krillion
Some of what I come across on the web... Also check out my Content & Curation site: kristentreglia.com
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STEM fields all mapped out!
Physicist and science writer Dominic Walliman produces the YouTube channel Domain of Science where he shares fantastic animations that map out different STEM fields.
These videos are perfect to share with students to give them a comprehensive view with information about different types of sub-disciplines within fields and how they relate to each other.
I've embedded the Map of Mathematics video below for you but if you click on it and watch the video on YouTube you'll find the playlist which shares other videos on the topics of engineering, biology, physics, chemistry, and more.
And of course he has shared a lot of other great content on his channel. You should view, subscribe, and share ASAP!
Dominic has made the images of maps available via Flickr for educational use and you can purchase Domain of Science posters as well.
Watch on YouTube to view the whole playlist
Creating a Better Filing System
I found a great article on the Wirecutter about organizing your digital files, here's an overview:
-How long will it take-
It depends on how many files you have, a day to a week.
-Have a plan-
Start with categories, once everything is filed, file them into sub categories.
Keep in mind to use the same file structure (all singular or plural names, all caps or lowercase). It might be helpful to plot out the folder structure on paper.
-Use specific folders: resources, in progress, final, scrap-
Create a main folder called "Projects" and in that folder create subfolders called "Resources," "In Progress," "Final," and "Scrap" to use for the files you create during the process. Also use filenames like "01," "02," "03," etc in folders and files.
-For photos use: year > month > people > event
Using this structure for your folder allows you to sort by year and search by term: by month, person, or event.
-Pin folders to sidebar-
If you are working on a project or frequently accessing a specific folder or you need a folder with a long file path, you can drag the folder over to "Quick Access" on the left sidebar.
-Include descriptive file name and keywords-
Keywords will make files searchable by those terms.
Head over to the Wirecutter for their article on How to Organize Your Digital Files to get more details and examples.
Happy Carl Sagan Day!
Carl Sagan Day is celebrated on November 9 every year. Carl has inspired so many people with his teachings and today is the day that we celebrate his legacy.
My favorite links about Carl:
Carl Sagan’s last interview with Charlie Rose (Full Interview) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Carl Sagan Experience LOVE THIS Symphony of Science - ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan Take a Course or Two with Professor Sagan
Our Galaxy is Caught Up in a Giant Cosmic Cobweb! 🕸️
If we could zoom waaaay out, we would see that galaxies and galaxy clusters make up large, fuzzy threads, like the strands of a giant cobweb. But we'll work our way out to that. First let's start at home and look at our planet's different cosmic communities.
Our home star system
Earth is one of eight planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — that orbit the Sun. But our solar system is more than just planets; it also has a lot of smaller objects.
An asteroid belt circles the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Beyond Neptune is a doughnut-shaped region of icy objects called the Kuiper Belt. This is where dwarf planets like Pluto and Makemake are found and is likely the source of short-period comets (like Haley’s comet), which orbit the Sun in less than 200 years.
Scientists think that even farther out lies the Oort Cloud, also a likely source of comets. This most distant region of our solar system is a giant spherical shell storing additional icy space debris the size of mountains, or larger! The outer edge of the Oort Cloud extends to about 1.5 light-years from the Sun — that’s the distance light travels in a year and a half (over 9 trillion miles).
Sometimes asteroids or comets get ejected from these regions and end up sharing an orbit with planets like Jupiter or even crossing Earth’s orbit. There are even interstellar objects that have entered the inner solar system from even farther than the Oort Cloud, perhaps coming all the way from another star!
Our home galaxy
Let's zoom out to look at the whole Milky Way galaxy, which contains more than 100 billion stars. Many are found in the galaxy’s disk — the pancake-shaped part of a spiral galaxy where the spiral arms lie. The brightest and most massive stars are found in the spiral arms, close to their birth places. Dimmer, less massive stars can be found sprinkled throughout the disk. Also found throughout the spiral arms are dense clouds of gas and dust called nebulae. The Sun lies in a small spiral arm called the Orion Spur.
The Milky Way’s disk is embedded in a spherical “halo” about 120,000 light-years across. The halo is dotted with globular clusters of old stars and filled with dark matter. Dark matter doesn’t emit enough light for us to directly detect it, but we know it’s there because without its mass our galaxy doesn’t have enough gravity to hold together!
Our galaxy also has several orbiting companion galaxies ranging from about 25,000 to 1.4 million light-years away. The best known of these are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which are visible to the unaided eye from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere.
Our galactic neighborhood
The Milky Way and Andromeda, our nearest neighboring spiral galaxy, are just two members of a small group of galaxies called the Local Group. They and the other members of the group, 50 to 80 smaller galaxies, spread across about 10 million light-years.
The Local Group lies at the outskirts of an even larger structure. It is just one of at least 100 groups and clusters of galaxies that make up the Virgo Supercluster. This cluster of clusters spans about 110 million light-years!
