Monday, September 26, 2011

Montreal: the old city

Montreal: the old city

Tour of old Montreal

Tour of old Montreal

Old Montreal

Use what you learned about Old Montreal by matching pictures with the details you learned. Include about 10 pictures and some text using either Animoto or PhotoPeach. You can refer to the notes I took here.

Here is an example of Animoto:


and here is an example using PhotoPeach:

Friday, September 23, 2011

Digital Dumping around the World

Many of you wrote about the environmentally-friendly aspect of using computers and the internet. However, the digital dumping of electronic waste is creating a catastrophic environmental problems in many parts of the developing world. This video, made by University of British Columbia students in the School of Journalism, documents this problem. You can read a synopsis of the video and find more links here. In particular, learn more about The Dark Side of the Information Age.


Here is a more recent and shorter video that covers the same topic.