Anyone can be a teacher: Udemy.com

This post is an excerpt from Udemy - Academy of You | Find and Create Online Courses - Teach and Learn Online.

Udemy is a website that enables anyone to create an online course. Our goal is to provide our teachers with everything they could possibly need to create a great learning experience over the internet. We've worked hard to build this site and we hope you like it. Everything is completely free, because we believe nobody should have to pay for Udemy unless they are making money themselves.

Open Source Video Editing in your own Cloud

This post is an excerpt from Education Technology Video | Kaltura: Open Source Video Platform.

In the face of the rich-media revolution, educational institutions are using video to power every aspect of campus life. The challenge is finding media infrastructure that is agile, scalable, and cost effective.

Kaltura offers the market's only open source video platform for education--a full-featured framework with live and on demand video apps for teaching and learning, distance education, campus websites, libraries and preservation, digital asset management, clubs and events, and more.

The platform is in use by over 100,000 global publishers, including leading universities and colleges, such as MIT, Cornell, Columbia, University of Southern California, Penn State, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania and more.

Wiffiti publishes cell txts to a graffiti wall

This post is an excerpt from Wiffiti.

Wiffiti publishes real time text messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges.

You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.

Learn more about wiffiti, watch our WIFFITI HOW-TO VIDEO or try making your own screen

Poll Everywhere - realtime feedback using txt from cells FREE

This post is an excerpt from Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere.

What is Poll Everywhere?
The fastest way to create stylish real-time experiences for events using mobile devices

Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.

Jetman: Flying without a plane

I couldn't believe it was real till I researched him and found it to be authentic.  Watch him fly out of a hot air balloon on Jetman.com.

Click here for more on Jetman.com.

Qwiki: Websearch Information Experience

This post is an excerpt from Qwiki.

Get Invited

Qwiki is launching soon. Want to be the first to have the information experience? Join our invite-only alpha, and help us make Qwiki great.

Qwiki at TechCrunch Disrupt from Qwiki on Vimeo.

Symantec Demonstrates how a virus can impact Nuclear reactors.

This post is an excerpt from Stuxnet Designed Specifically to Sabotage Iran's Nuclear Facilities.

Stuxnet Designed Specifically to Sabotage Iran's Nuclear Facilities
By Curt Hopkins / November 16, 2010 12:45 PM / 0 Comments
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Iranianflag.jpgStuxnet, the virus aimed at industrial computers, hit Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility in September. Given the virus attacked SCADA computer systems and Iran's first nuclear reactor recently went live, some specialists believed it may have been specifically aimed at Iran. New research bolsters the likelihood of this claim.

Music Editing: Aviary rocks out

This post is an excerpt from Welcome to Aviary.

Aviary is a free suite of powerful online creation tools

Photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more at Aviary.com

If you haven't yet mixed music on this audio editor, you really haven't lived.  Check out Myna, Aviary's AWESOME audio editor.

MakerLegoBot: Lego Mindstorms NXT 3D Lego Printer

I didn't find this, but it's certainly worth mentioning. It blows my mind.

What kind of a geek are you?

Check out this image.  Click here to see it's full size.

Wikimedia - Public Domain media

This post is an excerpt from Commons:Welcome - Wikimedia Commons.

What is Wikimedia Commons?

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on the project scope pages.

High Definition Textures and Backgrounds

Awesome Texture Resources

Mayang's Free Texture Library.
http://www.textureking.com/

http://www.cgtextures.com/

http://freestocktextures.com/

http://sxc.hu/

Morgue File Photography

This post is an excerpt from morgueFile free photos for creatives by creatives.

Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!

It's also easy to add your own photos to the morgueFile. So, give back because this archive is for creatives by creatives.

Poster Inspiration

This post is an excerpt from The Beauty Of Public Signage: Photo Contest Results - Smashing Magazine.

The Beauty Of Public Signage: Photo Contest Results

* By Vitaly Friedman
* September 16th, 2010
* Events, Inspiration
* 74 Comments
* Publishing Policy

In August we announced the World Of Signage Photo Contest, in which we encouraged designers, artists and photographers to go out with their cameras, shoot attractive typography and public signage and send us the results. The more obvious subjects we received were street signs, building facades, highway markers and road signs, as well as wayfinding graphics (i.e. directional signage) in public venues, subway signs, hotel and office signs and signs in shops, too.

Yearbook Layout Inspiration

This post is an excerpt from 7 Great Magazine Layouts to Inspire your Yearbook | The Yearbook Blog.

