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Best of 2012

Lots of end-of-year roundups & lists appearing…

 

Yahoo Australia Year in Review 2012

Viral videos, most clicked stories, entertainment, sport etc

http://au.news.yahoo.com/year-in-review-2012/

Includes Top Searches of 2012:

1. London Olympics 2. Kim Kardashian 3. Apple 4. Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson 5. Earthquakes 6. US presidential election 7. Hurricane Sandy 8. Israel & Palestine 9. Brownlow Medal 10. End of the world.

Most searched M & F celebrities: Kim Kardashian and Brad Pitt.

Most searched countries: Aust, then Iran, China, Thailand…

Most searched movies: Avengers, Hunger Games, Twilight Saga…

Full list: http://au.news.yahoo.com/year-in-review-2012/a/-/15479230/top-searches-of-2012/

 

The most asked questions in Australia in 2012 according to Google search suggestions

Includes: Why is my internet so slow? and What is Gangnam style?

http://blog.mccrindle.com.au/_blog/The_McCrindle_Blog/post/most_asked_questions_Australia_Google_search_suggestions/

 

The top 12 trends in Australia 2012

Book: Umm…50 shades of grey; Ingredient: quinoa; Pop group: One Direction; Technology: from digital to real world; Word/Symbol: # …..

http://blog.mccrindle.com.au/_blog/The_McCrindle_Blog/post/Top_12_trends_of_2012/

Discussion: http://blog.mccrindle.com.au/_blog/The_McCrindle_Blog/post/One_Direction_quinoa_Gangnam_Style_Instagram_hashtag/

 

Gangnam Style: the most viewed YouTube video ever

900,073,389 + viewers can’t be wrong; now outranks Justin Bieber’s Baby. http://www.youtube.com/user/officialpsy

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/gangnam-style-most-viewed-youtube-video-time-134533498.html

Top 25 YouTube videos ever: Not surprisingly, they are all popular songs – except for Charlie bit my finger : – )http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2012/10/02/top-25-youtube-videos#top-youtube-videos-of-all-time

 

Time magazine’s top 10 everything 2012

For the true list-lover…..55 wide-ranging lists – arts & entertainment, pop culture, social media, health, science etc. US focus but hey.

http://www.time.com/time/top-10-lists-of-2012/?iid=tl-article-moreontime

 

Time magazine’s 50 best websites 2012

Not really mainstream sites; some  are interesting, others are rather obscure.

http://techland.time.com/2012/09/18/50-best-websites-2012/

Full list: http://techland.time.com/2012/09/18/50-best-websites-2012/#slide/all/?&_suid=135468712654908706382297811523

 

50 best websites includes:

Learnist

http://learni.st/

Like Pinterest for education. Users collect web resources and share their knowledge by creating Learnist boards — which can include text, videos, essays, games and audio clips that answer questions and expound on topics. A good tool for the flipped classroom. iOS app available.

http://www.educationnews.org/technology/learnist-what-if-wikipedia-and-pinterest-had-a-baby/

Examples of education-focused Learnist boards: http://www.educationdive.com/news/8-ways-to-use-learnist-a-pinterest-like-education-site/36179/

A BBC Learnist board: http://learni.st/users/34/boards/1862-the-bbc-learning-experience

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/learnist-in-the-classroom-hauna-zaich

 

Persuasive Games

http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/

Founded by game theorist Ian Bogost. “Games communicate differently than other media; they not only deliver messages, but also simulate experiences”. The website has free “advergames” – games specifically built for “persuasion, instruction and activism”. Includes Killer flu (how the flu virus spreads), Fatworld (obesity’s relationship to socioeconomics), Windfall (building wind farms).

 

Codecademy (Chrome, Firefox)

http://www.codecademy.com/

The interactive, social and easy way to learn how to code.

 

Vocabulary.com

http://www.vocabulary.com/

Learn new words and play games to improve your vocabulary.

 

Devour

Presents the top 15 trending YouTube clips and lots of other good videos. Comment-free with a focus on HD. Yes, very easy to fill in time here J

Science fiction – supercut of over 100 sci fi films: http://devour.com/video/science-fiction/

Quirky – A history of western music in 16 genres: http://devour.com/video/a-history-of-western-music-in-16-genres/

More than falling dominoes – This too shall pass by OK Go: http://devour.com/video/this-too-shall-pass-by-ok-go/

Further up yonder: a message from the International Space Station: http://devour.com/video/further-up-yonder/

 

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Born to be wired

Interesting program on Catalyst last week – available online.

Catalyst special edition: Born to be wired (ABC 18/10/12)
Investigates how the digital revolution is changing us. Is digital technology changing the way we think, act and feel? Are our brains being rewired fundamentally? Is fast information like fast food? Can virtual experiences through avatars affect our behaviour & memories?

