I'VE WATCHED PETER DONEGAN and listened to his Sodshow for eight years so I know his clever public spaces always work as places where people enjoy meeting and sharing. Peter discusses the essence of gardening as a community dynamic in Congversation #4 on the lead-in to #cong19 in County Mayo.
Peter Donegan and Community Gardens
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PATRICK COLLISON ASKS, "Is Bloom's Two Sigma phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it?" [1]
One of Patrick's Questions pointed to educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom who found one-on-one tutoring using mastery learning led to a two sigma improvement in student performance. The results were replicated. [2] Bloom asks in his paper that identified the "2 Sigma Problem": how do we achieve these results in conditions more practical (i.e., more scalable) than one-to-one tutoring?
Continue reading "Personally Immersed in Two Sigma h/t @patrickc #edchatie" »
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WE USE A Ricoh Theta S #ricoh360 camera in every academic course I teach on the Clonmel Digital Campus and I’m impressed at how its use improves the critical visual skills of students. There is so much more in an image when you can spin a photo up, down, and around.
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DAVID GLUCKMAN, co-creator of Bailey's Irish Cream Liqueur, visited the Clonmel campus of LIT.ie to share ideas about creative design with an interested group of business and creative media students.
Listen to "David Gluckman's Branding Experiences" on Spreaker.
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I'M WATCHING @GOHAROSEN take me down the path of graphology and that process allows me to apply yet another scientific method to teaching and learning.
In the background, during the 10,000 words of research, Gosia is sharing her insights with me every week. And I'm trying to facilitate a peer review of her fourth year project by sharing our tabletop conversations in my YouTube channel and as part of my Edtech musings on Spreaker.
Continue reading "Following Introduction to Graphology with @goharosen" »
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I MARKED MY FIRST day creating content with Pantopto and wish to confirm two things: (1) it is as simple as pressing the big red button and (2) you can fill the entire screen with your face if you wish.
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AS 2018 OPENS, I'm keen to see if the innovative use of digital technologies I've used with Ireland's Youth Media Team can be channeled to support part of the proposed Digital Learning Framework.
Continue reading "Ireland's Digital Learning Framework (DLF)" »
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THE SINGLE GREATEST LEAP I have made with sentiment analysis occurred after using Microsoft's Cognitive Services. I'm diving into the API documentation by clicking on the navigation elements that appear after clicking on the image accompanying this post.
Continue reading "Stepping inside Microsoft Cognitive Services" »
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MY WORLD COLLIDED with the Ricoh Theta S camera and I can feel that using it will take me into an exciting equirectangular realm full of surprise nadirs.
The handiest feature of the Ricoh Theta S is knowing both Facebook and Google understand its image formats. This means 9yo Mia could simply tap the screen of my Sony Xperia Z5 and record the video below. I brought the clip onto the Surface Pro 4, used Ricoh's free software to inject the meta data that told the server it was a spherical video clip and then uploaded it to YouTube (very fast upload) [1] and to Facebook (where it uploaded slower). I recorded at 1920 x 960 in 30 frames per second and that used two megabytes per second of recording.
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IT IS TRUE what some of the most creative photographers say: A well-framed shot is essential to compelling visual presentations. I face very big challenges now that I have a 360 degree camera because everything could be in the shot.
And maybe nothing is in the shot because I can't fathom the lens parameters of the Ricoh Theta S that I'm learning to use. For the moment, I'm going to upload this quick blog post as a marker on my timeline and an announcement to collaborators that we're going to have a lot of fun making 360 degree content in the months ahead.
+++ Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business in the Limerick Institute of Technology.
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