My personal
web-log space – a spot to capture some thoughts, comment on articles of interest, make note of some headlines from the news – has a educational technology bias.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Extreme Ice Survey - Seeing Is Believing
The Extreme Ice Survey is the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography. EIS uses time-lapse photography, conventional photography, and video to document the rapid changes now occuring on the Earth's glacial ice. The EIS team has installed 27 time-lapse cameras at 15 sites in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and the Rocky Mountains. EIS supplements this ongoing record with annual repeat photography in Iceland, the Alps, and Bolivia.
Produced by Claire L. Evans.
[Seed Magazine]
2:52:48 PM
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Mac turns 25 (and how it was almost a Bicycle)
January 24 2009 was the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh. On that fateful day in 1984 Apple released a little toaster of a personal computer that went on to become the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface.
This now famous television commercial - 1984 - was directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator). The commercial, written by Apple's advertising agency Chiat /Day, aired on January 22, 1984, during Super Bowl XVIII between the Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Raiders.
[ZDNet]
8:08:32 AM
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
A Professor Pokes Fun at Copyright
Copyright law, a constant thorn in the sides of scholars and researchers, is generating a lot of public discussion this week, thanks in part to a new 10-minute video that parodies the law. "A Fair(y) Use Tale" uses 400 cuts from 27 different Disney films to mock copyright law as overly protective of the interests of copyright owners [~] Disney among them. Eric Faden, an assistant professor of English and film studies at Bucknell University, produced the video with help from seven of his students.
