// Langwitches Blog

The Year: 2010
The Challenge: Take one photograph every day for 365 days.
Display them on my 365/2010 Challenge blog and on my Flickr 365/2010 set.
Joined the EdTech 365/2010 Flickr Group
Purpose: Digital storytelling through photo blogging and to grow as a photographer
Equipment: iPhone and Canon Rebel XS

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So, what about books?
How do YOU read, buy, store and (maybe even) write books?
Are you opposed to reading digital books? Are you clinging to the smell and feel of the hard cover? Are you a hybrid? Have you completely abandoned paper reading and writing or holding on to it? How do YOU purchase and store [...]

The Early Show Video – What eReader Means for Books – CBS.com
Journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, author of "What Would Google Do?" spoke to Harry Smith about the rising popularity of eReaders and what that means for the future of books and other publications.
(tags: videos books interviews)

Wired-Marker :: Add-ons for Firefox
Wired-Marker(http://www.wired-marker.org/en/) is a permanent (indelible) highlighter that you use on Web pages. The highlighter, which comes in various colors and styles, is a kind of electronic bookmark that serves as a guide when you revisit a Web page. The highlighted content is automatically recorded in a scrapbook and saved.
(tags: firefox extensions [...]

Free Website Templates, Web Templates, Web Design – StylishTemplate
(tags: templates wordpress themes)

Sprixi – Free images to choose and use!
(tags: images search creativecommons)

KCNN: Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
A digital literacy guide for the information age
(tags: journalism web2.0 reference pdf)

Visible Tweets – Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettiness!
(tags: twitter [...]

Every once in a while, I go hunting…
… hunting for plugins for my blog which is using WordPress as its platform.
Plugins are defined according to Wikipedia as:
a computer program that interacts with a host application to provide a certain, usually very specific, function “on demand”
Sometimes, I find a “cool” feature on someone else’s blog and [...]

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.
(tags: video creativity inspiration motivation)

Kindle Ebooks Outsell Real Books on Christmas
According to Amazon, yesterday marked the first time that more ebooks were sold than real books.
(tags: ebooks kindle articles)

Fourteen interesting ways (and tips) to encourage families to visit the sc
(tags: blogging webdesign parents)

Forget E-Books: The Future of the Book Is Far More Interesting | The Penenberg Post | Fast Company
I'm not predicting the end of immersive reading. I see a future in which immersive reading coexists with other literary, visual and auditory modes of expression. You get the full book–all the words on the page or screen–but [...]

Not too long ago, I stumbled across the presentation Learning 2.0 from Mike Lambert on Slideshare. It inspired me to build upon his version and create the following photo slides showing my vision of how learning has changed. I discovered over the last few years, that by creating visuals, I support my own learning and [...]