Does it take big bucks to make the greatest discoveries in science? Here is a comparison of small vs big science...

Warning: Okay, so this is one of those excessively vertical infographics that we love to hate... but the content is intriguing. Click to view the whole thing...

Source: NonProfitCollegesOnline.com

How can New Learning Times (NLT) strategize its design and development to survive in the world of responsive design, HTML5, and good journalism? The following article from the Columbia Journalism Review concedes there is no best solution, but they did suggest something that made me wonder about the make-up of our editorial team...

"Mobile designers must also become as integral a part of the editorial process..."

In other words, our content can no longer be categorized simply as "text", "video", and "graphics". The experience is far richer than this classification. Thus, should we be inviting developers to our team meetings? Could they recommend a special swipe or transition to improve the communication of some of our articles?

Jessie Arora is at it again. She continues to summarize her knowledge of the education landscape with blog posts like the this one, where she includes EdLab in her list of other "teacherpreneur communities."

EdLab: research, design, and development unit at Teachers College, Columbia University that hosts a variety of seminars and seeks to connect the education, technology and research communities. Their publication, the New Learning Times (NLT), provides daily coverage of the transformation of learning opportunities in the information age for those shaping the future of education, including profiles of various education leaders. (@EdLabTC)

Week 18: Dr. Sharon Hsiao

You will need the following:

EdLab is a learning organization, and as such, we should find ourselves sharing knowledge and ultimately teaching each other various processes. Today, we will get an opportunity to dust off our teaching skills and give feedback on one another's styles.

If you walk out of today's D&R being a little more aware of your own teaching and learning styles, then you've met the goal!

Activity

1. Pair up and teach something (absolutely anything) to your partner in 3 minutes. Your partner should observe, jot down notes, draw it out, take photos, etc. to visualize what and how s/he’s teaching

2. Get feedback from your partner...

Based on my not-frequent-enough conversations with some of the good ppl at EdLab, I believe there is consensus that a good #dataviz really begins with a good question. What do people really want to know? or NEED to know?

That leads us to the following visualization, created by Seed Scientific, which collected SMS and IVR texts from all over the world about what the public believes is a development priority.

Check it out here

Do you think any of these visualization techniques would work to communicate our own questions about NLT trends that Sharon proposed in an earlier blog post today?

#edlabrepresents #edlabdoes #cujgoogle

Yesterday, Manav, Megha, and I went to a packed J-school event with invited guests @ericschmidt, Executive Chairman at Google, @JaredCohen, Director of Google Ideas. They are the co-authors of their book called The New Digital Age, and they answered questions from the audience -- a seemingly even mix of humanities, journalism, and engineering students. The Q&A-style session was moderated by incoming Journalism School Dean, @SteveCollNY.

Manav was in line to ask a question, but time ran out right when it was his turn. #cestlavie. Alas, we didn't get to hear the authors' take on how technology will affect the future of education. However, we did hear their take on other interesting themes... ranging from security vs. privacy, the good and the bad of the world not having a "delete" button, the global (and somewhat also, local) technology gap, and the future of robots even just 5 years from now.

Inspired by the New Yorker cartoonist, Carlita Johnson's own blog of rejected cartoons, I'd like to start posting from our collection of rejected Visualized pieces. Perhaps some learning can come of it...

REJECT SELECTION
Pitch date: Apr 1, 2013
Pitch title: Spring breakers today are choosing to learn
*Note the badges that the students are wearing in the bottom half... yeah. That's a group of students choosing to get un-verified credentialing instead of choosing to raise a glass. Pick your poison of regret...

Inspired by the following image, but ultimately FAILING... Oh but there was so much potential to ride on the waves of this awesome meme!

My very first memory of working at the EdLab is the Group Genius project with Kate, Daniel, and Allen... titled "Jazz and Jobs"... where I had the chance to share my appreciation for jazz. It ain't just me. The whole world loves jazz.

Today is the 2nd Annual International Jazz Day, and the celebration is held in Turkey this year... Why Turkey? Did you know that the founders of Atlantic Records, the huge jazz and gospel label, were the sons of Turkey's first ambassador to the US in the 1930's? Take this learning a step further and find out more about jazz and democracy in the EdLab curriculum's called "Let Freedom Swing".

We may be miles/kilometres away from Istanbul, but we ARE in NYC... jazz is everywhere...

Check this out (below)! It's a series of thumbnails from 1 second intervals from the movie, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Is there potentially anything we can learn from analyzing our video and thumbnail outputs? I wonder what links exist between the learning happening on Vialogues vs. color, transition, and contrast over time.... This could be an interesting visual cognition study...

Datavis by Jeff Clark (Canadian!), founder of Neoformix, using Processing.

I can think of an easy way to program this even using Automator. Run a video on your computer on full-screen and just script a screenshot action (i.e. CMD+4) for every second... then compile the images with Processing (as done above), or with Javascript/D3 etc... If you know a better way, where we don't have to run the video to render each thumbnail, let me know...

Why not bring video-based learning on the go, too? Can you imagine social video apps like Vine (acquired by Twitter) and Viddy (rejected Twitter) being used for educational purposes? If so, could Vialogues be the first to create learning opportunities around 15-second (or longer) video clips?

Vine, Viddy, and... Vialogues?