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Applying a Pattern Language to Online Community Design

virtual worlds: The Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning

virtual worlds: The Applied Research in Virtual Environments for Learning

CARET: Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (housed at ISTE)

CARET: Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (housed at ISTE)

Mental Notes: a deck of cards, each with a psychological principle applied to webdesign.

This is a simple tool to edit your photos online for free. Basically, you can use this free online photo editor to crop/resize an image, retouch a face, apply a few artistic effects and perform color correction easily. Multiple language support is a good point of this image editor.

You have two version choices when use this free online picture editor: Flash & HTML. This is very easy-to-use tool, just select your photo then choose the modifications to apply; although it's still in Beta version you can still choose up to 5 imaging processing functions and 12 special image effects. Wondering what are the good points of this tool? It supports all popular picture file formats (JPG, TIFF, NPG, GIF, BMP, TGA, …) and camera RAW formats (CRW, NEF, RAF, CR2, DNG, …), more than 400 formats supported. That's so powerful imaging solution!

Apply special imaging effects to your photos with one click quickly. Clean & simple layout and built-in funny imaging effects are the advantage of this picture editor.

Video games are no longer just a form of entertainment for children and young adults alone, and the old stereotypes of a gamer no longer apply. The ESA's "2010 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry" show that 67 percent of American households play computer and video games. The research also reveals other interesting demographic facts about today's gamers and the games they play, including: * The average gamer is 34 years old and has been playing for 12 years. * Forty percent of all players are women and women over 18 years of age are one of the industry's fastest growing demographics. Today, adult women represent a greater portion of the game-playing population (33 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (20 percent). * Twenty-six percent of game players are over the age of 50, an increase from nine percent in 1999. This figure is sure to rise in coming years with nursing homes and senior centers across the nation now incorporating video games into their activities. * Sixty-seven percent of homes in America own either a console and/or PC used to run entertainment software. * Fifty-eight percent of online game players are male and 42 percent are female. Forty-two percent of heads of households report they play games on wireless devices such as a cell phone or PDA, up from 20% in 2002. * Ninety-three percent of the time parents are present at the time games are purchased or rented. Seventy-six percent of parents believe that the parental controls available in all new video game consoles are useful. In addition, 64 percent of parents believe games are a positive part of their children's lives."

A philosophy of technology re-alignment (as opposed to complete redesign) based on an adaptation of Edward Tufte's principles on the visual display of information.

How is this framework important to the socio-material theory and the evolutionary routine theory? How can this be applied as an edtech workshop, professional development experience, research problem and/or an online learning program?

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