Tag: design
The 3 Biggest Ways Pinterest Is Changing
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From adding analytics to changing the design, Pinterest is changing and since it's so hot with educators, this is some useful info to know about!
How Art Can Be Used To Enhance Your Mind
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The study of art can be used to enhance your mind, encourage you to dig through your past, and even mold a better future.
The Media League: A Groundbreaking Creativity Competition For High School Students
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What do you get when you mash up the familiar structure of varsity sports with the popular appeal of creativity competitions like "American Idol", and top it off with a heavy dose of digital youth culture? Web startup "The Media League" tries to answer that question, claiming the title as the world's first online varsity creativity competition.
Sweden’s Newest School System Has No Classrooms
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There's a whole new classroom model and it's a sight to behold. The newest school system in Sweden look more like the hallways of Google or Pixar and less like a brick-and-mortar school you'd typically see. There are collaboration zones, houses-within-houses, and a slew of other features that are designed to foster "curiosity and creativity."
University of Michigan Developing Crash-Proof Cars
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Forget Google's driverless cars. The next big thing to hit the street is being tested right now thanks to the University of Michigan and the Dept. of Transportation. They've teamed up to develop 'connected cars' that are able to talk to each other and be aware of where each one is at any time.
The 60-Second Guide To Understanding Typefaces
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We've been discussing the importance of design in education lately. As the edtech world continues to heat up, you'll see a lot more new sites, tools, and trends. One common thread they'll all have is that they rely on interesting and visually engaging fonts and typefaces.
10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infographics
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People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That's been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics?
The Year 2000, According To French Artists In The Year 1900
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Think you know what the year 3000 will be like? What about the year 2100? If you're anything like Jean-Marc Côté and other artists in France in the year 1900 (and I assume you are) then you might want to think twice.
3 Reasons to Use Digital Mind Mapping
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Despite the availability of free mind mapping software, many people continue to use hand-drawn mind maps. Of course there are situations in which hand-drawn maps are valuable, but here are some significant advantages of digital mind mapping.
The Perfect Shoes For Any Social Media Lover
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If you're addicted to social media, love integrating YouTube into your classroom, or just wax nostalgic over Google Buzz, then these shoes are for you. Designer Lumen Bigott created renderings of these shoes (not yet available for purchase) as an homage to the biggest social networks.
Adobe CS6 Now Available: Creative Cloud Coming Friday
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Just a quick heads up that Adobe just officially made CS6 available for purchase. The highly-anticipated (and cheaper) Creative Cloud is coming online shortly. Here are price breakdowns and a whole lot more for Adobe CS6 and for Creative Cloud in case you're thinking about upgrading.
CONTEST: Design Edudemic’s Facebook Timeline Cover!
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Are you creative? Do you want a brand new Apple TV? Want your work to be seen by many other educators and administrators? Then enter our contest to design our new Facebook Timeline Cover!
Holy Cow. This Is How E-Readers Should Actually Work
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If you've thought that the iPad experience is good enough, you haven't seen this new take on touch screen navigation.
The 10 Most Popular Quora Questions of 2011
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What's the worst piece of design ever done? What's the best way to escape police in a high-speed chase? All these and other questions are answered by experts in a new list from Quora.
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Now Open To Students & Teachers
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Do you love design? Do you take an extra hour to assemble some projects so they look just a little bit better? Are you addicted to Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign? Want to win free Adobe software and cash prizes?
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Twitter Getting A Major Design Overhaul [Pictures]
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This might be the biggest change to Twitter in a very long time. The microblogging site is getting a total facelift in the near future and it's beautiful. The new design seems to focus more on discovery and less on trying to keep up with a live stream.
