JISC Digital media internet for image searching

This webpage provides links to image banks and sources of photos which are usable for educational purposes.

Alumnat, depend??ncia dels centres i batxillerat a les Illes Balears : notes per a una sociologia hist??rica i territorial de l'ensenyament mitj??. 'Alumnado, dependencia de los centros y bachillerato en las Islas Baleares : notas para una sociolog??a hist??rica y territorial de la ense??anza media'

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Privacy

Privacy is a concept that has been with us for hundreds of years, but it is relatively recently (the last 130 years or so) that it has been seen as something that needs protection as a legal right. Technology has presented many challenges to privacy, from the printing press to recording devices to communication hacking, but Social Media seems to present something new - a phenomenon of people giving up their personal information to an extent that would be considered extraordinary just a generation ago. In this lecture we look at attitudes and behaviors around privacy, see how social norms have shaped our expectations of privacy, and how we have come to trade our privacy for value, making complex (and sometimes ill-informed) risk decisions. We will also explore how people really behave on Social Media systems, to see whether we (as a society) should be concerned about modern attitudes to privacy, and whether there are any advantages that might balance that concern. Finally we look at how technology can be applied to the problems of privacy, both as a preventative measure, but also by aiding transparency and helping people to make better privacy decisions. These slides were updated for 2014.

Reflexiones sobre la enseñanza media en España.

Resumen tomado de la publicación

THE WINCHESTER CENTRE FOR GLOBAL FUTURES IN ART DESIGN & MEDIA

The Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design and Media highlights historical, contemporary and future roles for art, design and media within globalization. Its members build sustained collaborations with international partners in public service, the creative industries and civil society. Critically concerned with art and design practices of making, thinking and representation, the Winchester Centre actively engages in education and enterprise, exploring the contribution of media, materials and technologies to the improvement of human societies globally. Led by professors Jonathan Harris, Sean Cubitt, and Ryan Bishop, the Winchester Centre will make a decisive contribution to the work of the School and the University in future years. The Centre's inaugural professors would like to invite you now to suggest future research themes and activities. In the coming weeks details regarding the programme and prospective membership of the Winchester Centre will be made available.

Digital Literacy Conference - permission to record

This document details the legal agreement that conference participants will need to sign so that the University can video, stream and store recordinsg of the sessions.

Social Media Analytics: Trust and Power

In this lecture for a second year interdisciplinary course (part of the curriculum innovation programme) We explore the scope of social media analytics and look at two aspects in depth: Analysing for influence (looking at factors such as network structure, propagation of content and interaction), and analysing for trust (looking at different methods including policy, provenance and reputation - both local and global). The lecture notes include a number of short videos, which cannot be included here for copy-write reasons.

WAIS seminar: Computer Science, the Revolution in Schools

Tuesday 22nd April 2014 Speaker(s): Sue Sentance Organiser: Leslie Carr Time: 22/04/2014 15:00-16:00 Location: B32/3077 File size: 698 Mb Abstract Until recently, "computing" education in English schools mainly focused on developing general Digital Literacy and Microsoft Office skills. As of this September, a new curriculum comes into effect that provides a strong emphasis on computation and programming. This change has generated some controversy in the news media (4-year-olds being forced to learn coding! boss of the government’s coding education initiative cannot code shock horror!!!!) and also some concern in the teaching profession (how can we possibly teach programming when none of the teachers know how to program)? Dr Sue Sentance will explain the work of Computing At School, a part of the BCS Academy, in galvanising universities to help teachers learn programming and other computing skills. Come along and find out about the new English Computing Revolution - How will your children and your schools be affected? - How will our University intake change? How will our degrees have to change? - What is happening to the national perception of Computer Science?

