As we teach kids about trying to decide what’s real and what’s not, the issue of digital images raises the bar. It’s a LOT tougher nowadays to tell if images have been forged. The first link below is a short movie showing a few examples of images that have been altered. I think it’s a great place to start.

The second link below takes you to a spot on a page containing several links to other sites that show forged digital images. I’m sure a good search will show even more. But, it sure is fascinating!

http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/detective/

http://pages.citebite.com/g2a0l9q6h7jdx - lots more

Watch this – if you can.

http://digg.com/lbv.php?id=2892241&ord=1

The drugging of our children – to keep them in their seats? This is a digg post.

I just received an email from the team at Splashcast.net saying that a new and improved version will appear on their site tomorrow. New features include a full screen button (YEAH!), captions, and more. Since I plan to demo that one for my part of the k12online conference I’m glad to see that it’s out now – rather than the day after I finish making my presentation.

J

http://splashcast.net

When I copied the email out of Outlook (don’t get me started!) the url’s were changed to include the address of our webmail server. Clever, eh?

Here are the corrected links:

The wikiscanner search engine that "reveals all"
http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

A "best of list" from Wired Magazine
http://wired.reddit.com/wikidgame/

An example:  Diebold attempting to wipe out references to security
issues with voting machines. (theirs!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=28623410