A quick test, to compare Apple’s Maps app from iOS6 with the new Google Maps iOS app that was released today. All screenshots are roughly centred on the same spot around my office on the UofC campus, taken on a godphone 5.
normal map view. Apple iOS Maps on left, Google iOS Maps on right…
satellite view, Apple iOS Maps on left, Google iOS Maps on right…
Read MoreThe Daily Create #337: Take a photo of a fave thing. Use a draw tool to sketch it with fewest strokes possible. Delete the pic. It’s your logo.
Didn’t need a photo. 9 strokes of the pen on Paper:
I might have to work that up into something, like I did with the crank for peace thing…
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Read MoreOver 60,000 in one course. This will change everything! Except for the part about needing the same effective class size in order to support the handful of students that actually pass the course… Nice reorganization of the marketing hype published by Coursera.
So in the end, we have 107 students who got the more personalized attention (doing a project, getting feedback, being part of the Google hangout presentations).
This class had one professor and 3 TA, about a 1 : 27 teacher/student ratio.
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I don’t usually have to put an explicit disclaimer on posts, but here goes. I’m not writing this in any official capacity, my university hasn’t approved the message. YMMV. IANAL. YHBH. etc…
I was at a presentation by Dr. Krishnaswamy Nandakumar on the impact of technology in education, and it triggered some thoughts on MOOCs1. I’d been avoiding thinking (or writing) about them, because the hype just seemed silly and pointless. But, combined by a recent nudge by Kate Bowles, I think it’s worth writing it now.
Read MoreBull. Shit.
Giving people access to didactic lectures by a handful of elite professors at a handful of elite institutions is not the most important educational technology in the last 200 years. Not even close. Sure, it’s good. It’s fantastic that I can have access to the lectures and resources of some of the biggest and most famous institutions. Awesome.
But the most important ed tech in two centuries? Bull. Shit.
Read Moreusing textexture.com, thanks to a tip from Bryan Alexander. Doesn’t mean a whole lot at first glance, but it sure is purty. This is chapters 4 and 5 of my thesis (textexture choked on the whole thing):
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Read MoreI’m almost done. About a month to oral defence. But, here are the tools I used to gather data, process it, whip up visualizations, and write the thesis:
The irony… my thesis basically boils down to “it’s not the tool, it’s how you use it.” And I write a “these are the tools I used” post…
Read MoreGardner Campbell did the opening keynote at the Open Education 2012 conference in Vancouver this year. It was an inspiring call for us to snap out of the literal and measured stages of openness and implementation, and to take the supersonic bunny hop into something bigger. 1
https://www.youtube.com/embed/kIzA4ItynYw
Watch the presentation. Take the bunny hop.
Then, he kicked out the jams in a studio session.
Then, of course, he did it again. On a boat. With the second keynoter (none other than John Willinsky) jamming along.
Read MoreSo it looks like Pearson sent a DMCA takedown notice to edublogs and their hosting provider. And edublogs’ hosting provider crumbled and took down 1.4 million websites in response.
To be clear, Pearson didn’t take anything down. I’m guessing a legal intern or bot followed an algorithm (search for known strings, run a Whois,
send email…). And the hosting provider, who should have told the legal intern to frack off and take their silly misguided takedown requests with them, decided to turn off websites rather than having to risk paying their own lawyers to fight the request.
John sent this around. It’s too awesome not to post.
yeah. my commute isn’t quite like that…
but, with all of the awesome trick riding in the video, I was most stunned by the application of WD-40 at the end of the video. I mean, WHO DOES THAT? It’s a solvent. No est bueno!
Read MoreI just tried out the new PrivacyFix extension, which checks your privacy settings and also estimates how much Facebook and Google make off me each year.
Turns out, my privacy settings are pretty decent already. And, it looks like Google makes less than a dollar per year off me. Facebook makes nothing. The guy that wrote the article on Ars Technica clocks in at $700 per year going to Google, through advertising etc… Wow.
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