make changes to the doc.
I’ve also created an in-depth paper on how to setup your Drive account and use its various tools, CLICK HERE TO VIEW. I will be creating additional videos that cover each tool in Google Drive.
And if you are wondering why there’s a picture of Dave Bowman from 2001: A Space Odyssey as the title image for the post…now that I’ve found the Google Life Archive and I can use still images from one of my favorite films, I will whenever I can.
Other Posts on Google Drive
Google Drive Is Here
Fantastic Google Drive Resource
Use Google Drive…and here’s why.
Google Drive Just Got Better!
Create Docs for Google Drive…Fast
Five Essential Google Drive Skills For Teachers
This astronaut's Facebook photos are better than yours will ever be
Oh, you thought your trip photos from Cancun were great for Facebook? Sorry, next to Col. Chris Hadfield -- who is posting his Facebook photos from space -- your pics aren't that special.
A Canadian astronaut on the International Space Station, Hadfield is one of the most social savvy spacemen ever. He recorded a moving Christmas song on the ISS…
Now this is one social savvy spacemen. Try Saying that three times fast.
Google + LIFE = Millions of historic photos
The Google/LIFE archive was announced in 2008 and after doing some…well…Googling, I found that it was moved around a bit and even taken down. Its back now and has more photos than ever. You can go to the official Google LIFE Search site or just do a Google image search and add “source:life” For example Apollo source:life
The best news is that many of these images are in the public domain, so they can be used without any concerns of plagiarism! Look to the bottom of the image to see what rights are ascribed to it.
Curalate introduces analytics for visual social media on Pinterest and Instagram
A picture might indeed be worth a thousand words as visual social networks Pinterest and Instagram continue to grow. But how do analytics change when photos say more than text?
Curalate released a visual analytics product today to answer that question -- the first analytics solution to consolidate both Instagram and Pinterest reports in a single dashboard.
“Images drive emotions with an immediacy that no other medium offers," Apu Gupta, Curalate's CEO and co-founder said in a statement.
When Pinterest started I was wondering how a company could leverage it to build or advertise their brand. Were there tools that could examine images and tie them together with the companies and their online presence. That's why I was interested in this article on VentureBeat that talks about a new analytic and promotion tool for visual social media.
Haiku Deck
I’ve been using the ipad app Haiku Deck for a few months now. It’s a simple way to make very visual presentations. I just read a nice article over at Freethech4teachers.com by a guest blogger that I wanted to share.
Article at Freetech4teachers.com
Here’s a Haiku I made that talks about Elluminate. You can read more about Haiku in my previous post by clicking HERE.
3-D Printing – Formlabs
3-D printing has been in the news quite a bit the past year. Whenever I see an article online, I read it. Like many, I think this is going to be the next HUGE piece of technology of our lifetime. The applications are endless, from architecture, manufacturing, medical, and educational use, 3-D printing will fill that gab between what we can do on the computer and how we create.
Here is a company that had a hugely successful Kickstarted campaign and is working to make 3-D printing affordable for everyone. An amazing story and a pretty cool piece of Tech. It starts and 3,299.00, pretty cheap for what it’s capable of. I want one.
