eSchool News: Professional development content from ASCD now available on iTunes U

Professional development content from ASCD now available on iTunes U

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The educational leadership organization ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) has made a variety of free professional development content available on Apple’s newly revamped iTunes U service.

“We are excited to use this technology to assist educators in accessing our professional development resources for free, anywhere and anytime,” said ASCD Executive Director and CEO Gene R. Carter. “We look forward to releasing new content on iTunes U in the future.”

Through the new ASCD iTunes U channel, educators can stay up to date with the most recent professional development content from the organization, including webinars, archived conference presentations, interviews with ASCD authors, and video profiles of successful educators, ASCD said.

The new ASCD iTunes U channel offers resources on many educational topics, such as teacher effectiveness, school reform, assessment, and Common Core State Standards. Educators now can take these professional development resources with them on an iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or any laptop with iTunes.

To find ASCD content, search for “ASCD” on iTunes. Educators can subscribe to multiple ASCD feeds, which are updated automatically. The association said it will update the channel regularly with content that is currently available on its website and will develop exclusive iTunes U content in the future.

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eSchool News: Professional development content from ASCD now available on iTunes U

Google Art Project expands, with 32,000 works of art now online

Google Art Project expands, with 32,000 works of art now online -

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Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' is one of 32,000 works of art that now can be viewed online in great detail, thanks to Google.

Imagine pulling up a stool next to the lonely diners of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” or dipping your fingers in the basin of “The Child’s Bath” by Mary Cassatt.
These familiar images, along with the sunbathers of George Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” and the somber figures of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” are among the 32,000 works of art that Google released in digital format April 3.
The technology giant partnered with 151 institutions worldwide on the Google Art Project, an online platform for virtually viewing artwork and museum galleries. The company selected the Art Institute of Chicago as the initiative’s North American launch site and hosted museum directors from across the country at a private April 3 event.
Participating institutions, from the White House to the Museo del Oro (Gold Museum) in Bogota, Colombia, selected works from their vast collections to contribute to the Google Art Project. Of this group, 46 museums had their galleries photographed using Google Street View technology, which compiles a 360-degree panorama to create a virtual-tour experience in a high-definition format called gigapixel. Some of the works in Google’s online collection are also rendered in gigapixels.
“The gigapixel imagery of ‘La Grande Jatte’ was truly mind-boggling,” said Sam Quigley, vice president for collections management, imaging, and information technology at the Art Institute. “They took something like 702 images, little pieces of the painting, by photographic technique and stitched together a big mosaic so you’ll be able to zoom incredibly close and see the individual points of paint that the artist used to create that work. It’s really quite something. That’s a technology leadership role that really only a few corporations like Google could provide.”
Many art museums already have digital images on their websites. The Art Institute has about 52,000, Quigley said. But Google is providing superior technology and the heft of a well-known brand whose broad mission is to “organize the world’s information” and make it accessible. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has applied this mandate to everything from books to recipes to government data.
“The diversity of the institutions is key,” said Piotr Adamczyk, head of data for the Google Art Project. “It’s about finding partners that are eager to put their content online.”
The art initiative grew out of a group of Google employees’ “20 percent time,” a company policy that encourages workers to tinker on personal pursuits one day a week. The project was launched in February 2011 with 1,000 works from 17 museums. It enables users to save their favorites in personal collections and share them with friends via social media tools such as Google+ and Facebook.
Adamczyk, a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, previously served as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s liaison to Google for the first round. He had been the New York institution’s resident “data nerd,” helping curators mount special exhibitions such as last year’s Alexander McQueen retrospective.
Adamczyk and Quigley said they expect the online visibility of museums’ art collections to encourage, rather than cannibalize, offline visitor traffic.

Google Art Project expands, with 32,000 works of art now online

Dillard University Community Development Corporation Job Resources April 5, 2012

Thursday, Apri1 5, 2012

Professional Schools Building

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

-- Events --

10:00 am -2:00 pm

\Students Internship – Atrium

Federal Government Career and Internship Fair Students will have the chance to meet and interact with government recruiters, and learn more about their agencies’  mission  and available job positions.

10:00 am -11:00 am & 1:00 pm -2:00 pm

Students/Faculty

Federal Hiring 101 – Room 131

Step Up Your Knowledge!  Learn the federal hiring process

from the agency perspective. Hear from federal employees, hiring managers and human resources professionals about job vacancy announcements, USAJOBS, federal resumes

and everything  in between.

  

Faculty/Administrators

Federal Grant Opportunities 101 – Room 135

11 a.m. -   12 noon

Whether you are interested in conventional research

grants or unconventional grants to develop the university campus and/or the community, this workshop will provide you with information on how to identify the right funding

opportunities in the Federal Government and key tips on how to apply for those grants.

Federal  Executive Board,
 New Orleans

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Dillard University Community Development Corporation Job Resources April 5, 2012