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Your Storytelling Brain – Think Tank – Big Think
Your Storytelling Brain | Think Tank | Big Think.
Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga, a pioneer in the study of hemispheric (left vs. right brain) specialization describes ”the Interpreter” – a left hemisphere function that organizes our memories into plausible stories. Less romantic, perhaps, than Gone With the Wind, the Interpreter may help to explain our species’ profound relationship with storytelling.
Learning Technology Trends To Watch In 2012
http://theelearningcoach.com/elearning2-0/learning-technology-trends-for-2012/
As the technologies of the 21st century evolve and mature, we become the beneficiaries of exciting approaches for designing learning experiences. The convergence of informal and social media learning, combined with the explosion of smartphone and tablet use, is having a huge impact on how we think about training and education.
The Best of Open Culture 2011 | Open Culture
The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against social networking – Mark Bauerlein – Google Books
The Digital Divide: Arguments for … – Mark Bauerlein – Google Books.
Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online, declining reading habits, withering attention spans, and the treacherous effects of 24/7 peer pressure on our young.
The Public Catalogue Foundation
The Public Catalogue Foundation.
The UK’s Oil Painting Collection
The United Kingdom holds in its galleries and civic buildings arguably the greatest publicly owned collection of oil paintings in the world. 200,000 publicly owned oil paintings are held in institutions ranging from museums large and small to town halls, universities, hospitals and even fire stations.
However, four in five of these paintings are not on view. Whilst many galleries make strenuous efforts to display their collections, many paintings across the country are held in storage, usually because there are insufficient funds and space to show them. Furthermore, very few galleries have created a complete photographic record of their paintings, let alone a comprehensive illustrated catalogue of their collections. In short, what is publicly owned is not publicly accessible.
Speaking Digitally About Exhibits – NYTimes.com
Speaking Digitally About Exhibits – NYTimes.com.
Article from the New York Times earlier this year about Museums around the world now using social media for interesting visitor engagement.
Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt – GetAmbITion
Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt – GetAmbITion.
This article by Rachel Coldicutt, @rachelcoldicutt – originally appeared as an inspiration essay for Arts Council England & BBC’s launch of The Space – an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that could help to transform the way people connect with, and experience, arts and culture.
via Digital arts and the imagination by Rachel Coldicutt – GetAmbITion.
QR codes and museums – MuseumNext – Europe’s big conference on social media and digital media for the museums
Chickens, eggs & QR codes – Fresh & Newer
Chickens, eggs & QR codes | Fresh & Newer.
via Chickens, eggs & QR codes | Fresh & Newer.
Adam Greenfield at Urbanscale just posted some interesting research his team has been doing in NYC on the citizen familiarity of QR codes.
This is especially timely as QR codes are getting a lot of interest (finally) from the cultural sector. The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney has been doing QR codes for a few years – first failing – but now perhaps getting good traction with them now that the code scanner is built into the exhibition catalogue App. Shelley Bernstein’s team at the Brooklyn Museum have also been rolling them out. And Wikipedia’s been promoting the nifty language ‘auto-detect’ QR codes that Derby Museum & Art Gallery have developed (QRpedia).
