1. Show your students how advertisers and product designers sometimes borrow ideas from art history with these examples from Smashing Magazine.
2. Two great advocacy statements for the arts and arts education surfaced on the Web this past month; one from Rachel Maddow and the other from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
4. Masher lets you create videos by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos for free. I’m going to take this tool for a test drive soon.
5. Hey Karen: Remember when we use to make “super bubbles?” Check these gigantic bubbles out from ‘bubbleologist’ Samsam Bubbleman.
6. Social Media Revolution – Promotional video for the book Socialnomics.
7. Just getting comfortable with the idea of Web 2.0 in education? Well, get ready for the Real-Time Web.
8. Personas seems to me to be an example of the “Real-Time Web.” It comes from Aaron Zinman at the MIT Media Lab and takes your name and searches the Web for some context around it. It then uses the words and sites it finds to build a visual profile of your Web presence. Here is the “persona” that it created for me, which, btw, is not that accurate in that it doesn’t distinguish from different “craig rolands” on the Web.
9. Check out the premiere issue of CREO, a quarterly, online magazine that explores the collision of art and culture from the student perspective.
10. Lastly, be sure to check out Newport Beach artist Cheeming Boey’s drawings on foam coffee cups that he creates with a black Sharpie marker. (also see his Flickr page)
Web Sightings for September 2009
Here are sites to see for the month of September:
1. Show your students how advertisers and product designers sometimes borrow ideas from art history with these examples from Smashing Magazine.
2. Two great advocacy statements for the arts and arts education surfaced on the Web this past month; one from Rachel Maddow and the other from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
3. Love Jason Logan’s Map of New York City Smells!
4. Masher lets you create videos by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos for free. I’m going to take this tool for a test drive soon.
5. Hey Karen: Remember when we use to make “super bubbles?” Check these gigantic bubbles out from ‘bubbleologist’ Samsam Bubbleman.
6. Social Media Revolution – Promotional video for the book Socialnomics.
7. Just getting comfortable with the idea of Web 2.0 in education? Well, get ready for the Real-Time Web.
8. Personas seems to me to be an example of the “Real-Time Web.” It comes from Aaron Zinman at the MIT Media Lab and takes your name and searches the Web for some context around it. It then uses the words and sites it finds to build a visual profile of your Web presence. Here is the “persona” that it created for me, which, btw, is not that accurate in that it doesn’t distinguish from different “craig rolands” on the Web.
9. Check out the premiere issue of CREO, a quarterly, online magazine that explores the collision of art and culture from the student perspective.
10. Lastly, be sure to check out Newport Beach artist Cheeming Boey’s drawings on foam coffee cups that he creates with a black Sharpie marker. (also see his Flickr page)