Is Your College Just an Understudy for Harvard?

Posted on November 3, 2009 by MikeT

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Ok, so some students at Johns Hopkins University are upset that a new movie The Social Network, is being filmed on their campus. Their beef is that Johns Hopkins is standing in for Harvard in the movie, which is based on the true story of Mark Zuckerberg, who is credited with being the creator of Facebook while he was a student there. My first though was that they must have chosen Johns Hopkins because it is in Maryland and therefore at least a few degrees warmer than it is up here is in Massachusetts.

But it wasn’t climate of even budget that took the films’s producers to Hopkins. It seems that Johns Hopkins was something of a second choice for the movie producers because it wasn’t possible to film on location at Harvard. The Baltimore Sun‘s article on the controversy is funny, albeit quite sarcastic.

The movie, like some Hopkins students, couldn’t get into Harvard, which has a longstanding policy against commercial filming on campus. So the production has opened some old college-admissions wounds.

“The general consensus is, a lot of kids are not pleased,” said Lorre Atlan, 20, a junior majoring in biomedical engineering. “It’s obvious they [the filmmakers] could get Hopkins and not get Harvard.

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NITLE Programs This Week and Next

Posted on November 3, 2009 by MikeT

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This is the NITLE Professional Development News that went out today. It focuses on my programs for the coming two weeks. They are going to be be keeping me busy. But they are interesting programs, so they should be fun.

Dear Colleagues,
As campuses continue to respond to the challenges of globalization as well as on-going economic restraints, I wanted to take a moment to call your attention to three upcoming NITLE programs relevant to both situations.

Using media elements with an international perspective to introduce complex issues such as research ethics can offer a new dimension to the lab-based science class, stimulating and enriching discussion. Faculty members in the natural and social sciences who want to integrate an international perspective into lab-based curricula in this way are encouraged to sign up for “Science and International Perspectives.” Continue reading →

NITLE’s New Online Presence

Posted on October 19, 2009 by MikeT

Revised NITLE Site

Some of you may have already noticed, but NITLE’s web site has gotten a face lift or, more accurately, a radical redesign of the sort that would be worthy of an episode if anyone were ever to launch and “Extreme Web Makeover” series. I couldn’t be more pleased and I’m very grateful to the task force that coordinated this project for the new public face they have given us.

This is my personal blog and I don’t often use it to talk so much about work, but I can’t help myself, so let me point out just three things that, for me, are highlights of the new main site and its complementary presences.

I should point out that while we were asked for our opinions of the site at various points in it preparation, I was not part of the task force. So I am approaching the site as a user or visitor like you, not as a guide involved in its design who can tell you why things were set up the way they were. I am also expressing my opinions, which may not necessarily be representative of NITLE policy.

We might as well start at the main page. There is a lot of information presented on this page, and yet it is done clearly and in a manner that is easy to navigate and that quickly takes on into sought after information without multiple stops en route. If you are interested in something on the front page and you click on a link, more often than not you end up directly on a page containing the information you need, even if that click takes you out of the NITLE site.

That, in fact, is the other thing I like more about the front page. It sends a clear message from the start that NITLE is an organization that works in partnership with our participating colleges so the page itself presents a dialogue.
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I also like that it brings together, right up front, all that is going on with NITLE. We’ve got some cool projects in the queue for the NITLE labs and we’ve got some good programming coming up, too. In the Daily NITLE Column you will find items from NITLE’s new blogs.

Liberal Education Today has been re-focused and revamped to become Liberal Education Tomorrow, fitting for a blog covering emerging technologies. Perspectives is geared toward the technology leadership at a liberal arts college. Techne, the one which I will be contributing to most regularly, is about integrating technology for teaching and learning at liberal arts colleges.

There are other things I like as well, but I said I would mention only a few. There are bugs and glitches, too. I’ve already pointed out two that are being corrected. But this is the world of information technology and everything is always a work in progress. That’s why things move forward at the pace they do. And that’s why we need you comments.

We’d all like to know what you think of these sites, so visit them and post your comments or contact our staff.

Arabic Twitter App and Creative Commons Channel Reported by ArabCrunch

Posted on October 19, 2009 by MikeT

Kzalek Logo

I just read a post on ArabCrunch about a Twitter Desktop app called Kzalek that displays Arabic correctly. This is big news.

I’m of the opinion that Twitter is really close to useless without an app or client, either on a portable device or on your desktop, to help sort through and manage tweets. And the more people begin to use twitter, the more necessary a tool becomes. For the most part, though, these tools could not display Arabic correctly. They either displayed the characters a disjointed when they need to be connected, or they didn’t display them at all. Kzalek does that. It’s a bit clunky and not as attractive as TweetDeck or Seesmic, nor does it allow you to post to other sites at the same time, but it works and it is only a beta version. A breakthrough one, at that.

