- Matt is showing my profile to a room full of strangers.
James Dyson on Engineering and Design
One of his most important principles? The CEO of the company shouldn’t be able to easily break the products. Watch this hilarious/stunning/crazy video and ask yourself: Would the average CE manufacturer beat up his or her product like this on camera?
Yellowstone Art Museum - Education - Digital Kids
links to interactive art websites
CommunityWalk - make your own map, build interactive maps, create a map with photos, videos, more
# Create personal, community, and professional maps
# Show the map on a website or blog
# Add photos, videos, comments, more
Saturday, June 28, 2008
diigo bookmarks (weekly)
Saturday, June 21, 2008
diigo bookmarks (weekly)
Interesting graphic; came across this on a blog suggesting the format as an alternative form of essay.
Comedy sketch highlighting the public nature of "private" profiles.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Wordle and Delicious
I hadn't noticed this the first time around, but Wordle will also generate a tag cloud from a user's Delicious tags.
With my job change, professional development has become a major tag for me in the last year. I wonder what my cloud would have looked like a year ago.
With my job change, professional development has become a major tag for me in the last year. I wonder what my cloud would have looked like a year ago.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Wordle as instructional tool
Caught wind of Wordle this weekend thanks to Christian at think:lab. Wordle takes a text and produces a tag cloud based on word frequency. For an example, Christian plugs in Macbeth and then goes on to wonder about the results of doing the same thing to student papers.
Next fall I will be helping with the social studies curriculum review, so my thoughts have drifted toward making a tool like this appealing to the history and government teachers.
One of the big pushes in the district is the use of primary source documents, so the Constitution and Bill of Rights seem like naturals.
This visual treatment of historic documents can certainly lead to some interesting conversations. Notice how, in the Bill of Rights, the words "law" and "people" appear to be of equal size.
What does this mean in the document? in life? How do these documents compare with others, say the Declaration of Independence?
Dawns on me that it would be intriguing to run my students' own essay through a Wordle cloud tag blender to show them in real terms which words bullrushed the reader's mindspace:I love it!
* Would words like "like" run roughshod over the rest in visual cacophony of rad-ness?
* Or would it be an obnoxious -- and seldom grasped -- litany of hey, look at my SAT word explosion choices instead?
Next fall I will be helping with the social studies curriculum review, so my thoughts have drifted toward making a tool like this appealing to the history and government teachers.
One of the big pushes in the district is the use of primary source documents, so the Constitution and Bill of Rights seem like naturals.
This visual treatment of historic documents can certainly lead to some interesting conversations. Notice how, in the Bill of Rights, the words "law" and "people" appear to be of equal size.
What does this mean in the document? in life? How do these documents compare with others, say the Declaration of Independence?
Saturday, June 14, 2008
diigo bookmarks (weekly)
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
think:lab: Mapping Literary Highlights, Highlighting Literary Maps
Share More! Wiki » Work/Convert FLV to MOV using VLC Media Player?
Instructions for converting .flv movies to other formats (.mp4, .mov) using VLC media player.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
diigo bookmarks 06/10/2008
Share More! Wiki » Work/Convert FLV to MOV using VLC Media Player?
Instructions for converting .flv movies to other formats (.mp4, .mov) using VLC media player.
Friday, June 06, 2008
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