GAWKER: free time-lapse software!

Download Gawker for Mac here and make your own fabulous time-lapse like these ones of (1) my Diwali program, (2) my family, and (3) me drawing.

NOTE:  I can't make anything embed, so until I get that sorted out, I'll just have links.

TED Talks

If you haven't come across them yet, TED talks are a fascinating series of online lectures/talks that originate from conferences held periodically and at varying sites (though primarily Long Beach and Palm Springs). They're often fascinating, and in that way where you know they've hit the big time are often reposted on Facebook. HEre's the link:

http://www.ted.com/

And one of my all-time favorites of course has an education slant:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html

Enjoy.

Lynda.com

If you haven't seen the list of Lynda tutorials available to the SAIC community, you should check it out!  The list is 32 pages long!

Post about museum dialog from Museum 2.0

This post from Museum 2.0 is an interesting report on one museum's attempt to promote authentic dialog.  It makes me wonder if there is a high-tech equivalent for such a program.  Do we need the physical object to create the same sense of connection?

Hang on-- I ♡ HELVETICA

And did you know there was a "web font space"? I did not.

Fonts.com Web Fonts joins a growing list of web font services, including Typekit, Fontdeck and Google’s (Google) new Font Directory. Fonts.com Web Fonts is similar to some of these existing solutions, but it has some additional features and supports a few other platforms that make it a unique offering in the web font space.

Not just Prezi-- Prezi MEETING!

Since we all are loving Prezi, check out this article on it's collaborative potential.

Apps as Tour Guides Through New York Museums, Step by Step

From the New York Times

Most institutions have not yet created a mobile app, but as a group, museums are headed in that direction. In the last few months, free apps were released by the Museum of Modern Art and the American Museum of Natural History, in New York; the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (which also has an Android app). 

The Getty asks big-name contemporary artists to write curricula

While fun— and a wonderful statement about the importance of the work of teaching and learning to have such *famous* artists working on this project— to me, these lessons are lacking something.  Perhaps I’m missing the intellectual rigor I have come to expect from these individuals. Perhaps these lessons reveal something about the artists’ own histories of education. For example, take Kerry James Marshall. With all the social issues he engages up front in his work, his lesson is a pedestrian one about the mechanics of drawing.

The Getty also doesn’t showcase any teacher-generated content which looks to be a field-wide problem.

Take a look & see what you think.

New York Times Article on Digital Downtime

I think this is an interesting article on tech fatigue-- and that it might impact learning.