25 Unmissable Social Media Articles Worth Reading This Weekend - 6th May Every week, we have a look at some of the biggest social media stories that are out there, sift through the thousands of articles on offer and bring you 25 stories that you simply have to read. These are never breaking news stories but rather some of the deepest thinkers and smartest minds from the world of technology and social media, offering their thoughts and views regarding the biggest stories of the week. You won't make it through them all in one sitting but it'll bring you up to speed with this week's happenings. So just sit back, grab a coffee and enjoy. - Why traffic from social outposts is an overrated metric. - The secret to Facebook's success. - Why developer success on iOS is nothing more than a lottery. - Why Google is making a huge mistake shoehorning G+ into all its products. - Klout is evil, but it can be saved. - From social TV to better TV: Will the 'second screen' deliver for networks, brands and users? - Don't underestimate the power of (social) collaboration.
About DIAL | DIAL The DIAL project Digital Integration into Arts Learning The DIAL project, partially funded by JISC Developing Digital Literacies Programme, is a two-year project (ending December 2013) at the university of Arts London. The project set out with a broad aim of exploring UALs digital literacies landscape, past, present and future, its key aims being cultural change and improve graduate employability. DIAL is a change programme and will strive to continue beyond the life of the project and support a sustainable and long-term future for UALs Digital Literacies Programme. The project method Support a number of self-identifying and mutually supportive communities of staff and students within the university (based on courses, disciplines or other naturally occurring communities) who identify goals for improving their collective digital literacies. Within the community, individual and collective aims and anxieties will be identified. Please see DIAL year 2 objectives.
Efficiencies, enhancements and transformation: how technology can deliver at JISC On Air Episode 4: Efficiencies, enhancements and transformation: how technology can deliver. (Duration: 23:56) Listen now Subscribe via RSS Subscribe via iTunes Download MP3 Read the show transcript In the fourth episode of our online radio programmes – JISC On Air – we are exploring how learning technologies can be used to support new ways of delivering curricula leading to benefits, efficiencies, enhancements and transformation. The show highlights how colleges and universities are using technology to enable flexible and creative models of curriculum delivery. Kim Catchesideintroduces two different curriculum delivery projects, Making the New Diploma a Success, a learning portal for diploma students at Lewisham College, and eBioLabs, a set of integrated tools that help students prepare for laboratory classes at the University of Bristol.The show then explores their approaches and achievements, with a focus on some of the tangible benefits emerging from their activities. Tell us what you think
Beyond McLuhan: Your New Media Studies Syllabus - Christina Dunbar-Hester - Technology Editor's Note: A new generation of scholars is trying to come to new understandings of how technology and society shape each other. Christina Dunbar-Hester is among those young lions from her position at Rutgers School of Communication & Information. Here, she walks you through her PhD-level class on technology and media. Along the way, she distills a quarter century of academic work that goes far beyond pop culture's standard takes on how our world changes. It's tempting to see new technologies, especially new media technologies, as drivers of political and social change. But technological artifacts also embody the values and assumptions -- and conflicts -- of the societies that produce them, in complicated and surprising ways. "Technology is society made durable." In this course we ask, how can we think about media technologies in a smart and critical way? However, I teach in Rutgers' School of Communication & Information, and this course is for our Ph.D. students. Week Seven: Users
10 Ways I Use Technology to Learn Talking to smart people at Startup Weekend SFO During the NYTimes conference this week a tweeter got frustrated with the old white men on the stage, “One last time: Would the panel mind talking about how they themselves use technology to learn?” So I thought I’d respond. Write a blog worth sharing with the world every day (or at least a couple a week). Try to figure out what you learned today. Try to explain how the world works.Find or create a focus for learning. My learning with technology strategy isn’t very high tech: word processing, blog, search, email, social networking, and a spreadsheet.