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In a gif-fy
A few more animated gifs (below the jump)… these ones made using a combination of – MPEG Streamclip and ImageJ applications, a couple great freeware tools via Grant that have both proven to be very...
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Great Animated GIFs of Science
This little looping movie of a sinuous nematode seems nearly the perfect marriage of format and subject: the winking, primitive, robust genre of the animated GIF; an ancient, simple, vermiform...
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Shark envy
More Paul Lake gif-fy goodness from the Noise Professor (following up on Keira and the shark): Harry was delighted to see this (only a day after he ambushed me with that snowball), as you might have...
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abject and abjection are my safeguards
When I am beset by abjection, the twisted braid of affects and thoughts I call by such a name does not have, properly speaking, a definable object. The abject is not an ob-ject facing me, which I name...
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You can make my Sonic Summer Camp dreams come true
Sometimes the coolest and most exciting work I get to do comes along in unexpected ways. Case in point, a few weeks back I was chatting live with Scottlo on the mighty DS106 Radio, and he mentioned...
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Agency and algorithms
Colleges Are Using Big Data To Predict Which Students Will Do Well––Before They Accept Them http://t.co/ALLYDgiy7C — Co.Exist (@FastCoExist) October 30, 2013 The "prediction" of human behavior is...
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Everyday open learning so unremarkable that it amazes me
Happened to look in on a blog for a course on Philosophy and Pop Culture at TRU. Saw a post that I thought was remarkable for a couple reasons. A student had just posted some fresh reflections, though...
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CNIE Session: “Eat the Data: Reclaiming Innovation” with Dr. Jones
I was honoured to be invited to deliver a keynote at the CNIE conference being hosted here at TRU. But with the other keynotes being Audrey Watters and Nancy White, I knew I would be held to a very...
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Privacy in a Big Data Post-Privacy World
Photo by tara robertson It’s always a pleasure to participate in a workshop hosted by BC’s Educational Technology Users Group. This year’s event did not disappoint, and I had the pleasure of attending...
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Connect me, dawg…
My past performance in open online courses might be described as sluggish and non-responsive, but Connected Courses looks too fun and useful to simply roll over for… Here’s hoping this post (intended...
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Once more into the abyss
When I thought of the cataracts of books, the Niagaras of books, the rushing rivers of books, the oceans of books, the tons and truckloads and trainloads of books that were pouring off the presses of...
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Jim blogged about this nifty video-to-GIF tool from Imgur, and I had to try it. Naturally, the first thing I did was a GIF of Nick Mason playing “One of the Days” at Pompeii. You can see the result in...
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Sayonara public ed, hello GMO-powered big data learning
I read with interest that Monsanto was making the pivot to becoming a big data platform. Looks like the markets are impressed. I suppose eventually at some point in our lives we’ll each have to make...
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Hooking up the tow rope, still not outta the ditch
Reading Martin Weller’s reflections on a decade of stellar ed tech bloggery… Blogs were like little beacons shining across the globe that would splutter in to life and look for fellow signals to...
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