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Streaming Music Services

Posted on October 14, 2009 by MikeT

Read Write Web reports on an exciting announcement for music lovers from MOG a music service with a social networking component.

Just when you thought media darling Spotify was going to be the sexiest music service of the year, music blogging platform MOG is announcing plans to offer a $5 dollar per month, all-you-can-hear music service. In an interview with MOG CEO David Hyman, ReadWriteWeb learned that tomorrow morning the company will announce deals with Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI. While other services are scrambling to sign licensing agreements with the four major US labels, MOG All Access will launch before November 26. It looks like Americans will have plenty to celebrate this Thanksgiving.

MOG All Access is a browser-based service that will offer more than 5 million on-demand tracks from a number of major and indie record labels.

Similar to Grooveshark the service will require no installation; however, unlike Grooveshark, MOG will not provide a free music service beyond its initial trial period.

I’ve not had a chance to explore these sites, but I’m kind of partial to a site I recently discovered called Lala.com. It’s interesting because you can upload your own music collection and listen to it anywhere. You can also purchase web songs and albums that you play online at a very low price.

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Was It Good for You? Let Me Check Your Facebook Page

Posted on October 12, 2009 by MikeT

The text below provides some statistics about “gadget-savvy online individuals” under the age of 35 surveyed on behalf of the website Retrevo.com. The first percentage is shocking, the second frightening, the third not a bit surprising and the last, well, what’s the big deal?

The younger crowd is also quite keen on tweeting, texting, and checking Facebook after sex (36%), while driving (40%), while at work (64%), and when on vacation (65%).

via Young Social Mediaphiles: 36% Tweet and Check Facebook After Sex.

It isn’t so much the numbers themselves that are surprising. The survey is, after all, a survey of gadget-savvy people, so one would expect the numbers to be higher than they might in the general population. So that 64% of respondents use these tools at work or on vacation seems reasonable. In fact, it surprises me the number isn’t higher.

Tweeting, texting and Facebook? That’s a lot of tools. Increasingly people use one or more of those tools for work. As for using them on vacation, they are called social networking tools, and socially is how most people started using them. It is their use for business and professional purposes that is new. So why wouldn’t they be used on vacation. I like to be unplugged on vacation sometimes, but that’s because I work online. Many people are thrilled by the possibility of posting their vacation snapshots while on vacation. And , if family members went off to do different things during the day of a family vacation, it can be awfully handy to text them if you want to change the meeting place for dinner.

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That leaves only the driving to talk about. Tell me more please. Where were those numbers highest? Certain states? Cities? Do they drive more at certain times of the day? Do they use highways or byways more? Tell me all you can. ‘Cause I want to do all I can to be OFF THE ROAD whenever and wherever they are!

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NB: This entry has bee corrected in response to the comment below. (10/13/2009)

Tracking Your Bike Rides

Posted on September 25, 2009 by MikeT

I took a short ride today, mostly to test out two bicycling apps and a mount for my iPhone. I was reasonable pleased with all three.

iMapMyRide

iMapMyRide is an application from the folks at MapMyFitness.com. It’s a GPS application that maps your route as you ride, calculating speed, distance, elevation and other factors. All of this is then uploaded to the MapMyRide site, where there is a social networking component. You can share stories about your workouts, view other peoples and comment on them, set your goals, form groups, etc. You can download maps to Google Earth and there are tools for sharing the route in a website, blog or other social networking site. There are also Facebook and Google Gadgets plug ins. Though MapMyRun, MapMyWalk and others are separate applications, you don’t actually need them all, ad the applications give you a choice of which kind of workout you wish to upload.

There are additional features to the site that come with a paid membership. The Blackberry App is only available to premium subscribers, as are ad-free versions of the program. Premium members get discounts at events or on merchandise, too.

B.icycle

B.icycle is a cyclometer app that plots values for current speed, average speed, maximum speed, total distance, trip distance, current altitude, climbed altitude, burned calories as well as trip time while you ride. It also provides you with a map that updates as you go.

When you are done with your ride, you get a report that includes the distance traveled, calories burned, average speed and altitude climbed. It also keeps running totals of this information for all your rides until you reset the counts. Like iMapMyRide, it generates a kml file that can be used in Google Earth.
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There are two major differences between this and iMapMyRide in terms of function. The first is that this application is intended to show you the map and information while you ride. The display remains lit and the information displays in real time, showing you where you are on a map. iMapMyRide darkens the screen of the iPhone and must be unlocked after the phone has been paused due to non use for a certain amount of time.

There is also no social networking component to this B.icycle. The only web site is the informational what is this app page.

GoPhone IBikeMount

A mount is particularly useful with B.icycle since it is meant to be used live. I just started using GoRide. It’s incredibly easy to mount and stays in place surprisingly well. Having it mounted in this way keeps it visible and accessible to the GPS satellites.

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Posted on September 23, 2009 by MikeT

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Posted on September 16, 2009 by MikeT

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