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More free art for reuse

Byryan October 13, 2021October 12, 2021

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has put over 700,000 digitised copies of its huge art collection online, and is making them available to reuse as public domain

Source: Over 700,000 paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free

You need to create an account to download the high resolution jpgs, but without an account you can still right-click – save image as to download a pretty decent quality image. The English site is available here, but it switches to Danish if you try to download an image, so be prepared for that.

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Moose is a source of free stock photos from Icons8

Byryan September 16, 2020September 9, 2020

Source: Free Stock Photos – Simply Beautiful, Creative, Professional | Icons8 It seems that free stock photos are available from everywhere, so why am I mentioning yet another one? Well, when I start to recognize Unsplash photos on websites and in videos, I realize that sometimes you need to mix it up. Moose is yet…

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Communicating efficiently

Byryan January 29, 2020January 28, 2020

The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here. Source: Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way It’s a long read, but well…

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How did I miss this before?!? Free resources from Open Culture

Byryan February 5, 2019February 5, 2019

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it,…

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Fixed vs growth interests

Byryan November 30, 2019November 30, 2019

Urging people to find their passion may lead them to put all their eggs in one basket but then to drop that basket when it becomes difficult to carry. Source: Implicit Theories of Interest: Finding Your Passion or Developing It? When I first pulled up the paper, I jumped right to the abstract. After reading…

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US Dept. of Ed starts #GoOpen, promoting the open licensing of educational materials

Byryan November 2, 2015October 31, 2015

U.S. Department of Education Launches Campaign to Encourage Schools to #GoOpen with Educational Resources The U.S. Department of Education announced today the launch of #GoOpen, a campaign to encourage states, school districts and educators to use openly licensed educational materials. As part of the campaign, the Department is proposing a new regulation that would require…

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Sharing: Waving Goodbye to Drive-By PD

Byryan April 26, 2016April 26, 2016

A Principal’s Reflections: Waving Goodbye to Drive-By PD There has been a great deal of knocks on professional development as of late and rightfully so. More often than not, professional development is something that is done to educators as opposed to an experience that they truly value for growth. For many, district professional development is…

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