Unbelievable: My New Favourite Presentation Tool

This post is an excerpt from jQuery WYSIWYG site editor, no more code, just stick it!.

- Now, no job is too hard, design just as you do in photoshop!
- Go from mockups to live site in minutes!
- Rackspace CDN Integration - No need for FTP!
- Extreme flexibility allows you to create any type of websites!
- Automatically creates cross-browser compatible codes!

Free Icon Sets

School of One

Understanding Cavities

This is an awesome video.

Cavities from Here's Another Way of Looking At on Vimeo.

WOW: Using Xbox Kinect

This post is an excerpt from Kinect Hacked to Play Full-Body World of Warcraft.

Can you imagine some of the technology world's best game play being combined with the immersive experience of a motion-controlled full-body interface? Nathan Olivarez-Giles posted the video above, from Christmas day, on the LA Times tech blog today, showing USC researchers playing the wildly popular game World of Warcraft with their bodies, using a hacked Microsoft Kinect interface and their own software. That software, called the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST), is freely available for anyone to download and train.

Texting for answers: Cha Cha

This post is an excerpt from About | ChaCha.

ChaCha is like having a smart friend you can call or text for answers on your cell phone anytime for free! ChaCha works with virtually every provider and allows people with any mobile phone device - from basic flip phones to advanced smart phones - to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes.

Yahoo makes APIs simple: YQL

This post is an excerpt from YQL: Using Web Content For Non-Programmers - Smashing Magazine.

Building a beautiful design is a great experience. Seeing the design break apart when people start putting in real content, though, is painful. That’s why testing it as soon as possible with real information to see how it fares is so important. To this end, Web services provide us with a lot of information with which to fill our products. In recent years, this has been a specialist’s job, but the sheer amount of information available and the number of systems to consume it makes it easier and easier to use Web services, even for people with not much development experience.

Christmas 2010: Zellers goes down

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Description: An unhandled exception occurred during
the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace
for more information about the error and where it originated in the
code.

Video 101: Vimeo gives Tutorials

This post is an excerpt from Video 101 on Vimeo Video School.

Are you curious about how to make videos but can't tell a camcorder from a coffee maker? Do the terms 'pan' and 'tilt' conjour up thoughts of tv cooking shows instead of movie making terminology? Or maybe you're tired of always being the audience member and want to start making videos yourself? Well look no further, Video 101 is here! Join the friendly Vimeo Staff as we cover all the basics of shooting and editing videos you can be proud of. We've handcrafted these lessons for beginners of all backgrounds, check it out!

Google Body Browser

The Future Home: Greening it up

This post is an excerpt from Living Rooms - A Home for the Future - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com.

A Home for the Future
Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus, a solar-powered home that won the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe, provides a glimpse into future living. Take a tour through the home and listen to Joe Wheeler, one of three primary faculty members who worked on the project with more than 200 students, explain the home’s features and how it may change the way we live and use energy.

Science, Math & Football

This post is an excerpt from Welcome to NBC Learn- Science of the NFL.

NBC Learn produces original educational video for the classroom and beyond.

See all of our original videos in NBC News Archives on Demand

Free Fonts

This post is an excerpt from 25 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine.

Every now and then we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to.

Skype in the classroom

This post is an excerpt from Skype Education.

Skype in the classroom (beta)

A free directory that connects teachers and helps them
use Skype to enrich students' educational experience.

Data: Making it relevent

This post is an excerpt from New Visualization Tool from Google With Data From 5.2 Million Digitized Books.

Take the word "farking" that I used above. Usage of the word has risen and fallen over the years, skyrocketing not surprisingly once it became the curse-du-jour in the reprised Battlestar Galactica series. If that's too pedestrian, compare the changing usage for spaceship, spacecraft, rocket, and UFO. Or the frequency of communism, anarchism, socialism, and capitalism over the course of the twentieth century. Or the decline of man.

This is a Computer.

This post is an excerpt from This is a Computer.

Everyone knows what a computer is. It's. Well. You. Come on. Let's see. OK. An iPad. That's a computer. And. So, there's laptops. You get the idea. Electricity! That's it. Definitely. And plastic.

But before electricity and before plastic humans still had the drive to create devices to help them think, to do some of the heavy lifting. It's a very old impulse. So we rummaged around a bit and found a few of the tools without whose development, your most sophisticated tool for thinking would be your own fingers.

Top 10 Cloud Applications of 2010

This post is an excerpt from Top 10 Cloud Computing Services for 2010 - ReadWriteCloud.

We chose our top 10 services based upon what trends bubbled in 2010 and the companies and organizations that responded or even set the tone for the overall market.

We looked at the entire landscape but with a particular focus on platforms.

Platforms provide infrastructure and serve as developer ecosystems. Platforms are where apps are created and served.

Ascent - Commemorating Shuttle

Fonts: Choosing the right one

This post is an excerpt from “What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces - Smashing Magazine.

For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. Selecting the right typeface is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years of experience to develop a feeling for. Here are five guidelines for picking and using fonts that I’ve developed in the course of using and teaching typography.

Superbook for Educators: Getting started with Technology

What do you make of this?

This post is an excerpt from Brief.