Extended interviews on the Catalyst website: Susan Greenfield’s concerns about digital technology, psychiatrist’s concerns about narcissism, how the internet changes the brain and many other interesting links from Catalyst/ABC archives and elsewhere.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/borntobewired/

 

 

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The truth about mobile phone use on airplanes

Confused by why you can’t use your mobile phone on a plane? Especially when some airlines insist that it stay turned off whilst others allow use as soon as the plane has landed. If it is so dangerous then why are airlines now offering this facility (for a fee) during flights. Many reasons have been offered for this but all lack substance as noted in this Wikipedia article.

Below is an interesting YouTube clip that debunks the myths one by one then presents the real reason.

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Horizon Report 2012 & 10 mega-trends for learning

Some people asked for the websites on my Mod Day presentation – What’s new in ICT, Media & Popular Culture? Here is the link to the Powerpoint. I hope the info is useful.

http://dckclib.wikispaces.com/Technology%2C+media+%26+popular+culture+updates

 Corning Glass released their first video in Feb 2011 about the future of glass technologies in ICT, education, work & life and how glass will help shape our world. It’s had over 18 million views:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38

 A day made of glass 2 (Feb 2012)

5 min. video of Corning Glass’ expanded vision for the future of glass technologies in ICT, education, work & life and how glass will help shape our world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkHpNnXLB0

Info about the glass technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-GXO_urMow

 Horizon Reports

The Horizon Reports are issued annually by the New Media Consortium. They identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on global education. 

10 mega-trends impacting learning: Horizon Project 10th Anniversary Report (coming soon)
1. The world of work is increasingly global & increasingly collaborative.
2. People expect to work, learn, socialize & play whenever and wherever they want to.
3. The internet is becoming a global mobile network.

4. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based & delivered over utility networks, facilitating the rapid growth of online videos & rich media.
5. Openness – concepts such as open content, open data & open resources, along with notions of transparency & easy access to data & information – is moving from a trend to a value for much of the world.
6. Legal notions of ownership & privacy lag behind the practices common in society.
7. Real challenges of access, efficiency & scale are redefining what we mean by quality & success.
8. The internet is constantly challenging us to rethink learning & education, while refining our notion of literacy.
9. There is a rise in informal learning as individual needs are redefining schools, universities & training.
10. Business models across the education ecosystem are changing.
http://www.nmc.org/ & Judy O’Connell

Just released: The Horizon Report 2012 – Higher Education

http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2012HorizonReport/246056

The K-12 edition will be available later in the year.  

Key trends:
1. People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to.
2. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based, and our notions of IT support are decentralized.
3. The world of work is increasingly collaborative, driving changes in the way student projects are structured.
4. The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.
5. Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning and collaborative models.
6. There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based and active learning.

The areas of emerging technology to watch :
Time to adoption: One Year or Less

Mobile Apps
Tablet Computing

Time to adoption: Two to Three Years

Game-based Learning
Learning Analytics

Time to adoption: Four to Five Years

Gesture-based Computing
Internet of Things (all kinds of devices will be connected to the internet to receive/generate info)

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YouTube for Schools

YouTube for Schools
If your school doesn’t allow open access to YouTube, your school can now sign up for YouTube for Schools, announced on 11 Dec.
http://www.youtube.com/schools

YouTube for Schools filters YouTube videos and only allows access to the thousands of educational videos from YouTube EDU, from groups such as TED, PBS, Khan Academy, Numberphile, various universities etc. Teachers can log in and watch any video, but students can only watch YouTube EDU videos (plus any videos their school has added). All video comments and related video suggestions are disabled. Teachers can create playlists – many are available at www.youtube.com/Teachers
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/12/opening-up-world-of-educational-content.html

YouTube stats….
http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics
Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day.
48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, resulting in nearly 8 years of content uploaded every day.
70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US.
It’s strange when you think back to a time when we didn’t have access to all these online videos…and how cool are cat videos?

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QR codes

10 November 2011

QR codes

QR (Quick Response) codes are everywhere now. They are another type of barcode and they are useful – they link you to extra information and save you from tediously typing URLs into your smartphone or iPod Touch. You can store the information and read it now or later. Smartphone users open their QR reader app and it scans the code and delivers the information to you. It might be a web link with lots of information, a YouTube video or just some text to read.

 

QR code generators

There are lots of free QR code generators. Teachers and students can make their own QR codes to use in lessons, tasks and presentations. QR codes can be placed on information posters, Glogsters, scientific models, on signs near artworks and photos, on book covers, points of interest…

Bitly  http://bitly.com/

The excellent URL shortener Bitly allows you to shorten, share, track and analyse your URL links. It also creates QR codes for these links. Copy the URL into the box on the home page and click “Shorten” . Underneath your shortened URL, click “Info page”. You will see the QR code that has been generated for this shortened URL. You will also see analytics for the URL eg. who has clicked on the link (countries) and when; how it was shared (Twitter etc).

Google http://goo.gl/

Google has a URL shortener & QR code creator. Copy in the URL, click “Shorten” and then click “Details” to access the QR code (you have to be logged into your iGoogle account to get the QR code).

Kaywa  http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

Copy in a URL, text, phone number or SMS and click “Generate”. Then you can save the code, embed it, print it, etc.

Quikqr http://quikqr.com/  Email your QR code.

