Here’s the video that we didn’t get a chance to show last class explaining attempts to use Cellphones as Microscopes in the developing world.
http://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?aid=19748
There’s a WIRED article as well about the technology.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/12/gallery_microscope_phone?slide=2&slideView=2
See you guys on Tuesday!
-Tim
Global voices has been covering the recent police uprising and ensuing chaos in Ecuador. Great use for the website, as they are translating the important and seemingly verified spanish tweets as they came in.
-Sam
Check out this Article by wired.
It was very though provoking on where we are moving as a “western society,” from the information age to the conceptual age. It seems very applicable to the learner we are doing in this course and in our Liberal Arts education as we move away from just memorizing facts to being able to conceptualize and think critically.
(From Alf’s blog, reportr.net)
http://www.reportr.net/2010/09/03/visualisation-100-influential-news-media-twitter/
Check this out! Kiva is now offering student loans to students in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Lebanon. I believe this is truly the right direction to eliminate information poverty and the digital divide.
This is a natural expansion of our mission to help alleviate poverty through lending, and it’s just the first step. In the coming months, we’ll be expanding beyond the current three countries and into markets where student lending doesn’t even exist.
Hey guys,
In a totally non-serious and tangentially on-topic vein, check out this unintentionally hilarious news report from 1988 about an “insidious computer virus.”
If anything, it shows how hilariously sensationalist the media can be and how far consumer technology has progressed in only two decades.
Also: Check out Abe Lincoln.
Hey guys, this is the ‘Epic Win’ TEDtalk I mentioned in class.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html
needless to say, its quite badass
Hello All,
Here’s the facilitation/presentation rubric that Caroline and I came up with on Friday night when we’d rather be out drinking. Let us know what you think. This is intended to be a collaborative exercise, so if you have any changes you’d like to make, run it by the group on Tuesday before we get underway with our presentation!
Welcome to the course blog/website for ASTU400F: Democracy and Development in the Age of the Internet and New Media. This is a space for all of us in the course to gather our thoughts online, post items of interest, access the syllabus, reflect on class discussion or just to say hi to your classmates!
The course syllabus is posted on the page called ‘Syllabus’ (sorry, duhh) but to get live links to download the articles you need to click the link at the top of the page to download the PDF version. All of the readings are available online as live links from the PDF syllabus, via either direct link, downloadable PDF from google docs, or through the UBC library.
