Línea de tiempo con videos de la historia de los ordenadores

http://www.dipity.com/timeline/Historia-Ordenadores#

Do you love Christmas time and soaking up as much holiday spirit as you can? Well I know I do! Christmas came early for me this year. For Halloween my roommates and I decided to be  Christmas elves and instead of putting up Halloween decorations, we transformed our apartment into a winter wonderland!

Me with my roommates Jenn, Lauren, and Megan

New Jersey has lots of fun things to do but I know sometimes they might be hard to find. So I organized a few ideas and events going on throughout New Jersey for the month of December so everyone can get into the holiday spirit because no one likes a grinch! ( 25 Days of Christmas ) Hopefully this is helpful and I will be adding more to it! Feel free to browse around! Ideas from cooking ideas, star gazing, parades and more!

Throughout the years, people have been encouraging us to stay happy and inspire us with their words. Here’s a timeline of happiness since before we even realized it.

With the help of dipity I made a timeline chronicling my time on RUWS. I’ve come a long way since freshman year, and I’m not just talking about my haircut. In four years there have been tough times, really tough times, good times and some really, really great times. I’ve played many positions and I’ve also sat the bench. In four years my senior class has won 70 games and an NJAC title. I wouldn’t trade my four years for anything and I’m going to miss it every day once it’s over.

Here’s the timeline.

The explosion of the web may have caught out newspapers and a lot of journalists, but early adopters have been able to thrive in an environment where one man’s threat is another’s opportunity.

Certainly the web has caused a lot of problems for media and journalists, but the tools to adapt to this changing market have been provided for us.

What’s more, the vast majority of the most important ones for bloggers, journalists, editors and even PRs and marketers are freely available, easy to use and – perhaps most importantly – free.

Some of these tools are suited to building traffic, some for measuring traffic, some for sharing or collecting information and others to add value to traditional content.

Some will suit you, others will not. A couple may even be irrelevant and I will make no claims for what they will do for your traffic, brand, revenues or social life.

But these are all tools that I use, in some cases vital tools, and if you accept the metaphor of modern journalist as media Swiss Army Knife you need to constantly develop your skills and make use of the largely free tools you have at your disposal.

There are, literally, thousands of them out there and it can be confusing as to which may be of help and which – in all likelihood – will not.

These are the tools and applications I find most useful and I’ve tried to keep the apps, and descriptions of them, fairly basic. There may be some obvious ones I miss out, which just means I haven’t got round to making use of them or I don’t consider them worth flagging up for starters.

There seems to be a lot of suspicion surrounding social media and Web 2.0 apps. All I have to say to that is this: They are tools. How, and whether, you use them is up to you.

The only criteria are that they’re predominantly free and they are basic, widely-available online tools or apps.

Anyway, without further ado here’s the selection. Dive in.

Twitter and related

Twitter is, to my mind, so important now for online media types that it’s got a category of its own.

Twitter

The Web 2.0 Telegraph is the most fitting description I’ve seen of Twitter. Twitter is simply the platform of choice for important communicators interacting with one another: promoting links, sharing information, asking for help or shooting the breeze.

If you’ve built up good contacts in relevant fields on Twitter it’s the most important tool you will use.

• See: Twitter
• See also: Robin on Twitter

Twitpic

One picture is worth a thousand words, or 140 characters. Show Twitter followers what’s got your attention by connecting up your phone to Twitpic.

You can set up Twitpic so it directly and instantly feeds to Twitter, even old mobiles can do it.

• See: Twitpic
• See also: Robin on Twitpic

Twitterfeed

If you have multiple blogs and multiple Twitter personas you need to make sure the correct blogs are feeding to the correct Twitters. Doing it manually can be pain in the backside, so automating a feed to post to Twitter is worth investigating.

There’s some debate as to whether automated posting goes against the grain a bit on Twitter. As with anything, moderation and common sense are key.

If you’re using Twitterfeed you don’t want more than a couple of automated posts a day. A deluge of links will get you unfollowed. And Twitterfeed is no substitute for proper engagement on Twitter.

• See: Twitterfeed
• See also: Twitterfeed on Twitter

Hootsuite

If you manage multiple accounts it’s simpler to manage them from the same place, rather than logging in and out and juggling usernames and passwords.

I initially used Tweetdeck but it’s awkward and buggy. Hootsuite is easier to use as it’s on a webpage; simpler; customisable; and has useful add-ons like stats, URL shortening and scheduled posting.

• See: Hootsuite

Bit.ly

Essentially anointed by Twitter as the link-shortener of choice, Bit.ly is probably the best too. It will take your long link and make it into a 20-char link that won’t eat up your 140 chars in a tweet.

