I had to draw it up before I forgot, but here's the setup for the NCAIS Innovate conference broadcast. @alexragone was in New York City, @vvrotny was in Chicago, and I (@arvind) was live in North Carolina. We conducted a live webcast of our show 21st Century Learning by interviewing @kellyhines, @msstewart, and @plugusin. The team at #ncinnov8 was awesome, hospitable, and just plain fun. The audio/video of the broadcast is being edited and will come out as soon as we can get it out. Thanks to Kelly, Meredith and Bill for the wonderful conversation.
Lastly, but not leastly, big props to @samandjt for his and his team's incredible work getting the tech set up. We did some last-minute tweaking (read: a lot) and they handled it with grace.
via flickr.com
I've been shooting a bit here at the conference, not as much as I might have liked. I could use some help tagging. I love tagging. Just got to a photo, and add some tags at the right. Remember if you want to put multiple words in a tag, to put them in quotes like this, "NCAIS Innovate Conference"
Let's crowdsource, people!
Paris 26 Gigapixels is a stitching of 2346 single photos showing a very high-resolution panoramic view of the French capital (354159x75570 px). Dive into the image and visit Paris like never before!
Compilation of photos built into a grand 26 gigapixel interactive image. Worth looking at.
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I mean, can you imagine how much fun people would make of you? Anyone have one? Why would I want this?
I'm not a big fan of auto-following bots on Twitter. I mention "Raleigh" a few times and look what I get! Well, I guess a little artificial Twitter follower inflation never hurt anyone's ego.
One of our Flip Mino cameras totally bricked (read: died) yesterday. So, as good techies, we decided to look what's inside. Our webmaster/technician did the dirty work, and here are the results. Pretty cool. Oh yeah, and there are no screws on the outside, so you pretty much just have to crack it open like a walnut.
update: uh oh, when we started plugging things back in it came on! Not sure the thing still wasn't broken all along, but I guess we'll never know.
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Creative film making, sarcastic commentary, fun music. And all about the phenomenon of chat roulette.
Some R-rated language/concepts in the video.
Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls
In an unsurprising article an old media institution which is slowly withering away (the newspaper) discusses how a law school has to ban laptops in their classrooms because students aren't listening to the lectures.
"This is like putting on every student's desk, when you walk into class, five different magazines, several television shows, some shopping opportunities and a phone, and saying, 'Look, if your mind wanders, feel free to pick any of these up and go with it,' " [Professor] Cole said."
I can't see how this is any different than these future-lawyers desks are going to be. They'll be in their offices, having to do work, with a computer, Internet access, cell phones, desk phones, e-mail, instant messenger, Skype, etc, all available for their perusal.
Shouldn't law schools being teaching future lawyers how to minimize distraction, use modern tools to be better lawyers (like writing a collaborative brief via Google Docs), and embrace what modern technology has done for the legal field? Or perhaps the bigger problem is the modern legal field isn't moving to take advantage of the opportunities. My sense is that the field is, but the educational institutions training the new lawyers aren't.
I can't believe how unwilling educators are to change their practice. You've got to get to where your kids are, or you'll be irrelevant.
My rant for the day.
TEDxNYED used more than $100,000 of equipment (most of which we rented for ~$9,000) to record/broadcast live in HD. We are currently editing the videos which will be placed on TEDx's YouTube channel. @mjmontagne asked me via Twitter if we would share our AV setup, so I fired up Inspiration and made a quick visual. If you have questions, feel free to ask.
p.s. don't you love the cheesy clipart? I was clearly feeling inspired :)