You can add pro-quality voiceovers to your digital imagery with just a few simple tools and Mac OS X. Derrick Story shows you how to easily record and edit QuickTime audio. [by way of...O'Reilly Network Articles]

Derrick Story always does a great job explaining the use of digital cameras with software such as iPhoto. This time he explains how to add voice overs to iPhoto projects.

OregonLive.com: Oregon Special Election News

Elderly people, the disabled, state troopers, school teachers and others are bracing for state funding cuts after Oregon voters rejected an income tax increase. The proposed tax hike, which lawmakers said would have spared the state from having to make $310 million in cuts, was rejected Tuesday. The state already slashed $700 million from the budget last year, and lawmakers have failed in five special sessions to solve the state’s budget crisis.

Portland Public Schools will now cut an additional 9 school days, in addition to the 15 they have already cut from the school year….

heraldtribune.com: Southwest Florida’s Information Leader

Library of Congress Starts Sound RegistryBy CARL HARTMANAssociated Press WriterClose your eyes and just listen.There’s President Theodore Roosevelt denouncing corporate swindles. Robert Frost reading his poetry. Buffalo Bill Cody urging war with Spain over Cuba.They are joined by 2.5 million other voices - some famous, some not - and sounds - the huffing and puffing of a steam locomotive is one - preserved at the Library of Congress.On Monday, Librarian of Congress James Billington was announcing the first 50 sounds to be entered in a National Recording Registry. It seeks to ensure even greater protection for some of the most notable songs, speeches and other utterances.

[By way of...The Shifted Librarian]

oreilly.com — Online Catalog: Content Syndication with RSS Ben Hammersley’s book about RSS syndication will be published in March by O’Reilly. A sample chapter is available for download….

Tim Lauer
Teacher, Portland Public Schools, Portland, Oregon

This weblog is mainly a place for me to note and organize information I find relating to education and the use of technology in education. In addition it acts as a platform for discussion with others with similar interests.

In His Time of Dying

The show’s only guest would be Warren Zevon, the songwriter known for the twisted humor of songs like ”Lawyers, Guns and Money,” ”Werewolves of London” and ”Poor Poor Pitiful Me” and for troubled love songs like ”Hasten Down the Wind” and ”Accidentally Like a Martyr.” Zevon, 56, is a dying man.

The server that hosts this weblog will be down for service beginning today at noon Pacific time… the outage should not be too long, but you never know…