My Top 10 Learning Tools
In a recent post on his Half An Hour blog (which he declares to be “A place to write, half an hour, every day, just for me.”), Stephen Downes struck a chord with me, for what he writes and how … Continue reading →
Mi Database en Diigo
Hola, ¿Sabes que nuevos medios digitales hay? ¿Si te afectan? o no. En la clase de Informática 115 de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Hemos hablado mucho de los nuevos medios digitales, que hay nuevo en el mundo digital. Todos debemos estar al tanto de lo que sucede a nuestro alrededor. Cree este banco de […]
Sentiment data from Twitter and Google Trends
Great day of class, last Wednesday. It deserves a short summary, which I am publishing here. The basic idea for the class was the exploration of sentiments around a place, using Twitter. First I showed my students that Twitter admits … Continue reading →
Resumen
python graph searches packages Discussion about the articles published in each blog. Develop a graph (p. 64 chapter 4, WINSTON book) representing a network of cities and its connections. Develop the same idea as above, but with 20 nodes. Be able to explain these programs by Tuesday February 9th. keep posting on blog Find articles …
delicious Zeitgeist (weekly)
FlickrStorm. Search on Flickr with some Magic Search on Flickr with some Magic. tags: Images flickr photos creativecommons search tools delicious Imgur: Video to GIF Make an animated GIF from hundreds of video sites. Very easy to use. tags: gif … Continue reading →
Resúmen de clase #2
Saludos compañeros! La clase pasada comenzó resumiendo los temas sobre cómo utilizar la plataforma de WordPress y Twitter para una comunicación efectiva de parte de la clase de Informática 115. Luego, dimos comienzo al nuevo tema de estrategias y herramientas que se pueden utilizar y sacar provecho a largo plazo. Comenzamos con la plataforma Flicker, […]
Noises
Ambient noise can be nice and useful. Here I have two noise generators which may be great apps. The first has a wonderful name, Coffitivity, and generates the sounds from a coffee shop. And you can download an app for … Continue reading →
A very good Timeline Tool
I have here a good example of a visually pleasing timeline which also aggregates lots of information. It has been done (by my daughter Flavia!) with a great tool: TimelineJS. Interestingly, it uses Google Drive to store a spreadsheet containing … Continue reading →
