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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The future of Education
The Leap - new gesture control system
The Leap gesture control interface can detect movements as small as one one hundredth of a millimeter, so instead of jumping up and down while flapping your arms, you can control things with the tiniest finger motions.
Best of all, Leap isn’t part of a closed loop system like the Kinect or WiiMote, so it can control any regular on-screen activity much like you do with a mouse. All you do is connect the Leap sensor to your computer via USB, and it will detects motion within a four cubic foot space. Leap Motion is currently seeking developers who can create apps specifically for the interface, but even without special apps this looks like a very cool new way to control your computer. […]
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Leap!
Last month, we set out to create a Semester of Design classes to support the growing demand for accessible and practical design classes taught by people from the director of UX at Disqus and Co-founder of Pixelcloud, Chris Jennings to Twitter’s Design Lead, Yaron Schoen.
This month, we’re looking to complement the Design Semester with a Semester of Technology classes. There’s a mix of fundamental programming classes to advanced level classes that will pique the more seasoned engineers. Again, we’ve set out to recruit and curate teachers that have a love for creating tremendous web products from the engineering team at Behance to the engineering team at Sailthru.
Even better, the folks over at appssavvy have decided to provide a $1,000 scholarship to make these classes even more affordable to attend. Many of the classes will be donating 100% of their proceeds to various charities like hackNY as well.
If you’d like to get involved in the Technology Semester by teaching a class, email stephen@skillshare.com with some ideas of what you’d like to teach.
Optimizing Product-Focused Processes for Engineers and Designers
w/ Malcolm Ong of Skillshare
May 24thGet the Data For Yourself: An Introduction to SQL
w/ Dan Kozikowski of FirstMark Capital
Jun 4thIntroduction to Programming with Ruby: A 3 Week Course
w/ Avi Flombaum
Jun 4thRails Gotchas
w/ Aidan Feldman of Jux
Jun 5thAdvanced Front End Development with HAML & SASS
w/ Jeff Escalante of Carrot Creative
Jun 5thIntroduction to d3.js and Data-driven Visualizations
w/ Kenny Peng of Athena Capital Research
Jun 12thGoogle Analytics for Designers
w/ Andrew Mercando of Skillshare
Jun 14thGetting Started with PHPUnit
w/ Dan Chan of Behance
Jun 20thGoing from HTML to Javascript
w/ Dave Stein of Behance
Jun 21stHigh Performance Websites
w/ Colin McLeod of Rent the Runway
Jun 21stBuilding Interactive Data Visualizations With Google Docs
w/ Benjamin Jackson of Longform
Jun 25thThe Care + Feeding of a MongoDB Cluster
w/ Chris Henry
Jun 26thBecome a Ruby on Rails Developer: An Intensive 5 Week Course
w/ Avi Flombaum
Jul 2ndIntroduction to Algorithms
w/ Peter Wang of appssavvy
TBDFundamentals of Big Data Structures
w/ Jeffrey Yang of appssavvy
TBDGetting Started Designing Responsive Websites
w/ Jake Przespo of Skillshare
TBDBackbone.js - Maintainable Javascript Applications
w/ Chris Boardman of Skillshare
TBDLearn to use Git
w/ Eric Ma of Skillshare
TBDThis list will be continuously updated with new classes that are being added, so check back often and enroll in the classes you want to go to before they sell out!
Crazy, amazing facts that can double as conversation starters this weekend.
This is so awesome.
I can’t stop watching it.
How fast can you read? There are questions at the end so don’t read too fast!
What speed do you read?
Students aren’t just posting personal pictures and stories on Facebook — it’s just as much a part of their social lives as it is a place where they connect with each other for school work, too. According to the survey, 46 percent of students have used Facebook to collaborate on school projects, and one in 10 high school students have tweeted about an academic subject. Meanwhile, in formal classroom settings, the practice of using these online tools as an acceptable means of learning has been slow: half of all middle and high school students say they can’t access social media sites at school. Educational policy makers need to connect the dots between what motivates and encourages students to learn and what’s actually happening in the classroom, the report states.
CanvasDropr is a free Web-based service that lets you – surprise – drop files onto a digital canvas. Users can upload images, videos, PDFs and other documents, presentations and whatnot to share them with others. (via CanvasDropr: “like a visual Dropbox meets Google Docs for rich media” - The Next Web)
