I was at an ed tech conference this past week. At lunch, they had “edutainment” speakers, which is a great idea since everybody is usually eating and so on so a “serious” speaker is often not the best idea. The speakers were the producers and original composers of Schoolhouse Rock. When they took the stage,…
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Creative Commons For the Win!!!
One of my CC licensed photos in Flickr was used in local blog posting. Feels mighty good to see all that good old social media mojo working. Knoxify – The insider’s take on what makes Knoxville great
Famous Photos “ruined” by technology
From Gizmodo, check out this gallery of Photoshop brilliance mixing famous news photography with current technology. Gizmodo – 86 Iconic Images Ruined With Technology – Photoshop
Testing again
Want to know if ViddYou is the way to go for this kinda thing…not sure yet.
You can have the Earth in YOUR hand
This is just darn cool technology and a great message to boot. As I continue to look over the impressive technology and social media used for Earth Hour 2009, I found this part of the site. Print out a little graphic, point it to your webcam and BAM – you have the world in your…
Must. Try. This.
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An alternative to the P365 option
So, instead of a photo a day, you could just do a time lapse video of the same spot:
CamClickr: Some Techy Feely Citizen Science
Leave it to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to come up with another cool way to engage us in their research. I have always enjoyed their backyard bird studies that allow folks from all over the world to gather data from their own world and share it with the scientists at Cornell. Now, they have…
A fairy tale through Emoticons
This TED talk is truly a techy-feely sensation.
Music Television – ah, the videos are back
This is pretty exciting stuff. MTV has finally gotten back to videos. Okay..not on broadcast but via the web. Oh boy, Oh boy…the videos that I used to stay up all night to watch (my brother and I had to find out if MTV was truly on 24 hours a day as they claimed. They…