Austin Next Generation

foolishwill: East Side King, Austin, TX. legit food truck food....

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:05:20 -0400

East Side King, Austin, TX. legit food truck food. Legit food period

Tongue buns look better than the Poor Qui’s Buns. NEXT TIME.

Thai Chicken Karaage is a must and deserves a Nobel prize for being so damn delish.

http://eskaustin.com/libertybar/

skippingsally: City in the clouds

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:04:54 -0400

skippingsally:

City in the clouds

rice-krisper-treaps: Austin, Texas

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:03:27 -0400

rice-krisper-treaps:

Austin, Texas

instaatx: Hat Creek #atx #austin (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:03:03 -0400

instaatx:

Hat Creek #atx #austin (Taken with instagram)

Can Twitter Replace the Newswire?

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:02:24 -0400

Can Twitter Replace the Newswire?:

joshsternberg:

The telegraph became mainstream in the 1830s thanks to Samuel Morse and immediately changed society. The communications technology broke space and time; people no longer waited months for messages to be transmitted. The beginnings of a democratized mass media took place as the telegraph enabled newswires to exist, transmitting information instantaneously across the world. Can Twitter, the modern telegraph, upend newswires?

Traditional newswires, like the Associated Press or Reuters, provide publishing partners with short bursts of information, as well as intensive reporting where outlets are under-sourced or may not even have staff. Newswire content has long filled the gaps for newspapers. But with the advent of the 140-character social network, newswires find themselves, like many other traditional models, disrupted by the Internet, looking down the barrel of a gun. The choices seem obvious. Either adapt to the speed of real-time communication and use Twitter as a complementary tool to help with reporting or face irrelevancy as Twitter and other social networks tap into the power of the ultimate free resource, people with an Internet connection and desire to share what they see.

Click through to read the rest.

Hologram Tupac Tour: Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre Reportedly Want To Take Dead Rapper On The Road | HuffPost Ent

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:55:21 -0400

Hologram Tupac Tour: Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre Reportedly Want To Take Dead Rapper On The Road | HuffPost Ent:

shortformblog:

How Makavelian of them.

greaterthanlapsed: Google’s International Women’s Day Doodle At...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:55:42 -0500

greaterthanlapsed:

Google’s International Women’s Day Doodle

At least it’s not pink? I guess.

So how is everyone celebrating? I’m thinking a lunchtime abortion, some witchcraft, and as much misandry as I can squeeze into the next 12 hours or so.

Technology in Education: In Major Digitization Effort, Scholastic Launches E-Reading App For Kids

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:52:57 -0500

Technology in Education: In Major Digitization Effort, Scholastic Launches E-Reading App For Kids :

techedblog:

The kids’ e-book market is still nascent, with e-books making up just about three percent of children’s book sales. That could change now that Scholastic, the world’s largest children’s book publishers, is digitizing much of its list and releasing an e-reading app, “Storia,” that…

justinjboone: The more we go global, the more consumers want to reinforce their communities, shop...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:16:45 -0500

justinjboone:

The more we go global, the more consumers want to reinforce their communities, shop at neighborhood stores and support nearby farmers. For them, preserving the local village is more important than enjoying the global one.

Source: AdAge “Why Globalism Has Made Local More Important” Link

For those annoyingly stressful periods…

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:36:16 -0500

For those annoyingly stressful periods…

Game-Based Learning

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:35:21 -0500

Game-Based Learning:

Game-based learning has gained considerable traction since 2003, when James Gee began to describe the impact of game play on cognitive development. Since then, research — and interest in — the potential of gaming on learning has exploded, as has the diversity of games themselves, with the emergence of serious games as a genre, the proliferation of gaming platforms, and the evolution of games on mobile devices. Developers and researchers are working in every area of game-based learning, including games that are goal-oriented; social game environments; non-digital games that are easy to construct and play; games developed expressly for education; and commercial games that lend themselves to refining team and group skills. Role-playing, collaborative problem solving, and other forms of simulated experiences are recognized for having broad applicability across a wide range of disciplines.

gjmueller: College Completion: Who graduates from college, who...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:26:02 -0500

gjmueller:

College Completion: Who graduates from college, who doesn’t, and why it matters

This is an amazing interactive resource from The Chronicle. Find your college or state and see what your graduation college rates look like. Colleges in my state (Wisconsin) are no longer 4-year schools, as 60% of the student population graduates in 6-years (with less than 30% graduating in 4-years).

gjmueller: Students Demand the Right to Use Technology in...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:24:24 -0500

gjmueller:

Students Demand the Right to Use Technology in Schools

We’ve heard arguments from ed tech experts about how using technology for learning may in fact deepen the divide between wealthy and low-income kids. Students who have access to technology and are encouraged by teachers and parents to leverage it for new ways of learning, the argument goes, will leap even further ahead than low-income students who are forbidden to use it in public schools.

Those arguments were personified last week in the collective voices of students from Morningside, Crenshaw, Roosevelt, Locke, and Manual Arts high schools, who presented their case at the Digital Media and Learning conference in San Francisco.

nprfreshair: Fresh Air’s Terry Gross tells Brooke about how OTM...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:23:28 -0500

nprfreshair:

Fresh Air’s Terry Gross tells Brooke about how OTM helps her filter her media diet, and talks about On the Media’s bias series last year, specifically Daniel Hallin’s “spheres of consciousness.”

When school fights land on YouTube

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:23:00 -0500

When school fights land on YouTube:

Two boys are fighting in a Calvert County middle school. A crowd of students laugh and jeer until a teacher arrives to break it up. Later discipline is meted out.

But the fight is not nearly over.

A video goes up on YouTube — 32 seconds of personal humiliation for the boy who is taking most of the punches. He has often been bullied in middle school, according to his family, and now is shown being hit in the head and side and placed in a headlock.

Post Scarcity Now: DocuReview: "Fixing the Future" - PBS

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:18:19 -0500

Post Scarcity Now: DocuReview: "Fixing the Future" - PBS:

postscarcity:

A friend recommended that I watch “Fixing the Future” - a PBS special about new forms of economy. It’s worth the watch, but I have to say that it sets off my alarm bells with the standard applause lights of: sustainable, green, etc. Amongst a lot of the standard informed-folksy ~~naivete~~…

Home Sweet Home: The New American Localism : NPR

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:17:27 -0500

Home Sweet Home: The New American Localism : NPR:

richvanvoorst:

DEATH TO WALMART!!!

"We all essentially wanted the same thing, which was to feel that we had a stake in shaping and..."

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:16:54 -0500

“We all essentially wanted the same thing, which was to feel that we had a stake in shaping and defining what little part of the world we could claim as our own.”

- Sepha Stephanos, an Ethiopian immigrant who owns a corner store in DC’s changing Logan Circle neighborhood, speaking in The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu, 2007 (via urban-words)

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Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:13:30 -0500

universitycoop: “You may all go to Hell, and I will go to...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:12:26 -0500

universitycoop:

“You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas”
-Davy Crockett

Happy Texas Independence Day!