I came across SchoolTVmadeEasy.com when looking for resources for my school's budding TV news production team. It's very useful if you use Adobe Visual Communicator as your software platform, and fairly useful even if you use a different solution.
Elegantly designed modern-day furniture
via fastcompany.com
Wow, the team that designed the new New York City subway cars and JetBlue's touch-screen terminals now comes out with furniture for the modern office. Designs that are about creating warm, workable, interactive spaces. I love the aesthetics. Read more at FastCompany.
How do you create an effective workspace? Does furniture matter? I think about this a lot when looking at classrooms. Some people are really pushing how aesthetics of a space impact performance. Just think about the average classroom where all desks face the blackboard. It suggests that the info is at the front and is being delivered to the kids - that's not necessarily bad, it is just what the room creates. Do we need to change that? I'd argue generally, yes.
Online portfolios made easy and elegant by Carbonmade
Carbonmade is a new portfolio site that lets you quickly and easily make your own online portfolio. I could see a site like this being used by a school for student portfolio creation. Why shouldn't your students' portfolios look this professional?
via @photojojo
An impressive demo of Google Chrome OS. What will we do with this?
via youtube.com
This video does a good job at showing how simple a browser-based operating system could be. This could work wonders for users without high tech demands or high tech skills. Or is it also for experts?
Google ditches Windows on security concerns - sounds like PR stunt to me
Google ditches Windows on security concerns
via ft.com
In wild, but not shocking, news Google is phasing out support for Microsoft Windows on employee machines. This doesn't seem to be a public announcement so much as news sniffed out from employees. According to the FT article employees can choose the Mac OS or Linux (no mention of which version/flavor). They also discuss Chrome, although unlikely that engineers will be working on Chrome since it is supposed to be a web-OS, no? Don't they need apps, compilers, hard drive storage, etc? Lots to be seen in this story, but for now just looks like Google taking a jab at Microsoft. Nice jab.
via @courosa