As you might imagine, there is huge demand to see my Photoshop hack work in one place (ahem), so I threw together the home page graphics I’ve made this year for the Student News Action Network and dropped them into zoom.it. (Please bear in mind that this is a compilation of jpegs that are only 350 pixels wide at 72ppi, so it doesn’t take long to scroll too far in.)

And here’s a view of the same images using JQuery masonry. Re-size the browser window to see the bricks adjust.

More Than Your Local Paper:
Exploding the Bounds of Learning with Global Journalism Online

Educators are inundated with buzzwords like 21st century skills and global education, but how do we bring them into the classroom effectively today? The Student News Action Network, an online high school journalism collaboration, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, is building a network of kids around the world writing research-based journalism about topic-driven issues ranging from the March earthquake in Japan to the global water crisis to women’s rights in the Arab world. We will present a practical, scalable model for meaningful international student collaboration that teachers can use in the classroom immediately.

• Entry points that work for middle schoolers up to graduating seniors
• How journalism can be a powerful tool for learning across disciplines
• Modernize and internationalize your journalism program — painlessly!
• Cultivate a positive digital footprint that students can show off to colleges and businesses

Here’s Alan November at the recent NECC conference. He says some very complimentary things about my Student News Action Network project around minute 36.