Melissa
Strategic Intelligence: visual research framework
At the very end of my research for 5G I encountered the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence feature that provides a visual framework for its insights curated by top universities and organizations and machine learning. It was helpful to see a map of topics and subtopics related to concepts I’m not familiar with, and I […]
Contact Tracing – Apple and Google partner and release bluetooth API
I saw a meme from a FB friend, who frequently posts questionable conspiracy theorist memes, about the newest iOs and Android updates including contact tracing, so I decided to research and fact check. Turns out, Apple and Google came together to push bluetooth notification technology – rebranded from contact tracing to exposure notification – into […]
A1 – Mobile Activism
Happy Sunday and Father’s Day to all the fathers out there. Here is my A1 analysis of mobile activism, which is an aspect of mobile culture and technology that has emerged in the past few years as an accessible and powerful way for everyday people to take part in activism and affect social, political, economic, […]
Ground News app
Ground news is a news comparison app where users can read or watch news stories from over 50,000 global sources and preview the bias or political leaning of the source that published the story. This is a great tool for critical media literacy and has both free and paid (99 cents/month) versions. Both allow access […]
Flourish – data visualization and storytelling tool
Flourish is a data representation and storytelling tool with free and paid accounts. Flourish data visualizations are mobile friendly, a great tool to convey data, and according to the company, easy to create (if you already have your information compiled in a spreadsheet!) Below is one example (I’ve tried to embed two different ways, and […]
OpenStax – Open AP/University Textbooks
Originally posted by Derrick Cheung on September 23, 2019 OpenStax, a non-profit initiative, spearheaded by Rice University to make education more accessible regardless of household income, is an open educational repository of high quality, peer-reviewed textbooks, available to everyone, students and instructors included, for free. After browsing through a few science textbooks, it’s quality of these books […]
Amazon Ignite & Inspire – OER Sharing Services
Originally posted by Brian Leavitt on November 13, 2019 Amazon has been piloting an OER sharing website, called ‘Amazon Inspire’ for a little while now. I believe it is US only at the moment, but it can be found here: Amazon Inspire It is described by Amazon as “an open collaboration service that helps teachers to easily […]
Animal Crossing as mobile culture phenomenon
People have flocked to the virtual world that exists within Animal Crossing, and while its popularity began prior to the pandemic it has only increased since social/physical distancing measures have been put into place. The NYT has called it the game of the Coronavirus moment, and while Animal Crossing: New Horizons is only available to […]
Sharing City Seoul: mobile solutions for urban problems
Originally posted by (name missing) on September 24, 2017 Though not exactly a mobile resource, examining the efforts made by Seoul as they use mobile technologies to solve urban issues is an important resource to learn from and reflect on. Dubbed as the “world’s most wired city”, Seoul has a world-class IT and civic infrastructure, the highest fiber […]
Touchcast – An App for Creating Transmedia Storyworlds
Originally posted by Kate Quinn on June 4, 2018 Last week, I attended the Advancing Learning conference at Fanshawe College in London Ontario which explores tech in post-secondary classrooms. One of the most intriguing speakers introduced me to an app called Touchcast. Students now are constantly ‘expressing their cultural identity fluently across all of their mature media channels’ […]