TECH Dozens 2014

Last update: Thursday 1/1/15 @ 1:25 pm

This year's cover = photo from tweet about Protests against police killing unarmed black males


Other top stories ==> No Diversity in Silicon Valley ... Closing the Digital Divide with code ... and Massive IT security breaches

This special end-of-year edition of Tech Dozens contains tweets that link to the Digital Learning Lab's favorite news items for the year 2014 ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found ==> Back issues.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views 

Songs for the Christmas Season by Committed

Last update: 12/25/14 @ 4:29 am

Early on Christmas morning, I woke up to the amazing sounds of the a cappella group "Committed" singing Christmas carols during their interview on NPR radio. They identified themselves as alums of Oakwood University, a small Christian HBCU in Alabama. When the NPR interview was over, I sat up, opened my MacBook Pro, searched Youtube, and was delighted to find many of their songs. So here's my Christmas gift to the readers of this blog ==> Links to some of the best sounds you will hear this season!!! ... :-)

Seasons Greetings!!! ... Merry Xmas!!! ... Happy Holidays!!!

Last update: Tuesday 12/23/14 @ 12:19 am

The DLL will suspend publication of its HBCU Tech Dailies and its TECH Dozens magazine until 12/30/14

Seasons Greetings!!! ... Merry Xmas!!!

Christmas Songs by Committed ... :-)

Community Chats -- We need an app for that

Last update Sunday 12/22/14 @ 12:53 pm

From time to time the DLL uses Storify to assemble the tweets from interviews, panel discussions, conferences, town halls, workshops, hackathons, and other events wherein participants and observers used Twitter as their primary medium of communication with each other. The Archives page on this blog contains links to the Storifys created by the DLL and by other curators of such events.

Last month, I posted an updated version of some preliminary notions about how hackathon procedures could be modified so as to make hackathons more understandable and more fun for remote observers, i.e, for persons who are following the hackathon via Twitter and associated blogs.  Today's note presents some suggestions as to how "community chats" could be made more understandable and more fun, not just for observers of Twitter events, but for the participants themselves.

"TECH Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 12/21/14

Last update: Sunday 12/21/14 @ 12:05 am

This week's cover = photo from tweet that FBI accuses North Korea of hacking Sony 

Other top stories ==> Hottest tech skills in 2014 ... Obama's College Ratings Plan ... and IBM systems learn how to detect cancer

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of information technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and issues related to coding & coding literacy... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 12/21/14 @ 12 noon ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Events 

DLL Storify of Black Enterprise Twitter Chat with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Lincoln Stephens on Wednesday 12/17/14

Last update: Thursday 12/18/14 @ 9:38 am

On Wednesday 12/17/13, Black Enterprise magazine invited two distinguished guests to participate on a panel via Twitter that addressed issues related to the Millennial Generation, diversity, and the current business environment. 

• The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., Rainbow PUSH Coalition, has been pressing Silicon Valley to diversify its employment for more than a decade. 
   
• Lincoln Stephens is Executive Director/Co-Founder of the Marcus Graham Project. The project's mission is " to identify, expose, mentor and train ethnically diverse men and women in all aspects of the media industry, including advertising, entertainment and marketing."

The discussion was moderated by Janell Hazelwood (Associate Managing Editor, Digital Black Enterprise). Listeners were invited to join in the discussion. The DLL used Storify to organize tweets that used hashtag = #GenDiversity  ... Storyfies of other #DiversityInTech events are listed in the DLL's Archives

If the Storify is not visible, please click the "Read more" link below this line.

Waves of Code and Waves of Coders

Last update: Tuesday 12/16/14 @ 3:19 pm

The 1950s and 60s generated the world's first waves of code  and coders as IBM, Unisys, Honeywell, and other mainframe manufacturers hired and trained thousands of programmers to produce and maintain their corporate operating systems and proprietary software applications. Only a small percentage of the population were direct users of these systems

"TECH Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 12/13/14

Last update: Saturday 12/14/14 @ 10:13 am

Please click the links in bold blue letters in the headlines and in the navigation bar (below)

                                            
This week's cover = photo from tweet about Protest in Washington DC, one of many nationwide demonstrations 
  
... Other top stories ==> Twitter chat with Jewel Burks ... Apple-IBM 1st iOS apps ... and Hour of Code 

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of information technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and issues related to coding & coding literacy... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 12/13/14 @ 6 pm ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. VIEWS | F. Events 

DLL Storify of NewME Accelerator's Twitter Chat with Jewel Burks on Friday 12/12/14

Last update:  Monday 8/10/15

NewME Accelerator hosts a regular series of Twitter chats with founders of startup firms. This week's guest was Jewel Burks ... @jewelmelanie ... Co-founder and CEO of PartPic ... using hashtag = #founderchat

Note from PartPic's Website -- "PartPic provides a simple way to find and order parts using images, which is a relief when the name or part number is unknown. Our proprietary technology can be the power that aids your customer service representatives in the sell process." 

PartPic's winning presentation at Disrupt 2014 (September) was featured in a TechCrunch article ... PartPic was also featured in an extended video interview with The Verge Small Empires (October 2014) that includes an on-site inteview with one of PartPic's first customers. In August 2015 PartPic was invited to pitch its services to President Obama as part of the first White House Demo Day.

Ms. Burks attended Howard University where she majored in marketing  ... Storyfies of other #DiversityInTech events are listed in the DLL's Archives

"Hour of Code" in Computer Science Education Week (update)

Last update: Friday 12/12/14 @8:10 pm

This week, from Monday 12/8/14 to Saturday 12/14/14, is Computer Science Education Week, an initiative that was organized by Code.org

"TECH Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 12/6/14

Last update: Sunday 12/6/14 @ 12:41 am

This week's cover = photo from tweet about national protests against cops killing unarmed black males 

 ... Other top stories ==> San Quentin Inmates Learn to Code ... Successful launch and return of Orion
... Amazon Uses robots in warehouses for holiday order

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of information technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and issues related to coding & coding literacy... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 12/6/14 @ 12 noon ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Events