Screen Time? How about Creativity Time?
Rather than trying to choose between high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech, parents and teachers should be searching for activities that will engage children in creative thinking and creative expression.
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Author: Christiana Polycarpou
Scanning an Ancient Biblical Text That Humans Fear to Open Image
In a basement laboratory of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, an X-ray scanner is pumping invisible beams into a clump of charred parchment leaves that looks as delicate as a long dead flower. The leaves are the remains of a severely scorched early book, or codex, which was written in southern Egypt some time between 400 and 600 A.D. It contains the Acts of the Apostles, one of the books of the New Testament, possibly bound with another work. The writing is Coptic, the language of Egypt before the Arab conquest in 642 A.D. The...
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Best VR Headset in 2018 – Buyer’s Guide
If you’re looking for the best VR headset 2018, you’ve come to the right place. We keep tracking VR movement to help you decide which VR headset is perfect choice for you. The best VR Headset list, compiled by the experts. VR Experience The VR is technology that has greatly improved our movie and gaming experience. It has integrated the real world with the gaming world into one Virtual Reality world. Gaming has been made much beautiful and fun, from using fingers and eyes to a total immersive in the VR world such that you don’t even realize where you are seated. Have you tried...
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Communicating Use and Reuse in the Digital Collection Interface
How we display information can often tell us something about it. For GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museum) institutions, the collection interface can be a medium for communication. In developing open access policies which define the use and reuse of collection content, user interface decisions can serve as a means of communicating these terms to the user. In navigating digital collections, a visual indicator can be the tether between a user and the terms which guide how they can use collections content — in this review of current practice, these visual indicators will be referred to as open content identifiers. The British...
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Digitisation: a simple guide for museums
Creating digital replicas of collection items has become part of the core work of museums. Whether you’re looking to add images to your collections database, create beautiful online exhibitions or share images on social media, this guide provides practical information for museums on creating good images of their collections using a scanner or a digital camera.
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