A simple interface and some basic metric-tracking and sharing tools are the cherries on the cake.

• See: Bit.ly

Twitterholic

Looking a bit rough around the edges now but this is the tool I used to build a following on Twitter by finding people in similar places or with similar interests to me.

It’s always easier finding people who will reciprocate if you have something in common, an area where a lot of people trying to build a group of followers fall down.

• See: Twitterholic
• See also: Journalists on Twitterholic

Social bookmarking sites

Using social bookmarking sites simply to try and drive traffic can be fruitless and potentially damaging. All have unique communities and all are different, even if they don’t initially appear to be.

If you’re representing a brand you may want to think twice before submitting ill-fitting links to Digg, Reddit and Fark. If you’re not going to engage or observe how things work, don’t bother.

Also be aware that chasing traffic, as an end in itself, can be somewhat self-defeating. Choose your bookmarking carefully.

Digg

Using Digg to its maximum potential – in terms of traffic – takes time, effort and patience. As with Twitter, it’s about building a community and using that community to promote your links.

I think Digg has a fairly narrow band of opportunities for editors or journalists. Funny, techy or sporty stuff seems to do best as Digg users tend to use it to share distracting, fun stuff.

The obscene amounts of traffic The Onion and Cracked get from Digg seems to bear this out.

Occasionally I happen to write something I think will do well on Digg, and I make sure I write a header and description that will appeal to Diggers.

A well-placed story on Digg will send you hefty amounts of traffic, and it’s good for in-bound links too. Also bear in mind the reason it’s there – it’s fun.

• See: Digg

Delicious

Of very little use for generating traffic in the way Digg and Reddit are, Delicious has probably grown into the most pure social bookmarking application.

It’s beautifully simple and, because it’s searchable, is a great repository for valuable information.

It tends to be used by people working in media, PR, programming and marketing so it’s a gold mine of peer-approved guides and information in these areas.

• See: Delicious

Reddit

Not a million miles away from Digg, Reddit has an arguably broader focus and is easier to get into for newcomers.

Reddit’s community is not to be messed with however. Get a link submission wrong and you’ll know about it.

• See: Reddit

Fark

Digg on speed, or maybe acid. Fark consists of ‘not news’ chosen by a community and as such a very difficult tool to wield with any success.

In fairness Fark is not a tool at all, but can be used as such. Many international media have successfully harnessed Fark as a tool to drive vast amounts of traffic.

A story on the front page will deliver tens of thousands of hits over a very short space of time, which often leads to servers being ‘farked’ – brought down by the deluge of traffic.

A very good understanding of the community is required, and there’s a good opportunity to sharpen up your headline-writing skills. Only the very best stories and write-ups are greenlit, but the resulting traffic can be huge.

• See: Fark

RSS, alerts and readers

Tracking the websites that are important to you, and sharing your own content with readers is an important element of the online Swiss Army Knife.

Netvibes

I say Netvibes because it’s the one I use and I think it’s smart, but any reader or personalised home page will do – they’re essentially much of a muchness.

If you’re in media or PR you need to keep up with events on a daily basis. That means browsing potentially hundreds of feeds a day.

Grabbing an RSS feed and displaying it in your reader alongside 50 others is a lot easier than going to those individual sites.

Add-ons like widgets, increased sharing abilities and clever use of APIs from other apps like Facebook and Twitter means you can potentially browse, and interact with, all the relevant bits of the web from one page.

Most have a public setting too. As a result I have a public homepage on Netvibes that displays all my various online real estate around the web.

• See: Netvibes
• See also Robin’s public page on Netvibes

Tabbloid

Takes your feeds and displays them in a newspaper format. A bit clunky, and there are a few similar tools out there, but handy if you get square eyes looking at a normal reader.

Can also be used as a promotional tool to round up your output on a regular basis.

• See: Tabbloid
• See also Tabbloid sample

Feedburner

Allows you to track and edit your RSS feeds, share links and embed ads in your feed. No earth-shattering, but provides far more control over RSS feeds.

• See: Feedburner

Google Docs

Put e-documents online, quickly, easily and – er – freely.

• See: Google Docs

Google Alerts

Track a developing story, stay abreast of any news concerning particular companies or trends or steal a march over others on breaking news relating to your chosen keywords.

• See: Google Alerts

Twitterfeed

Again. See above for details

Multimedia

There are a hundred ways to tell a story these days. Use images, videos and music to bring yours to life.

Youtube

There are half a dozen good apps out there that will allow you to upload and share videos, but for simplicity’s sake I’ve gone with Youtube.

Youtube as a platform is only really as good as your videos, but as a tool it’s probably more versatile than you’d think.