Galaxies aren’t the only thing found in a galaxy cluster, though. We also find hot gas, as shown above in the bright X-ray light (in pink) that surrounds the galaxies (in optical light) of cluster Abell 1413, which is a picturesque member of a different supercluster. Plus, there is dark matter throughout the cluster that is only detectable through its gravitational interactions with other objects.
The Cosmic Web
The Virgo Supercluster is just one of many, many other groups of galaxies. But the universe’s structure is more than just galaxies, clusters, and the stuff contained within them.
For more than two decades, astronomers have been mapping out the locations of galaxies, revealing a filamentary, web-like structure. This large-scale backbone of the cosmos consists of dark matter laced with gas. Galaxies and clusters form along this structure, and there are large voids in between.
The scientific visualizations of this “cosmic web” look a little like a spider web, but that would be one colossal spider! <shudder>
And there you have the different communities that define Earth’s place in the universe. Our tiny planet is a small speck on a crumb of that giant cosmic web!
Want to learn even more about the structures in the universe? Check out our Cosmic Distance Scale!
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space.
Flipboard Focus:
Productivity, Positivity, and Creativity
The latest flip into my magazine on Productivity, Positivity, and Creativity:
The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It’s the Last Minute—Before the Last Minute link.
Christopher Cox is a graduate of Harvard and Cambridge. He was a 2020 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He was the former chief editor of Harper’s magazine and executive editor of GQ, where he edited—and set deadlines for—stories that won Pulitzer Prizes and National Magazine Awards.
In the article Christopher shares about these 5 key insights from his new book:
1. Stop feeling guilty about procrastinating. 2. The worst deadline you can set is “as soon as possible.” 3. Short deadlines are better than long ones. 4. Add enforcement mechanisms. 5. Embrace interim deadlines.
If you liked that article, check out the other articles in my Flipboard magazine:
Flipboard magazine link
DR: Diminished Reality
XR technologies [Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR)] have been called the internet of experience or empathy as opposed to the World Wide Web being the internet of information. Well now there's a new game in town.
"You already own a device with this terrifying/ magical technology built-in: noise cancelling headphones. Unlike augmented reality, where your real-world environment is digitally enhanced with visual elements, sounds or other sensory inputs, diminished reality takes your unwanted stimuli away. Soon, wearable devices will let you block sounds, sights, and even smells from your everyday existence."
Future Today Institute, Issue 201
For someone who is hypersensitive to outside stimuli, devices like noise cancelling headphones are a godsend. I never leave home without them. But as helpful as this technology can be, just as with any tool there is a potential downside too.
Explore this up and coming trend
It’s finally here!
The trailer is finally out... looks awesome, Dune is one of my favorite books of all time, and I’ve read A LOT of books. Can’t wait to see this!!!!
I’m not very familiar with director Denis Villeneuve but he directed Arrival which I thought was brilliant, and I’ve heard good things about his other films so the excitement factor is high.
I love that the trailer is set to a cover of Pink Floyd, which is one of my favorite bands. Io9 does a great wrap up for folks who are looking for the breakdown of the rest of the trailer (spoiler alert).
"Herbert's creation of this universe, with its intricate development and analysis of ecology, religion, politics, and philosophy, remains one of the supreme and seminal achievements In science fiction." (The Louisville Times)
See also:
Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world
Rare DUNE Interview with Frank Herbert
I had a great chat with a colleague of mine who works for Gabelli IT this afternoon about creating a collaborative group made up of representatives of all of the different groups helping faculty. Our focus would be to 1. share resources 2. create a unified message 3. support each other.
This project would have a website that can provide a framework for developing our PLNs at Fordham, helping to break down the silos among us.
Seize the day
One of my favorite sci fi books of all time is Dune by Frank Herbert. So many great quotes, like this one: “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken”
today’s momentum page (free chrome extension)
As I said in my last post, this is a time of crisis and opportunity. What’s one thing that has changed for the better in your life in these times? It’s so easy to focus on problems, sometimes it helps to think on the positive side.
Here’s some Productivity, Positivity, and Creativity for your day.
be well
k
Netflix party of 1
Decided to splurge and buy Galaxy Quest (Amazon) for $2- I had a $3 credit and the sale price was $5. Good deal either way! It’s a fun movie!
Zoom Projects
I’m working on a couple of projects. One of them is to organize some zoom lunches, dinners, netflixparties, art nights, and other fun social activities on zoom. I need to fix the survey on the new page of my website, stay tuned.
Zoom Art Night: 4-5 people, 60 minutes, theme #1 Collage Night Collect papers you like, or magazines More directions to follow
Some thoughts
If you write it down you are more likely to do it
Community, Care, and Communication
New workshops coming in April
Working on an AI bot to support scalable, effective online learning
Teachers touch tomorrow today
Wikipedia updates soon
#WOL
The night before, I reflect on what are my top three goals the next day, and before starting to work, take 10 minutes to reflect on what I need to do and when I need to do it by. Work in order of priorities.
