“Publishing different: What the tablet brings to the table” – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
"Publishers need to expand their ideas about how readers interact with a book. A lot of readers tend to make notes in the margins, highlight text, or dog-ear pages as they're reading. Instead of traditional tools, readers will be using electronic equivalents. But what will the electronic equivalents be?"'
Via- TUAW
Entire Cities Recreated with Flickr Images
This is very cool!
Entire Cities Recreated Using Thousands of Flickr Photos
"A group of researchers with University of Washington’s graphics and imaging laboratory (GRAIL) wanted to see if they could build a piece of software that would search the web for images of a particular place and recreate that place in 3D in under a day.They succeeded, and the team, lead by Sameer Agarwal, created a simulation of Rome using 150,000 images harvested from photo-sharing website Flickr, and build a virtual model within a day."
(Via The Next Web.)
“Future of Learning” Video
I like how they mix in old footage and commentary of classrooms from decades ago and the diverse range of uses for technology and learning that go beyond only replacing printed text with digital text (video, audio, etc.). Below is a picture I snapped yesterday at a historical school house building at our local county fair. Some things are very different from today, while some are the same...
Geography: “20 Fascinating Ancient Maps”
http://associatesdegree.org/free-edu/fascinating-ancient-maps/
An awesome collection that is worth a look! Click on the link above the photo to see 19 more.
Google Opens Up Its EPUB Archive
Tech Texts
Found these in our local Parent/Teacher store...
See and download the full gallery on posterous
The descriptions on the front of the "Blogging in the Classroom" book makes everything seem so easy!