Mark Hines's Public Library

30 Sep 09

Melbourne Museum: Virtual Exhibition

wow! virtual museum tour exhibit - great interactive graphics!

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uBoost

site used by HTA to give students projects to work toward

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29 Sep 09

YouTube - 21st Century Skills Culture at High Tech High

Nice example of how High tech High teachers and students focus on 21st Century skills

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MW98: PAPERS

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Curating (on) the Web
- Although has interesting points, the fact that it is dated speaks volumes about the need for this field to build a sustainable presence - way too many exhibits are gone (online ones) - on 2009-09-29
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y. Over the years museums have changed
a great deal. Today, while museums are diverse, as are their aims,
it can safely be said that they are primarily in the business of
dissemination of information rather than artifacts. The advantage
to thinking in terms of informat
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- . Usually this is
  as another avenue for education and communication. In this sense,
  there is nothing particularly revolutionary about the Web. It's
  a bit
- he most profound change will lie with our generic
  expectations about the interface itself. We will come to think
  of interface design as a kind of ar
- If this proves true, it may become a significant reason for museums
  to experiment with innovative interfaces. Currently, such efforts
  are often considered simply "bells and whistles," which,
  if anything, complicate rather than enhance communication.
  - does age have an effect n how people expect to view the exhibit? - on 2009-09-29
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- ut it is here that the designer, Louis Mazza, extends
  the experience by re-mixing the audio in a way that calls attention
  to the mix, just as Thater's "mixing" of the rgb channels
  of the video projector calls attention to the technological and constructed
  underpinnings of the normally transparent, narrative experience. It's
  a fine line between presenting the
  - innovation in design - on 2009-09-29
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- ng
  its resources and making them increasingly accessible online. Digitizing
  assets is not dissimilar to the historical function of the museum
  to preserve artifacts. As this process becomes more and more
  - interesting metaphor of the new curator role - on 2009-09-29
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- The Institute for Contemporary Art in London
  has what it calls "Curatours,"
  which "explore ideas and themes across web sites. Each Curatour
  explores a different theme and is curated by a specialist within
  the field." To date there are only two curatours and they are
  approaching a year old, so it is not clear whether ICA intends to
  continue the program. Artist Jake Tilson's Colour-Color "focuses
  upon the use of colour on the Internet
  - this is a pretty cool idea - on 2009-09-29
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- Many artists have incorporated the Internet
  as an aspect of their physical installations in museums: Shu Lea
  Cheang's Bowling Alley originally
  presented at the Walker Art Center, Peter Halley's recent installation
  and Exploding Cell project at
  the Museum of Modern Art, to name just two, but museums' embrac
  - the note of web art is a stretch for me personally! - on 2009-09-29
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- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art made
  one of the biggest splashes to date in terms of museums and the
  Web by "acquiring" portions of three Web sites: adaweb,
  Atlas, and Funnel.
  Even though curator of architecture and design, Aaron Betsky, asked
  these Web sites to make a donation to the collection, and he "is
  treating the pieces as he would graphic design, rather than works
  of fine art,"(10)
  the conscious, curatorial decision to collect "this over that"--especially
  when "this" is a Web site--is a significant ev
  - notion of collecting sites as exhibits seems strange - on 2009-09-29
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- The interesting question is not how do these sites match up with
  museum sites or as virtual museums, but rather, what do traditional
  museums have that these sites don't or couldn't?
- One of the best known sites for new media did not even have a permanent
  public home until last year. However, Ars Electronica's
  "Festival of Art, Technology and Society" has been a significant force
  for almost 20 years and in recent years has had extensive Web presence.
  Similarly, the annunal conference for the International
  Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) hosts a Web site with a juried
  set of links to artists' work. The venerable SIGGRAPH
  conference has an online art gallery. E
- interactive explorations, short films, animations, games, experiments,
  media hoaxes.... and who knows what else."(14).
  Razorfish has two efforts.The Blue Dot
  "curated" by Craig M. Kanarick, which takes as its challenge to
  "prove tha
  - the article is dated so a bunch of the links don't work - on 2009-09-29
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- disk
  drive or communications link will contain machine-to-machine communication,
  not human-to-human. When we reach a world in which the average piece
  of information is never looked at by a human, we will need to know
  how to evaluate everything automatically to decide what should get
  the precious resource of human attention.(16)
  - of course the evolution of metadata and xml, etc will make this easier - on 2009-09-29
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- hulgin's Desktip IS is symptomatic
  of this approach. Desktop IS is both a "work" by
  Shulgin and a group effort open to anyone. The "call"
  is worth quoting in its entirety.
  - this site shows a pic of a mac classic desktop from os 6! - on 2009-09-29
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- he entire project is an evolving investigation into
  the possibilities of multi-dimensional on-line environments and
  will be one model for what many think of as a "virtual museum."
  I use this term with hesitation but acknowledge that it has become
  common to think of an online representation as something virtual,
  meaning unreal, and is a result of thinking in terms of multimedia
  CD-ROM and other forms of digital delivery that have become current
  but are not necessarily applicable to a networked environment like
  the Internet.
  
