Sharing: An Obligation...

Opening the K12 Online Conference for 2010, Dean Shareski argues that sharing within education, in the 21st century, is a "moral imperative".

It is hard not to agree, as you listen to Dean drawing on examples from his own experience. As he says "we are now in the very early stages of a sharing revolution" facilitated not least by the explosion of Web2.0 technology. Great keynote Dean!



Teachers and students from around the world are becoming empowered to share their learning experiences and best work practices. What a wonderful scenario.

Educators such as Mohamed Salah Abidi and Tarak Brahmi, who produce the Tunisian English Teaching Forum Magazine, are sharing freely and willingly with a global audience. You only need to take a look at their publication to see what is possible. Indeed, I was honoured to be given the opportunity to contribute to the latest issue. Many thanks Tarak. I am already looking forward to the next one!

This is just one of the many examples of what is already happening.

Vive la révolution!!!

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Photos Galore at Photos8

Photos8 provides a huge collection of high resolution photographs. A great resource for presentations and projects alike, across many subject areas.

The Categories include:
Animals, Architecture, Art, Backgrounds, Birds, Electronics, Flowers, Food, Furnitures, Insects, Landscape, Macro, Miscellaneous, Money, Objects, People, Plants, Religion, Sky, Street, Sunset, Travel

The owner and creator of the site, Sam, explains what the site is all about:

Photos8  is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers. Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality public domain pictures, easy to search, You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial. As the owner I have explicitly placed it in the public domain. If you do use any photo, please consider linking back to this site or giving credit to this site. Just something like, "Photo courtesy Photos8", This is not required, but its a very good way to support the site efforts here.

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Technorati Tags: photos8, public domain

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Open Source Desk Top Publishing

Scribus is an open source DTP package. It can be used for producing all your newsletters, posters and brochures etc.  The sofware is quite powerful including some high end features that would be found in commercial packages such as Microsoft Office Publisher.

Support for Scribus is supplied in several ways including documentation, mailing list, wiki and bugtracker. You can also find several video tutorials on GoogleVideo (search for scribus).

There is also a portable version available - although I haven't tried it. The following video gives a brief introduction to the basic features of Scribus for the uninitiated!

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Technorati Tags: bugtracker, dtp, googlevideo, open source, scribus, wiki

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