Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Experiential Education Metrics Blog/Podcast / Tony's Project
This site and the attendant blog under "Shared Feedback" and the "Key Indicator" video podcast under "Bulletin", is helping to facilitate a design/development discussion within the co-op program to build an online"Dashboard" featuring critical statistics and reports about Co-op program-performance I will be presenting the prototype with the blog/podcast features to decision makersin Sept and hope to have a beta version of the site in use by the end of the year.
Link to Experiential Educaiton Metrics Prototype Web Site.
http://neutrino.neu.edu/cm/dev/eem/index.php
Link to Experiential Educaiton Metrics Prototype Web Site.
http://neutrino.neu.edu/cm/dev/eem/index.php
raaaambler.com
My final project, the Raaaambler.com site...
Here is a link to screenshots of it: http://www.sethmerriam.com/raaaambler/screenshots.pdf
Here is a link to a presentation of it : http://www.sethmerriam.com/raaaambler/final_proj_prep.pdf
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
Using technology for social awareness
HollabackNYC
Here is an example of mobile technology as a weapon against street harassment, started in NYC. Victims of street gender/sexual/racial harassment can take a photo of the harasser, email it to their city's hollaback blog, and thus make a public statement against this problem. There is one for Boston as well.
HollabackBoston
Podcasting Legal Guide
As we discussed in class, some info and resources about using music in podcasts in this Podcasting Legal Guide.
Open Source
What is Open Source? Let's look at the wikipedia definition! Is this accurate? Can we trust that it's accurate?
Here are some tools for authoring wikis:
Wikipedia
wetpaint
wikispaces
pbwiki
Some info on mash-up tools in this cnet piece.
And again, Creative Commons.
Here are some tools for authoring wikis:
Wikipedia
wetpaint
wikispaces
pbwiki
Some info on mash-up tools in this cnet piece.
And again, Creative Commons.
Italia Unita
I took some footage of the Italia Unita festival in East Boston a couple of weeks ago.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5618046361092413761&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5618046361092413761&hl=en
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Convergence Example... I think...
So GMail is doing this video thing... where everyone can make part of a video and "join" in...
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/gmail_video.html#utm_source=en-et-newfea&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=en
Very interesting "participatory" use of technology to, I guess, advertise their service and perhaps grow brand loyalty? Not sure, but either way I thought I'd share...
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/gmail_video.html#utm_source=en-et-newfea&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=en
Very interesting "participatory" use of technology to, I guess, advertise their service and perhaps grow brand loyalty? Not sure, but either way I thought I'd share...
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Assignment for 08/06/07
1. Finish your video piece -- output, compressed for web and upload to one of the hosting sites we looked at in class. Post to your blog and the class blog.
2. Play around with Garageband (if you want to post something, great!)
3. Work on Final Projects.
2. Play around with Garageband (if you want to post something, great!)
3. Work on Final Projects.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
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