Less than an hour ago, the Twitter account weeted its intention to take down Amazon.com with its LOIC application, the software designed to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, as directed by the group of hackers known only as "Anonymous." The group's "Operation Payback" campaign has already hit websites like MasterCard and Visa in recent days, successfully taking the sites offline for hours.

Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - ...

Flash Animation: Wow

Meet Buck from TeamCerf on Vimeo.

Creative Designing: A quick Vid of Fingers

Miro 3.5: Video Converter

This post is an excerpt from Free Technology for Teachers: Miro Video Converter & Miro 3.5.

Miro, the open source video player, recently released version 3.5 and the new Miro Video Converter. Miro 3.5 includes a media converter that allows you to convert videos into the best formats for display on iPhones and Android devices. Miro 3.5 also updated subtitle display to give you options for the best display for you. If you don't want to download Miro 3.5 you can choose to download just the Miro Video Converter to convert files to formats for iPhone and Android display.

Google's Earth Engine

This post is an excerpt from Free Technology for Teachers: Google Earth Engine - Satellite Imagery Database.

Today, Google launched the Google Earth Engine in Labs. (Labs is where Google releases experimental features). According to Google the purpose of the Earth Engine is to provide an online environment monitoring platform in the form of a dynamic digital model of the planet. In practice this means that the Google Earth Engine provides access to satellite data that can be used for creating visual displays of information related to environmental science. Learn more about the Earth Engine in the video below.

Google Sponsors Science Fair

This post is an excerpt from Free Technology for Teachers: The Google Science Fair is Coming Soon.

The focus of the Google Science Fair is on STEM projects. The Google Science Fair will be open to 13-18 year old students. Students can enter individually or in small teams. The focus of the Google Science Fair is on STEM projects. Google's partners in this project include National Geographic, CERN, NASA, Scientific American, and LEGO. Teachers can register now to receive free resource kits, bookmarks, stickers, posters, and notification when registration for the Google Science Fair opens.

Google: Talk to your computer

This post is an excerpt from Google Wants Talking Computers, Acquires Phonetic Arts.

Google Wants Talking Computers, Acquires Phonetic Arts
By Mike Melanson / December 3, 2010 10:34 AM / 2 Comments
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Google announced this morning that it has acquired U.K.-based speech synthesis company Phonetic Labs in an effort to "move a little faster towards that Star Trek future" where computers don't only listen, but they talk back, too.

A Creative Commons Image Search Engine

This post is an excerpt from Wylio.com - free pictures.

Free Creative Commons pictures the Wylio way:

1. Search for a picture
2. Resize and position it
3. Copy and paste the code

Wylio automatically sizes the image, hosts the image, and builds the photo credit into the code. Need more details?

Flikr Hack for 3D Modelling - Wow.

This post is an excerpt from Flickr Hack Makes 3D Model of Any City in a Day.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a method for creating 3D models of pretty much anything in pretty much no time.

Using a sexy algorithm and the millions of photographs available from Flickr, the team can create a sophisticated three-dimensional model on a single personal computer in under a day.

Make your own Jeopardy - No Reg Required

This post is an excerpt from JeopardyLabs - Online Jeopardy Template.

JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running.

Kinect + Computer Vision + Javascript

This post is an excerpt from DepthJS on Vimeo.

DepthJS is a web browser extension that allows any any web page to interact with the Microsoft Kinect via Javascript.

Navigating the web is only one application of the framework we built - that is, we envision all sorts of applications that run in the browser, from games to specific utilities for specific sites. The great part is that now web developers who specialize in Javascript can work with the Kinect without having to learn any special languages or code. We believe this will allow a new set of interactions beyond what we first developed.

DepthJS from Fluid Interfaces on Vimeo.

Make your design presentation a FABULOUS video

This post is an excerpt from Animoto - The End of Slideshows.

Are you applying to an Arts school?  Turn your photos & videos into pure amazing.

Animoto automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique
video pieces from your photos, video clips and music. Fast, free and shockingly easy.

Capturing the Atomic Bomb on Film

This post is an excerpt from Capturing the Atom Bomb on Film - Audio & Photos - NYTimes.com.

As a history teacher I used to tell my students that "Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it".  Let these images be a lesson to us all.

Google Funds Innovation

This post is an excerpt from Project 10 to the 100.

Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted over 150,000 ideas. From that group, we narrowed it to the final 16 ideas for public vote.

The following five ideas received the most votes and are the winners of Project 10100. Over the past 12 months, we have reviewed concrete proposals to tackle these ideas. We are pleased to give a total of $10 million to five inspiring organizations working on solutions to each of these global challenges.

Khan Academy: Online Lessons for Every Student

This post is an excerpt from Khan Academy.

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.(online SAT test prep as well)

Steps to better web research

This post is an excerpt from Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Steps to Better Web Research.

Last fall I published Beyond Google which examines fifteen tools and strategies for getting students to look beyond the first two pages of Google search results. This morning I found through Kevin Jarrett a great presentation that complements my ebook. Teaching the Ten Steps to Better Web Research is a Slideshare presentation created by Mark Moran and Shannon Firth at Dulcinea Media. Dulcinea Media is the producer of Sweet Search a search engine for students.

Teaching the Ten Steps to Better Web Research

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.