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Interesting…“Defiance: The first video-game television show” [spectrum.ieee.org]
Excerpt: It’s not unusual for a science fiction television show to spin off a video game. What is unusual is linking the show and the game together on an ongoing basis, with plot elements and...
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Items re: multi-screen media — eventually this trend/convergence enables...
PayWizard launches first dedicated payment and subscriber management solution for TV and media industry — from PayWizard Excerpt: London, 21 February 2013 – PayWizard, specialists in payment and...
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The State of the News Media [Pew Research Center]
Preface The State of the News Media 2013 is the tenth edition of our annual report on the status of American journalism. The study contains special reports on how news consumers view the financial...
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Digization, sole growth engine for Europe’s creative industries? [Vaquier]
Digization, sole growth engine for Europe’s creative industries? – from inaglobal.fr/en/… by Nicolas Vaquier [NEWS] According to a recently published study entitled The Digital Future of Creative U.K.,...
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BII REPORT: Here’s why the “second screen” industry is set to explode —...
BII REPORT: Here’s why the “second screen” industry is set to explode — BusinessInsider.com Excerpt: Here’s why the second screen industry will ultimately succeed: Usage is growing rapidly And mass...
View ArticleThe folks needed to create the next generation of learning: Computers can’t...
From DSC: What we need is a major hackathon — or an organization with deep pockets — that can bring together folks from a variety of disciplines including: Subject Matter Experts Instructional...
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Mezzanine – A beginning of what “Learning from the Living [Class] Room” might...
. . . From the Oblong.com website: Mezzanine™ is a collaborative conference room solution that introduces multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device collaboration. This is next-generation communication:...
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Netflix CEO: ‘TV in the future will be like a giant iPad’ [Ligaya ]
Netflix CEO: ‘TV in the future will be like a giant iPad’ — from business.financialpost.com by Armina Ligaya Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Q: What do you think is going to happen over the next five or 10...
View ArticleMicrosoft unveils Xbox One: the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system...
Microsoft unveils Xbox One: the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system – from microsoft.com Excerpt: REDMOND, Wash. — May 21, 2013 — A new vision for the future comes to life today as Microsoft...
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Heads up Jony Ive! You need to see this brilliant concept for the Apple TV!...
. From DSC: Now picture this from the educational standpoint — and what MOOCs could morph into. The foundation for some serious learning power (from the living room) seems to be developing! Streams...
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TV apps: A dive into fragmentation [appmarket.tv]
TV apps: A dive into fragmentation – from appmarket.tv by Excerpt: Suppose you wanted to build an app for TV, where would you start? Admittedly, there is an enormous number of variables to consider for...
View ArticleMy reflections on Katherine Brodsky’s interesting article: “The new...
The New Storytelling Frontier — from huffingtonpost.ca by Katherine Brodsky Excerpts (emphasis DSC): Long gone are the days of static content. Consumers are looking for more and transmedia storytelling...
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Can I borrow that robot for a minute? Using remotely-controlled devices to...
From DSC: What if you want to allow some remote students to come on into your face-to-face classroom? . What if you want to allow those remote students to be seen and communicated with at eye level? ....
View ArticleAnother great example of convergence –>“60 beautiful examples of websites...
60 beautiful examples of websites with full-blown video backgrounds – from hongkiat.com by Nancy Young . From DSC: Yes, you read that right. Video-based backgrounds — motion pictures. Another great...
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The growing importance of being able to craft a multimedia-based...
From DSC: I love multimedia because it enables me to craft a message using audio, video, text, graphics, and even animations. The Internet extends the power of this communication by allowing that...
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What types of innovative learning experiences can be crafted as “TV” becomes...
From DSC: The massive convergence of the telephone, the television, and the computer continues. How that media gets to us is also changing (i.e. the cord cutting continues). What types of innovative...
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True personalization is the next big thing in multiscreen TV [Moulding]
True personalization is the next big thing in multiscreen TV — from .v-net.tv by John Moulding From DSC: Not a far stretch to see some applications of this in the future aimed at learning...
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Hacking the classroom: Purdue U’s approach to augmented learning [Grush]
Hacking the classroom: Purdue U’s approach to augmented learning – from campustechnology.com by Mary Grush A Q&A with Kyle Bowen Excerpt: A term more familiar in the competitive world of the...
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The future of storytelling is about to get wild [Gaskins]
Excerpt: Many of us go about our lives constantly surrounded by screens, immersed in various “stories”: movies, TV shows, books, plot-driven video games, news articles, advertising, and more....
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