Quirkly and GE are collaborating in an effort to streamline digital gadgets for the home. Need to know how many eggs are left? Just check your phone! http://www.wired.com/design/2013/11/how-ge-and-quirky-want-to-smarten-up-your-home/?cid=co14668294
“Is AOL the new Hollywood studio?” Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain has teamed up with AOL for her eight-part series “The Future Starts Here,” a documentary on life in the digital age: http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/19/keen-on-the-future-starts-here-why-aol-might-be-the-new-hollywood-studio/
The novelty of Google Glass makes it hard to imagine the device becoming integrated into our everyday lives, but given how dependent we are on our mobile devices, we may all find ourselves sporting new lenses soon enough… http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/11/google-glass-sdk/?cid=co14686204
The hottest companies in tech right now, according to Goldman Sachs: http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/19/goldman-sachs-hot-tech-companies-2013-leaked-schedule/
Want to learn the basics of Omeka? Check out the lesson plan from this workshop: http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2013/11/editors-choice-introduction-to-omeka-lesson-plan/
Omeka is a simple, free web publishing system built by and for scholars that is used by hundreds of archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and individual researchers and teachers to create searchable online databases and scholarly online interpretations of their digital collections.
Catch up on the highlights, summaries, and video segments from the ITU Telecom World 2013 conference, held in Bangkok in November: http://world2013.itu.int/
A revolution is underway in the ICT sector. The shift to IP-based services is shaking the foundations of communication systems as we know them. We need to understand this change, work out how to grow with it and benefit from it. Take a look at ITU Telecom World 2013 – join the one conversation that matters.
A tutorial on using the public folder in Dropbox, and the benefits of doing so: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/kerryclark/2013/11/05/hosting-content-using-dropbox-public-folder
Building your own website? Here are a few elements to consider during the design process: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/user-friendly-advice-accessible-web-design/53381
Printed material is quickly becoming outdated in the age of Kindles and tablets, but some have argued that there are benefits to the old-fashioned hard-copy which electronics have yet to match. Does printed material really promote greater reading comprehension, as some studies have indicated, or is it a matter of how we interpret the results of these studies? http://dmlcentral.net/blog/john-jones/how-does-electronic-reading-affect-comprehension
An article from the NY Times weighing the pros and cons, examining “Online Education as an Agent of Transformation”: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/education/edlife/online-education-as-an-agent-of-transformation.html?_r=0