Fake it until you make it
These are difficult times, but in time of crisis is also a time of great opportunity. The field of education, and of education technology, has a lot of change in a short amount of time through the ages.
link to full size map by Vicky Earl
link to full size image from tweet by @justintarte
And here is a timeline I created based off of an article on EDUCAUSE that highlights one new technology or trend.
link to full size image from Flickr
I have a set of slides I use at the beginning of most of my presentations. It starts with a timeline that gives an overview of the information ages, and puts into context, just how new the age of the Internet is. This is the Wild, Wild West. As an instructional technologist I help guide faculty through their own explorations of leveraging tech.
link to larger image from Flickr
Note, I plan to use this and other updated graphics in the sequel to the Tech Trends talk (fordham.edu/techtrends) I gave last year. Working title: A New Information Age.
I’ll also be talking about things like growing your PLN, using curation tools, the history of online learning at Fordham, effective pedagogy, hybrid/online learning, and more.
One more teaser.... YouTube channel launch coming soon...
Recent Recipe
I made during the last Zoom Dinner I had and it was delicious! Can’t wait to make it again.
Fish, adobo light, cracked lemon pepper, garlic olive oil spray, garlic powder in the nuwave Toasted, with a little melted butter Light mayo/sour cream + lots of relish Lemon juice
Optional: With a raw pepper in place of cheese
I’ll leave you with a quote from Galaxy Quest
Never give up. Never surrender.
be well, k
It's no Paris, or breakfast at the amazing hotel in Amman, but it's still pretty tasty! . . . Was supposed to be en route to Paris but the MLW (UNESCO) conference I was going to present at with members of the IDEL initiative was postponed. I was really looking forward to sharing our work and making connections. Plus getting a chance to revisit and have fun while I'm in town. And be a tourist with friends.... . . . We'll be presenting soon at the AJCU conference in June, and then meeting with Georgetwon right after 😁 . . . #warmbuttercroissant #darkchocolate #honey #fresh #raspberries #oranges #roastedwalnuts #roastedalmonds #extrasharpcheddarcheese #decafecoffee #epictripthesequelonhold #relaxingweekend #travelplans https://www.instagram.com/p/B9J-lFmlwjV/?igshid=b0lteutel5cq
Reading list
Don’t read all in one sitting... I’m working on an updated on an updated version of the Information Age timeline and also ruminating on themes running through these articles.
Why we need a 21st-century Martin Luther to challenge the church of tech
'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
The end of capitalism has begun
Recommended
Great read about one of my all time Sci-Fi favorites Dune and why “Dune” Endures.
The Wheel of Time
Just heard about the first batch of casting for the Wheel of Time adaption. Very exciting news. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan is one of my favorite series and one of the reasons why I don’t like to start new series until they are completely done!
I read the first four books in the early 90′s when I was in high school and was hooked. I had to wait almost 20 years for the series to be completed. Agony!
The 14 books are massive volumes and total just about 12,000 pages. If you listen to the audio version it will take you 19 days and 5 1/2 hours.
I’m hopeful it will turn out much better than that uber weird 30 minute pilot that aired in the middle of the night!
Another reason why I like to know an entire series is done before I start? Well, in addition to having to wait 20 years to finish the series, the author passed away before he finished the last book. Needless to say, I have not read the GOT series or watched the show and will definitely be waiting until the books are finished!
Brandon Sanderson finishes Robert Jordan's bestselling Wheel of Time Series with A Memory of Light
Check out these links for more info:
Wikipedia GoodReads
I’ve been reading about Brave, going to give it a go....
Visit to the MET 12/27/18
Going to the MET with a friend tomorrow, my list of things to check out...
SPECIFIC ITEMS
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children by Bernini (sculpture)
Viewpoint: “The action unfolds as you encircle the piece.” Very cool, one of the things that I like about his sculpture of Daphne and Apollo is that as you walk around the sculpture story is brought to life, action is given form.
I’m excited that I’m going to get a chance to see one of his works in NYC.
Aside from Daphne and Apollo at Villa Borghese, my other favorite Bernini pieces I saw in Rome: Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi nella Piazza Navona, St. Peter's colonade, the angels on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, Ecstasy of St Teresa in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
The Denial of Saint Peter by Caravaggio (painting)
I am also excited that I will be able to see one of Caravaggio’s works at the Met. Caravaggio is best known for his technique of chiaroscuro. I saw many of his paintings in Italy: the works in Cappella Contarelli in the church San Luigi dei Francesi on the theme of St. Matthew, David with the Head of Goliath and Saint Jerome Writing in Villa Borghese
If there’s time, I’d like to see paintings by Velázquez, Goya (or this one) and El Greco and some works by Rodin (or the Hand of Rodin, Study for Obsession, Pygmalion and Galatea or The Hand of God)
EXHIBITS
Dutch Masterpieces
- The Disillusioned Medea - Curiosity - Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy
And then depending on what my guide is interested in viewing, perhaps something from one of these exhibits?
Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings The Poetry of Nature: Edo Paintings from the Fishbein-Bender Collection Children to Immortals: Figural Representations in Chinese Art Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China Epic Abstraction
Links to exhibits on the Met website with information and digital resources
