Science fiction – a history through Penguin covers

Another great pick-up from Articulate. My feed from the  this blog informed me about the Penguin UK post  -  a wonderful gallery of science fiction book covers.

There is a thematic contents table and an index that allows to easily find titles you maybe looking for. The index also enables you to look up something like Penguin Celebrations: Penguin Classics, Penguin Crime, Penguin Film Classics, Penguin Modern [...]

Stephen Heppell: Be very afraid

In a recent email, from one of my Diigo groups, I saw the follwing site bookmarked: Be Very Afraid. 
On the BVA (Be Very Afraid) site “Prof. Stephen Heppell and his team  bring together some of the best examples of Digital Creativity from schools, colleges and Higher Education in the South East (UK).”
You will see that along the [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits This is a good site for anyone wanting to take fantastic portraits. It encourages some thinking outside the box and forgeting many of the conventions earned. Sometimes the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules. 

TinEye Reverse Image Search Currently in Beta format, you can use the TinEye Search [...]

Customer service – needing some work

This video, of a Seth Godin presentation, was made in 2006. There have been times recently that some of my friends have had difficulties with corporations and their services, especially in the telecommunications areas. The problems seem to be totally unnecessary and the corporate representatives seem totally inflexible. We, at my school, have had some amazing [...]

Thinking about twitter

From Jenny Luca, I had a play with the Twitter mosaic tool (just for fun). It is fascinating to  visual image of who is following you.
Get your twitter mosaic here.
 
I have been thinking about tools for use by students and of course there was all that attention given to the Twitter race between CNN and [...]

Shaun Tan on “Illustration and visual narrative”

Shaun Tan is one of my favourite illustrators/authors.
The old adage, ”a picture is worth a thousand words” is particularly true in his case.
I have been lucky enough to listen to him discuss some of his newly published books and he always very eloquently describes his journey with his story.
Shaun has become more widely recognised as he received numerous [...]

Learning and technology in schools

Many schools are still banning tools and limiting options by heavy filtering. Once a decision is made, how do you get it changed?
Today I was part of a technology committee discussion about the role of the committee, how it fits into the structure of the school and how it should proceed in the future.  There was discussion about the [...]

Teaching is not Rocket Science

Teaching is not Rocket Science, originally uploaded by shareski.

Back to school – Some fun with images

School is back and after a curriculum day yesterday we are right back into the classroom work today.
I have been looking at some new image tools. I have found a few simple little tools that allow you (or your students) to find or have a bit of fun with.

1. Stretch your face is a site that [...]

Useful Links (weekly)

Twitter Blog News from the Twitter microblogging platform including service updates, developments, applications, plus handy tricks and tips to help you get more out of Twitter. 

http://www.kyliedunstan.com.au Homepage of Australian illustrator

Ideas to Inspire – Ideas for Inspiring Writing in the classroom ’Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging [...]