From College Scholarships:
Is Your Blog Worthy of a $10,000 Scholarship?
Do you maintain a weblog and attend college? Would you like $10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs? If so, read on.
We’re giving away $10,000 this year to a college student who blogs. The Blogging Scholarship is awarded annually.
Scholarship Requirements:
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A new media accounting of projected war costs
GOOD: The Hidden Cost of War
This is something to look into: SnapPages.
I don’t know a lot about webpage creation tools, such as SnapPages and the product from Google, but it’s well worth the time to play with the software. That’s what we do: play, explore, and wonder at the usefulness.
SnapPages™ provides a suit of tools that make creating your [...]
For our (future) discussions regarding social networking, Frontline has a great piece on Growing Up Online: Just How Radically is the Internet Transforming Childhood?
Great journal/blogging ideas here for discussion. You can watch the complete program online too. Take the time to check this out.
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Via Techcrunch we have a link to a new product forthcoming that mashes Twitter for educational use called Edmodo.
One more idea for blog posts for today:
Perhaps the most talked-about effects new media has had (and continues to have) is how it has changed music, the music industry, as well as how we experience (listen) it.
From the advent of the CD, MP3s, the iPod, software, recording techniques, and more, how has new media changed [...]
Xavier on technology and society:
In today’s world, there is a machine for almost everything we do in life. Because of this huge increase in technology, the use of regular people with certain skills has become unnecessary. Many people who were skilled blacksmith or weavers for example, cannot find a job doing what they are [...]
Earlier in New Media we do a little bit on the differences and similarities between the digital and paper newspaper. Sometimes the differences are subtle, such as in this Hartford Courant article on a recent AP poll on parental involvement in gameplay with children titled Games Poll: Parents Aren’t playing.
The paper version includes a graphic [...]
UC Berkeley is putting lots of video-taped lectures on YouTube.
This tells me that they’ve been videotaping lots of their lectures for quite a while.
But is this really instructional?
Well, there you go.
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Our esteemed colleague, Ken Mikulski, informs us of Ted’s Mikulski’s work with Second Life. Ted’s Master’s thesis provides a glimpse into interesting applications of virtual worlds for studio design and architectural presentation and development:
‘The Tracer,’ also known as Ted Mikulski in real life, presented his Thesis Presentation for his Architectural Master’s Degree at Norwich University [...]
Today at Mix07 Microsoft made a number of major announcements, mostly around the recently-released Silverlight (formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere). Microsoft presented both new products and a new vision for how services and software will interoperate in the Microsoft and Silverlight ecosystems. Microsoft is providing not only the tools and software but they are [...]
The Boston Cyberarts Festival 2007 is in full swing. I’ve enjoyed the festival a few times and it’s typically fabulous. I’ll be up at MIT next week. If anyone wants to explore, you’ll be at the epicenter of new media.
The 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival takes place April 20-May 6 at museums, galleries, theatres, universities, and [...]
This article at the Hartford Courant sent me off on a search for the referred to report, as mentioned in this quote:
WASHINGTON — Educational software, a $2 billion-a-year industry that has become the darling of school systems across the country, has no significant effect on student performance, according to a study by the U.S. Department [...]