Science fiction captures the imagination and minds of millions around the world, because it shows us things that may not be possible now, but might be in the future, or it shows us an alternate view of the world, or creates a sensationalized technological world around us. Science fiction usually combines elements of modern society, futuristic technology, and sometimes stretches the bounds of reality (hence the "fiction" part). It’s incredibly popular as a genre in art, movies, books and design. Science fiction elements work great in design, both for actual science fiction design, but also for things like logo design for cutting-edge technology companies or out-of-this-world themed parties promoted using printed flyers. Here’s some of the best sci-fi fonts you can find on the web: Space Neon Font Tron Font Matrix Font Star Wars Font Spaceship Font Blade Runner Font Xolonium Font Digital Tech Font Transformers Font Rixon Font Related Posts Awesome Free Fonts You Should Download 10 Great Free Fonts from 2011 10 High Quality Free Script Fonts Adobe Photoshop On the Web Awesome Typography Graphic Designs

Todays textures are raw and fleshy with a narrow range of focus. I shot these delicious beef steaks with my 100mm macro lense, and the result is a landscape of dark read meat. I’m pretty sure they are perfect for some projects out there. Download the set below or click the individual picture. Enjoy! Download all textures as ZIP from copy.com (13,4Mb) Did you like these textures? Let us know by leaving a comment, and you can even post a link if you used them in your artwork. Related Posts Free Texture Friday - Gritty Wall Free Texture Friday - Greenery Free Texture Friday - Seaweed Free Texture Friday - Old Stone Wall Free Texture Friday - Dark Grunge

The human mind naturally appreciates order, which is essentially a sensible arrangement of objects, items, concepts or other subjects. Commonly, lists are ordered from low to high (or vice versa), images can be ordered from darkest to lightest, or objects from smallest to largest. The brain views order as a way of making sense of surroundings, and it’s also associated with other concepts such as cleanliness and detail. However, excessive desire for order is frequently categorized as obsessive. Order and organization are fun concepts to play around with, and they can range from appealing and beautiful to almost unnerving in terms of how orderly they are, such as in these pictures: Tree and shadow By Klaus Leidorf Order and Chaos By Patricia Sweeney Intruders By Carlo Cafferini kinetic spokes By Patricia Sweeney X By Carlo Cafferini Melbourne City Bikes By Son G @ the Market By Hinanit Kazir The Organized Randoms By Sam Azmy A Family of Russian Dolls By Kieron Doherty Fishing time By Dora Apostolova Stacked Conduits By Atilla BAYRAM "Order of Glass" | "Ordine di Vetro" By MAURIZIO PONTINI Arrangement By Hessam M. An0maly By Ofer Perl Order By Frozen Angilo Mohammed Spring Lines By Dirk Wüstenhagen Presents By Danilo Ascione Row of shadows By Klaus Leidorf frost……….. By Ulrike Morlock-Fien nature’s song By Codrin Lupei DE BRUGES A DAMME, le canal… By Magda Indigo THE CANALS of FLANDERS, AROUND DAMME… By Magda Indigo Jay Pritzker Pavilion By Roy Yang Some Trees and Some Snow By Daniel Weber O O o o O O By ionut jay Order By Phuc Doan ANOTHER UNIQUE VIEW… By Magda Indigo Structure By Jamie Condon Untitled By 660j Pattern By Andor Auber Related Posts Chaos and Disorder in Photography The Art of Flour Windows: More than Just an Opening in Photography 30 Extraordinary Superhero Photographs Abstract Art in the Simple Leaf

Lightroom is one of the most popular image editing programs out there, and with good reason: it has a large suite of tools for enhancing, editing and altering photographs. Lightroom is non-destructive, so it doesn’t erase the original image. One of Lightroom’s great features is the ability to use presets, which are basically a set of alterations that can be instantly applied to an image. Presets can edit colors, contrast, sharpness and more aspects of an image, and they can be altered after application. Here’s some of the most useful Lightroom presets to enhance your photos: Enlighten Urban Elegant Fade HDR Sharpening Desaturate Me Vintage Faded Film Pinhole Warming Related Posts PhotoPresets for Lightroom Free Texture Friday - Old Rusted Fence Free Texture Friday - Old Plywood Free and Useful Photoshop Actions The Best Free Minimal Tumblr Themes