QRpedia  http://qrpedia.org/

Officially launched in Sept 2011, it uses QR codes to deliver Wikipedia articles to users in their preferred language (usually the language on their phone). Used in various museums etc mainly in the US, UK and Spain. Paste a Wikipedia URL into the box to create a language-detecting QR code. Put the code wherever you want it to be read (eg. on an exhibit or poster). People can use the QR reader app on their smartphones to scan the code and be directed to the Wikipedia article.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia

37 examples of using QR codes (fun) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGYqxVrJN-s&feature=related

QR codes – solutions for maths problems http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X2AYmcoOkI&feature=related

Primary students use QR codes to get to websites easily….cute! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSA3YsBy_pU&feature=related

QR code Info from Chris Smith (Shamblesguru) http://shambles.net/pages/learning/ict/qrcode/

 

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YouTube, Google Search, TV

15 September 2011
YouTube Creative Commons
YouTube allows users to mark their videos with a Creative Commons CC BY license [attribution – reuse allowed]. These videos are then accessible to other YouTube users for use in their own videos via the YouTube Video Editor http://www.youtube.com/editor. The goal is to make it easy for users to identify videos they can share, edit & remix, as long as they attribute the source of the original clip. YouTube is teaming up with other organisations to create a library of 10 000 CC videos for others to experiment with.http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/youtube-creative-commons/
Google’s official YouTube channel
Some cool & useful stuff here. Includes videos about Google+ project; Talks at Google (guest speakers); 15 second search tip series. Many useful videos have been uploaded by Google users. And if you missed out on the awesome Freddie Mercury Google Doodle to celebrate his 65th birthday on 2 Sept, it’s here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Google#p/u/0/KX2BQM0D01M .…Don’t stop me now.…
The electric guitar pioneer Les Paul playable guitar Google Doodle of 2 June had 740 million visitors & possibly $268 million in lost productivity! It now has a permanent home here:http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html

Google Search Education Evangelism
Aimed at high school to adults. Includes basic and master lesson plans and Powerpoints for teaching search. All lessons are under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license so you can change & adapt them. Also has access to webinars.http://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/

SBS On Demand
This month SBS launched their On Demand free video service – full episodes, feature length films, clips & live streaming. It has over 90% of their current prime time content as well as previously screened titles. Some have expiry dates for watching them. You can set up an account and make a favourites playlist, subscribe to a series, receive notifications about new videos, videos about to expire etc.http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/

New national free-to-air indigenous TV channel
Last week the federal government announced a proposal for this new channel. SBS and the National Indigenous TV network (NITV) will work together to launch this channel, dedicated to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander content. Up till now, NITV has been confined to pay TV, making it unavailable to most remote viewers. Senator Conroy said the new channel’s aim would be to increase the amount & quality of original indigenous content on free-to-air TV.http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/proposal-sbs-to-launch-indigenous-channel/story-e6frg996-1226127415063

The hamster wheel: the return of The Chaser
The comedy team will return later this year on ABC1 in a satirical news analysis show. They will examine “the contemporary media landscape, where everyone from journalists to political fixers is perpetually at risk of spinning out of control”. The 8 x 30 min. episodes begin production this week.http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/tv/the-chaser-team-returning-to-abc-with-the-hamster-wheel20110831.aspx

The future is mobile
“40% of the world’s population will have access to the Internet by 2015, according to a new forecast released this week by market research firm IDC<http://www.idc.com>. But the way they access it is shifting drastically, particularly in the US, western Europe, and Japan, as media tablets and smartphones begin to take the place of the traditional PC…this will make the internet a very different place”. For schools…1-to-1 learning will skyrocket; teaching & learning for K-12 will fundamentally change due to mobile technologies.http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/09/12/mobile-to-surpass-wired-internet-connections.aspx

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Books, YouTube, Best websites 2011

24 August 2011
50 greatest books of all time?
This list was compiled by studying 43 other lists plus articles from critics, authors & experts. Links to the other lists as well (eg. Guardian, Globe, Man Booker, Harvard Book Store, Pulitzer…)
http://thegreatestbooks.org/

100 incredibly useful YouTube channels for teachers
This is a great list….a lot of US content but lots of amazing links eg. CitizenTube, United Nations, Witness (human rights), Periodic table of videos, Science magazine, Edutopia, Khan Academy, National Geographic…..
http://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2010/10/20/100-incredibly-useful-youtube-channels-for-teachers/

Time magazine’s 50 best websites 2011
An interesting list with some good links including:
Smarthistory: art history; many pictures; videos of experts talking about works; browse by artist, theme, medium.
Big Think: blogs & videos covering all topics about our world – arts, science, history, business etc. One post: “There is a 20% chance that we’re all part of an elaborate computer simulation from the future”.
Science Daily: Great info about new developments in all fields.
Khan Academy: The one-man university started by Salman Khan in 2006. Thousnads of free lessons aimed at students in highly visual 10 minute video chunks. Mainly maths & science, but other subjetcs also. He now has funding form Google & the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2087815,00.html