Educational Desktop Wallpaper

A Bear

I've recently decided my computer desktop is not helping me out like it could. I see the same beach photo for hours--why not make it something useful? I figure I could passively learn something just by having, say the US presidents set as my desktop. Problem is, I cant find anywhere that offers such things. Anyone know of a place where I can find high-quality, free-to-use images that might end up teaching me something? I particularly would like US history/political items (maps, lists of leaders, timelines) but I'm not picky.

The_Glad_Hatter

i don't really have an answer, but i'd just like to say that this sounds like a pretty good idea.

I try to get the same thing done using various widgets; word of the day, this day in history.... Maybe you could install something similar on your system.

DekuStick

You could very easily make these yourself.

Then you'll learn even more by making it.

panksea06

Periodic tables are good. I have a widget I left open all the time with that, which could also have color codes corresponding to melting point or ionization energy, so you would actually get a graphical sense of the periodic trends.

Those images are easy enough to find and use, I dont know of any for history though...

I suppose you could go through the wikipedia images of the day, and screenshot their text and the image, or put the caption over the image and create a folder of those. It would probably take about a minute per one, so get 30 or so and have them rotate daily, changing out every month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2008

A Bear

panksea06 wrote: »

Periodic tables are good. I have a widget I left open all the time with that, which could also have color codes corresponding to melting point or ionization energy, so you would actually get a graphical sense of the periodic trends.

Those images are easy enough to find and use, I dont know of any for history though...

I suppose you could go through the wikipedia images of the day, and screenshot their text and the image, or put the caption over the image and create a folder of those. It would probably take about a minute per one, so get 30 or so and have them rotate daily, changing out every month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/February_2008

I found a couple of maps I've put up on rotation, but history seems to be a tricky topic to get images from. I had hoped some textbook company would have presented a selection of graphs and charts for public use- but so far no luck.