I just found some Twitter comedy that I wanted to share with you.Twouble with Twitter is a short video that takes a sane look at us insane twitterers. This is a video about a new offshoot of Twitter called Flutter. It is Nano-blogging. Enjoy!!!! Do you have any other suggestions […]
I told you that Angela Maiers was going to share her work on Habitudes tonight at the University of Northern Iowa. It was FANTASTIC!!!! I must admit that I don’t have time to reflect on it right now, but Rob Galloway has posted all of the links to the streamed […]
Are you ready for tomorrow? It’s almost time. Time to put all the years of schooling and studying to work. Some students have already begun dipping their toes in the water. Some have already jumped into the pool called the life/workforce. Whatever depth you’re at today, it’s a good idea […]
StoryBlender is a new on-line utility that will animate your photos. Tony Vincent twittered that he had tried StoryBlender so I thought that I would wander over and see what was happening. StoryBlender provides you with a wide assortment of mouths/lips that you can place on photos of your choosing. […]
Halloween takes on a WHOLE different meaning when you are in Second Life. I was just looking around The Ivory Tower of Primitives tonight when I ventured upon a Haunted House (left). It is similar to Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride at Disneyland. You sit in a car, pay $10 Linden […]
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 […]
Twitter is filled with ways to visualize your TwitterWorld. Here is a mozaic of my twitter followers that I made through Twitter Mozaic: Get your twitter mosaic here. If you want to know something about the profiles of those who follow me, you can look at this cloud created by […]
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 […]
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 […]
I was just reading Scott McLeod’s blog, Dangerously Irrelevant, where he is asking for resources in connecting classrooms around the globe. Telecollaboration is an important opportunity that enables students to talk and write with other students in other cultures. Sometimes it even involves monumental activities like when classrooms from around […]