The World is Your Classroom

Hooked on location-based media after September 27th's training at KQED? MIT offers some examples of how history comes alive by taking it off the page and bringing it into the hands of the learner.

I Don't Want to Be Tethered to Photoshop ANYMORE!

If you don't have the patience to edit your photos in one of those old-fashioned ON MACHINE applications, then don't.

Photo-editing software has increased in sophistication, availability, and decreased in cost.

I'd like to list out 5 free user-friendly sites for you to play around in. Most let you just upload and edit! A lot of them work well with Web 2.0 (i.e. social networking sites) really well!

• http://www.picnik.com/

Works well with Flickr, but requires an account.

• 

http://fotoflexer.com/

• http://pixenate.com/

• http://pixer.us/

• http://www.lunapic.com/editor/

Ever wonder how those MySpace pics get so fabulous?

• http://www.splashup.com/

Check 'em out. Play. And now you never have to be tied to your computer again to edit your images!