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Highest resolution image ever shot of Earth – Holy Kaw!
While a beautiful and instantly recognizable photograph, NASA’s Blue Marble shot is actually many different shots pieced together. A new photograph goes where Earth snapshots have not gone before with the highest resolution single photograph ever taken of our home planet.
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pearltrees • drbazuk • Mapping & Cartography
Pearltree of mapping resources
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The London Games – The First Olympics That Will Be Told In 140 Characters (Or Less) [INFOGRAPHIC]
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On Friday, Twitter users let out their frustrations and annoyances as the hashtag, #IUnfollowedYouBecause, trended nationwide. Whether it’s too much information or too much tweets, some people with Twitter can learn a thing or two from this trending topic. Take a look at some of the funniest tweets users from all around the world tweeted and let us know if you can relate.
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88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography | Inspiration | instantShift
Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.
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How to Watch London Olympics 2012 Online Live
This year Olympics games are scheduled for London, UK from 27th of July to 12th of August 2010. These games will be telecast live on TV. If you don’t have time to watch games on TV then you can always watch it online. There are many websites that will telecast Olympics live.
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What’s the big picture? As educators we need to ask ourselves this question. I’ve spent a week in Ireland with 213 educators from around the world. I’ve already been asked to share my key learnings. Honestly I’m not sure how to begin to share what I’ve taken in this week. Friendships, tech tips, the evolution of tech, new instructional ideas, new apps, new projects and of course, lots of photography guidance. But, what is the big idea I’m really taking away from this institute?
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SoundGecko Easily Convert Any Article to Audio
Today as I was wading through my RSS feeds I came across a great tool called SoundGecko . This is a free text-to-audio transcribing web service that allows users to easily listen to any article on the go.
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The Fischbowl: An Education Bubble?
An Education Bubble?
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Ten Ways to Design eLearning That Makes Sense
When I tell people that I make my living as an eLearning Designer, some people have a blank look on their face. So I usually ask ‘Have you ever done an online training course at work?’.
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Microsoft responds to SkyDrive privacy concerns – Neowin
We recently reported on a man who claimed that Microsoft had locked him out from his own Microsoft Account after finding disallowed content in a private folder on his SkyDrive. That raised some questions about just how private private SkyDrive folders are, and after a bit of investigation, we’ve got a response from Microsoft on the issue.
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Where Microsoft Has ‘More Taste’ Than Apple | Cult of Mac
It must surely be a sign of the impending apocalypse that Microsoft’s operating systems have “more taste” than Apple’s.
I’m referring, of course, to Apple’s inexplicable use of skeuomorphic design in iOS and OS X apps, and contrasting that with Microsoft’s stark avoidance of such cheesy gimmickry in the Windows 8 and Windows Phone user interfaces.
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Mashupforge Blog – A better way to present large infographics on the web
Let’s say you have created a beautiful infographic. (There’s one that has been created with Visual.ly below) How do you share it?
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What happens to the iPod touch in a post-iPad mini world? | iMore.com
When iMore first heard that Apple was going ahead with the 7-inch iPad this fall, and at a ~$200 price point, one of the first things we asked was — what does that mean for the iPod touch?
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Do you think that there are no games for Ubuntu? Do you switch to Windows from Ubuntu because of games? Stop doing it! There are many high-quality free Linux games you can play.
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Ubuntu Webapps for WordPress | Michael Hall
Following yesterday’s announcement of the Ubuntu Webapps project, I really wanted to find a way to try it out on a website. I chose my personal blog (this one) as my guinea pig
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Massive online learning and the…
Is free online learning going to put traditional colleges out of business? For a college professor, it’s hard to read the news these days and not worry about this threat. For one thing, the businesses of journalism, publishing and music, all decimated by the internet, bear uncomfortable similarity to that of higher education. In each case, valuable intellectual property is threatened by free online copying and distribution.
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How Mobile, Social Will Win the 2012 Olympics [INFOGRAPHIC … | Infographics Universe | Scoop.it
Fans will be able to converse, debate and rave communally as never before because of mobile proliferation and the explosive growth of social media over the past four years. We recently took a look at how Facebo
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88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography | Inspiration | instantShift
Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.
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Thanks for the reblog of the Mapping Pearltree… much appreciated