[FRIAM] 3D Docs?

2013-03-29 Thread Owen Densmore
Paul Irish tweeted this interesting page on 3D documents: http://blog.crocodoc.com/post/46369766700/3d-ifying-documents-using-css-transforms Not sure what to do with it other than nifty slide sets, but maybe there IS a use for 3D newspapers? -- Owen

[FRIAM] what's google smoking with the new gmail?

2013-03-29 Thread Gillian Densmore
I don't get it- I'm hoping someone out there possibly on the FRIAM mailing list does: I log into gmail to check my mail and get swamped with flash slides from google telling me all about how the new improved system is supposed to be better. Yet so far seems like a step backward- Can someone

[FRIAM] mooc stuff

2013-03-29 Thread Jack Stafurik
Here is a link to a Washington Post article on mooc: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/in-education-innovatio n-moocs-are-only-the-beginning/2013/03/29/88d77ae6-97ef-11e2-814b-063623d80a 60_story.html?wpisrc=nl_tech At friam this morning we talked about whether this approach

Re: [FRIAM] mooc stuff

2013-03-29 Thread Curt McNamara
Reminds me of A Clockwork Orange (*not* my favorite movie). Curt On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Jack Stafurik jstafu...@earthlink.netwrote: Here is a link to a Washington Post article on mooc: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/in-education-innovatio

Re: [FRIAM] mooc stuff

2013-03-29 Thread Douglas Roberts
One of mine, however. On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Curt McNamara curt...@gmail.com wrote: Reminds me of A Clockwork Orange (*not* my favorite movie). Curt On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Jack Stafurik jstafu...@earthlink.netwrote: Here is a link to a Washington Post article

[FRIAM] A Clockwork MOOC.

2013-03-29 Thread Steve Smith
Kubricks CO was disturbing when I first saw it at 14 (much too young, despite having read Burgess' novel already) and easier to watch but still very disturbing even as a mature adult. I have to admit that Curt's observation matched my own feeling that a great deal of the discussion around

Re: [FRIAM] A Clockwork MOOC.

2013-03-29 Thread Roger Critchlow
What's missing is the matchmaking service to allow potential MOOC students to find compatible fellow students for clustering together into collegia. Which could happen in inner city squats, as long as there is some kind of coffee shop in the neighborhood. More serious groups of students would

Re: [FRIAM] A Clockwork MOOC.

2013-03-29 Thread Steve Smith
Or following the CO riff, the student groups could form in the same way street gangs do... Sharks v Jets to put an almost sweet face on it compared to Bloods/Cryps or whatever the wankers in CO were? The smartest (instead of the toughest) would be a natural leader with some smart(ish)

Re: [FRIAM] A Clockwork MOOC.

2013-03-29 Thread Brent Auble
There are self-organizing groups popping up around MOOCs.  MeetUp is great for facilitating things like that.  Here's one example (in the Washington, DC area): Data Everywhere (http://www.meetup.com/Data-Everywhere/?gj=ej1ba=wg2.3_rdmr) This is a group for anyone interested in learning anything