Useful sites (weekly)

  by  dianecordell  Free Pictures – Wylio.com A useful site for finding creative commons images to use on a website. It searches flickr & other open photos. You can then resize online and then after it creates the custom code, you cut and paste code into a blog. The image goes onto your site with the proper attribution.   [...]

Shaun Tan wins the 2011 ALMA

More exciting news for the Australian book world and especially Shaun Tan. He has been announced as the winner of this year’s ALMA.  The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is the world’s largest prize for children’s and young adult literature. The award, which amounts to SEK 5 million, is awarded annually to a single recipient or to several. [...]

Wylio: another way to get free embeddable images

There are quite a lot of ways to search for images on the internet. I am always on the lookout for something that makes it as easy as possible for me and/or my students to obtain good CC images to illustrate my sites (wikis, blogs, etc). I have been using ImageCodr to find CC images for [...]

Are you typical?

I really liked this video produced by  National Geographic. The facts listed, the images and the soundtrack chosen make this a very slick and well-made video that would be great for a discussion starter. National Geographic magazine continues a year long series examining the specific challenges and solutions we face as the worldwide population reaches 7 billion people in 2011 with [...]

Useful sites (weekly)

Amazon revokes Lendle’s API access (Update: We’re back!) – Lendle: Kindle™ Book Sharing Shape Collage Features Shape Collage would be useful when creating presentations. It gives you the power to make really quick collections of related photographs, set out in shapes that fit in to your display. It is free, but you need to upgrade to [...]