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Saturday, October 9, 2010

9 Free Resources for Learning Photoshop

9 Free Resources for Learning Photoshop
MASHABLE! | OCTOBER 8, 2010
http://pulsene.ws/86nD

This post originally appeared on My Life Scoop, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about using social media and ...

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

New map of the social universe

The genius that is xkcd does it again!

http://www.xkcd.com/802/

Coming soon to every answer to the question "What does the Internet look like?"

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Describe your most rewarding learning experience

The National Institute for the Study of Organizational Development (NISOD) has announced an essay contest for community college students. Describe your most rewarding learning experience with a faculty, staff or administrator at your college. You could win up to $1,000!

Full details and contest rules in the link.

http://www.nisod.org/student_essay/

Submission Deadline

November 8, 2010
(Midnight–Central Standard Time)

Essay Topic

Describe your most rewarding learning experience with a faculty, staff, or administrator at your college.

$3,000+ in Prizes

$1,000 to the Student Author
$1,000 to the Faculty/Staff/Administrator Featured in the Essay
Complimentary 2011–2012 NISOD Membership to the Student’s College ($1,000 value)

Click here for a list of additional prizes

Monday, September 27, 2010

7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College

7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/PeoDifR2X2I/

Shared via Pulse

"There are more writing opportunities than ever, but they require skills that Strunk and White never dreamed of. This course will teach you how to Photoshop images to create a narrative, edit a 20-second YouTube video, compress your thoughts into 140 characters (or clarify them into a PowerPoint presentation that won’t put your audience to sleep), write a wiki entry that encourages other people to edit and adapt it, and ensure your work goes viral, turning readers into vectors for your ideas."

If this sounds a bit familiar to some of you, it's because this hypothetical course in Wired - Writing for New Forms - tracks pretty much point for point my NET225S Writing for Electronic Media course.