Class today was about Virtual Worlds. Here are some of the links i saved for the hands on activities and explanation. It is put together in Thing 7: Virtual Worlds YouTube – The Viewer’s built-in help – Second Life Viewer 2 Tutorial Philip Rosedale on Second Life | Video on TED.com YouTube – Introduction to […]
Tagged Second Life, thing 7, virtual worldsWe’ve been thinking about when each of use should start collecting Social Security. This seems to help. The best age to start Social Security – MSN Money
Tagged social securityFacebook updated its privacy settings making lots more public than the public thought would be public! Here are some links addressing that. Updated: Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information | Electronic Frontier Foundation “Once upon a time, Facebook could be used simply to share your interests and information with a select small community […]
Tagged facebook, franken, nyt, privacyOne or more services have been developed recently so that you can see how your ‘brand’ or your presence on the Web: how many times you are mentioned, what information is associated with your name, and similar items. A few links related to all this follows. Reputation Professor Personal Branding Blog (tags: personal branding cpsc104) […]
Tagged branding, Internet, personal brandA Moment in Time – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com Very, very cool. An absolutely wonderful example of a useful, interesting user interface. (tags: 3d globe fotos photography nytimes)
Tagged interface, moment in time, nytHere is a list of IPL’s 15 Things along with info on the List of 23 Things. I think I might use these as the basis for the Internet class I’m teaching this summer. IPL 15 Things – IPL Wiki In honor of the IPL’s birthday at March 17, 2010, the IPL launched the IPL […]
Tagged 15 things, 23 things, ipl, web 2.0Our department started talking about using electronic portfolios as part of our outcomes assessment procedures. Here are a few links. Electronic Portfolios: What Are They? (tags: assessment e-portfolios e-portfolio portfolio elearning documentation) Peer Review | Winter 2009 | E-portfolios at 2.0—Surveying the Field (tags: eportfolio)
Tagged electronic portfolios, outcomes assessmentEach of these search tools deal with specialized collections. The first gives you a way to find PowerPoint slides on the Web. As usual, you enter a search expression and SlideFinder does a full-text search of its specialized collection of PowerPoint presentations. The second is a broader collection, but it is a collection of links […]
Tagged logos, powerpoint, powerpoint search, search engines, virtual librarySDO – Solar Dynamics Observatory “The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. SDO is designed to help us understand the Sun’s influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by […]
Tagged nasa, sdo, solarThese links deal with sustainable and organic farming. The Cornucopia Institute is especially appealing to me because of its emphasis on pairing farms with local consumers. It is an extension of the notion of Community Supported Agriculture. We belong to FACSAP. The second link gives ways to volunteer on organic farms throughout the world. Cornucopia […]
Tagged CSA, farming, sustainable, volunteer