Visuwords

Great visual dictionary resource – type in a word and a network of connected terms kind of “bloop” out at you. Based on Princeton Universities WordNet project.

via Ewan Mcintosh’s Del.icio.us bookmarks

A childs war

Machinima done by a group of kids in Queens NYC.

from www.holymeatballs.or

Vimeo allows encoding to HD

Vimeo is an online video sharing site – but it allows you to upload and transcode to HD720p quality, (1280×720) which is a clear advance on youtube. There’s a good comparative review between Vimeo and Viddler (the other sharing service that allows HD encoding) here.

 via Read/WriteWeb

Wesch does it again

Michael Wesch is an assistant professor in Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University who made a video called The Machine is Us/ing Us at the beginning of the year which – well, 3.5 million people have watched it so far; so I guess he hit the zeitgeist. It certainly made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Wesch2 is called “A Vision of Students Today” and it continues the theme.

What jumps out to me is that:

• He is using the medium to explore the medium.
• That his students must love the fact that he has a de-facto reputation.
• And they are becoming part of it.

via Everywhere

what are you *twittering* about?

Google have just bought Jaiku – so I think you can be fairly certain that micro-blogging (or lifestreaming) is going to continue it’s growth.  Seems as good a time as any to try it out.  A lot of the people who’s blogs I’m following seem to think it has value, particularly in a mobile context – so if you want to know what I’m twittering about, I’m s0apy.

Google Maps – some handy videos

Some quick run throughs on what you can do with Google maps, I hadn’t realised that you could embed youtube clips in the tags – cool.

www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/maps/tour/

In the left corner…

ULearn07

ULearn07 is a conference on ‘Personalising Learning in a Digital World’ being held in Auckland NZ until tomorrow. Ewan Mcintosh of Edu.blogg fame (I’m a bit of a fan) did the first Keynote which is why I know about it, and as is the way with all such conferences now, (see the Scottish Learning Festival from Sept.) it’s using the tools it seeks to promote, so you can follow/comment/interact (at least a bit) here.

reCAPTCHA

You know those funny squiggly words that some sites use when you sign up with them, to confirm that you’re human? Well I didn’t realise that they’re not just there to protect sites against spam-bots – they’re also being used to help Computers learn how to read Old Books.

bubbl

Bubbl.us is a ludicrously easy to use brainstorming – diagramming tool. It doesn’t do 2-way arrows and you can’t embed stuff in the bubbles, but you can share authoring with people – embed, link, export and mail them – standard web2.0 yadada. Marvelous.

via Integrating ICT into the MFL Classroom