A Rainy Day’s Entertainment
Stephen Downes had a fun post in the ongoing CD Cover Meme, wherein one takes three random websites – a title, a quote, and a picture – and combines them to make an album cover (and his is great)....
View ArticleWhat Happened August 6th?
I was checking out a cool visualization application that Jeff Nugent alerted me to in Twitter this morning – Twitter StreamGraph. I entered “elearning” and got the following graph: Since Twitter...
View ArticleSlapping with a Wet Salmon
One has to love some of the innovations coming out of Australia. Thanks to CogDog, I tried out the “Lazy Bloggers Post Generator“. Using the drop down boxes, I quickly crafted the following post:...
View ArticleMy Twitter Followers
This is a cool little application that creates a mosaic of the avatars of those who follow you on Twitter. Here is what mine looks like:
View ArticleHappy Pi Day!
has always been one of my favorite mathematical concepts (thought the square root of negative one is still my favorite!) So as the date 3.14 swings round once again, I like what this musician did to...
View ArticleHappy Pi Day Once Again
One of my favorite non-holidays. The date 3.14 reminds us of that irrational number Pi, or π, though I have to admit that my favorite irrational number is i, the square root of negative one. With all...
View ArticleEDCMOOC Flickr Competition
Last week, alongside engaging with the week’s tasks, we were invited to begin experimenting with visual ways of representing our understanding of being human in a digital world. Several hundred images...
View ArticleIt May Be Coincidence But
… Pi Day. Einstein’s birthday. Stephen Hawking’s death. 3.14 does seem mystical! One of Hawking’s quotes that seems appropriate today: “The whole history of science has been the gradual realization...
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