Image: Slide 1, Augmenting Education: The Collision of Real and Virtual Worlds.
This presentation explores augmented reality and potential uses
within arts education. The presentation has been enhanced from the
previous October 2012 presentation. Videos have been added, new examples
have been provided, further explanations have been added to the notes,
and the information has been tailored to the Visual Resources Association audience.
Presented
as part the Visual Resources Association’s 31st Annual Conference
session, “Enhancing Education Beyond the Classroom Experience via
Visualization Technologies.”
The PowerPoint presentation with embedded videos can also be downloaded as a zipped file at http://bit.ly/AR_pptx_vra2013[Note: Viewing the presentation with embedded videos has been known to be problematic. Depending on your version of PowerPoint and your operating system, the videos may or may not play.]
An interesting new book titled Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing by Sarah Suzuki comes out this month from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
As I was preoccupied with everything around WWI in my art studies, I never heard of Dieter Roth before. I love hisLiterature Sausage (Literaturwurst) made of ground-up books, and prints made with organic materials instead of inks are pretty smart too.
A nice, 16-page sample PDF preview is also included in MoMA's description.
Image: Aaron Swartz by Daniel J. Sieradski via okfn.
"Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves." - Aaron Swartz, Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto.
As a means of tribute to Aaron Swartz, his beliefs, and a form of online civil disobedience, more than 1,500 links have been posted on twitter to copyright-protected research. The links are collected via the #pdftribue hashtag and can be found at the site pdftribute.net.
Video: F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"
Aaron Swartz was heralded as a young genius who co-authored RSS at age 14 and later started a company that would morph into Reddit.
He also was proponent of greater access to information, and he allegedly took that position when downloading over 4 million academic articles from JSTOR with the intent to distribute without permission.
Open access' value proposition is that the removal of subscription fees and keeping copyrights with the authors will increase access to information. One solution is to have the journal costs paid by the author(s) through research grants. The problem is that publishing in well-respected journals where the likelihood of citation is greater is tied to the researchers' requirements for tenure, and those journals are typically subscription based. So, while previous movements to dismantle the subscription system (including petitions with over 30,000 signatories have occurred), none have created widespread change.
With growing dissent for subscription-based, academic journal distributors and recent ideologies like the Anonymous and Occupy movements, we may see a cultural shift that Aaron called for in his Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto [1].
Notes
[1] Interestingly, and not surprisingly due to looming litigation, the manifesto is no longer on Aaron's site. Although traces on Google can be found by searching site:aaronsw.com "guerrilla open access"
Hello, my name is Bryan, and I'm a 21st century librarian.
"What's that?" you ask. Librarians in the 21st century are precisionists. They use their skills to access, organize, store, and disseminate information in a world that is information intensive. They are part Swiss Army Knife, ninja, and teacher. They help your organization & community build upon the rich knowledge that is present, and they ensure the knowledge will be there for you & generations thereafter.
