R&R Tumblrama



Robert's and Renee's personal favorites found while frolicking and tumblr-ing around on the Web. Tumblr can be is fun--try it! It really is very easy to "quickly post and share anything you find or create"--our non-techie friends & family members will even like this!

Sat Apr 25
Welcome
Welcome
Online Photo Sharing in Plain English (via leelefever)
Wed Apr 22
Social Media in Plain English (via CommonCraft by Lee LeFever / leelefever). A simple story that illustrates the forces shaping social media. This video comes in an unbranded “presentation quality” version that can be licensed for use in the workplace.
Social Networking in Plain English (via CommonCraft by Lee LeFever / leelefever). A short explanation of social networking websites and why they are popular. This video comes in an unbranded “presentation quality” version that can be licensed for use in the workplace.
Sat Apr 11
Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta “The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by iA Inc. It maps the 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map. Domains are carefully selected by the iA research team through dialogue with map enthusiasts. Each domain is evaluated based on traffic, revenue, age and the company that owns it. The iA design team assigns these selected domains to individual stations on the Tokyo Metro map in ways that complement the characters of each.” See the dynamic Zoomorama - Tech Crunch Web Trends version of this Web Trend Map (Version 4, Final Beta) - you will love viewing it this way!

Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta

“The Web Trend Map is a yearly publication by iA Inc. It maps the 333 most influential Web domains and the 111 most influential internet people onto the Tokyo Metro map. Domains are carefully selected by the iA research team through dialogue with map enthusiasts. Each domain is evaluated based on traffic, revenue, age and the company that owns it. The iA design team assigns these selected domains to individual stations on the Tokyo Metro map in ways that complement the characters of each.” See the dynamic Zoomorama - Tech Crunch Web Trends version of this Web Trend Map (Version 4, Final Beta) - you will love viewing it this way!

Fri Mar 27
Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008
Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable. We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone. (via Academic Earth - About)  YouTube EDU is another related, interesting new site!
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable. We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone. (via Academic Earth - About)  YouTube EDU is another related, interesting new site!
Fri Oct 24
My PLE Diagram (via nessman) From Scott Nessman: “I wanted to try and not just show the tools, but how they relate to the different “Circles of Trust” of the people in the network. A few notes: * the circles extending outwards from the centre represent different levels of trust/relationships. They are dotted lines on purpose - these are not fixed; relationships change, you get to know some people better etc. * the two headed arrows are meant to express the flow of information and learning - it is not all one way. You *can* just read blogs. You *can* just use del.icio.us without using it socially and following others. But I have always maintained that if we view these as actions (‘blogging’ instead of just ‘blogs’) it helps us understand them as conversations, as the “read/write” particpatory web.”

My PLE Diagram (via nessman)

From Scott Nessman: “I wanted to try and not just show the tools, but how they relate to the different “Circles of Trust” of the people in the network. A few notes:

* the circles extending outwards from the centre represent different levels of trust/relationships. They are dotted lines on purpose - these are not fixed; relationships change, you get to know some people better etc.

* the two headed arrows are meant to express the flow of information and learning - it is not all one way. You *can* just read blogs. You *can* just use del.icio.us without using it socially and following others. But I have always maintained that if we view these as actions (‘blogging’ instead of just ‘blogs’) it helps us understand them as conversations, as the “read/write” particpatory web.”

Wed Oct 8
“Walker, the founder of Priceline.com and Walker Digital, is an inventor and entrepreneur who has been twice been named by the editors of TIME magazine as one of the 50 most influential business leaders in the digital age. Business Week selected him as one of its 25 Internet pioneers most responsible for “changing the competitive landscape of almost every industry in the world.” Newsweek cited him as one of three executives at the forefront of the Internet commerce revolution. Well, now he can add this to his bio- Creator of one of the most amazing private libraries in the modern age….’In no time, your mind is stretched like hot taffy,’ says Levy and that after all is the essence of a library.” (via A Modern Marvel : The Library of Jay Walker)”
“Walker, the founder of Priceline.com and Walker Digital, is an inventor and entrepreneur who has been twice been named by the editors of TIME magazine as one of the 50 most influential business leaders in the digital age. Business Week selected him as one of its 25 Internet pioneers most responsible for “changing the competitive landscape of almost every industry in the world.” Newsweek cited him as one of three executives at the forefront of the Internet commerce revolution. Well, now he can add this to his bio- Creator of one of the most amazing private libraries in the modern age….’In no time, your mind is stretched like hot taffy,’ says Levy and that after all is the essence of a library.” (via A Modern Marvel : The Library of Jay Walker)”
Thu Sep 11

September 11 Tribute

We wanted to remember those who were lost to us September 11 not so long ago with the above tribute video we found on YouTube.

God Bless all the families who lost family, friends, or loved ones on this tragic day that has gone down in history in a way we wish it had not. God Bless us all and keep us safe from such evils in the future.

Renee

“This is the future of book reading. It will be everywhere.” Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and Liar’s Poker.

I am sure that my Librarian husband is going to like using this (click on the title above to link to the video introduction of the Amazon Kindle). As a multimedia/technology junkie, I think it is a really cool item from Amazon.com, which reminds me of the computer pads they use instead of paper on Star Trek. Ok, yes…the secret is out. We are Star Trek fans. LOL. Just kidding…it isn’t a secret. Guess you could tell by how much we love “future” technology. ;-) Anyway, just thought I would share this with you—and below is a brief product overview.

Renee

Brief Product Overview:

Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.
Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing.
Wireless connectivity.
Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
More than 350 top blogs.
Holds over 200 titles.
Includes free wireless access to the planet’s most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia—Wikipedia.org.
Email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to Kindle for easy on-the-go viewing.
and much more.

Sun May 11
TeacherTube - Wikis in Plain English via CommonCraft by Lee LeFever. Another one of my favorite video clips by LeFever, this time explaining the virtues of wikis in less than four minutes. - Robert
TeacherTube - Blogs in Plain English via CommonCraft by Lee LeFever. Another one of my favorite video clips by LeFever, this time explaining the virtues of blogs in less than three minutes. - Robert

Blogs vs. Wikis (via ) groupnon on YouTube.  This fictional debate between JFK and Nixon discusses the pros and cons of blogs and wikis—funny and creative!

 - Robert 

Thu May 1
This is an image created by me for Robert who has been doing workshops on safety & security issues on the Internet, especially concerning social networking sites. This image is a “Guarded Fingerprint.” Our fingerprints are a symbol of our identity because of their individualized characteristics used to identify each person, unique to each individual. I used my own fingerprint to model the image but of course modified it tremendously to protect my own identity—so don’t bother trying to steal my identity! ;) Our son is applying to become a police officer where he lives, so I thought about that and used him as a model for a police officer guarding my identity. Of course, I manipulated his image, too, to protect the innocent!—and to make him look mean! We just wanted to share the creation with you on our Tumblr-ama. Hope you like it.  -Renee & Robert

This is an image created by me for Robert who has been doing workshops on safety & security issues on the Internet, especially concerning social networking sites. This image is a “Guarded Fingerprint.”

Our fingerprints are a symbol of our identity because of their individualized characteristics used to identify each person, unique to each individual.

I used my own fingerprint to model the image but of course modified it tremendously to protect my own identity—so don’t bother trying to steal my identity! ;)

Our son is applying to become a police officer where he lives, so I thought about that and used him as a model for a police officer guarding my identity. Of course, I manipulated his image, too, to protect the innocent!—and to make him look mean! We just wanted to share the creation with you on our Tumblr-ama. Hope you like it.

  -Renee & Robert