  My definition of virtual would be closer to "universal,"
  meaning a museum of the possible. In the end "unreal"
  and "universal" may mean the same thing in that the term
  "universe" is a metaphor for what we can't
  - this predated the second life movement for museum space. - on 2009-09-29
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Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2007: Papers: Urban, R., et al., A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums

Interesting article on SL museums

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eloped museum spaces currently outnumber those created by
real-life museums (see Taylor, 1995). These experiments in a new medium
can tell us a lot about what ‘real-life’ museums should consider,
as well as how we might want to inform and re-merge with our physical
resources. SL museums
rea networks, migrating
to full on-line-based networks in 1997 with the launch of Ultima Online.
Participation in massively multi-player on-line games (MMOGs) grew rapidly
as domestic access to broadband increased, and by mid-2006 exceeded 13
million subscriptions to various MMOG envir
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- Museums have also been concerned about accurate representations of their
  collections, sites or spaces in virtual worlds (Johnson, 2005; Tolva,
  2005). However, a very different focus is needed if the goal of a MUVE
  is social interaction and not authentic modeling of virtual artifacts
  (Di Blas, 2003; 200
- rofessional activities, even
  though they are not officially employees or students of the museum; “Volunteers
  are...involved participants rather than consumers” (Orr, 2006;
  Stebbins, 1992). F
- or all locations self-identifying as either a "museum" (43
  locations) or a "gallery" (102 locations). By combining the
  results of this search with on-line lists of favorite museums and galleries
  in SL – some publicly available, such as in Wikipedia, and some
  not, e.g. SL note cards passed around to residents in-world – we
  produced a list of more than 15
  - I did a quick search in sl and found 100 - on 2009-09-29
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- This section presents nine characteristics tha
- n RL metaphor by displaying artifacts on walls
  or in cases in rooms, there is no explicit need to do so. In a world
  where the sun always shines, there is no reason not to display artifacts
  in the open air or even floating in mid-air. Since SL avatars are able
  to fly, museums in SL can take innovative approaches to displaying artifacts
  that maximize vertical space as well as horizontal. With
  no need to worry a
- as the exhibits themselves. The developers of some SL
  museums, such as the Second Louvre Museum, work very hard to create a
  setting that duplicates, at least partially, an RL museum or location.
  Such an approach, however, raises the question of whether the setting
  is more important than the artifacts
- visitors return to a previously visited
  museum in SL, they may find the museum completely different. Even visitors
  accustomed to RL museums’ changing collections and rotating galleries
  may be unnerved by the way virtual buildings can so easily change their
  shape or size from one visit to the next.
- d Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), displayed
  in the Science Center on Info Island II. Given the nature of the available
  technology, the concept of media richness takes on all new meanings for
  on-line museum visitors and raises visitor expectations when visiting
  museums in SL.
- The International Spaceflight Museum, for instance, has a regular
  lecture series covering topics ra
- Mars missions. Presentations are extremely well-attended and well-publicized
  in-world and in RL. Special events and similar activities can be powerful
  tools for building a strong community of regular visitors who feel intimately
  involved in the museum’s activitie
- difficult to recreate an entire location exactly,
  given the technological limitations of building in SL.
  Replicated environments such as Paris 1900 or Casablanca must therefore
  focus on extracting key elements from the RL location and then re-positioning
  them in SL to convey the look and feel of the origi
- ifficulties
  if they wish to use non-player characters to add realism, and may enforce
  certain rules (e.g. flying is not allowed in Paris 1900)
- but
  also the nature of interacting with individuals in SL, combined with
  the typical SL citizens’ reluctance to give out information about
  their RL identities, makes it very difficult for museum professionals
  to administer surveys or conduct needs assessments in SL (and indeed
  raises the question of
- With the exception of one participant, all of the
  museum owners interviewed were doing so in the context of serious leisure. Some
  found the prospect of creating virtual architecture compelling, while
  others saw o
- Most builders acknowledged that their activities are
  still very much in the experimental stage.
- The development
  of synchronous and social activities, such as lectures, collaborative
  builds, and accepting feedback from visitors, is a hallmark of SL museums. As
  one participant noted, “If you build it they will come once; if
  they build it, they keep coming back.”
  
  SL museum builders also noted the more interactive
  na

16 Sep 09

Top News - Librarians: Bing has to find niche

weighs in on the strength of bing's visual layout vs googles entrenched scholarly resources

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15 Sep 09

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.

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07 Sep 09

National School Reform Faculty

A great list of protocols based on our first CoL discussion on Sept 2.

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04 Sep 09

EasyBib: MyBib Pro information

Interesting site that create bibliographic references - MLA is Free, gotta pay for better vices including APA

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31 Aug 09

Software Support - COE Student Wiki

Nice wiki built support for tools like elluminate, google docs and open office

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Alice.org

Powerful, well-designed, appropriate tool for introducing students to programming in an engaging way. Well the focus on visual learners and gender bias.

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30 Aug 09

gettingtrickywithwikis - home

wonderful resource for building exciting wikis with step by step directions

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cooltoolsforschools - Presentation Tools

wonderful web site that has a great list of web 2.0 websites by category

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28 Aug 09

YouTube - bplearning's Channel

This is a great channel on YouTube that has been designed for introducing the concept of the big picture school to a general audience. Great short videos of students, advisers, mentors, all talking about what it means to learn in a school where they believe "one student at a time"

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05 Aug 09