Most obviously it provides some fantastic, free, embeddable multimedia content. If you can’t do something with that you’re probably in the wrong job.

Insight actually provides some useful metrics – the one measuring the attention span of watchers per video for one – while playlists, audio beds and annotations allow for some personalisation.

Add a customisable channel page and Youtube becomes a valuable tool in branding and hosting.

Live Stream and Vimeo may be more obvious, and going forward will come into their own, but for ‘quick and dirty’ Youtube is good enough for most.

• See: Youtube
• See also MotorTorque on Youtube

Flickr

Please be aware of what Flickr is not – a free image bank. If you’re going to use Flickr to source images you need to have a thorough understanding of Creative Commons licences, and some form of contact with individual authors.

Also, Flickr is not a link-building tool. Any links are nofollowed and business accounts are frowned on.

With that in mind Flickr can be invaluable for finding good quality images to accompany articles and is also a pleasantly simple image storage and presentation tool.

Image sets can be presented as embedded slide-shows, which can be a great visual dimension to a story alongside a static image.

Flickr can also be used to create links within photographer communities and can be used to promote photographic work.

Again, its largely self-policed by one of the more righteous online communities, so ensure you know what you’re doing.

• See: Flickr
• See also Robin on Flickr

Pixlr

Essentially an online Photoshop but cheaper (free actually), faster and simpler. Great tool that’s good enough for most photo manipulation.

• See: Pixlr

MPEG Streamclip

Good tool for video file conversion and some very basic editing features. Plays virtually anything. Can also be very good at capturing online videos if that’s your thing.

• See: MPEG Streamclip

Spotify

Weren’t expecting that one were you? But any new free app should be considered for the possibilities it provides.

A few brands have flirted with playlists, and I’ve done a couple of articles involving playlists to accompany articles.

There may not be a huge amount more scope than that, but Spotify is a free resource that offers free access to millions of tracks. Who saw that coming a couple of years ago?

• See: Spotify
• See also Crucial Three article on Liverpool Culture Blog

Morgue File

A good free image-bank site. The value of a good image to accompany an article can make all the difference. If you have access to a free image bank you’ve really no excuse. Remember to add a credit and check licenses though.

• See: Morgue File

Stock Xchng

Another great free image bank, with a premium level.

• See: Stock Xchng

Mash-up and added value apps

Add value to your content with embeddable mash-ups and media that complement your content.

Dipity

Great for building timelines for events that can be embedded. Connect up RSS feeds to feed a topic or add manually.

The added value it can bring to a running story is not to be underestimated – it’s shiny and it’s useful, especially if you’re using your own content to build timelines.

• See: Dipity
• See: Dipity US car industry timeline

Google Maps

Google Maps should be subtitled ‘not just maps’. Any amount of mash-ups can be created with the API, but it’s just as easy to create interactive co-operative maps using the site itself. Also works well with Google Earth.

As with Dipity, you can add value to content and tell another dimension to a story. A no-brainer for travel reports and write-ups.

• See: Google Maps
• See: Half Map Half Biscuit

Cover It Live

The ability to cover an event live on a self-hosted platform can be invaluable. Cover It Live allows administrators to host guests, guide discussions and moderate reader comments.

While Twitter may be a more obvious platform for micro-blogging, Cover It Live can be embedded into a web page, customised and managed in terms of who can contribute. Images and video can also be embedded in the stream.

Again, it can add another dimension to traditional coverage and bring live events to life.

• See: Cover It Live

Xtra Normal

A tool that allows you to convert to text spoken by an animated character may be gimmicky, but it can be fun.

Any blogger worth their salt should be able to think of something at least funny to do with it.

If Xtra Normal had been around 20 years ago we could have had animated reports of Gerry Adams speaking to the UK via an animated avatar.

• See: Xtra Normal
• See: Worried about acid erosion? on AdTurds

PollDaddy

Encourage user feedback and drive user-generated content with a poll – it can provide valuable insight or be used to drive original content itself.

Easy to configure and embed, you can stick it in the middle of an article one day and write a follow-up the next day based on the results.

• See: PollDaddy
• See also: Ten worst adverts of 2009 on AdTurds

Metrics, web editing and SEO

If you’re running a blog or website you want to be able to track its performance over a number of metrics. A basic understanding of SEO will benefit any journalist too.

Google Analytics

Or any decent analytics package that allows you to track, compare and dig down into various metrics.

Analytics will do all of that and more – you can’t seriously run a large website without something at least as powerful and detailed as Google’s statistics tool.

Analytics can be used at a very basic level for tracking your traffic and website performance, or can provide intricate details into what’s going on in the deepest reaches of your site if you drill down.

