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Today’s HuffPost Greatest Person: Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess

Saved on January 3, 2011

-Just gathering some positive stories about the Internet and social media/networking.

“The story is a testament not only to the limitless human capacity to give back, but also to the specific power of the online community. Though the vast majority of the readers on Jenny’s site do not know each other in real life, their feeling of connectedness to each other, fostered by their web interactions, played a huge role in the giving ecosystem that emerged from the original post.

“The Red Cross is great, but kind of faceless. With this you were set up with one particular person, you knew the story, you knew how you were going to help,” she said. “So many of us aren’t necessarily active in our own communities but I know so much about people online. This gave people a way to really get physically in touch with people who were part of this online community.”

Please Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

Saved on January 3, 2011

The most common interchangeable keynote speaker regals his audience with the number of cellphones in the world, the number of FaceBook pages, how kids think email is old-fashioned and how we need to fear The Holy Roman Empire, Japan, China, India, Singapore and Finland.
The wisest of all keynote speakers tell their audiences that the world has changed and that education has not kept pace. A few brave well-compensated speakers even go out on a limb and strike a courageous stance in favor of creativity! Sometimes corporate videos or zany YouTube videos are shown to accentuate their point.

Burlington High School Principal’s Blog: First Parent Technology Workshop of 2011 – Tools You Can Use To Organize in 2011

Saved on January 3, 2011

—This might be something we should be thinking about.

I hope you will join us for our third Parent Technology Workshop of the Year on Tuesday night from 6:30-7:30 P.M.  We will focus on technology tools that can help parents organize in 2011. Some of the topics that we will touch upon will include Gmail and Google Calendar. If time allows, we will look at Picasa and Flickr, some sites that can help you organize and share your photos.

Mission | NounProject

Saved on January 3, 2011

The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.

Civil War Faces – a set on Flickr

Saved on December 31, 2010

If anyone ever uses clipart for the Civil War again . . .

In remembrance of the Union and Confederate soldiers who served in the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Liljenquist Family recently donated their rare collection of almost 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs to the Library of Congress.

The art of disease – Boing Boing

Saved on December 30, 2010

For every issue, the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases prints a different work of art on the cover. That may seem a bit non-sequiturish, but the pieces are actually carefully chosen to illustrate the theme of the issue. Better yet, the editors of Emerging Infectious Diseases take a page to explain the connections, which usually include some interesting segues into the history of art and medical science.