One of the reasons why great architecture is so much more than a work of art you can walk through: it’s awfully complicated to create. Explaining the poetic importance of the field, Frank Lloyd Wright, the greatest American architect of all time, made a lofty statement, claiming that “the mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
If there’s one thing that these photos of grand buildings and bridges under construction confirms, it’s that being defined as the soul of humanity is well deserved. From the seemingly magical emergence of the Eiffel Tower to the eerie drama of an incomplete Brooklyn Bridge, take a look at the fascinating documentation of some of the world’s most famous designs as they’re being built.
Twenty-five years ago a group of friends gathered in a San Francisco apartment to memorialize companions who had died of AIDS. They used one of the oldest techniques around to honor their loved ones: they made a quilt, the now-famous AIDS Memorial Quilt, with unique panels for each person felled by the disease. Now including some 48,000 panels, the quilt has grown into a massive, public expression of grief. Its panels come from around the world. It was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. All 48,000 panels are newly digitized through a collaboration between Microsoft and the University of Iowa, the University of Southern California and the Names Quilt Foundation.
Education lies at a peculiar crossroad in society. This visualization attempts to organize a series of emerging technologies that are likely to influence education in the upcoming decades. Despite its inherently speculative nature, the driving trends behind the technologies can already be observed, meaning it's a matter of time before these scenarios start panning out in learning environments around the world.
Whether you’re a parent or preschool teacher, this chart is for you. The tongue-in-cheek drawing by freelance artist Melissa Balmain was first published in Parenting Magazine in September 2003.
Do you think it’s accurate?What would the year 2012 version be like? Should this diagram be updated to include spaces for iPads and other devices? Angry Birds?
Online social giants YouTube and Facebook have taken big steps to attempt to provide guidance on digital citizens for kids online. Google (which owns YouTube) just launched its ten-step online program for smart and safe YouTube use, with a series of instructional videos that hit on topics from cyberbullying to privacy. And Facebook has teamed up with Edutopia to help schools create social media guidelines.
Five years ago, São Paulo enacted Lei Cidade Limpa, the Clean City Law, which saw a near-total ban on out-of-home advertising and the removal of thousands of billboards. While the ad industry complained, it’s accepted wisdom that the majority of Paulistanos approved and continue to approve of the measure and the results. So why are there now three 120-foot, riotously colorful GE ads adorning buildings in busy areas of the city? Because they’re art. Art from GE.
My Big Campus was named one of the 50 Best EdTech Tools by eSchool News readers. The Reader's Choice Awards recognize educational products and tools that make a real impact in classrooms across the country. My Big Campus is a safe social learning platform designed specifically for K12 education. The classroom solution provides a safe environment for teacher and student collaboration and teaching digital citizenship. Educators can create classroom pages, assessments, and calendars, post assignments, and extend learning outside the school walls
For those of you with clumsy fingers that can’t quite fit on the miniature keys of your iPhone and iPad (guilty, as charged), we have the perfect solution: this Virtual Laser Keyboard projects onto any flat surface and connects via Bluetooth, so there’s no cables to deal with. Your finger movements are tracked via high tech optics, which means that everything you type finds its way onto the screen. Brilliant!
Twitter is a real treasure trove of educational resources for teachers and educators. It is one of my favourite web tools to stay updated about what is going on in the field of educational technology.
Infographics seem to be a real trend today, with new ones popping up daily on all sorts of subjects. From mortgages to ice cream, estimating software to infographics about infographics, there is very little now that hasn't been 'visualised' in some form. Many people don't realise that the term information graphic, or 'infographic' was first coined over 100 years ago, with the Coxcomb chart by Florence Nightingale in 1857 being one of earliest recognised examples.
Keeping students organized and on-task is one of the biggest challenges teachers face. Having the right tools to help with this can make the difference between a successful school year and a stressful one.
Crash Course on YouTube provides 'entertaining' videos on history and science. Short sweet with some solid good content for students
John Green teaches you world history and Hank Green teaches you biology. John, the host, explains complex and long subjects regarding anything from history to science in under 15 minutes. Not only that, but they spice up the learning with pictures, animations, and recurring and inside jokes.
In Winthertur, Switzerland, the Gewerbemuseum Museum asked residents to bring in plastic bags in exchange for museum admission. The most colorful bags were selected, filled with air and an installed light.
At a time when most people network via LinkedIn or some other form of social media, business cards can seem somewhat obsolete — they’re usually shoved in our wallet behind yesterday’s lunch receipt, never to be heard from again. It doesn’t help that most of them are pretty unmemorable, a few lines of personal information spelled out against a faceless background of bright white card stock. But just the way a beautifully handwritten note stands out in a bevy of text messages and chats, a unique and imaginative business card leaves a lasting impression. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite examples after the jump.
The fight for consumers’ eyes—and wallets—is only getting fiercer. Recently, New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced it would begin selling ad space on the front of subway fare cards to offset rising costs. As advertisers figure out more and more creative (and desperate) ways to get people’s attention, no surface—not even our own skin—remains sacred. Here, a brief look at some of the other stops on marketing’s relentless and somewhat invasive march.
By connecting education with smarter technology, Intel offers a look into the future of K-12 education. Watch as students use technology to collaborate with peers and industry experts to build a bridge model, from the initial design phase through the final structure testing. Intel's education solutions help teachers provide innovative, personalized and secure learning environments to prepare students for successful futures in the 21st century.
With 3D scale models, music, and video, Google's Versailles 3D brings the best of 21st century web arts to 18th century art history. The palace was built by Louis XIV, the “Sun King,” who exemplified all of the authoritarian excesses of the French...
The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps project has been a neighborhood effort to create a beautiful mosaic running up the risers of the 163 steps located at 16th and Moraga in San Francisco. Sponsored by the San Francisco Parks Trust, artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher started working on the project in January of 2003. The mosaic staircase was completed on August 18, 2004 with the help of over 300 neighbors, and over 220 neighbors who sponsored handmade animal, bird and fish name tiles. As you can see, the result is simply amazing!
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