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Make or Design Your Own Custom Signs, Banners, and Posters Online | MakeSigns.com
Make or Design Your Own Custom Signs, Banners, and Posters Online | MakeSigns.com
Here you can design your own custom posters, banners and signs online. We have hundreds of sign templates you can choose from to make custom signs online. Our helpful tips will show you how to make a sign. We’re the leaders in sign design online. You can customize our sign templates with your text, fonts and colors. You can even upload your own file. From paper signs to vinyl banners, we’re the sign printing experts. Getting started is easy
#design#graphics#sign
·makesigns.com·
Make or Design Your Own Custom Signs, Banners, and Posters Online | MakeSigns.com
Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists | Video on TED.com
Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists | Video on TED.com
How do you stage an international art show with work from 100 different artists? If you're Shea Hembrey, you invent all of the artists and artwork yourself -- from large-scale outdoor installations to tiny paintings drawn with a single-haired brush. Watch this funny, mind-bending talk to see the explosion of creativity and diversity of skills a single artist is capable of.
#art#video#creativity#ds106#inspiration
·ted.com·
Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists | Video on TED.com
How We Made The Mechanical MOOC - Freerange Learning With a Mechanical Guide
How We Made The Mechanical MOOC - Freerange Learning With a Mechanical Guide
At P2PU, we’d been talking to our collaborators at MIT OpenCourseWare and had been struggling with the problem of how to move learners in a cohort through the exciting new world of the MOOC. “I’d read a blog about using RSS feeds, as a kind of time-release capsule for OER material, which would send learners a reminder, and thought it was a really interesting idea, but I knew that RSS was a bit too esoteric for many students, and it didn’t solve the cohort problem,” says Steve Carson, Head of External Relations at MIT OpenCourseWare. The solution, we soon realised, would look a little bit like a mailing list sign-up, without a platform per se, which would allow organisers to loop in the various component parts and run what is essentially a headless MOOC; no instructor was placed at the centre, and after a certain number of signups was reached, the MOOC itself would trigger messages to everyone in the group.
#mooc#onlinelearning#cohort
·reports.p2pu.org·
How We Made The Mechanical MOOC - Freerange Learning With a Mechanical Guide
The power of film | TED Playlists | TED
The power of film | TED Playlists | TED
Few things are as magical as sitting back in a theater with a hushed crowd to enjoy a film, but what you see on the screen isn't everything. Hear from visionaries -- from Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood -- on how to make movies.
#film#video#ds106
·ted.com·
The power of film | TED Playlists | TED
A Wonderful Visual Outlining The 7 Steps of Good Storytelling ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
A Wonderful Visual Outlining The 7 Steps of Good Storytelling ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
Today's post is one example of this collaborative co-construction of the content of this blog. I was sent this wonderful graphic from one of my readers and I found it very relevant to what we have been talking about in the digital storytelling section here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. The infographic below has been designed by CMA and features the 7 steps to the perfect story. Check it out and share with us what you think of it. Enjoy
#ds106#storytelling#digitalstorytelling
·educatorstechnology.com·
A Wonderful Visual Outlining The 7 Steps of Good Storytelling ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
How I Almost Blew My Big Chance by Forgetting Everything I Know About Innovation - The Discipline of Innovation
How I Almost Blew My Big Chance by Forgetting Everything I Know About Innovation - The Discipline of Innovation
Back in May, Nilofer Merchant connected me up with her editor Sarah at Harvard Business Review Blogs, suggesting to her that I’d be a good addition to the stable there.  After a couple of discussions, Sarah and I agreed that it would be good to work together.  We discussed a couple of ideas for posts, and then it was over to me to start writing. And then, I. Completely. Froze. Up. So that wasn’t so good. I’d run straight into The Resistance.  Or the lizard brain. Make something, see what works, then iterate until it gets good. That’s what I teach all the time, and that’s what I had to do here. So, finally, I did. I wrote one crappy post and sent it off. And then, once I had done that, I had two really good ideas in short succession, and wrote those up over the weekend and sent those off too.
#inspiration#creativity#ds106#innovation
·timkastelle.org·
How I Almost Blew My Big Chance by Forgetting Everything I Know About Innovation - The Discipline of Innovation
How to Easily Create Glitch Art | Front Row Society
How to Easily Create Glitch Art | Front Row Society
Are you a sucker for high saturation, wild color combinations, neon, heavily rendered inorganic imagery? Then our Digital Glitch design challenge is for you! But that’s not all – for the first time ever, this competition is open to placement prints- which means your design doesn’t have to be a repetitive pattern! Ok, now that you are up to speed with the basics, get ready to find an image you love and destroy it! In this month’s tutorial, we’re going to convert common images into abstract, colorful patterns without using any design software. We’re simply going to corrupt the files by altering their code and giving them a twist. Now don’t be scared – you don’t need to be a tech expert! All you need is a computer, an image to glitch and a plain-text program such as TextEdit (Mac) or WordPad (Windows). So why don’t you all have a go at it?