Last week, we looked at how order and organization works well in photography and creates a naturally appealing visual for the eye to look at. However, not everything in the world is organized and orderly, in fact, many things behave chaotically and are wild, unpredictable and disordered. These concepts can also play well in photography, and in a strange way, almost create a sense of order through their chaotic nature. Seemingly random or disordered items can develop their own organization and patterns, but pure chaos also has a naturally appealing style in photography. Here’s some examples of chaos and disorder in photographs: Chaos By ido meirovich chaos in the water By Dimitar Chungovski chaos By Robert Order and Chaos By Patricia Sweeney Chaos 4 Sale By Kevin Doolan Chaos By Sreekumar Mahadevan Pillai Oystercatchers By Andrej Chudy Birds of Chaos By Ahmet Ünal Conscious chaos. By Sachin Gangadharan Macau By Cesar Nascimento Flying Free By Patrick Davis Hamburg Train Station By Mon Cano Chaos By Himanshu Sharma By Axel Hahn Chaos By MJU Photoworks Chaos from the top By Amith Nag chaos By baris can Streets of Kathmandu By markhuls1965 Water Chaos By Lúcio Dias Chaos By Máximo Panés Winter Chaos. By Mikko Raima The Silence of the Lambs By Istvan Kadar Birds… from Hitchcock By Fátima Silveira Lost By Guy Cohen Photography Cold Morning Flight By Doug Roane TAKING FLIGHT By Lee Fisher Effoliation By Nadav Dov Boretzki Birds By Tony N. Looking for a place… By Ronen Rosenblatt Sparkles By Chris Related Posts Perfectly Orderly and Organized Photographs Refreshing Photos Involving Water Windows: More than Just an Opening in Photography The Art of Flour Abstract Art in the Simple Leaf

Pink is a light reddish color that is often associated with femininity, love, beauty and romance, and the name is derived from flowers called pinks and their frilled edges. Pink is most often used in design for feminine products, flowers, hygiene products and other related products, and it can be a difficult color to design around if not used properly. It most often combines well with purple, white, or black. In this post we’ll look at some pink web designs that will inspire you. Herstory L’Oreal Makeup Genius Bolds Bloom Visualization symodd Mr. Sketch The Christmas Endorser Miceli Studios Epic Exit Related Posts Pretty in Pink Photographs Free Texture Friday - Pink Colored Paper Flat Agency Web Designs to Inspire You Fashion and Beauty Web Designs Inspiring Retro Web Designs

If you’re new to eLearning, then understanding and following instructional design best practices from the beginning is crucial to your success. The eLearning niche is vast, and you will find numerous theories, models, and resources that have worked for different experts. Leave them for later. Begin with the basic, most widely used models that eLearning designers acknowledge and use to structure and plan their training: ADDIE Model Merrill’s Principles of Instruction Gagne’s Nine Events of Instructions Bloom’s Taxonomy Note: This overview doesn't intend to evaluate the models. Each framework has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the choice of which to use will depend on which model works best for you, your company, and your learners. 

Tim and I have been discussing how our own experience in designing the SCORM Engine might directly apply to the "platform for e-learning" being discussed by LETSI. Behind the scenes, the SCORM Engine is essentially a platform that facilitates adding plug-in functionality to LMS’s. In this case, the plug-ins are currently all learning standards. For instance, the available plug-ins allow an LMS to support, AICC, SCORM 1.1, SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 2nd Edition, SCORM 2004 3rd Edition and IMS Sharable State Persistence. We have high level designs to extend the SCORM Engine to support other plug-ins like a discussion boards or an assessment engine. An added benefit of the SCORM Engine’s architecture is its integration layer that allows it to tie into any LMS. The diagram below shows how the SCORM Engine’s architecture allows for it to be integrated with any LMS and serve as a platform for supporting many content delivery mechanisms. Should LETSI move towards a path similar to the one described here we would look forward to contributing our experience and lessons learned from the design of the SCORM Engine.

