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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]