open thinking

I find that one of the most useful features of Twitter is the resource sharing. With a well-established network of educators, it seems easy to solicit responses from educators who are willing to share favourite resources on various topics. Today, one of my undergraduate students Krystal (@tealek) inquired about digital story telling resources. I [...]

The University of Nottingham has created the Periodic Table of Videos, a terrific resource that features a video describing each element of the Periodic Table.
This is a fantastic idea, and while I have not clicked on every element, the ones I have seen are very well done. Check it out here..
Below, you will find a [...]

I’m putting together a couple of wikis for upcoming presentations. They’re related:
Media Representation: At this point, includes resources (articles, videos, other links) that help in understanding media representation and race, gender, ethnicity, culture, sexual, preference, etc.

Media Literacy/Awareness: A wiki focused on two major themes, media literacy and web awareness.
Both of these wikis are just beginning. [...]

I’ve been playing around with a couple of online photo editing tools. I’ve discovered Picnik and Phixr and these are both neat tools. Today TechCrunch covered FotoFlexer, another online photo-editing tool. FotoFlexer has recently integrated the much-hyped “seam carving” technology. Their implementation is called “smart resize”. Here’s a demo.

I like what FotoFlexer is capable of, [...]

I’m sure that the majority of my readers know about this, but I am quite sure there are many than don’t.
This is a conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs [...]