Recently several major art museums have announced that they are making their digital collections available for download and non-commercial use. This opening up of collections gives students and anyone interested in fine art an opportunity to work with and use these images in their own projects. …
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The assignment for Week 4 of Teach the Web has merged with the assignment for Week 5 as the whole project took much longer than expected. My idea was to put together a small Popcorn project on how knowing a little HTML and CSS can let you augment public domain ebooks to provide an enhanced learning experience. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Every day there seems to be yet another exciting open library/book project announced on the web. Here are just a few recent ones that I think are interesting.
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LibraryBox is a project that not only lets you carry around a whole library of public domain books in your pocket, it also lets you make those books available to anyone else in the immediate vicinity via the wifi capabilities of the box. …
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Just like drawing something forces you to really look at it, remixing something brings a deeper understanding of the artifact and how it was created. My remixing activity involved remixing a Popcorn project. I had looked at creating a Popcorn project a couple of times previously, but was always thrown off by the “import video” imperative as I didn’t have a video to import.…
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This week I hacked my own Flickr page with X-Ray Goggles and created a WebMaker profile with Thimble (although I have to admit the Thimble Create an Animal project was tempting).
Did I learn? Yes, but perhaps I would have learned more doing the Popcorn intro as I already knew some HTML and CSS. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Time for another MOOC. ETMOOC was incredibly interesting and valuable, so when I received an email about Mozilla’s Teach the Web course, I couldn’t help but sign up. Topics to be discussed include: Making as Learning, Connected Learning, Open Web, Webmaking as Learning.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Teach the Web has something for everyone who wants to get more closely involved with the Making and Learning Movements. #teachtheweb seeks to create an online space to connect, explore and make – and then ……
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