I have an aunt, tia Mercês, who is incredible passionate and knowledgeable about everything art-design-related. She is all for building local communities of artisans to make their lives a decent one that goes much beyond survival. She wants to empower people through their skills, traditions and passions. Yesterday, she sent me some some stunning […]
I have been part of an exciting teacher training program in the state of Rio and this week I´m exploring with teachers the possibilities of Digital Posters in the classroom. I´ve created this Padlet with some digital posters platforms that let teachers and students create wonderful digital artifacts. I thought educators might profit from it: […]
I’ve always had this natural inclination to add images to whatever lesson I was teaching, and now even more so when I see the neuroscientific reason for doing it. James Zull, in his book “the Art of Changing the Brain”, mentions that “Our concrete experience contains much of the information we need for understanding, because […]
She was meant to be a star. Her photos were all over, Vogue magazine, among all renowned international magazines you can think of. One day, though, … How about a bit of homework revolution for a change? Add this sentence to the board, send the photo to your students and tell them to access http://photofunia.com, […]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21204781@N07/2501994750/ My husband calls me a tourist or gadget girl. I always have a device which can help me capture the moment. First, because of my interest in photography, in getting that moment that in nanoseconds will be simply past. However, my most preement reason for being a gadget girl is that I am an […]
Students as creators. We still duel over the institutional, syllabus demands and our willingness to test new approaches to our classrooms. Nothing better than starting really small, baby steps, micro-projects. So, here’s a very, very simple one. It can be used on a computer lab or even in class with a single computer. It works […]
I was just playing with Google’s swirl, a nice way to visualize images. It goes after the trend of more dynamic ways of visualization. Not that it is tremendously innovative, but it certainly adds a swirl fun to it. Have you tried it? What are your impressions?
More and more we see the power of graphics, visualization, images, videos to convey a message, to touch our souls, to sell. Visual representations have been part of society much before we started using written code to communicate. In fact, images were used to record historical facts and communicate ideas in a group of people […]
As a group of wonderful, inspired educators – Alice Barr, Ana Maria Menezes, Bob Sprankle, Cheryl Oakes, Daniela Munca, Jane Petring, João Alves, Mary Hillis, Nina Liyulkun, Ronaldo Júnior, and Susan Burg – get ready to co-moderate a free six-week online session, Images4Education, through the Electronic Village Online, I’ve been totally immersed in Flickrverse. My […]