Makes a great pairing with Adsense.

• See: Google Analytics

Webmaster Tools

Webmaster Tools allow you to get your hands a little more dirty with the intricacies of web design and SEO.

If there are any obvious problems with the navigation and accessibility on your site, Webmaster Tools should flag them up, along with some SEO information on backlinks and keywords than may give you a different perspective on how your users – or search engines – view your site as opposed to how you view it.

• See: Webmaster Tools

Adsense

Making money from a blog or website can be something of a double-edged sword. I don’t have Adsense on any of my personal blogs, but do use it on other sites.

Simply put Adsense offers the ability to make money from your blog or site with a few clicks.

Style your ads, decide on what keywords you want to include on your ads, settle on placements and Adsense will generate code for you. Stick the code in your blog, verify your account and watch the cash roll in.

Don’t expect vast sums unless you’re doing thousands of impressions a day, and bear in mind the downside of changing your blog to a money-making device.

• See: Adsense

Google Trends

Stuck for blog topics or want to research a trend? Google Trends is a good way to track what’s popular, although Twitter Trends can be used in much the same way.

Comparing two or three different terms can be instructive if writing about brands, TV programmes or pop bands.

Trends also pairs up well with Insight, an advances search facility currently in Beta, which allows you to drill down into search data over different periods of time or by region and country.

Both are probably of more use to marketers, but keyword searches and tracking can also be useful for giving a fresh perspective on an article, creating unique content, driving Adwords campaigns or simply finding out who is currently winning out of Doctor Who and Star Trek.

• See: Trends
• See also: Who is winning out of Doctor Who and Star Trek?

Website Grader

A good all-in-one tool that will grade your site against others in terms of traffic, search engine placements, page rank and a dozen other metrics.

Can provide a good introduction to basic SEO and an insight into what you may be doing correctly or incorrectly.

• See Website Grader

Platforms

If you’ve not made the leap you’ll need a platform on which to host your blog or site. Make sure you pick a good one.

WordPress

So far in front of other blogging platforms it’s not even funny. WordPress hosted or self-hosted is easy to figure out, has an interface so intuitive it’s almost beautiful, good support and a peerless range of plug-ins.

If you’re a journalist you need a blog. If you need a blog, use WordPress. That is all.

• See: WordPress

Tumblr

Ultra-simple blogging platform that makes the easy-to-use WordPress look like quantum mechanics.

Tumblr’s simplicity and efficiency is its greatest strength, so if you need something that works out of the box and don’t need the extra bells and whistles, look no further.

• See: Tumblr
• See also: Robin on Tumblr

Promoting yourself

Much as it pains me to say it, you need to be a brand these days, and that means at least providing people with the means to browse your skills and experience.

I use this blog to do that, but there are a couple of other tools around the web worth a look.

LinkedIn

I’m not actively searching for freelance or seeking a new job, so I’ve not got much out of LinkedIn so far.

If and when I do I’ll no doubt investigate further as this is what everyone uses. I’m not clear how much business actually gets done on LinkedIn, but for now I’ve got a page on there with the basics on.

• See: LinkedIn
• See also: Robin on LinkedIn

ReTaggr

Unsure about ReTaggr at the moment, but it does what it says on the tin – essentially an online business card.

• See: ReTaggr
• See also: Robin on ReTaggr

• Image by Noodlepie on Flickr via Creative Commons

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A timeline can be a great way to tell a story that stretches over a long-period of time.

History of Health Care Reform (NYTimes.com)

Michael Jackson’s Billboard Rankings (NYTimes.com)

Williams Sisters and a Decade of Tennis Dominance (NYTimes.com)

Maddoff Fraud (NYTimes.com)

Seven eye-popping interactive timelines (10,000words.net)

Dipity is a simple tool to create online timelines. It is open to anyone, but is also being used by news organizations like Huffington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle. You can pull in videos, pictures, and updates from hundreds of sources instantly. Or you can create your own timeline manually.

See how the Chronicle, a small newspaper in Lewis County, Washington, used a dipity timeline to cover the history of floods in the area.

Here is a brief overview and some simple instructions for getting started…
To start, go to Dipity.com

How to Use Dipity:

Go to Dipity.com.
Sign up for an account.

Inside you will see an option to “Add a Source.” Dipity can pull in information from photo sharing sites, blogs, Twitter, and bookmarking sites like Digg and Delicious.

Select a source or sources and click the “Done” button.

You can use the zoom tool in the upper left hand corner of the timeline to narrow or extend the timeline.

Or you can add one event at a time by clicking the “Add an Event” button.

