I Had A Great Chat With A Colleague Of Mine Who Works For Gabelli IT This Afternoon About Creating A
I had a great chat with a colleague of mine who works for Gabelli IT this afternoon about creating a collaborative group made up of representatives of all of the different groups helping faculty. Our focus would be to 1. share resources 2. create a unified message 3. support each other.
This project would have a website that can provide a framework for developing our PLNs at Fordham, helping to break down the silos among us.
Seize the day
One of my favorite sci fi books of all time is Dune by Frank Herbert. So many great quotes, like this one: “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken”
today’s momentum page (free chrome extension)
As I said in my last post, this is a time of crisis and opportunity. What’s one thing that has changed for the better in your life in these times? It’s so easy to focus on problems, sometimes it helps to think on the positive side.
Here’s some Productivity, Positivity, and Creativity for your day.
be well
k
More Posts from Krillion and Others
How many times did you use the word awesome today? Five, ten, fifteen times? We use the word awesome so often and, most of the time, so incorrectly that the term has lost its original sense— maybe forever. Comedian Jill Shargaa explains why in this AWESOME TED talk.
Freedom Act
House Passes USA Freedom Act to Curb NSA Spying
NSA Reform Falters as House Passes Gutted USA Freedom Act
Did Judge Who Tuled NSA Phone Dragnet Illegal Call Snowden a Whistleblower?
Study: Congress Really Doesn't Care What You Think
Why Politicians Don’t Want Us To Think, But Opinions Are OK
The FBI Used to Recommend Encryption, Now They Want to Ban It
This is pretty over the top
New US Spy Satellite Features World Devouring Octopus
Times are a changin’
and quicker than people think... It’s more important than ever to look to the future...
Think 2016 Was Crazy? Wait Until the Accountants Get Replaced by Robots
Why We’ll Need a Universal Basic Income Robert Reich
No Job is Safe, But These Skills Will Always Be Valued in the Workplace Alison Berman via Singularity Hub
"Future tense" flickr photo by kevin dooley shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license
It’s all about the editor
Amazing video, this guy has serious editing skills!
The World Wide Web, AR, VR, and MR
“Technologies like Magic Leap’s will enable us to generate, transmit, quantify, refine, personalize, magnify, discover, share, reshare, and overshare experiences. This shift from the creation, transmission, and consumption of information to the creation, transmission, and consumption of experience defines this new platform. As Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz puts it, “Ours is a journey of inner space. We are building the internet of presence and experience.”
We haven’t yet fully absorbed the enormous benefit that the internet of information has brought to the world. And yet we are about to recapitulate this accomplishment with the advent of synthetic realities."
The Untold Story of Magic leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup by Kevin Kelly via Wired. This is a looooong article, but a must read.
On a side note, Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wired) is one of my favorite futurists.... check out some of his other stuff:
We Are the Web (Wired timeline/feature)
The Next 5,000 Days of the Internet (TED talk)
One more must read from today’s surfing (much, much shorter!) is a piece from the NYT: The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It.
See also The Internet Part II from my wiki for related info and articles as well as my page on Privacy.
The importance of play
Play is more than just fun (TED video)
Children today are suffering a severe deficit of play (article)
Some of what I come across on the web... Also check out my Content & Curation site: kristentreglia.com
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