20 Free Tools for Making Comics and Cartoons for Teaching and Learning
There are so many good free tools for creating comics and cartoons on the web, as well as apps for tablets and smartphones. I've built out a list of fun tools I am looking forward to trying out over the upcoming holiday break. I can't wait to brainstorm creative ways to leverage these in lessons! Click to view original, large image Note that some of these tools offer very different types of functionality. It's important to explore them yourself before introducing them students.
Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 4: Process, Key Tasks, Workflow
I have received a lot of emails from readers asking to illustrate more clearly what the actual typical tasks of a news curator are, and what are the tools that someone would need to use to carry them out. In Part 4 and 5 of this guide I am looking specifically at both the workflow, the tasks involved as well as at the attributes, qualities and skills that a newsmaster, or real-time news curator should have. 1. Identify NicheIdentify your specific topic-theme. The more specific, the better. The broader your coverage the less relevant it will be to your readers, unless you are already a very popular individual that people trust on a number od different topics.
4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web
Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material?
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A call for expressions of interest EACEA/2007 for the establishment of a list of experts to assist the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in the framework of the management of the Community programmes in the fields of culture, education, audiovisual, youth and citizenship was published on 12 March 2008. This call is managed by the Agency in close cooperation with the European Commission. The experts’ duties will be to assist the Agency, or, where applicable the Commission, in the performance of the tasks mentioned below. The tasks to be performed include: Evaluating proposals received in response to calls for proposals; Evaluating and monitoring projects: evaluating project reports; evaluating project products and results; project monitoring and site visits; any other tasks relating to the analysis and/or monitoring of programmes and projects; Specific studies and analyses relating to fields of activity.
Cyborg no more! The BBC moves to human-edited Twitter feeds
Move over, auto-tweets: This week, the BBC has switched its @BBCNews Twitter feed to all-human curation. (One small step for a news feed; one giant leap for newsfeedkind.) It’s a lot like the experiment The New York Times tried with human Twitter curation this spring…except that it’s not an experiment. It’s a new strategy. One that involves, at the moment, a team of four people working across three core Twitter feeds — @BBCNews, @BBCBreaking, and @BBCWorld.
Acapela Box : create your text to speech messages
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Content Curation: Beyond the Institutional Repository and Library Archives - Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians
If you are an academic librarian, you have been hearing about Data Curation, Content Curation, Information Curation or Digital Curation for years. And the terms can be applied in several different ways. There are the curation activities surrounding purchased library materials and the curation of faculty and student items (like theses and dissertations for example).
Twitter and the Anti-Playstation Effect on War Coverage
As I follow the remarkable political transformations ongoing in the Middle East and North Africa through social media, I’m struck by the depth of the difference between news curation and anchoring on Twitter versus Television. In this post, I’d like to argue that Television functions as a distancing technology while social media works in the opposite direction: through transparency of the process of narrative construction, through immediacy of the intermediaries, through removal of censorship over images and stories (television never shows the truly horrific pictures of war), and through person-to-person interactivity, social media news curation creates a sense of visceral and intimate connectivity, in direct contrast to television, which is explicitly constructed to separate the viewer from the events. Although it is the first factor most people think of, I believe that the distancing effect of TV isn’t just because TV is broadcast and social media is interactive.
International Virtual Heritage School 2012
The 1ST INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL HERITAGE SCHOOL: virtual museums, communication and digitisation, organised by leading European institutions in the field of Virtual Heritage and Virtual Museums (V-MUST.NET) in cooperation with the main worldwide organisation on conservation and restoration (ICCROM), involved participants in interactive laboratories on Virtual Museums and Virtual Heritage. It was held from the 12th to the 17th of NOVEMBER 2012 in Paestum (Salerno) Italy 20 participants coming from all over the world have been selected by the school scientific committee. Full board accommodation was provided for the selected participants, while the best 3 applicant have obtained also a further grant, covering their travel costs.
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Megan GarberFebruary 1, 2011 One of the biggest challenges in covering the unrest in Egypt — or, for that matter, in covering any event that’s in some way “foreign” — is determining who can provide relevant and accurate news about the event. To curate content is in large part to curate expertise; faced with a frenzy of news updates — some of them true, some of them false, some of them in-between — how do you know which updates, and whose updates, to listen to? How do you know whom to trust? Sulia, a NYC-based startup, has made it a point to figure that out.
Stock Photo Search
STOCK PHOTO SEARCH is a FREE bookmarklet that helps you search from more than 30 free stock photo sites. Install Drag the button below to your bookmarks bar to install: (If you want a preview, you can just click the button.) If you have trouble dropping it, just right click the icon, copy the link address and create a new bookmark you will call “Stock Photo Search” and paste the url.
