Hawaii Recession Infographic

Presentation at Alaska Society of Technology Education–Using Web 2.0 Tools to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century Learner

Presentation Details:
Title: Venturing into the Clouds: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century Learner
Time: 8:30 AM AST
Duration: 00:58:53
Description: The Future of Cloud Computing: Innovation, Service, Sustainability, Performance and how it Affects Educational Outcomes for our Students. Economic uncertainty and competetive pressures are fundamentally raising performance demands n all aspects of education. From students and teachers to parents and administrators, the pressure to succeed has never been greater.

Success hinges on developing talent to focus on innovation and growth n the global economy. Businesses are now basing their trust and focus on cloud technologies because they offer freedom, reduced cost, and sustainability, whereas education has not. This keynote intends to show advantages of simplification and standardization to support utilizing the cloud to its fullest potential in an educational setting.

The Gamification of Education….

Presentation at the Australian Society of Digital Librarians

Jeff Piontek, Hawaii Technology Academy

Abstract: Today’s world is constantly on the move and changing at such a profound speed that it’s hard to believe that what the eyes see as reality is already history. This keynote will introduce and closely examine the significance of several global exponential trends and challenge your assumptions about the world we live in and its future. Current technology trends are affecting our personal and professional lives, our youth and elderly, our learning institutions, the nature of teaching and learning and our definition of intelligence itself. This keynote will be a compelling glimpse into the bold, exciting and dynamic future that awaits us all!

Jeff Piontek is an author, keynote speaker and teacher (most importantly). He has worked with many at-risk school districts nationally as a consultant on affecting educational change and reform. Jeff started out as a Science teacher in the South Bronx, NYC and worked his way up to the Director of Instructional and Informational Technology in NYC.

Jeff’s book; “Blogs Wikis and Podcasts, Oh My! Electronic Media in the Classroom” has been well received by the education community and is in its second printing.

He has received many accolades including the latest from Governor Linda Lingle for Innovation in the economy for his STEM education work nationally. Jeff sits on the National Governor’s Association STEM committee as well as the State of Hawaii Economic Development Workforce Committee, which he was appointed to by the Governor.

Jeff has embarked on a new venture at Hawaii Technology Academy and the school has performed at the top of the public schools in Hawaii in its first year and doubled to 500 students in its second year. The school now has 1,000 students and over 2,000 applicants this past year.

The school was just designated as one of the 40 more innovative schools in the US in a recent study published by Innosight Institute (Michael Horn, author of Disrupting Class — innosightinstitute.org/blended_learning_models/

Jeff’s most recent presentations can be found on slideshare at slideshare.net/jeff.piontek

Over 100 Incredible Infographic Tools and Resources (Categorized)

1. Visual.ly – Awesome community for creating and sharing infographics.
2. Information Aesthetics – The relationship between design and information.
3. Visualizing.org – Making sense of complex issues through data and design.
4. Visual Complexity – A resource for the visualization of complex networks.
5. Daily Infographic – A new infographic every day.
6. GOOD Infographics – GOOD Magazine’s excellent infographics section.
7. Information Is Beautiful – Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized.
8. Infographic of the Day – Fast Company’s excellent and long running series.
9. FlowingData – Exploring how designers, scientists visualize data.
10. Infographics Archive – A visual library offering infographics.
11. Visual Loop – There’s an infographic for it… even if it didn’t happen!
12. Infographr – All about infographics.
13. Newsilike – An infographics blog from India.
14. Video Infographics – Motion infographics that explain, educate or inform.
15. Datavisualization.ch – A news and knowledge resource for data visualization.
16. VisualJournalism – 80% of the news in infographics.
17. Eagereyes – Reflections on the visual communication of data.
18. Amazing Infographics – Cool information graphics.
19. Submit Infographics – Share and rate infographics.
20. The Infographics Showcase – Collecting infographics.
21. I Love Charts – A Tumblr blog about charts.
22. Well Formed Data – An infographics blog by a freelance data visualizer.
23. Best Infographics – Pointing you toward great infographics.
24. Infographic List – For those who love info graphics.

Data Visualization Tools and Software

1. Piktochart – Transforms your information into memorable presentations.
2. Infogr.am – Create interactive charts and infographics.
3. Gephi – Like Photoshop for data. Graph visualization and manipulation software.
4. Tableau Public – Free data visualization software.
5. Free Vector Infographic Kit – Vector infographic elements from MediaLoot.
6. Weave – Web-based analysis and visualization environment.
7. iCharts – Charts made easy.
8. ChartsBin – A web-based data visualization tool.
9. GeoCommons – See your data on a map.
10. VIDI – A suite of powerful Drupal visualization modules.
11. Prefuse – Information visualization software.
12. StatSilk – Desktop and online software for mapping and visualization.
13. Gliffy – Online diagram and flowchart software.
14. Hohli – Online charts builder.
15. Many Eyes – Lets you upload data and create visualizations.
16. Google Chart Wizard – Generate image charts.

