Learn By Doing

A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education

Author: John Walker

  • Find a Complementary Color Quick with Whats Its Color

    Find a Complementary Color Quick with Whats Its Color Some of us have a great eye for complementary colors and matches—and then some of us still don’t understand why brown shoes and black pants are a bad idea. For anyone looking to set an image against a complementary background or find a color scheme, Whats…

  • Inspired and Engaged by Authentic Learning in 2007

    Infinite Thinking Machine Inspired and Engaged by Authentic Learning in 2007 Friday, December 28, 2007 Posted by Lucie deLaBruere comments Comments [2] With the countdown towards the end of 2007, comes a time of reflection for many. Some include those reflections in their annual holiday greeting cards; others are more private. Time Magazine reflects on…

  • Tourist Remover

    Tourist Remover Remove moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from your photos. Take multiple photos from the same scene and the «Tourist Remover» blends them into a composite photo without any interfering elements.

  • How to Take Notes Like an Alpha-Geek

    How to Take Notes Like an Alpha-Geek From Tim Ferris (click the link above for his article) Low-Information Diet and Selective Ignorance I take notes like some people take drugs. There is an eight-foot stretch of shelves in my house containing nothing but full notebooks. Some would call this hypergraphia (Dostoevsky was a member of…

  • Geek to Live: Take study-worthy lecture notes

    Geek to Live: Take study-worthy lecture notes by Gina Trapani Copying class notes after the fact is a time-consuming way to study for an exam, but it was the only thing that truly worked for me back in college. But next week I’ll be in a classroom again for the first time in 8 years,…