TED | Talks | Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world (video)
About this Talk
In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling [[Walter Allward]] demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer software — which analyzes and displays data in amazingly accessible ways, allowing people to see patterns previously hidden behind mountains of stats.
About The NMC | nmc
About The NMC
Posted August 21st, 2006 by NMC
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* About NMC
The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of nearly 250 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. NMC Brochure preview NMC member institutions are found in almost every state in the United States, across Canada, and in Europe, Asia and Australia. Among the membership are an elite list of the most highly regarded colleges and universities in the world, as well as a growing list of innovative museums, research centers, foundations, and forward-thinking companies.
50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
from New Media Consortium RSS by Alan Levine
This audio narrated Slidecast was for my presentation at the 2007 NMC New Orleans Regional Conference at Tulane. The audio was recorded at the session and the slideshow assembled later and published via SlideShare (which is, tool number 42!)
Real Virtual | Columbia University in the City of New York
This History of Architecture Web site is designed to support undergraduate education, from introductory art and architectural history surveys to advanced courses on specific art historical periods and themes. The project has been funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Education Programs, with additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Office of the Provost, Columbia University.
The project began in 2000 at an inflection point in the transition from analog to digital visual resources in the art history classroom.
About the Timeline | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. The Museum’s curatorial, conservation, and education staff—the largest team of art experts anywhere in the world—research and write the Timeline, which is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects. First launched in 2000, the Timeline now extends from prehistory to the present day. The Timeline will continue to expand in scope and depth, and also reflect the most up–to–date scholarship.
Pascal Mueller’s Wiki – City Engine: Animations
Procedural Modeling of CG Architecture
Movies
CityEngine Demo Reel (October 2006)
* High Quality: avi (divx,560mb)
* Low Resolution: avi (divx,135mb) | quicktime (h264,35mb)
SIGGRAPH 2007 (not part of Demo Reel)
* paper video in AVI format (Codec: DivX 5.2): low resolution (32mb) | high quality (80mb)
* paper video in Quicktime format (Codec: H264): low resolution (16mb) | high quality (75mb)
TED | Talks | Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world (video)
About this Talk
In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer software — which analyzes and displays data in amazingly accessible ways, allowing people to see patterns previously hidden behind mountains of stats. (Ten days later, he announced a deal with Google to acquire the software.) He also demos Dollar Street, a program that lets you peer in the windows of typical families worldwide living at different income levels. Be sure to watch straight through to the (literally) jaw-dropping finale.
About Hans Rosling
Google Sketchup for Dummies
from Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder
SketchUp is Google’s free 3D drawing program. It’s easy to use, but it’s even easier when you watch someone with a lot of SketchUp experience use the application and explain what they’re doing.
Aidan Chopra is an experienced SketchUp user. In fact, he wrote Google SketchUp for Dummies. (Here’s PC World’s generally glowing review of Chopra’s book.) He also created several videos available on his YouTube page that will get you quickly up to speed on the way SketchUp works. Link
HOWTO Use Creative Commons licenses – Boing Boing
HOWTO Use Creative Commons licenses
Posted by Cory Doctorow, November 9, 2007 12:06 AM | permalink
My latest Locus column is online: “Creative Commons” explains the fundamentals of using CC licenses for people who are interested in the idea but haven’t tried it yet. I get a lot of email from people asking just how you apply licenses to your work.
After you check off a few boxes on the Creative Commons license form, you’ll get a page with the license for your work. This consists of a short block of computer code you paste into your book, image, web page, or what-have-you. This code displays a graphic badge showing the license you’ve chosen, with a link back to the license and a block of hidden “machine readable” text. This is text that search-engines can use to figure out which files are shared, and under which terms (you can limit searches on Flickr, Google, or Yahoo to only show Creative Commons licensed results).
Additionally, the machine-readable version links to two other versions of the licenses — a “human readable” plain-language version that can be understood by anyone, and a “lawyer-readable” version of small print that says the same thing in legally binding terms.
Creative Commons licenses are international — over 80 countries have their own CC projects — and something licensed under CC in the USA can be combined with Israeli, Indian, Brazilian, Spanish, British, South African and German CC works without violating the terms of any of their licenses.
Research Profile: Online Multimedia Education – Department of Computing Science – University of Alberta
Research Profile: Online Multimedia Education
“Many students spend a lot of time playing games. If we can present education in a way that is similar to what is attracting them, then they spend some of that time educating themselves instead of just playing without any benefit. That would be good.”
—Dr. Irene Cheng, Adjunct Professor of Computing Science, University of Alberta