You can click can then put the information in manually: title, date, description, pictures, links, etc. When you are done click on “Save” or “Save + Add Another.”

In the top left hand corner you will see tabs for “Timeline,” “Flipbook,” “List,” and “Map.” You can click on these to view the information in various formats.

You can also add “Topics” at the bottom. It will search the Internet for sources of information that fit your topic search.

When you are done, click on “Embed.”

Take the embed code and paste it into your Word Press blog. Unfortunately, your timeline will not show up in your blog post. It will only give you a link. So you can write up a description that explains what your timeline is, how your user should use it, and then link to your Dipity timeline.

Dipity is great free data visualisation tool (thanks to Riyaad Minty for this tip) that allows users to collect and present data from any site on the web. You can then present it as a timeline, a map, a list or a fipbook. Dipity then allows you to embed the collection in your website. The example below shows someone tracking the development of the swine flue story.

For a fun Dipity check out the one on internet memes

Dipity tracking Swine Flu story presented as a timeline

Dipity tracking the Swine Flu story presented as a flipbook

Dipity tracking Swine Flu story presented as a Map

I am now all set for my little history / ICT project. At lunchtimes for this week I will be working with a small, select group of Year 6’s to investigate the learning potential of several web tools.

We will start by researching the topic using the Internet alongside books from the library so that the children can compare sources and discuss reliability. Do they understand why wikipedia cannot necessarily be trusted?

Following that I have set up the following:

Wallwisher – I have created a Wall for the children to post profiles of the main characters involved in the plot. Would really welcome comments once they have started.

Google Maps – After my successful trial of this I will be asking the children to create a map and plot some of the places mentioned in the story of the Gunpowder Plot and then create a tour guide.

Geni – To help the children understand the political and religious background to the Plot I will ask some of them to create a family tree of the Royal Family starting with James I. They have just finished a Tudors learning journey so I will ask them to find the connection between James I and Henry VIII.

Dipity – I will also have children creating a timeline of the events using www.dipity.com.

Twitter – I have created a twitter account for Robert Catesby, the leader of the Plot for the children to update over the next few days. We will plan the tweets in advance and maybe use a service to schedule the tweets.

My plan is to have 1 or 2 children working on one site at a time and then rotating them so they experience and contribute to them all.

All will be available on our Learning Platform -> look for the folder titled Gunpowder Plot on the left.

I would welcome any comments about this little project. Hopefully it will be successful and I will be able to plan bigger projects that other schools can contribute to as well.

Tomorrow I am starting to work with a small group of Year 6 children on a history / ICT project.

I will be using some of the tools I have been experimenting with other the past few days. These include:

Creating a topic related Google Map like my Gunpowder Plot map -

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Using dipity.com to create a timeline.

Using geni.com to create a family tree.

Using Wallwisher to create a ‘wall’

And using Twitter to create a historical account @LCS_RCatesby

I will blog again tomorrow to let you know how it all progresses.

If you have any other suggestions for sites that could be used for history topics then please let me know.

Author Clare Dudman wrote a post on Reading and the Internet a few days ago, listing a variety of ways in which the internet can enhance the reading experience. When I read her post, I automatically changed the word “reading” to “writing” in my mind because the two are interchangeable and intertwined for me. I posted one of the ways I, as a writer, use the internet and then realized my mistake, suggesting that Clare create a list for writers, in addition to her reader list. She may be considering that, but I thought I should post my own list and then, if she decides to create one, I can compare our uses.

So then ….

25 Ways Writers Can Use the Internet

1. Search for character names, both first and last, using a baby name site.

2. Investigate locations using Google Maps or Mapquest. Though Google may be at the top of everyone’s mind, I have found that Mapquest tends to give more direct routes, using roads the locals might use, and its drive times are more accurate than those on Google Maps. Google Maps has Street View, though, so you’ll want to check out both for your settings.

3. Get help with grammar and punctuation.

4. Use an online dictionary and thesaurus.

5. Find great quotes to start your book chapters. (Why do so many writers use this technique?)

6. Look up health-related info for whatever ailments you want to inflict upon your characters.

7. Collect “clippings” by bookmarking news stories, blog posts and other online content. Use the Bookmarks feature on your browser, or sign up for a social bookmarking service like del.icio.us. (Looks like delicious has lost the dots in its name. Thank goodness. Too darned hard to remember how to spell the word & where to put the dots.)

8. Get a grip on journalistic ethics so as to avoid any legal issues with your writing.

9. Commune with other writers online. Ask for help & get feedback.

10. Locate basic writing advice.

11. Keep track of your reading. (And other writers!)

12. Find pictures to help you create scenes.

13. If you’re in need of an unusual prop, search museum websites for artifacts. Don’t just visit sites for Really Big Museums, look for small, local museums, too.

