Just Tripping Along The Freakazoid

another small sign of change www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2010-03-31-1Aappworld31_CV_N.htm

How accurate is this for you? Looks at twitter patterns www.sleepingtime.org

Wow - is the human brain ready for this - will this catch on and change how we even type? I am wow - recombu.com/news/swype-beta-for-android-hands-on_M11528.html and it breaks the texting world record - here - recombu.com/news/samsung-and-swype-set-new-guinness-world-record-for-texting-use-it-for-ad_M11574.html

possible solutions for too much noise in the social media stream? blog.louisgray.com/2010/03/my6sense-debuts-attention-api-for-devs.html

Interesting survey stats blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/three-screen-report-q409/

www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2010-03-22-realitytravel22_ST_N.htm

Wow - life is so.... packed - how can we ever wade through it all neat search tool - everystockphoto.com/ Interesting social media stats - mashable.com/2010/03/17/social-media-usage-stats/ and OMG too much info and ways to fill a day - how can we possibly not loose touch mashable.com/2010/03/17/youtube-24-hours

this is neat - not sure where stats come from - Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company. This feature is part of SuperPower, a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8562801.stm

Posted an example transmediaeducation.blogspot.com/2010/03/example-of-transmedia-projectlesson-for.html

mashable.com/2010/03/09/google-launches-the-google-apps-marketplace/

a very important part of any artistic/media/etc. endeavor and just important in being a person on this planet - is the concept of intellectual property. One of the "roadbumps" in this changing world is how individuals interact and use content that comes to them. Everyone wants everything for free, ideally... and the ethical lines people make between just using, stealing, and such has begun to blur or is not really addressed well, IMO, in the education system. As part of any transmedia/digital/actually any type of project - creative content and intellectual property needs to be addressed. here is one new, and very solid, curriculum that comes with everything all set. And it is very good!!!! I plan on using this at the beginning of any unit. I like it is scenario based, meaning it has real world examples that students work through. As transmedia/digital media moves into our lives more and more - who owns what is going to blur more and more (a piece of a transmedia project is th...

Well - I am beginning to really work on bringing the concepts of transmedia and education together as well as working with it more and more in my teaching. As such - I am setting up a blog to collect resources and to document the projects I work on (I just recently got approval to begin working on more of these ideas and projects). Right now there is nothing really on the blog, but over time... : ) transmediaeducation.blogspot.com/

Along with the other blog entry I wrote - I wanted to put these two thoughts out there 1. A current trend in thinking with Transmedia is moving beyond the 'traditional" concept of a story and towards a concept of user experience see thismonkeycantype.com/blog/2010/02/17/stop-tellingselling-stories-create-experiences/ and rosspruden.blogspot.com/2010/02/ode-before-dying.html - for example 2. students today are growing up in an emerging participatory culture (see the excerpt I am posting below) so - if these are true and growing - then working to better merge these concepts into the very framework of our society through the education stream might be a good idea???? How many teachers really know about these ideas????? --------------- From: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (Jenkins et al., 2006) "The Challenge Ahead: Ensuring that All Benefit from the Expanding Media Landscape Writing in the Chronicle of Higher...

I've been thinking and reading and talking with assorted people (such as Mr. Robert Pratten from ZenFilm - check out a great blog here - zenfilms.typepad.com/ ) regarding transmedia and education (the joining of two topics that are important to me and of interest). While there has been some interaction between the two, erm, fields, concepts, industries, um yeah those two things :) I am curious about how much. I use some tenets and projects in my teaching associated with crossmedia and transmedia (see here for a great discussion on how maybe to see the difference between the two - www.lunchoverip.com/2008/05/from-crossmedia.html ). - I see transmedia as the method {how content relates and how the student/teacher interact with each other and the content} and crossmedia as the tool {delivery of content - the access points to the content} - but as a full on concept, method and way of thought and instruction, well, I do not as much as I would like to. so, I am toying with three ...

this is so cool - scifiwire.com/2010/02/couple-transforms-their-h.php

Track the countdown towards the 10 billionth tweet - http://popacular.com/gigatweet/

A couple of interesting articles about how much you do really may be tracked - also - hmmm how does one get a job combing through social media for a living - where can I sign up ;) mashable.com/2010/03/02/data-mining-social-media/ www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/social-networking-social-graphs-credit-1282.php en-us.nielsen.com/rankings/insights/rankings/internet