ImageBase is a personal project of professional photographer David Niblack. ImageBase contains more than one hundred pages of images that Mr. Niblack has released for free reuse and redistribution. In fact, the top of the ImageBase site says "treat like public domain." In addition to the hundreds of images that are available, ImageBase also offers nearly one hundred free PowerPoint templates.
Automated aggregation is not the solution. Human-powered, manual news curation is.
Human news curators can add more value and understanding to the news, by aggregating, filtering and curating them, than it is available in individual news stories taken by themselves.
Challenge: Locate the unfinished housing developments as visual evidence of a recession
Method: Explain the concept and invite listeners to help us pinpoint sites they suspect of not being developed due to the recession.
And the choices are a bit eccentric; men who were famous for their interesting and numerous notebooks are well-represented but also included are a few from the past and present that just happened to cross our path during the course of our research. Where images of the notebooks were available they have been shown; in their absence a description will have to do.
Read more: http://artofmanliness.com/2010/09/13/the-pocket-notebooks-of-20-famous-men/#ixzz0zYHzA7ur
Recommendations give employers a fuller view of you as a direct report, boss, colleague, or client. They make your LinkedIn profile more dynamic and personal than the fairly static information (where you worked, what you did) that appears in your general resume.
to support hands-on inquiry by students in computer classrooms.
as a basis for homework assignments.
for dynamic presentations during class lectures.
for inquiry during class presentations.
to create imagery and maps for PowerPoint, Word, and other presentation tools.
as a data discovery, organization, and distribution tool for research projects.
to enrich discussion of an issue that arises spontaneously during an informal classroom discussion.
The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products.
While still in beta, the site (which is a partnership between Google and an organization called We Are What We Do) has interesting potential for research in the classroom and could be used as a model for a community-action project for students.
If you're new to HootSuite, it can be a little daunting. This is why we've create a quick start guide so you can briskly understand the basics of HootSuite. For more help resources, check out the bottom of this article.