14. Mine Wikipedia articles for original sources. Check both in-text citations and those at the end of the article.

15. Get inspiration from writing prompt websites and Oblique Strategies.

16. Learn various poetic structures, such as haiku and sestina.

17. READ! For free! Because you can’t be an effective writer unless you are also a reader. (Oh, my. I think I’ve just made a pronouncement. Shame on me.)

18. Follow trends.

19. Get technical information for those technical things you want to insert into your articles and books.

20. Allow Dr. Wicked to prod you into writing.

21. Use Dipity to follow historical time lines.

22. Add a dash of a foreign language to your writing using Google Translate. Check with a native speaker during editing to make sure the translations are accurate.

23. Start a blog in order to maintain a regular writing practice, market your work, and connect with readers.

24. Self-publish a book.

25. Brush up on copyright and an alternative to copyright.

Got other suggestions for ways writers can use the internet? Leave them in the comments, please!

Dipity is a platform that I stumbled upon yesterday, that allows you create attractive timelines on anything you want, and then share them with the world!

Its free and easy to set up, and you can include info from other platforms such as YouTube, Flickr, Twitter etc.  You can then embed your timeline in your website or blog – either as as funky moving timeline or in an equally funky flipbook view…or as a map or a list. 

Nice.

Not sure what I will use it for yet, but I’m sure I’ll find something.   

The example picture below is taken from the Dipity website and is for illustration purposes only…

…I would never actively seek nor promote anything to do with Sarah Palin normally! 

A organização internacional Médicos Sem Fronteiras publica, desde 1998, lista anual das dez crises humanitárias mais negligenciadas pela mídia nos Estados Unidos.
Crises de humor da Britney Spears ou de Amy Winehouse recebem mais cobertura midiática do que a crise humanitária em países como Somália, Zimbábue e República Democrática do Congo.
Organizei o Top 10 elaborado pelos Médicos Sem Fronteiras em uma linha do tempo usando a plataforma do Dipity.

Clique para acessar a linha do tempo no Dipity

A lista mais recente apresenta as seguintes pautas negligenciadas em 2008:

• Catástrofe humanitária na Somália;

• Crise na saúde em Mianmar;

• Desnutrição infantil;

• Violência no Sudão;

• Guerra devasta região leste da República Democrática do Congo;

• Necessidade crítica de assistência na região somali da Etiópia;

• Crise na saúde devasta Zimbábue;

• Civis iraquianos necessitam urgentemente de assistência;

• Co-infecções de hiv/tuberculose;

• Conflito no noroeste do Paquistão.

Veja o documento completo:
Top Ten Humanitarian Crises of 2008

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Dipity is a tool that could be very useful in education. I did a search on A(H1N1) and this is what I got. It’s an interactive timeline comprising of various resources from the WWW!

Dipity helps make temporal and visual sense of searches. This organises the plethora of information that typically results from a Web search and makes it easier to manage. Better still, the information can be reorganised into a list, flipbook or a map to suit the needs of the searcher!

I wonder if Google might acquire Dipity some day…

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Las aplicaciones didácticas de los Glogs y otras herramientas de presentación de la Web 2.0 (Scrapblog, Slideboom…) han sido el tema de mi comunicación en las Jornadas de Getxo Linguae 2009 .  Me han acompañado las chicas de Bloggeando que han presentado otras herramientas para crear líneas del tiempo (Dipity),  comics (Pixton) etc…

Aquí os presento el trabajo realizado con mis amigas y amigos de 5º y 6º de  Urkitza LHI, de Bakio. Son dos glogs realizados con Glogster que recogen un proyecto que integra dos áreas del curriculum: Conocimiento del medio y Euskera. La realización de este proyecto ha contribuido a que desarrollen varias de las competencias básicas de la enseñanza obligatoria: la competencia en comunicación lingüística , la competencia digital, la científica, etc…

Para terminar os dejo este enlace a una entrada, del 24 de Abril, en la que explico lo que es un Glog por medio de un Glog: “Glogeatu! A poster with Glogster!”

Alors que le vote final de la loi Création et Internet est prévu pour demain, je vous propose d’aller faire un tour sur quelques sites qui permettent de se représenter d’une manière différentes les informations et les ressources nécessaires pour mieux comprendre ce texte.

On commence par les Inrockuptibles (qui tiennent en passant une intéressante rubrique sur leur site consacré au numérique) qui nous propose un tour du monde des pays qui ont tenté de mettre en place des systèmes de lutte contre le piratage, sous la forme d’une Google Map. Si “comparaison n’est pas raison”, ce panorama permet de mesurer à quel point il est difficile de mettre en place efficacement une réponse au problème du téléchargement sur un mode répressif.

