Archive for the 'Photos' Category

PhotoPeach! (a fun tool using photos)

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

PhotoPeach! http://photopeach.com is one of my new favorite sites!
I’ve been quite busy learning through participation in online courses exploring the use of images — and exploring the pedagogy and andragogy of using various tools in the classroom/with learners completing projects.
Here’s a PhotoPeach I created about items I like to collect.
driftwood and yard photos on [...]

Light pollution

Monday, December 15th, 2008

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/light-pollution/richardson-photography

The link above is to a very interesting visual display by National Geographic.

Have you ever considered how different the skies are now from when you were a child?

When I looked at these photos, I was ‘transported’ to vivid memories from childhood — hours spent staring at the milkyway, looking for patterns in the sky, watching [...]

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

 

photo courtesy of ‘fabdawg’ (Flickr photos)
The below link will take you to a site with lots of incredible photos from Hurricane Ike.  Sobering, fascinating, awe-inspiring – 
http://www.tpicks.com/pictures%20people%20have%20sent%20me.html
Events like this, when reviewed, after the fact, always remind me of the innate resilience of humankind.  Awful things happen to lots of people — and yet so many survive, [...]