My name is Kyle Wright. I am currently a Masters student at Georgia State University in instructional technology and design. I have recently been accepted to the Ph.D. program at Arizona State University in educational technology. My interests include, but are not limited to, multimedia in education, new technologies, and web 2.0.
ANidea - Storytelling Evolved: 18 Ideas in Digital Storytelling
via anidea.com
"Philosopher Marshall McLuhan famously observed that, when a new media emerges, the first attempts to use it often resemble the older, more familiar media. For example, consider early radio broadcasts of speeches, televised radio broadcasts, typed letters, and recordings of live music performances. As these media evolved, more advanced techniques were discovered that unlocked the creative potential of each medium: the radio play, the edited television show, studio performances, the remix, and typographical art (to name a few)."
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ANidea – Most Useful Tools or Apps of 2008
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For this week’s Yammer question, we asked the team ‘What’s the most useful tool or application on any digital platform that you discovered in 2008′? Good question… better answers:
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Tim Berry: 18-Point Twitter Primer
"I'm getting to know twitter more these days, using it more, and enjoying it. I'm Timberry on twitter. I'm frequently grateful to twitter friends for pointing out good ideas, blogs, thoughts, pictures. Twitter livens my day, and brightens my writing."
Check out this website I found at huffingtonpost.com
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Michelle Obama's plea for education
"Speaking at a London girls' school, Michelle Obama makes a passionate, personal case for each student to take education seriously. It is this new, brilliant generation, she says, that will close the gap between the world as it is and the world as it should be."
via ted.com
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Ning: The future of online social networking?
via cnn.com
"As Facebook and MySpace connect people to friends and family, Ning gathers users around common interests. The site hosts networks for hip-hop music lovers, video gaming moms and teens obsessed with the Twilight book and movie franchise. Other popular Ning networks bring people together online for political and social causes such as "Pickens' Plan," which advocates wind energy."
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Social Networking
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The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity
via wired.com
"As the Internet was taking shape in the late 1980s, an MIT professor named Tom Malone started thinking about how it could change the structure of industries. In a series of papers, he predicted that the big top-down companies of the 20th century would soon "decentralize and externalize" into industry ecosystems."
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25 Of The Best Home & Office Mac Setups
"People who use PCs may or may not care about the design of their products. Mac users always care. Apple is known for the innovative design of everything it creates from the iPod to the ultra-thin Macbook Air. Not to be outdone by the creators of the products, Mac users challenge themselves to set up their equipment in creative, aesthetically pleasing ways. In other words, Mac users create home and office setups that reflect just how cool they are for using a Mac."
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10 Golden Rules of Social Media
"I know, I know — it’s a bit presumptuous of me to think I can write the “10 Golden Rules of Social Media.” Then again, I’ve been online since 1987, consulting clients on the Internet since 1992, on the web since 1994, immersed in working on and speaking about the web since the mid-1990s, so I do feel like I’ve paid some dues and learned some lessons along the way.
So here are my 10 Golden Rules of Social Media to embrace, debate, pass around and refine. Have at it."
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13 High Quality And Exclusive Collections Of Colorful Wallpapers @ SmashingApps
via smashingapps.com
"Today, we are showing you the huge collections of beautiful and inspiring wallpapers. I appreciate to all those talented designers who create these excellent wallpapers with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to use these artistic wonders on desktop and refresh ourselves. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to download any or all for your desktop right now."
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Computer
Wallpapers
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