Data Sources

1. DataMarket – Find and understand data.
2. WorldMap – Explore, visualize and publish geographic information.
3. Influence Explorer – Provides overviews of political influence data for politicians.
4. US Census Bureau – Measures America (people, places, economy).
5. Freebase – An entity graph of people, places and things from Google.
6. World Bank Data – The world at a glance (key development indicators).
7. Data360 – Telling compelling and data-driven stories.
8. Number Of – You ask, they count.
9. Gallup – Public opinion polls.
10. EveryBlock – Uncovers info on large cities contained in government databases.
11. Daytum – Helps you collect, organize and communicate your everyday data.
12. Google Public Data – Filter and animate data sets from around the world.
13. Gapminder – Displays time series of development statistics for all countries.
14. Munterbund – Graphical visualization of text similarities in essays.

Create Personal Infographics

1. Biogrify – Create a fun visual snapshot of your life.
2. Vizify TweetSheet – Your Twitter activity as an instant infographic.
3. Photo Stats – App for creating iPhone infographics out of your photo data.
4. Re.vu – A visual resume tool.
5. Vizualize.me – Visualize your resume in one click.
6. Kinzaa – Build your infographic resume.

JavaScript / Flash Infographic Tools

1. KeyLines – A JavaScript toolkit for visualizing networks.
2. d3.js – Free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data.
3. InfoVis Toolkit – A JavaScript tool for creating interactive data visualizations.
4. Flare – Makes it easy to create interactive data visualizations (ActionScript).
5. JS Charts – Free JavaScript charts.
6. FusionCharts – JavaScript (HTML5) and Flash charts.
7. amCharts – JavaScript and HTML charts.
8. Highcharts – Interactive JavaScript charts.

Great Infographic Studios and Designers

1. Column Five – Creating visual content that brings people to your site.
2. FFunction – Data visualization consulting.
3. Interactive Things – A user experience and data visualization studio.
4. Periscopic – An agency whose tagline is “do good with data”.
5. Fathom – Helps clients understand and express complex data.
6. JESS3 – Creative agency specializing in data visualization.
7. Visual Evolution – London-based infographic design.
8. Lemon.ly – Create understanding through visuals.
9. Prime Infographics – Creates custom infographics for businesses.

Infographic Articles and Tutorials

1. How to Create Outstanding Modern Infographics – Vectortuts+
2. Infographic: Do-It-Yourself Guide to Infographics – Marketing Tech Blog
3. A Few Rules for Making Homemade Infographics – The Atlantic Wire
4. The Do’s and Don’ts of Infographic Design – Smashing Magazine
5. How to Create a Great Infographics (Slideshow) – The Content Lab
6. Design a Magazine Infographic – Digital Arts
7. Create an Infographic Typography Animation – aetuts+
8. How to Create Great Infographics – .net magazine
9. The Anatomy of an Infographic – SpyreStudios
10. How to Strike a Balance Between Data and Visualization – The Daily Egg
11. 7 Steps to Make Your Infographic a Success – SEOmoz

Other / Miscellaneous / Overflow

1. Wolfram CDF – Create “infoapps” using always-current data.
2. KISSmetrics Infographics – Useful infographics by KISSmetrics.
3. Better World Flux – A beautiful interactive visualization of what matters in life.
4. Data Wrangler – Interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation.
5. Lyza – Analyze, socialize, decide.
6. A World of Tweets – Twitter visualization.
7. We Feel Fine – An exploration of human emotion.
8. Visual Economics – Unraveling complexities in financial data.
9. ComponentArt DV – Present, navigate and visualize your data like never before.
10. DOMO – Business intelligence platform.
11. Infochimps – Big data infrastructure made clear.
12. Evaluat3 – The best way to know your professional strengths (graphs).
13. Webpages As Graphics – An HTML DOM visualizer app.
14. Creately – Draw diagrams online using a collaborative approach.
15. Wordle – Create beautiful word clouds.
16. Tagxedo – Word clouds with style.

Hawaii STEM Conference….great job by Women in Technology and Maui Economic Development Board.

Our program on using google tools to engage learners…video by students.

Peekskill NY Article about Alternative Education models

Post from Mark Cubans Blog about Passion….what do you think?

I hear it all the time from people. “I’m passionate about it.” “I’m not going to quit, It’s my passion”. Or I hear it as advice to students and others “Follow your passion”.

What a bunch of BS.  ”Follow Your Passion” is easily the worst advice you could ever give or get.

Why ? Because everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than 1 thing.  We are born with it. There are always going to be things we love to do. That we dream about doing. That we really really want to do with our lives. Those passions aren’t worth a nickel.

Think about all the things you have been passionate about in your life. Think about all those passions that you considered making a career out of or building a company around.  How many were/are there ? Why did you bounce from one to another ?  Why were you not able to make a career or business out of any of those passions ? Or if you have been able to have some success, what was the key to the success.? Was it the passion or the effort you put in to your job or company ?

If you really want to know where you destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.

Time is the most valuable asset you don’t own. You may or may not realize it yet, but how you use or don’t use your time is going to be the best indication of where your future is going to take you .

Let me make this as clear as possible

1. When you work hard at something you become good at it.

2. When you become good at doing something, you will enjoy it more.

3. When you enjoy doing something, there is a very good chance you will become passionate or more passionate about it

4. When you are good at something, passionate and work even harder to excel and be the best at it, good things happen.

Don’t follow your passions, follow your effort. It will lead you to your passions and to success, however you define it.

The Daily “SCOOPS” in online and blended learning…..