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Le Projet Magellan (une association qui promeut de nouvelles formes d’accès à l’information sur Internet) a mis en place de son côté un véritable portail collaboratif de collecte de ressources liées à la loi Hadopi, comportant des documents, des liens et profils de personnalités s’étant engagées pour ou contre la loi. Le tout est aussi couplé à un moteur de recherche permettant de prolonger la recherche sur Interne (intéressante démarche, soit dit en passant, qui pourrait se décliner sur d’autres thèmes en partenariat avec des bibliothécaires).

L'Hadopithèque (Projet Magellan) : un portail de ressources pour mieux comprendre la loi

Enfin, sur le site Dipity, outil bluffant pour créer des frises chronologiques thématiques, on trouve une timeline qui résume les grandes étapes de l’élaboration de la loi et qui présente la particularité de se prolonger dans l’avenir pour essayer d’imaginer l’après Hadopi. Excellent exercice d’anticipation législative !

Une frise chronologique sur la loi Création et Internet, avec projection dans l'avenir !

Des variations géographique, documentaire ou chronologique sur le thème de la loi Hadopi, qui prouvent que ce texte aura quand même quelque part réussi à promouvoir la création sur Internet, mais peut-être pas de la manière dont ses concepteurs l’attendait !

(et pour suivre en direct le scrution de demain à l’assemblée, c’est là)

Si cet article vous a intéressé, voir aussi sur S.I.Lex :

• Une nouvelle formulation pour l’exception Bibliothèques dans la loi Hadopi 17/05/09
• Riposte graduée et loi Hadopi : où en est-on après le vote du Parlement européen ? 09/05/09
• Hadopi, jusqu’à la lie … et après ? 17/04/09
• La menace du “portail blanc” en bibliothèque paraît s’éloigner … 13/03/09
• Projet de loi Hadopi : la proposition de “portail blanc” en bibliothèque devrait nous faire voir rouge ! 19/02/2009

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1. Herramientas utilizadas:

2. Proceso de trabajo:

La primera sesión para la realización de esta práctica tuvo lugar la mañana del 5 de mayo, cuando las cinco componentes del grupo nos dispusimos a decidir qué herramienta utilizar. Una compañera del grupo propuso “Dipity”, una herramienta que había explorado previamente para práctica 3 de la modalidad 1 y a todas nos pareció muy interesante. Durante esa mañana pensamos en diferentes posibilidades para aplicar la herramienta y estuvimos indagando en ella, viendo todas sus prestaciones. También buscamos herramientas parecidas en la red, aunque ésta fue la que más nos gustó desde el principio.

Ese mismo día por la tarde, después decidir qué tipo de actividad íbamos a diseñar y de buscar los objetivos y contenidos relacionados con la misma, la desarrollamos en profundidad y preparamos el tutorial de la herramienta, redactando la narración explicativa, grabándola y capturando las imágenes. Por fin, después de varias horas de intensa búsqueda, dimos con cómo colocar el tutorial de vídeo directamente en el blog. Utilizamos para ello la widget VodPod que ofrece WordPress, aunque previamente hubo que cargar el vídeo en una página web dentro del servidor ftp de una de las chicas del grupo.

La segunda sesión tuvo lugar el día 6 de mayo, y lo que abordamos en ella fue, en primer lugar, la redacción de esta parte de la práctica y, en segundo, la búsqueda de páginas web educativas, discutiendo acerca de cuál era la más interesante, decidiéndonos por una y poniendo en común los puntos más detacables de la misma.

Por último, una vez redactados los puntos 3 y 4 los publicamos en el blog.

3. Motivos de la elección del tema:

Todas estuvimos de acuerdo con la elección de la herramienta desde un principio por varios motivos:

• Se pueden trabajar contenidos del área de Música (los cuales no habían sido trabajos todavía en ninguna de las prácticas anteriores, aunque se pueden aplicar a otras materias).
• Es una herramienta sumamente sencilla para ser utilizada por niños.
• Ofrecía posibilidad de insertar archivos multimedia, con lo cual esa parte de la modalidad 2 quedaba cubierta.

4. Herramientas que se barajaron:

Otras herramientas parecidas que hemos encontrado en la web son:

• http://www.xtimeline.com
• http://www.simile-widgets.org
• http://www.timelinemaker.com (versión de pago con una demo de 30 días)

Pero ninguna de ellas permite insertar contenidos multimedia.

5: ¿Qué hemos aprendido?