This is a festive time of year. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the New Year, or if you’re just excited that it might snow soon, we wish you and your loved ones all the best. The other day, I was talking with a few other entrepreneurs about how how we handle holiday gifts for employees. I’m proud of the answer I gave and figured I’d share it. Tim and I select personal, meaningful gifts for each of our employees. We try to give our employees something they will really enjoy and perhaps something they wouldn’t normally treat themselves to. It’s hard and it takes some work, but it’s worth it. So, what did we get this year: Brian, the rabid Tennessee Titans fan, will be taking his family to the sold out final home game against the Steelers. David, the disc golf pro, will get his own disc golf goal at the office for coffee break practice sessions. He’s also getting a book on toilet paper origami since he has a reputation for never replacing the roll. Joe, the Xbox fanatic, is getting the complete Guitar Hero world tour set. He will also get a new fleece pullover to replace the one he constantly wears to work that bears the logo of his former employer. John, the newly born do-it-yourselfer, will get a power tool shopping spree at Lowe’s. Eric and Troy, the two employees competing for the title of corporate brewmaster, will get kegging kits and kegerators for storing their home brewed beer. (Yes, this might be a subtle hint to share the spoils.) Kevin and Jean, our cultured crew, are getting season tickets to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Rustici Software is very much a lifestyle company. We strive to create an environment where we want to work and where others will want to work. That goal is often in conflict with growth. We have no ambition to be a large blockbuster company. We intentionally want to stay small. But how big is too big? I think the answer might be defined by our gift policy. I want to always know our employees well enough that we can give them a thoughtful and personal gift.

ADL recently released beta versions of the SCORM 2004 4th Edition Conformance Test Suite and Sample Run Time Environment. 4th Edition adds 4 new features and 30-something clarifications/enhancements/bug fixes to SCORM 2004. This evolution is not a drastic change to the specification, but should represent a significant step forward in the compatibility and usability of SCORM 2004. Since most of the changes are simply clarifications, the implementation burden on SCORM adopters should be rather light. For content developers, only minimal changes (if any) will be required. Most content should be unaffected by the update to 4th Edition. LMS vendors (as always) will have a greater load to carry. For them, the amount of development work required will vary considerably based on the quality of their 3rd Edition implementations. The 4 new features should be rather straight-forward to implement, but the numerous clarifications will present varying levels of difficulty to different vendors. The new features include: -Rollup of weighted completion data. SCORM 2004 has always include a "progress measure" data model element that indicates "how complete" the user is on an individual SCO. This data will now be officially rolled up with different activities having different weights. This weighting and rollup will give an accurate picture of the user’s overall completion of a course and enable LMS’s to provide accurate progress bars. -Jump navigation request. Many sequenced courses want to provide the ability for SCOs to control navigation in a way that is different than what is available to the user. Previously, the navigation requests that a SCO was allowed to make were identical to what the learner was allowed to do. The new "jump" navigation request gives content authors more sequencing options and separates the requests that are available to internal calls from the requests that the learner is allowed to initiate. -Shared data between SCOs. SCORM 2004 4th Edition now allows SCOs to share arbitrary buckets of data. When creating a sequenced course, it is often very helpful to have a common pool of data that different SCOs can access to maintain a shared state. The lack of this functionality has always been a big obstacle to creating cohesive sequenced content. -More objective data available globally. All of the objective data that can be reported at runtime is now available to be shared with other SCOs and courses via global objectives. This will provide for simpler and more creative sequencing strategies. Part of our duty as members of the ADL Technical Working Group is to be early implementers of new specifications to help ADL verify their accuracy. We are already working to update our products for SCORM 2004 4th Edition. The SCORM Engine was first on the list and we’re making good progress. ADL added or changed 92 LMS test cases for 4th Edition. Of those, 23 deal with the new features that we are starting to implement. Of the other 69 dealing with clarifications and bug fixes, we currently pass all but 12 of them. Of those 12 remaining test cases, 6 have open questions of interpretation that we’re discussing with ADL and the TWG. The other 6 should be completed soon. Currently 4th Edition is in a beta period for review and public comment. Please let us and/or ADL if you have any feedback about the changes made for 4th Edition before the public comment period elapses. We intend to release a 4th Edtion complaint version of the SCORM Engine to the public SCORM Test Track instance shortly after it is completed. We will have production-ready and formally released versions of all our products that are compliant with 4th Edition very shortly after 4th Edition is finalized and out of beta.