WAIS seminar: Linked Cultural Media

Wednesday 9th April 2014 Speaker(s): Guus Schreiber Time: 09/04/2014 11:00-11:50 Location: B32/3077 File size: 546Mb Abstract In this talk I will discuss linked data for museums, archives and libraries. This area is known for its knowledge-rich and heterogeneous data landscape. The objects in this field range from old manuscripts to recent TV programs. Challenges in this field include common metadata schema's, inter-linking of the omnipresent vocabularies, cross-collection search strategies, user-generated annotations and object-centric versus event-centric views of data. This work can be seen as part of the rapidly evolving field of digital humanities. Speaker Biography Guus Schreiber Guus is a professor of Intelligent Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science at VU University Amsterdam. Guus’ research interests are mainly in knowledge and ontology engineering with a special interest for applications in the field of cultural heritage. He was one of the key developers of the CommonKADS methodology. Guus acts as chair of W3C groups for Semantic Web standards such as RDF, OWL, SKOS and REFa. His research group is involved in a wide range of national and international research projects. He is now project coordinator of the EU Integrated project No Tube concerned with integration of Web and TV data with the help of semantics and was previously Scientific Director of the EU Network of Excellence “Knowledge Web”.

Biotecnología, genética molecular y cambio en la educación : necesidades educativas del profesorado de Biología y de nuevas propuestas curriculares en la Enseñanza Media y universitaria.

Los objetivos generales de esta investigación son 4: 1.- Estudio y análisis de las implicaciones educativas que conlleva la introducción y el progreso en el mundo industrial y científico, de la Biotecnología en nuestro país. 2.- Investigación del estado actual de la respuesta educativa, a nivel curricular y didáctico, al desarrollo de la Biotecnología. 3.- Investigación de las necesidades educativas del profesorado de Biología de las Enseñanzas Medias relativas a las áreas de conocimiento, básicas y aplicadas, de la Biotecnología. 4.- Propuesta de bases para desarrollar una política educativa interesada en desarrollar los currículums actuales, tanto los de Enseñanza Secundaria como los universitarios, en aspectos relativos a la Biotecnología. Para obtener la información deseada se observaron las siguientes pautas: A) se enviaron cuestionarios a todas las universidades y centros públicos de investigación. B) se enviaron cuestionarios a un número significativo de centros de bachillerato, tanto públicos como privados de cinco comunidades autónomas: Baleares, Andalucia, Madrid, Cataluña y Valencia. C) se solicitó información al Ministerio de Industria y al de Educación y Ciencia. Con el fin de recabar información necesaria para cumplimentar los objetivos señalados la investigación siguió los siguientes pasos: A) se examinó la relevancia relativa de los contenidos científicos subyacentes a la Biotecnología, así como sus aplicaciones, en la Enseñanza Media y Universitaria. B) se investigó el nivel de conocimientos y actitudes del profesorado de enseñanzas medias en relación a la Biotecnología. C) se analizó la disponibilidad de recursos didácticos y la previsión de información relativos a la Biotecnología, así como su frecuencia de uso. D) se estudió el estado del desarrollo actual de la Biotecnología en nuestro país tanto a nivel científico como, en menor medida, a nivel industrial. E) finalmente, se analizaron los esfuerzos que otros países, especialmente el Reino Unido, vienen desarrollando en el campo de la educación biotecnológica. Encuestas. Entrevistas. Estudio y análisis de documentos. En los estudios y análisis sobre muestreos todos los datos han sido tratados informáticamente. Los autores señalan una serie de recomendaciones a tener en cuenta para desarrollar una política educativa.

W8 Visual Literacy

Slides, notes and links summarising presentation, discussions, activities and further reading

Scalable real-time crisis mapping and analytics of social media streams for disaster management and breaking news

Real-time geoparsing of social media streams (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr, FourSquare) is providing a new 'virtual sensor' capability to end users such as emergency response agencies (e.g. Tsunami early warning centres, Civil protection authorities) and news agencies (e.g. Deutsche Welle, BBC News). Challenges in this area include scaling up natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) approaches to handle real-time traffic volumes, reducing false positives, creating real-time infographic displays useful for effective decision support and providing support for trust and credibility analysis using geosemantics. I will present in this seminar on-going work by the IT Innovation Centre over the last 4 years (TRIDEC and REVEAL FP7 projects) in building such systems, and highlights our research towards improving trustworthy and credible of crisis map displays and real-time analytics for trending topics and influential social networks during major news worthy events.

Computer Applications: Information Literacy

Week 2