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This is an amazing illustration of Sir Kenneth Robinson's presentation on schooling in the 21st century.  It's fascinating to watch an illustrator create a visual map of Robinson's ideas as they are spoken.  The content of the presentation is enormously important to any educator struggling to change the system.  It's even more important to those who've been subdued and mislead by old ideas into thinking they can't learn or create.

the collected papers of Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, the artists who wrote and illustrated numerous children's books. Edgar trained w/Henry Matisse.

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A visually stunning site with thousands of user generated and searchable illustrated recipes for you to try in your school cookery session. Some more a piece of art than a recipe, these can be printed to add some colour to your school kitchen or used as an example of instructional writing in English. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Food+&+Cookery

Picozu is an image drawing and photo retouching application made specifically for the browser. Picozu supports a good number of brushes, filters, dynamic windows, HSL, CYMK, layers, actions history, batch processing, primitives, curves, texture rendering, cropping and much more. These sophisticated tools put it in the ranks of complex desktop software like Photoshop and Illustrator.

DS Training Academy helps in web technologies including Adobe training courses for Adobe InDesign CS4 & CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 & CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS4 & CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS4 & CS3, Adobe Flash CS4 & CS3 & Flash Action Script; Adobe Acrobat 9 & 8 and Adobe Premiere CS3 and QuarkXPress 8 & 7; Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, Macromedia. The website should bear a professional look and the users should easily be able to navigate from one page to another.

Second of two tutorials introducing the Edmodo virtual learning environment, and illustrating its features and functions in detail.

Why is the link title so mismatched to the content on the site page?

First of two tutorials introducing the Edmodo virtual learning environment, and illustrating its features and functions in detail.

A wildlife conservation site which aims to save the rare Pacific Northwest tree octopus from extinction... except it isn't. A great site to use that illustrates that not all information on the web can be trusted. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

This site lives up to its name. Find hundreds of really useful charts and diagrams that illustrate history, science, current events and more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Maya Shea Penn is the CEO of her very own business, Maya's Ideas, at age eight. Her company makes hand-crafted scarves, headbands, tee-shirts, and accessories. Not only are they fabulous, they are all eco-friendly. As young as she seems, Maya has a profound understanding of her responsibility as a steward of the Earth. Maya's Ideas 4 The Planet is a non-profit organization she set up that's geared towards caring for the planet. Aside from being an entrepreneur, Maya is a published writer, an animator, a speaker, a designer, an illustrator, an artist, a philanthropist, and an inspiration. To read more about Maya Penn visit www.thextraordinary.org

A wonderful collaborative real-time drawing space which connects to your Google Plus account, allowing you to illustrate, explain and teach remotely across the world. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

interesting example of a website dedicated to illustrating a scientific principle.

In this article, the authors present a model for how technology can provide more observations about student learning than current assessments. To illustrate this approach, the authors describe their early research on using immersive technologies to develop virtual performance assessments.

la définition du e-portfolio: « collection d'informations qui illustre (…) l'apprentissage ou la vie professionnelle d'une personne à travers une sélection de résultats marquants au cours de formations ou d'études mais aussi qui regroupe les réflexions personnelles de l'apprenant sur son apprentissage, son parcours, la planification d'une carrière ou la construction d'un CV (…).

Un eportfolio est défini comme étant une collection d'informations qui illustre la scolarité, l'apprentissage ou la vie professionnelle d'une personne à travers une sélection de résultats marquants au cours de formations ou d'études mais aussi qui regroupe les réflexions personnelles de l'apprenant sur son apprentissage, son parcours, la planification d'une carrière ou la construction d'un CV. Ce dernier aspect est un point fondamental qui différencie l'eportfolio du portfolio classique.(eportfolio Australia) Réfléchir sur son propre parcours d'apprentissage va permettre à l'apprenant de mieux intégrer ses différentes expériences d'apprentissage. (University of Waterloo)

Favourite children's authors and illustrators on video

Very clever and clear slide show that illustrates what Moodle is and what it can do. Audience: educators / trainers interested in e-learning and online teaching.

Congo: Red Rubber, White King, Black Death is a critical film and documentary on the reign of King Leopold of Belgium over his private property we now know as the country of Congo. The film graphically illustrates the atrocities that occurred, the injustices, the evils and the popular lies that people hold to be true. Below is a quick summary of the film and a few notes on what seemed interesting to me.