The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, was made possible by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in connection with its grant making initiative on Digital Media and Learning. This report points to only some of our conclusions about and principles for the future of learning institutions in a digital age. The full-length book [...]

TED (short for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a U.S. private non-profit foundation that is best known for its conferences, now held in Europe and Asia as well as the U.S., devoted to what it calls “ideas worth spreading.” Its lectures or TED Talks, widely disseminated on the Internet, are subject to an eighteen-minute time limit.

Heroines.ca is dedicated to discussing Women in Canadian History. There is an entire section dedicated to sharing tons of lesson plans for grades K-12 and beyond! Not only is this a great resource for students to learn information about women in Canadian history, but there’s also plenty of opportunities to explore and find new partners [...]

Higgins’ Light Man Saga is an amalgam of long-exposure photography, stop-motion animation, and a process called “light painting”, whereby trails of light can be manipulated and captured by a digital camera. In this work, Higgins and a group of volunteers demonstrate how these different processes can be combined into a short animated video. It is truly a unique work, one of a kind, as the light painting in each frame is slightly different from the one before and after it, lending a disjointed feel to the subject, the Light Man, as he emerges out of the darkness and explores the new world in which he finds himself.