Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. – Maya Angelou

Mr. Walker's Classroom Blog

  • Big Buck Bunny is an animated short, released under the Creative Common Attribution license.

    The film is about “a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps… and the rabbit ain’t no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.”

    The film is a project of the Blender Foundation. Blender is a free open source 3D content creation suite.This “open movie” project had as main targets:

    • Developing tools in Blender for editing and rendering hair, fur or grass
    • Improve character animation tools for cartoonish motion and deformation
    • Test Blender with giant outdoor environments, with large grassy fields and many trees with leaves
    • Further validate Blender as a professional animation creation suite

    And secondary:

    • Create a great and good looking animation short, licensed freely as open content
    • Provide content for other artists to learn from or to re-use, including documentation and tutorials

    It’s a cool project – and it’s an animated flick that’s free for you to remix and reuse!

  • Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch

    In Interface by Collis

    In this tutorial we’ll put together a high-end web design using a crisp, thin font, gorgeous background images and clever use of space and layout. You can easily use the technique to create your own unique designs.

    Then when you’re finished reading this tutorial, you can cross over to our sister site NETTUTS and follow along as we build the design into clean and simple HTML. OK let’s rock’n’roll!
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  • Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain

    By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM

    Published: February 21, 2008
    Reprinted for class from the NYTimes.com

    THE prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination — pasty, geeky, male — has failed to live up to his reputation.

    LAUREN RENNER, 16 On Agirlsworld.com, blogged about her daily life and worked on the site’s “My first prom” magic story that lets girls fill in blanks and make a tale about themselves.

    Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The X Files.” On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls.

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  • The Frugal PC Builder’s Toolbox: 100 Tools and Resources for Finding Cheap Parts

    Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 12:55pm by The Free Geek

    Whether you’re a geek who loves to mess with gadgetry or just someone looking to find a more personalized and price-conscious PC, building your own computer can be a rewarding experience for both you and your wallet when it’s done right. Part of the fun of creating your own machine is in finding all the parts, and for bargain hunters out there, finding them at a substantial discount. Fortunately, the Internet is full of resources to make building a computer from scratch budget friendly and easier than ever. Here are a number of places where you can begin your hunt for cheap parts for your next home built PC.

    General These tech sites can provide you on great deals for every part of your computer building project.

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  • Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 12:55pm by The Free Geek

    Whether you’re a geek who loves to mess with gadgetry or just someone looking to find a more personalized and price-conscious PC, building your own computer can be a rewarding experience for both you and your wallet when it’s done right. Part of the fun of creating your own machine is in finding all the parts, and for bargain hunters out there, finding them at a substantial discount. Fortunately, the Internet is full of resources to make building a computer from scratch budget friendly and easier than ever. Here are a number of places where you can begin your hunt for cheap parts for your next home built PC. (more…)