#ds106#visual#glitch#netnarr
·frontrowsociety.com·
How to Easily Create Glitch Art | Front Row Society
The Historian's Macroscope: Big Digital History
The Historian's Macroscope: Big Digital History
Welcome to Big Digital History: Exploring Big Data through a Historian’s Macroscope, a co-written manuscript by Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, and Scott Weingart. Over the next few months, and into April 2014, we’re going to be writing this book in public. The book will be published by Imperial College Press, a forward-thinking publisher of scientific texts and monographs, which has allowed us to write using the CommentPress platform. If you click on the ‘blog’ button above (the pushpin icon), you’ll find us posting about the process of writing itself.
#writing#open#opencontent
·themacroscope.org·
The Historian's Macroscope: Big Digital History
WordPress › Options Framework « WordPress Plugins
WordPress › Options Framework « WordPress Plugins
The Options Framework Plugin makes it easy to include an options panel in any WordPress theme. It was built so developers can concentrate on making the actual theme rather than spending time creating an options panel from scratch. It's free to use in both commercial and personal projects, just like WordPress itself.
#framework#plugin#wordpress
·wordpress.org·
WordPress › Options Framework « WordPress Plugins
GenerateWP
GenerateWP
The easiest and the fastest way to create custom and high quality code for your WordPress project using the latest WordPress coding standards and API's.
#wordpress#generator#tools#code#webdev
·generatewp.com·
GenerateWP
Dog Songs: Mary Oliver on What Dogs Teach Us About the Meaning of Our Human Lives | Brain Pickings
Dog Songs: Mary Oliver on What Dogs Teach Us About the Meaning of Our Human Lives | Brain Pickings
Mary Oliver is not only one of the sagest and most beloved poets of our time, a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, but is also among literary history’s greatest pet-lovers. Dog Songs (public library) collects her most soul-stirring poems and short prose celebrating that special human-canine relationship and what it reveals about the meaning of our own lives — a beautiful manifestation of Oliver’s singular sieve for extracting from the particularities of the poetic subject the philosophical universalities of the human condition to illuminate what it means to live a good life, a full life, a life of purpose and presence.
#dogs#dog
·brainpickings.org·
Dog Songs: Mary Oliver on What Dogs Teach Us About the Meaning of Our Human Lives | Brain Pickings
What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today | Brain Pickings
What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today | Brain Pickings
After the recent omnibus of definitions of science by some of history’s greatest minds and definitions of philosophy by some of today’s most prominent philosophers, why not turn to an arguably even more nebulous domain of humanity? Gathered here are some of my favorite definitions of art, from antiquity to today.
#ds106#art
·brainpickings.org·
What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today | Brain Pickings
Extended WordPress Settings API Tutorial, Part 1 | Aliso the Geek
Extended WordPress Settings API Tutorial, Part 1 | Aliso the Geek
The WordPress Settings API has been around for a little while, but I haven’t used it until now. I highly recommend it. It does a lot of work for you and is still flexible enough to create custom-styled options pages (with a little jQuery).
#api#wordpress
·alisothegeek.com·
Extended WordPress Settings API Tutorial, Part 1 | Aliso the Geek
The Different Ways Men And Women Talk On Facebook | Popular Science
The Different Ways Men And Women Talk On Facebook | Popular Science
Ugh, how stereotypical can we be? In a study of the different words used by various demographics of Facebook users in their status updates, women talked most about shopping and their hair, while men posted about sports, video games and war.  This is according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center, who analyzed 700 million words, phrases and topics pulled from the Facebook status updates of 75,000 volunteers. They looked for which words distinguished men from women, old from young, extraverts from introverts.
#visualization#socialmedia
·popsci.com·
The Different Ways Men And Women Talk On Facebook | Popular Science
Local Audio Recorder: Demo
Local Audio Recorder: Demo
This is a basic demonstration of using a JavaScript callback to perform client-side processing on recorded audio. Once you record an audio clip and "upload" it, an HTML5 audio tag will be added below the recorder to allow you to play it back. If your browser supports the download attribute on links, the link below the player will trigger a download - otherwise, it'll simply link to the audio file.
