Archives for 2004
Cocoal.icio.us: A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X I can’t remember where I found this, but this is a great little client for folks who use del.icio.us for bookmark management. Basically it is a client interface for your del.icio.us account. The paned window interface allows for the viewing of sites right in the application. [...]
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here Worldchanging is a multi-author web site that focuses on technology, the developing world, and solutions to problems. With the recent tragedy in South Asia the articles and posts here have been very informative and timely. The most recent post points to W. David Stephenson’s list of 10 key security model [...]
A quick look around this morning finds that some very popular sites such as Amazon, Apple, Google, A9, Yahoo and others have rewritten their home pages to point folks to South Asia Response Fund locations. Amazon makes it very easy with one-click giving… Update: More places to make donations…American Red Cross: donate to the International [...]
Today Will Richardson wrote about how information from the tsunami effected areas of the Indian Ocean is being published by not only traditional news sources, but also bloggers and how a tool such as RSS can be used to help one keep up to date with the latest information. He points to a New York [...]
A Woman of Our Times (washingtonpost.com) Katz was a refugee, born in Germany, fleeing the Nazis as a child, then walking with her family away from Nazi-occupied France through the Pyrenees to Spain, then going on to Portugal and, finally, New York. David Broder has a nice article on our mayor and her career as [...]
The Graphing Calculator Story I was frustrated by all the wasted effort, so I decided to uncancel my small part of the project. I had been paid to do a job, and I wanted to finish it. My electronic badge still opened Apple’s doors, so I just kept showing up. Facinating story behind the classic [...]
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Google Library (Google Weblog) Much of the discussion around this endeavor has focused on its effect for the largely-affluent and privileged children who go to the major universities from which the books are taken. Will they stop going to the library? Will they miss the smell of dead trees? Will they be able to do [...]
Feeling Final: “My first semester is over, and you’d think I’d be overjoyed, but not-so-much. I have, however, learned some very important lessons… hipteacher’s lessons learned after her first sememster… I find lesson number one to be especially relevant this week…
Technology > Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/technology/14google.html?hp&ex=1103086800&en=9d5c79b92752adff&ei=5094&partner=homepage”>The New York Times > Technology > Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database Google, the operator of the world’s most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement today with some of the nation’s leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin [...]
Remixing Wikis for Elementary School Classrooms: Instiki, Wifi, and Rendezvous Tom Hoffman, Manager, SchoolTool Tim Lauer, Principal, Lewis Elementary School Tom Hoffman and I will have the opportunity to present at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005 in March in San Diego. I have had the opportunity to attend this conference twice in the past [...]
THE list Originally uploaded by lydiamaria. My oldest daughter’s list of what still needs to get done before she can come home from college for winter break…
Engadget Interview with Caterina Fake from Flickr: “Flickr is quickly becoming one of the most popular “moblog” and photo sharing site, is it the interface? The APIs? Caterina talks about this and more! Do you plan to support video in the future? We would like to support short-form video — like the kind of video [...]
Necessity: A computer, a data projector and a file cabinet… Originally uploaded by timlauer. My good friend Andy is one of the best teachers I have ever met. That being said, he does have a tendency to drop his laptop from time to time. This morning he came to work and discovered after another drop [...]
‘Flickr’ is in an online photo class by itself | csmonitor.com The Christian Science Monitor writes about Flickr. Also today on the Flickr blog, Caterina Fake of the Flickr team points to some more recent press for the popular photo sharing web tool…
Flickr: Photo Sharing and Community Building: “Flickr is a photo sharing and photo community site that delivers on the promise of building community around images. At its most basic level, Flickr allows people to upload images, describe them, and then allow others to discuss them. Throw in a bunch of features such as slide shows, [...]
Idea Lab: Life Way After Head Start” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/magazine/21IDEA.html?oref=login”>The New York Times Magazine > Idea Lab: Life Way After Head Start Not only has the Perry study set records for longevity, but it also asks the truly pertinent question: what is the impact of preschool, not on the test scores of 7-year-olds but on their life [...]
Ed-Tech Insider: A New Way To Picture The News Over at eSchoolNews.com I point to 10 x 10, (Via AssortedStuff.) a web site that searches the RSS feeds of three major news organizations and returns the top 100 words associated with the stories found in those news feeds and associates them with photographs from those [...]
oreilly.com — Online Catalog: Wireless Hacking Just a few of the things you’ll learn from this book… * Use existing Ethernet cables to provide low-voltage power to Access Points with no additional source of electricity. * Install Linux and FreeBSD on low-cost (under $150) Soekris single-board computers. * Modify the firmware of your Linksys WRT54g. [...]
NASA Earth Observatory A few months ago I wrote to the folks at the NASA Earth Observatory web site and asked them if they planned to offer an RSS feed. Today I received an email from their development team indicating they now have an rss feed. The feed can be found here.
Flat Stanley Weblog At Lewis Mrs. Crouse’s 3rd grade classroom is taking part in a Flat Stanley activity with a classroom in Vancouver, WA. The idea behind this is that students share a paper Stanley and then write about the adventures of the visiting Stanley and share these adventures with the partner classroom. This can [...]
Walmart.com – 1 Hour Photo Wal Mart is now offering 1 hour photo prints online. You upload the images to the Wal Mart site and in an hour pick them up at your local Wal Mart. Of course that means you have to actually go to Wal Mart to get the prints, but the idea [...]
OS X Home/Classroom Library Catalog Tool: “Delicious Library (note: the name has nothing to do with del.icio.us the social bookmarks manager.) is an Macintosh OS X application that allows for the cataloging of a home or classroom library collection, a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. You can import your information [...]
Experiencing War (Voices of War): Stories from the Veterans History Project (Library of Congress) A very good example of how the web can bring alive the stories of peoples lives and allow it to be shared. This is what good educational software should be…
Election result maps Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results… Or why Rhode Island matters more than Wyoming… (Via low culture.)
