5 Creative Uses for Pinterest's New Place Pins
Last week, Pinterest introduced a new feature, allowing its users to pin items to their boards along with a map. The location-aware pins are powered by the location giant, FourSquare, and have opened up a bunch of new possibilities both for users and business. By adding a map to your Pinterest boards, this turning them into Place Boards, the ability to recommend places to go, or even create a bucketlist of the places that you want to visit is suddenly much more visually appealing. More important than that, however, is the usefulness the feature brings to the table.
CogDogRoo - StoryTools
50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (return) Note! 50+ Ways is no longer being updated here but over at the new site for 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story-- It has more organizational features and includes ways for you to add content to the site once you join the new wiki. Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story.
What is the point of twitter?
This week we took the plunge and made our official @YorkPsychology twitter stream public by featuring it on the departmental home page. I can imagine some of my colleagues are wondering what the point of twitter is, or indeed whether it has one. If you are similarly puzzled, you might want to start by reading this gentle introduction by Prof Dorothy Bishop or @deevybee as she is known on twitter. Dorothy’s post explains how twitter works and has lots of great tips if you’re interested in giving it a go.
Lagniappe of Research #6: Chinese Women And Crime, Early 1900s Edition
I assume that, like me, you're fascinated with the Chinese cities of the pre-WW2 era, and so you know about the crime scenes in them, especially in Shanghai, and the major personages involved in the crime scenes, Big-Eared Du and Pockmarked Huang and all the rest. (There are many places you can read about the rogues of Old Shanghai, as it's called: here's a good place to start). And, just possibly, you know about the criminals and crime-solvers of Chinese detective and mystery fiction of the pre-WW2 years, Sun Liaohong's Arsène Lupin-like Lu Ping (and his Sherlock Holmes-like opponent, Cheng Xiaoqing's Huo Sang) and the others like them.
Ridealong: The Underground Fight Clubs Of Dark Souls III
When Dingle arrives at the circular ruins outside the old church, the first thing he sees is a man in a crown, holding a flaming torch – it is the man he must kill. But the crowned man shows no fear, he simply waves and beckons him over. Dingle is curious. He approaches with caution and looks into the grassy arena below, where he sees two dark spirits – red phantoms like himself – taking swings at each other. The man in the crown begins silently dropping glowing stones everywhere, one by one.
17 visualisation tools to make your data beautiful
You don’t need to be a seasoned data scientist or have a degree in graphic design in order to create incredible data visualisations. It has become a lot simpler to mine your data and interpret your insights in an engaging, attractive, and most importantly easy to understand way. This is a list of various different free and premium tools and platforms available which will allow you to communicate data in a variety of different formats, from interactive charts, to infographics, to maps, to word clouds. Not all will be suitable for your particular data set or your audience, but its certainly worth experimenting with a few to seek out the most relevant.
33 Great Apps for Storytelling and Creativity
2013 Update… Here are the main apps I suggest for storytelling. Some of them are actual bookmaking apps, some are apps for creating stories in various ways and others are apps I would use to help kids plan out a story. I have listed them in the order of importance for my classroom.
How to delete your digital life
Wiping away your digital life means getting rid of the traces you've left – the mistakes you made, the embarrassing photos, the unwise comments, the flawed social media profiles where you've left too much visible. But how easy is that? The following steps provide a start to reducing your digital footprint and taking back control of your online life. 1) If you have a Facebook account, change every setting in the Privacy tabs to "private" or "not shared" or "off" (there's a special "privacy settings" shortcut in the blue bar near the top).
