Photo editing, airbrushing are all wonderful tools. But they do raise questions of self-image. “Somewhere between “can we eliminate the red-eye effect?” and “let’s reshape the way your face looks,” we’ve crossed the line into creepy territory.” After living with 4 females who watch their share of “What not to Wear”, “Beauty...

I spent much of the first day of the year trying to recover data. I logged onto my laptop this morning and was trying to edit a few photos when I got my first bluescreen with the new laptop. I restarted only to discover that my profile was corrupt. Okay, not to panic, I had this happen with another machine a year or two ago so I calmly tried to login again. This...

David Warlick makes this claim: Is a teacher who is not using technology doing their job? An emphatic “NO!” As I think about the upcoming school year, I’m hoping to be more emphatic about my beliefs about teaching and learning. This quote inspires me. So given this I’m going to try to committ to a few things this year. Challenge everyone who uses...

Although I’ve committed to steering folks away from traditional website design, I still take pride in a well designed site. The focus should still be on content and the use of an aggregator keeps this in check. But never actually visiting the site you miss out on the personal and creative sides of bloggers. Jeff Utecht’s recent redesign is worth...

Why is it every photo on myspace looks the same? Here’s what I mean: This video also encourages this photographic methodology. In addition to helping kids understand what blogging is, let’s also help stamp out this type of photography....

Tim Wilson discovers a wikipedia citing tool. As with http://citationmachine.net/, wikipedia offers many formats and flavours for your choosing. Here’s an example for Moose Jaw: Bibliographic details for “Moose Jaw” Page name: Moose Jaw Author: Wikipedia contributors Publisher: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Date of last revision: 10 March 2004...