#ds106#audio#recorder#web#code
·pauln.github.io·
Local Audio Recorder: Demo
Metropho.rs
Metropho.rs
Geolocates twitter references where one geographic location is stated as a metaphor for another
·metropho.rs·
Metropho.rs
Looking at Our Hometowns - NYTimes.com
Looking at Our Hometowns - NYTimes.com
What would happen if you asked high school students to help create a 21st-century portrait of the country by turning their cameras on their neighborhoods, families, friends and schools? You would have “My Hometown” — a vibrant document of 4,289 images submitted by teenagers in school- or community-based photography programs across the United States, including rural villages and urban neighborhoods, wealthy suburbs and blue-collar Rust Belt towns. While participants only photographed their own communities, together, the images create an important and lasting document of America today as seen by teenagers. They are published today in an interactive feature that opens with a selection of 145 photographs and is also searchable by state and by photographer. Many of the images will be archived at the Library of Congress in the Prints and Photographs Division. The project was inspired by our belief in the power of photography as an educational tool, and by a desire to help young people co
#visual#ds106#thruthelens#photography
·lens.blogs.nytimes.com·
Looking at Our Hometowns - NYTimes.com
UTF-8: The Secret of Character Encoding - HTML Purifier
UTF-8: The Secret of Character Encoding - HTML Purifier
Character encoding and character sets are not that difficult to understand, but so many people blithely stumble through the worlds of programming without knowing what to actually do about it, or say "Ah, it's a job for those internationalization experts." No, it is not! This document will walk you through determining the encoding of your system and how you should handle this information. It will stay away from excessive discussion on the internals of character encoding. This document is not designed to be read in its entirety: it will slowly introduce concepts that build on each other: you need not get to the bottom to have learned something new. However, I strongly recommend you read all the way to Why UTF-8?, because at least at that point you'd have made a conscious decision not to migrate, which can be a rewarding (but difficult) task.
#webdesign
·htmlpurifier.org·
UTF-8: The Secret of Character Encoding - HTML Purifier
Tutorial: Use the Flickr API, JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX and JSON to build a detailed photo wall
Tutorial: Use the Flickr API, JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX and JSON to build a detailed photo wall
In this tutorial, I’ll show you, line by line, how to build a photo wall by pulling your pictures from Flickr using the Flickr API, jQuery, Ajax and JSON. The script I wrote places the following information over the image to which it relates: title, author, comment count, tag listing, location with a link to a map of those coordinates and the description.
#flickr#json#api
·kylerush.net·
Tutorial: Use the Flickr API, JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX and JSON to build a detailed photo wall
WhatsApp Messenger
WhatsApp Messenger
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends. In addition to basic messaging WhatsApp users can create groups, send each other unlimited images, video and audio media messages.
#app#communication#mobile
·whatsapp.com·
WhatsApp Messenger
Mastering Photo
Mastering Photo
MasteringPhoto is powered by Focal Press – our authors, photography industry colleagues, and our editorial and marketing team who live and breathe photography every day. Like you, we are photographers – either by profession or hobby. We believe creativity has an endless shelf life, and we are passionate about providing the best resources for you to reach your creative vision.
#ds106#visual#thruthelens#photography
·masteringphoto.com·
Mastering Photo
Archiving Digital Audio
Archiving Digital Audio
I’m not much for editing audio. Those that know me and my workflow will see that for the last few years I have mainly used the classic Audioboo app. Recording straight into my phone with a standard mic windshield over one end. I subscribe to my own Audioboo podcast feed in iTunes to grab the mp3 to my hard drive and also use IFTTT to auto copy the mp3 from my feed into dropbox. This ensures my audio is in three different places. Four if you include my time machine backup. Occasionally though I will record using a solid state recorder. Especially if I am off the beaten track, outside areas with a GSM signal, needing longer recording times, looking for high quality stereo audio or just compiling long form audio for a later release. In those instances I can end up with numerous audio files in need of archival and storage. Here is a brief guide as to how I do it:
#ds106#audio
·documentally.com·
Archiving Digital Audio
Hauntologists mine the past for music's future - Boing Boing
Hauntologists mine the past for music's future - Boing Boing
You may argue that pop culture has always drawn heavily on nostalgia, and you’d be right, but things have changed. What was once a dim memory, a wobbly VHS tape, a slice of warped vinyl, or a bootleg DVD or CD trading hands amongst enthusiasts has become a towering digital midden so huge that it threatens to impede our view of the future. The growth of online media channels means that the near-entirety of our cultures’ pasts have been excavated and placed on display for anyone to watch, hear, or read in an instant. Hence, hauntology.
#music#ds106#remix#mashup
·boingboing.net·
Hauntologists mine the past for music's future - Boing Boing
Vialogues : Meaningful discussions around video
Vialogues : Meaningful discussions around video
Vialogues (which derives from “video dialogues”) is an award-winning discussion platform that proves that videos are both powerful teaching resources and the ultimate conversation starters. Vialogues provides a space for users to hold meaningful and dynamic time-stamped discussions about videos.
#ds106#discussion#video
·vialogues.com·
Vialogues : Meaningful discussions around video