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tiltshiftmaker
Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures: Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com.
tags: photography, tools, design
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lunchn
Lunchn is a web-based application geared towards groups trying to select a location for lunch. If you regularly meet with a group of people for lunch , check out Lunchn.
While Lunchn can server as a basic Google Maps mashup to help you find a place to eat with no additional effort, the real benefit of the site comes when you get your lunch buddies to plug in their favorite places. Once you and your friends have told Lunchn where you like to eat, when it comes time to pick where you to to lunch you can all vote by logging in or using your mobile phones on where to go.
tags: food, collaboration, organization, meetings
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CastTV – Annotated
CastTV is a wide-reaching video aggregator that can save you some time when searching out a missed episode of your favorite show or looking for a copy of the latest must-see viral video.
CastTV searches dozens of sites, including: YouTube, Hulu, MySpaceTV, Comedy Central, CNN, ESPN, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS and MTV. One of the benefits CastTV has over some of the other popular TV-watching destinations like Hulu is that they poll the networks web sites for new shows, so you can frequently catch new shows before they are released to other video hosting services.
tags: tv, video
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Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I : CJR
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we don’t tell stories about long-form writing that couldn’t have thrived in the existing constraints of print media because print media squishes things down to be too short because it doesn’t match this narrative that was first set up for TV, which is “Oh, all this new media is shortening people’s attention spans and distracting them.” To which you can, you know, you can only reply, “Yes, that’s true,” except where it’s not true. There’s no inkling of that of that explanation in the success of, say, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. And the length of that essay was, in part, of one of things that made it successful.
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what the Web does is that it does what all amateur increases do, which is it decreases the average quality of what’s available. It is exactly, precisely, the complaint made about the printing press.
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Library of Congress – Presidential Inaugurations
“I Do Solemnly Swear . . .”: Presidential Inaugurations is a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington’s in 1789 to George W. Bush’s inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music. The selections are drawn from the Presidential Papers in the Manuscript Division and from the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Music Division, and the General Collections of the Library of Congress. Additional material has been included from the photography collections of the Architect of the Capitol, the White House, and the United States Senate Office of the Sergeant at Arms. Some items, from records of early sessions of Congress to early films, that are already online in American Memory have been incorporated. An important component is the collaboration with the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, which permits the site to offer Yale’s online presentations of the inaugural addresses from Presidents Washington to Bush with associated searchable text transcriptions. A key objective of this online presentation is to make accessible to the public, many of the treasures and other important primary source materials held by the Library of Congress as well as by other institutions. The collection has been organized chronologically by presidential inauguration and an effort has been made to offer a balanced number of items for each inaugural event.
tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies
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Inauguration Day Events
US Senate site; explanation of inaugural day events
tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies
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Inauguration Time Line
Do you know which President was the only person to leave the White House but return for a second term four years later? Do you know what was happening in America during Herbert Hoover’s inauguration? Find the answers to these questions and more as you explore this interactive time line of Presidential inaugurations.
tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies
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25 Inaugural Addresses
On January 20th, 2009, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. Help your students understand the historical significance of this time in history through a study of inaugural addresses dating back to our first president. Following are 25 top-quality video clips HotChalk is providing free of charge for integration into your lessons throughout the month of January.
*VIDEOS ARE NOT DOWNLOADABLE, BUT CAN BE VIEWED FULL SCREEN.
tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies
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Inauguration Day 2009
At 12:00 noon on Inauguration Day 2009 (Tuesday, January 20, 2009, as set by the Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution), Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States. The Inauguration Day 2009 Schedule will keep you informed about what is happening and when on this important day
tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies
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Tips for Effective Learning
How to Become a More Effective Learner
Tips from Psychology to Improve Learning Effectiveness & Efficiency
tags: learning, instruction, education, instructional strategies