Posted in Education, Web 2.0, tagged ABC, audio, auditory, interviews, learning, podcast, podcasts, RSS on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
enough rope andrew denton
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Camilla Elliott provides many useful links for podcasting on her Linking for Learning site. I took up her recommendation to subscribe to the ABC’s EdPod RSS feed. Now the latest EdPod audio files are automatically sent to my iTunes every fortnight. Love the idea of getting stuff automatically. It’s [...]
Posted in General, tagged history, libraries, library, photos on June 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
the universal library Uffenbachiana 1729-1731
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After a brief hiatus, due predominantly to brain fag, having almost exhausted all things Web 2.0 (or is that, exhausted myself?) I decided to offer a morsel of general interest, to whit, a fascinating site detailing the early history of libraries. Have a look, too, at Survivor: History of the Library [...]
Posted in Remarkable, tagged autism, brain, disabilities, giftedness, learning, learning disabilities, mind, savant, stephen, youtube on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I like to be reminded that the mind is an amazing thing, that people are different in the way they see things, learn things, focus on things; that people can surprise you, amaze you.
Posted in Children's books, Web 2.0, tagged Amazon, books, bookshop, genre, online, searchengine, virtual on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
zoomii
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Two fun ways of looking at books are with Viewzi and Zoomii. Viewzi is a gorgeous visual search engine offering a variety of searching options. But more about that later… If you choose the Amazon Book search, you get a deliciously large image and synopsis of the book. Zoomii takes book searching one [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, humour, tagged history, humour, Web 2.0, youtube on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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When muttering profanities under my breath whilst trying to remember usernames and passwords for various Web 2.0 applications, I like to remind myself that, while many things have become complicated by technology of our times, there are some things that have been simplified – thankfully.
Posted in Children's books, tagged debate, fiction, label, review, YoungAdult on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New York books
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Read Alert has a fascinating debate about the place of the Young Adult label in fiction. To whet your appetite, here’s a section of what Frank Cottrell Boyce says:
‘It used to be the case that you moved on from children’s fiction to adult fiction, from The Owl Service, maybe, to Catcher [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, play, tagged cloud, Poe, raven, Web 2.0, wordle, words on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
wordle Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven
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Couldn’t help myself. This time I created my wordle using Edgar Allan Poe’s The raven.
Posted in Web 2.0, play, tagged cloud, Hitler, speech, text, visual, Web 2.0, wordle, words on June 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
wordle Hitler speech
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My first go at Wordle, the word cloud generator using text, has resulted in a rather strong example of the interesting possibilities with this application. Using Hitler’s speech delivered in Munich in April, 1923, the wordle has created a powerful, visual summary of the text, revealing points of emphasis.
It would [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, play, tagged blog, interactive, physics, sandbox, video, visual on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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For more information, see “Engaged Learning and Social Physics: PHUN, an Interactive 2D Physics Sandbox”
I found Phun at Lynn Marentette’s blog: Technology-supported human-world interaction
Posted in photos, play, tagged art, magazine, online, photography on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
marienplatz 360 panoramic
Originally uploaded by tsheko
I found an amazing link from the online art magazine Art Daily. If you click on the photos you’ll be able get a 360 degree panoramic view.
There’s more to check out on this site, for example, if you click on Graphic Gallery, you get a graphic calendar, creative numbers.