Cada vez nos resulta más fácil y rápido realizar estas prácticas, puesto que ya va habiendo una consolidación del proceso de trabajo. En ésta, destacaríamos nuestro pequeño gran descubrimiento de embeber vídeos en el blog, que nos ha dado muchos quebraderos de cabeza en las prácticas anteriores.

Objectives:

1. Instead of students using PowerPoint to present projects, let them post on their blogs using these useful tools!

To do list:

1. Glogster - register a new account. Start working on a new glogster! If you think it is difficult look at tutorial here!
2. Timeline – Make an account at dipity – add a topic,  add a topic, or create an event. Some good points to be found at technology for teachers, 
3. Photostory - Download photstory to your computer. See tutorial here! Or here!

Feel free to leave a comment if you have any other neat places to visit! Visit my students’ blogs, you can find the links on the right!

Smarthistory.org è senza dubbio una delle idee più interessanti nell’ambito della didattica della storia dell’arte.

L’idea di fondo che anima il lavoro di due professori statunitensi, Beth Harris e Steven Zucker, è quella di creare un ‘web-book’, un luogo virtuale in cui raccogliere immagini e video prodotti da insegnanti, studenti, visitatori di musei, professionisti del settore, capace di sfruttare al meglio le possibilità di interazione e riuso dei contenuti offerte dalla rete.

Il primo nucleo di Smarthistory era costituito da un blog creato nel 2005 da Harris e Zucker per la distribuzione gratuita di audioguide (‘conversazioni’, come preferiscono chiamarle gli autori), sotto forma di podcast, del MOMA e del Metropolitan di New York. Il successo fu tale che l’offerta culturale si ampliò a tal punto da divenire un ambizioso progetto, sostenuto economicamente dalla Samuel H. Kress Foundation, che vuole coprire la storia dell’arte occidentale.

L’aspetto più interessante di Smarthistory non è costituito tanto dalle funzionalità del sito (immagini e video possono essere organizzate per epoca, stile, artista, o tema), quanto dall’uso a fini didattici dei più diffusi strumenti di social networking. In fondo all’homepage si trovano i link alle pagine di Smarthistory su Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo e Dipity, sulle quali è possibile condividere foto e video e organizzarli in una timelime.

Flickr, in particolare, ha dimostrato di essere la piattaforma più utile ai fini della didattica e della discussione tra gli studenti (e non solo) grazie alla possibilità di condividere online le annotazioni su un’opera d’arte. Questo gruppo è al momento costituito da 116 persone che condividono 952 immagini personali di opere d’arte [MP].

I ran a few interesting data visualization products: some open-source, some commercial:

• http://www.tableausoftware.com/ (commercial)
• http://code.google.com/p/birdeye/ (open-source) — ActionScript
• BirdEye is a community project to advance the design and development of a comprehensive open source information visualization and visual analytics library for Adobe Flex. The actionscript-based library enables users to create multi-dimensional data visualization interfaces for the analysis and presentation of information. The project is based on development and the integration/adoption of related open source libraries (see credits and attributions).
• http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Visualization_Options.html — you submit the data and they process it on their servers. Good set of visualization tools, but data becomes public.
• http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ (open-source) — JavaScript
• http://www.dipity.com (commercial)

I created a timeline chronicling the 2009 baseball season for the Rowan University Profs.   Check out the timeline, click on the boxes and read up on all of the scores and stats.

click here for my timeline

I am a firm believer that there is at least one point in a person’s life that helps them decide how they want to spend the rest of it.  I was never known as the most decisive person in the world, so for me, there are ten moments where I can honestly look back and say “This is why I want to be involved in professional sports.”  I created a timeline of these events, and in the description, I wrote a lead for each to give my audience a little dose of how I would have written an article on the occurrence.

The Top Ten Events That Influenced My Decision To Be A Sports Writer.

This week the class spent time going over the interactive assignment which is due the following Tuesday. Having refreshed a little on google maps, we then dove into the introduction of Dipity. This program is a way to create time lines on the web. You can pull information directly off your blog, and it will map it out for you. You are able to do this will multiple accounts, such as Flickr. You can also use web based searches on specific topics and track articles that have been written on. Furthermore, you can even decide to track these stories from specific areas such as blogs, or news sites. Overall it does a lot of good stuff, but it fails on basic mechanics and functionality. It is a little blocky, a bit sluggish, and can be downright annoying if it is not being cooperative. BUT, I did mess around with it enough to give you a little sample of what Dipity does. I have created a time line for all the posts for this blog, and you can find that here.

The rest of the week involved a quiz, and a workshop for students to get through the technical aspect of their interactive assignment. Most of the students in the class have this down pact. There were not a lot of questions, which is great to see.