Onderzoek in Nederland en internationaal naar 21st century skills Wereldwijd wordt steeds meer onderzoek gedaan naar 21st century skills. De onderzoeken richten zich voornamelijk op definities, modellen, processen van implementatie en transformatie. Onderzoek in Nederland ‘Discussienota 21st Century Skills NL’ In opdracht van Kennisnet hebben Joke Voogt en Natalie Pareja Roblin een discussienota samengesteld. Rapportagedatum: mei 2010 Onderzoek verricht door: Universiteit Twente Auteur(s): Joke Voogt, Natalie Pareja Roblin Bron: Joke Voogt over 21st century skills Onderzoek internationaal ‘ITL Research’ ITL Research is een meerjarig wereldwijd researchprogramma ontworpen om te onderzoeken welke factoren van invloed zijn op de transformatie van het onderwijs en welke gevolgen die wijzigingen hebben op leerresultaten van leerlingen en studenten.
100+ Chrome Experiments for HTML5 and More Are you ready to see the limits of what HTML5, JavaScript and similar tools can do with a web browser? Chrome Experiments, a site built specifically to showcase such tricks, now holds more than 100 different demos, most of them visually stunning and quite unique. These experiments toe the delicate line between technology and art, and we've included videos of a few of them below. The Chrome Experiments site was created about a year and a half ago. Experiments were sent in by web designers all over the world, featuring, according to the site, "the latest open standards, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG and more. Their work is making the web faster, more fun, and more open — the same spirit in which we built Google Chrome." Google's support of such browser-related open standards — including HTML5 — has impacted some of the company's largest applications, including Reader, Voice, Gears and web video in general. Likewise, we saw a few neat web-based drawing tools like this one:
12 Popular Free Social Media Icons Set to Spice Your Design Social media is changing the way we blog and also started impacting ranking of any blog. No matter what, when it comes to content distribution on social media sites, social media icons plays a major role. Here I’ve compiled a list of free social media icons set which you can use for your blog or Website and make your design attractive. Specially, designers will find these free social media icons very useful for next site redesign. These are not official social icons, but still you can use them on your blog and you can pick any icons set which fits your design. Most of these free icons set contains icon from Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Digg, delicious and many more. 1. Download 2. Download 3. This is one of the popular and most common icons. Download 4. These are funny truck icons and looks attractive. Download 5. Download 6. Download 7. Download 8. This set includes 80 different icons in 2 sizes. Download 9. Download 10. Download 12. Download Get Free Blogging updates in your Email
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SOCIAL FIGURES: A cunning way to find cool Facebook stats An amazing statistic like a battering ram breaks down doors. Here’s a good one. For every one person who buys a copy of the Express & Star in the West Midlands borough of Walsall there are 10 on Facebook. That’s print outnumbered by digital by a rate of 10 to one. It’s the single most powerful argument to use social media in local government you can ever have. It’s a cunning wheeze I first came across at the landmark LocalGovCamp in Birmingham in summer 2009. Paul Cole, a talented man from Derby, spoke about how he did it. You create a Facebook advert — but before you hand over cash you are given the chance to narrow down who you want to advertise to. It’s at this point that you can get the juicy stats. Here’s how to come up with one than your community: 1. 2. 3. 4.Upload an image. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Enjoy! Creative Commons Measuring Like this: Like Loading...
Maps API - Historic Map for use in Mashups This seamless historic map can be: embedded in your own website used for research purposes used as a backdrop for your own markers or geographic data used to create derivative work (such as OpenStreetMap) from it. The mapping is based on out-of-copyright Ordnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s. View more information on: How to display the historic map in your mobile device or phone (including the Apple iPhone, iPad or Android mobile) The map can be directly opened in a web browser by opening the Internet address: The map is ready for natural zooming and panning with finger pinching and dragging. Instead of typing the address you can also point your mobile's camera to this QR Code: How to install a QR Scanner on an iPhone If you open the address: You can also create an icon for this historic map in an iPhone. How to embed the historic map in your website How to use the map in a mashup <html><head> ... Licence and terms of use
HOW TO: Make Your QR Codes More Beautiful Hamilton Chan is CEO and founder of Paperlinks. With the free Paperlinks iPhone app, featured previously by Apple as the #1 New & Noteworthy app, consumers can scan and view QR code content with a native app experience. Paperlinks also provides a powerful platform for generating QR codes, hosting content and tracking their performance. The QR code: A thing of beauty or an eyesore? The magical barcodes that can be scanned by a smartphone to launch an offline-to-online experience are often criticized for their black and white checkerbox appearance. Fortunately, QR codes are malleable and can be redesigned in truly extraordinary ways, while still maintaining their scanability. QR codes have so much potential from a design perspective, so let’s take a look at a few tricks and techniques you should keep in mind when designing a code to enhance your brand and appeal to your audience. 1. The easiest way to add branding power to your code is to add color to it. 2. 3. 4. Conclusion
Education Eye - Mapping Innovations HootCourse Twitter StreamGraphs By: Jeff Clark Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 I just posted a new application in my projects section called Twitter StreamGraphs. It is an interactive tool to let you create StreamGraphs from the latest tweets containing a given word or from a particular user. A few examples are shown below. The application shows a StreamGraph for the latest 200 tweets which contain the search word. The StreamGraph shows the usage over time for the words most highly associated with the search word. Credits go to Lee Byron for the visual ideas behind the StreamGraph (although I'm using a simpler symmetrical form), to Processing for the development tools, to Martin Porter for the Porter Stemming Algorithm, to Vaga for the two small icons, and to Summize for building a great API into the Twitter data.
Inkscape. Draw Freely. Infographic: A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011 Thanks to Jesse Thomas of interactive design agency JESS3, we now have an updated look at the structure of the geosocial universe as it exists in anno domini 2011. It wasn’t so long ago that the International Astronomical Union booted Pluto out of the solar system or that MySpace was overtaking Yahoo! and Google as the most-visited site in the U.S. Well, a few rotations around the sun later, and the overall shape of the geosocial universe has changed dramatically. New stars have been born and others have been scattered out across the cold recesses of Internet space. Today, Myspace is sputtering, Skype is part of the Microsoft solar system, and LinkedIn is being traded publicly. As you’ll see, Thomas’ infographic shows the current size of major social networks as well as the other well-known online services we use on a daily basis relative to their peers. Some other notable trends in the geosocial universe, courtesy of JESS3: