Wordle: Turning Text into Art

We live in a visual world. Pictures are processed 50,000 times faster than works so anytime that words can be replaced or augmented by images, then new insight and deeper meaning can be conveyed. Wordle is a “word art” tool that analyzes text or websites to produce a visual representation […]

Are Screen Captures Copyrighted?

Image via Wikipedia One of my students asked me a copyright question about screen captures recently that I couldn’t answer. After teaching them about how to make a screen capture and suggesting that this would be a great thing to use when creating tutorials. An educator could take screen shots […]

Are Screen Captures Copyrighted?

Image via Wikipedia One of my students asked me a copyright question about screen captures recently that I couldn’t answer. After teaching them about how to make a screen capture and suggesting that this would be a great thing to use when creating tutorials. An educator could take screen shots […]

Are Screen Captures Copyrighted?

Image via Wikipedia One of my students asked me a copyright question about screen captures recently that I couldn’t answer. After teaching them about how to make a screen capture and suggesting that this would be a great thing to use when creating tutorials. An educator could take screen shots […]

A Taste of the Future: SixthSense Computing from MIT

I was just watching a TED Talks video of Patti Maes describing her SixthSense project at MIT. It is a “wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information.” This computerized device is something that hangs around your neck like a pendant. It is comprised of […]

A Taste of the Future: SixthSense Computing from MIT

I was just watching a TED Talks video of Patti Maes describing her SixthSense project at MIT. It is a “wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information.” This computerized device is something that hangs around your neck like a pendant. It is comprised of […]

A Taste of the Future: SixthSense Computing from MIT

I was just watching a TED Talks video of Patti Maes describing her SixthSense project at MIT. It is a “wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information.” This computerized device is something that hangs around your neck like a pendant. It is comprised of […]