Belgian artist Ben Heine blends photography and pencil sketches to create imaginary scenes. He explains: "I find a location, do a drawing, then take a photo to combine with the drawing.
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Project-based learning provides an excellent structure of authentic learning using digital resources. Digital work allows for digital portfolio creation, communication of learning results to a wide audience, and often simple revision of learner work to reflect feedback and assessment results. Georgia educator Kati Searcy gave the following presentation at the Social Learning Summit 2012 to demonstrate how free web tools can be used to assess understanding of content from History/Social Studies–and even helpfully included a rubric! 
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Auckland based John Crawford is one of New Zealand’s best known photographers. His portfolio of commissioned and uncommissioned works is diverse in subject matter and mood, yet unmistakeable in its use of light and its natural, simple style. John says his aim is to capture images that have a high degree of interest and contrast, don’t look too technical, and are easy to look at and enjoy- like his series of Aerial Nudes!
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No longer searching for information-searching for knowledge... Knowledge Graph is a new feature for Google search that will provide additional info, context, and helpful links when searching about people, places, or things (video). For instance, a search for “Vincent van Gogh” will bring up a short bio on the artist, images of his famous paintings, and related people. Knowledge Graph will be rolling out in the next few days.
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LEGO blocks are one of the most beloved toys in the world, playing a role in many a person's childhood. But for some creators, LEGO has evolved from toy to art form. In this episode, we talk to three LEGO artists who have made beautiful mosaics, amazing stop-motion videos, thoughtful sculptures, and have turned these tiny building blocks into a true artistic medium.
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These are some shots from the annual Camel Festival of Bikaner in India.
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Why my six-year-olds have digital portfolios...for any writer or creator, it is all about the audience! And this grade one teacher is inviting the world into her classroom!
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The amygdala is the emotional center that governs fight, flight, and whether or not your audience will text through your next presentation. We need audiences to feel first, and then to think.
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E-Portfolios: a student’s project warehouse and progress tracker
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I LOVE Google +...az Google's answer to Facebook recently announced 100 million users. While that's still nowhere near Facebook's 800 million, it clearly has a lot to offer its users- especially those who use other Google services. The jury on Google+ remains out, but in this infographic they have come up with twenty reasons to switch to it.
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On bus stops, in magazines, and on TV: they're color schemes and shapes and ideas that we're exposed to every day. We take them for granted, these images, because they seem so commonplace. But someone created them. In the new book "100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design" by Steven Heller and design critic Veronique Vienne, some of the most unique and game-changing images are featured and discussed.
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Manila-based artists are finding their feet on the international stage. Including artist Louie Cordero whose visceral paintings and sculptures are full of Philippine culture. The unique mix of cultures and history creates diverse group of artists, says Cordero
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The surest way to kill creativity in the boardroom is that predictable response to any new idea: ”We tried that last year.” Or, “That’s impossible.” But we do it all the time, Todd Hirsch, senior economist at ATB, told a conference on creativity...
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“Failure is a part of creating new and amazing new things. We can’t both fear failure and make amazing new things,” says inventor Regina Dugan in this inspiring TED Talk. Scientists and engineers defy the impossible and have pushed beyond expectations because they were given the freedom to fail, she says. How can this ideology be extended to the concept of learning, in and out of schools? Definitely worth watching the entire talk.
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In explaining his own view on filmmaking, Burns rolls out that old quote from Jean Luc-Godard, “Cinema is truth at twenty-four frames a second.” But he has his own response to the famous proclamation: “Maybe. It’s lying twenty-four times a second, too. All the time. All story is manipulation.”
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This astonishing paper craft stop motion animation is set to the song "Østersøen" by the band Ödland.
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From the Flavorpill Blog: Readers will probably know that we’re suckers for typography, and also for interesting words, so we were rather delighted to stumble across a project that manages to combine the two. It’s blog called The Dead Words, which we discovered via CMYBacon. The project is curated by graphic designer Karen To, and it focuses on words that have slipped from popular usage over the years, attempting to reanimate them with the assistance of thematically appropriate typography.
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Welcome to David Suhami Portfolio. David is a 3rd year student of Industrial Design at Shenkar College of Engineering & Design in Tel Aviv. Here is his "animal pocket knife" made from Stainless Steel and the handles are made from fine Tabebuia wood.
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TED Talks Oops! Nobody wants to see the 404: Page Not Found. But as Renny Gleeson shows us, while he runs through a slideshow of creative and funny 404 pages, every error is really a chance to build a better relationship.
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From Scott Hanselman's blog; The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
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The cartoon was drawn in reaction to the vote in North Carolina approving a constitutional ban on same sex marriage. It took Mr Fish, editorial cartoonist, a full day to work through his rage before figuring out the cartoon.
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Artists and designers pay tribute to Maurice Sendak.
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Wow-I see many applications for our students with special needs-well done! Qwiki is multimedia search tool/encyclopedia that creates an interactive, on-the-fly presentation of information. To utilize Qwiki, enter a topic in the search box and/or select a featured topic on the homepage and then watch as the query is answered with a dynamic collage of relevant content—images, video and text—woven together from a variety of sites including Wikipedia, Google, Fotopedia, and YouTube. The presentation is even accompanied by a computer generated voice narration (and subtitles if the user so desires)—a concept that truly transforms a traditional web search into a story about the chosen topic.
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All illustrations from Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” were beautifully drawn by Harry Clarke-1919.
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