Brain Games & Brain Training The Internet Inferno Spell with flickr Please send me comments, suggestions or questions, kastner@gmail.com. I love getting emails about Spell with Flickr - and all my programming projects. It was just a few hours ago that I posted my Goals for 2008 and I'm releasing my first project of the year. It's nothing big, but it was a fun little distraction. The hide-an-image-in-text-with-css3-creator-thing If you're one of those folks who might care about how something like this might work, here's the source. read the rest at Meta | ateM Spell with flick grabs images from flickr (the One Letter and One Digit groups) and uses them to spell what you've typed in.
Turn-O-Phrase - Word Puzzles for Culture Buffs FLICKR TOOLBOX: 100+ Tools For Flickr Addicts Flickr is back in the news this week with reports that it will add video. But we're still loving the photo-sharing element: here's 100+ ways to get even more out of the popular photo site. Desktop Applications 1001 for Mac OS X - Allows batch uploading and can notify you of new photos uploaded by your friends. Background Switcher - Will auto-change your desktop background on a Windows machine at intervals of your choosing from a pool of photos you pick. Desktop Flickr Organizer for Gnome - Desktop organizer for Linux that allows online and offline work on your photos and tagging. Flickr and Webimager - Lets you capture your entire screen, or just a portion, and auto-upload it to your account. Flickr Exporter for Aperture - Tag and upload your photos, store ID and URL for your photos in the Aperture program. Flickr Exporter for iPhoto -Edit photos, add tags, resize before loading and several other useful options. Flickr Finder - Mac OS X application for browsing your photos. Firefox Extensions
26 Learning Games for Change | Serious Games | Online Learning Games Note: Learning games have really taken off since I originally wrote this post a number of years ago (right before the 5th annual Games for Change Festival). As a result, this post is past due for an update. If you know of other learning games you feel should be added, or have updates/perspectives concerning any of the games listed here, please comment or contact me. Fair warning, you could easily eat up a big chunk of your day following the links in this post. Here’s a list of the learning games I found : Web-Based Learning Games Karma Tycoon Developed by DoSomething.org “rocks the gaming world by offering you a thrilling ride through the world of social entrepreneurship as you earn Karma in virtual communities across the US.” Ayiti: The Cost of Life “What is it like to live in poverty, struggling every day to stay healthy, keep out of debt, and get educated? 3rd World Farmer Go Goat Go “Get a goat to help you grow more food! Darfur is Dying My U.S. eLections: Your Adventure in Politics P.S.
Five Card Flickr Have Fun Teaching How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr Yes, the absolute correct way! I previously asked how you credit a CC photo from Flickr. Since then I’ve been doing my research and here is the results – The correct way to credit a photo. You need to follow the guidelines set by the license. keep intact any copyright notices for the Workcredit the author, licensor and/or other parties (such as a wiki or journal) in the manner they specify;include the title of the Workthe URL for the work if applicableIf you are making a derivative word or adaptation, in addition to the above, you need to identify that your work is a derivative work i.e., “This is a Finnish translation of the [original work] by [author].” or “Screenplay based on [original work] by [author].” My addition/suggestion Let the author know. That is a lot to include. Example 1. The monkeys are here! Originally uploaded by Librarian by Day blog this test Example 2. Example 3. CC Image courtesy of Librarian by Day on Flickr Example 4. Example 5. This photo, “The monkeys are here!”
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