Just wow
If my former car and my current car had a lovechild, it might look a bit like the 2013 Volvo V40. Should this beast every make its way to America, I’m game. Perhaps by 2015?
If my former car and my current car had a lovechild, it might look a bit like the 2013 Volvo V40. Should this beast every make its way to America, I’m game. Perhaps by 2015?
Joe Sabia tells digital stories using the iPad, but not at all in the way that you might expect. Courtney Young, head librarian at Greater Allegheny (and one of my favorite campus contacts) shared this Ted Talk with Media Commons’ Facebook page – and I’m glad she did!
There is something I’ve always loved about a city with hardly anyone living in it. I just recently blogged about China’s Ordos and before it, about others like it. Urville, though, takes the cake because it exists entirely in the head of its chief architect, savant Gilles Trehin. And he’s been drawing it for the last twenty years.
(io9 – again)
The “whole” story of A Wrinkle in Time presented as a single comic page. You’re welcome.
(And thank you, io9.)
Last night, I had the opportunity to present three sessions of the Engaging Résumés with QR Codes workshop that I’ve been refining over the last few months.
I offered the training as a co-presentation with Career Services director, Rebecca Maguda who had been asked to teach first year English students about résumé writing and building. By packaging our two training sessions together – hers a hands-on session where an actual document was taken home, mine an exploration of ways to add a living layer of information to the flat document – we seemed to really get the participants thinking about ways in which they might be able to present themselves as a cohesive “product.”
An interesting note about the construction of the actual session: during the first class slot, we went with me first and Rebecca second, as we thought showing them something flashy first might grab their attention. Now, this was at 4:00 pm, so it’s possible that all they were hearing were dinner bells, but the students were far less engaged than when we found them to be in the 7:00 pm and 8:30 pm iterations when we flipped it around. If not a hunger-haze, perhaps the act of building a résumé helped to put them in the correct mindspace and allowed them to see just what fits well in that format – and what could be expanded upon to help set them apart from the crowd?
I concur with Engadget on this one: this would make a fine iPad app!
At the Media Commons, we are big fans of good examples of using Public Domain and other free/legal media sources to produce outstanding reworked masterpieces. We are also big fans of nerdy things like Portal’s GLaDOS so this excellent “Still Alive” music video made from The Brain That Wouldn’t Die is absolutely up my alley.
(io9)
Around this time last year, I found a video from Corning entitled “A Day Made of Glass.” Filled with shiny surfaces, transparent dividers and sci-fi technology of the first order (and theorized for “the near future”), the video encapsulated everything that is hopeful, wonderful – and painfully naïve about futurism. However, it was still a fascinating experiment in interfaces, smart information overlays and product design.
Well, they are at it again with “A Day Made of Glass 2.”
Just as stunning as the original, there are many new concepts worth noting. I love the interactive presentation screen/whiteboard/chalkboard in the classroom as well as the gather-round-and-touch surface that the students use to explore the spectrum. However, I’m hoping I’m not the only one that was appalled by the use of a giant glass screen to divide the redwood forest into halves. I get what they were going for, but that was a bit weird. Great for digital dinosaurs, maybe not so great for the deer that will invariable smash into/through it!
Still, a fun “what if” experiment and some pretty to flavor the start of Monday afternoon!
My trusty new steed has just arrived – and was greeted by a completely unexpected snowstorm while I took delivery yesterday morning. Driving and photo sessions have been scarce so far but I did grab some this morning since we made the last minute decision to postponed our Pittsburgh departure due to the (likely) nasty mountain roads.