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Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.

"If you're tracking several data points to see changes over time, you can create an interactive Motion Chart. "

Guideline 1.1 Text Alternatives: Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.

Great tool to change text into audio.

| The Teacher Chronicles "A well produced movie can sometimes be enough to shake my world completely. It can change my perspectives on things I thought I was certain about. Here's a list of 10 movies I think that every teacher, or every person working with people, should see (in no particular order)."

This video was produced by the New Brunswick Department of Education to stimulate discussion among educators and other stakeholders in public education in the province of New Brunswick. The 21st Century presents unique challenges for education worldwide. In order to keep pace with global change we must focus on 21st Century Skills and public education must adapt to keep students engaged.

Part of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative: a collection of essays and stories about how photography helps to shape our culture and our lives

Change the shape of peoples faces

Digital Nation is a multiplatform project that includes this interactive Web site and a one-hour FRONTLINE documentary to air Winter 2010. The project aims to capture life on the digital frontier and explore how the Web and digital media are changing the way we think, work, learn and interact.

ImageStamper is a free tool for keeping dated, independently verified copies of license conditions associated with creative commons images.

"ImageStamper is a free tool for keeping dated, independently verified copies of license conditions associated with creative commons images. You can use it to safeguard your use of free images from license changes, or to prove you are the original image creator. Simply paste the URL of the page that contains the image you intend to use. ImageStamper will produce a timestamp of the image's license and will store this timestamp permanently in your account. The timestamp proves you obtained the image under that license and you can show it to others using a unique permalink."

a student sent me a link to this site today -- looks fun!

I tried the demo and it was fun!! If you have a website with and want to show a number of photos/images, it certainly helps to make the experience more interesting (your can, well, tilt the frame where they are put and also change the photos as if they were flying....The simple viewer is also nice -it organizes the images and there's no fuss to use it apparently (both have free embeddable versions)