Think column design is boring? Here are 7 great magazine layouts that ALL use column design. And they are definitely not boring! (Thanks to BestDesignOptions.com for collecting these and posting them on their blog.)

Stock XChange Photogrpahy

This post is an excerpt from stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site.

Stock.XCHNG is under new management! Getty Images is proud to now wholly-own the world's best free stock site. SXC has a long history and a great community, and we're excited to grow with this unique site. We also have lots of expertise and experience to offer as industry leaders.

Great Design Website

This post is an excerpt from Graphic Design Blog, Tips and Jobs | You The Designer.

35 Awe-Inspiring Booklet Designs for Print Design Inspiration

Booklets are useful tools in conveying information and in advertising. Aside from being easy to carry, they are less likely to bore the reader since their content is shorter. These printed materials can be used mainly as manuals, guides, and flyers to give readers a brief but concise idea about a certain topic.

Typography Stylings - Awesome

This post is an excerpt from Expressive Web Typography: Useful Examples and Techniques - Smashing Magazine.

Expressive Web Typography: Useful Examples and Techniques

* By Fran Melo and Angie Bowen
* September 13th, 2010
* Design, Inspiration
* 47 Comments
* Publishing Policy

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Wherever we turn online, typography jumps out at us — sometimes literally, with the assistance of some clever coding. And now more than ever, we are seeing greater focus on this design element and its varied implementations around the Web. With the growing popularity of font embedding services and @font-face, typography is the talk of the town, but even though it is a regular topic among communities, not all of our typographic efforts are successful. Sometimes we swing for the fences, only to miss or fall short.

Obama Administration calls for increased mobile access in classrooms

This post is an excerpt from Cellphones in the Classroom: Distraction or Tool?.

Cellphones in the Classroom: Distraction or Tool?
By Audrey Watters / November 16, 2010 6:00 AM / 0 Comments
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The final version of the National Education Technology Plan (NETP) was released last week, setting forth the Obama Administration's plan for improving access to and integration of technologies for teaching and learning. Among the recommendations the Department of Education makes in the NETP is a call for support for "efforts to ensure that all students and educators have 24/7 access to the Internet via devices, including mobile devices, and that states, districts, and schools adopt technologies and policies to enable leveraging the technology that students already have."

The push for "24/7 access to the Internet" falls under another the auspices of yet another endeavor, the National Broadband Plan. But the call for better access to Internet-ready devices, particularly utilizing tools the students already possess is an interesting one. Because the device that is ubiquitous for American students isn't the desktop computer or the notebook or the netbook or the iPad. It's the cellphone.

RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time

Prezi-Meeting (Collaborate in real-time)

Step-by-step Tutorial on Prezi Meeting, Collaborate in real-time.

My new favourite Presentation Tool

Build a Website in 2 Minutes.  Awesome.

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Facebook Email Coming Monday with Office Web Apps Integration

Facebook is having another one of its all-hands-on-deck press events next Monday and the speculation this time around, a la the telegram-esque design of the invite, is that the company will unveil its "Gmail killer".

The offering, dubbed "Project Titan", would potentially offer @facebook.com email addresses with POP access, not to mention integration with Microsoft's Office Web Apps.

Robots are now Journalists

Coming to You Live from the Courtside...Robot Reporting!

As if the journalism field weren't crowded enough, robot reporters have hit the market with sports statistics company StatSheet's automated sports reporting effort.

Beginning today, nearly 350 Division 1 college basketball teams will receive constant, in-depth coverage of their season in what the company is calling "the world's first network of websites driven entirely by high-quality, automated content".

A day on the Internet, the numbers

Star Wars Acapella

This makes my kids laught.

Academic Excellence in 140 Characters

Facebook Worth $41 Billion (Report)

Facebook Worth $41 Billion (Report): "Facebook Worth $41 Billion (Report)
By Sarah Perez / November 15, 2010 6:44 AM / 1 Comments
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Facebook is now the third largest U.S. Internet business, behind Amazon and Google, according to a new Bloomberg report released this morning. Based on trading on secondary markets - Facebook is not yet a public company - the site's stock is now at $16, which would put its valuation at $41 billion. That's more than eBay ($39.3 billion), but less than Amazon's $74.4 billion and Google's $192.9 billion.

Of course, none of this really matters until Facebook goes public."

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

This kind of talk reminds me of a favourite blog of mine called dangerously irrelevant. We need more people like this to step up and challenge the thinking of the day.