Archives for October, 2004
Kula: 1001 1001 is a desktop client to be used in conjunction with Flickr, the online photo-sharing website. 1001 not only uploads photos to your Flickr account, it notifies you anytime new photos from either your contacts, everyone, or your favorite tags are uploaded. 1001 allows you to step into the stream of photos passing [...]
NSBA T L2 2004 Conference Weblog The folks from edweblogs.org are going to be hosting a weblog from the National School Boards Association’s Technology and Leadership & Learning Conference from Denver this week. They have done this at the last two NECC’s and at other smaller edtech conferences. This is a great way to catch [...]
FlickrBlog Two new features from Flickr, the photo sharing/community site. First, in-place editing for photo titles and descriptions. You can now edit the title and description information while looking at the photo in context. Another feature is tag relatedness. Flickr already allows you to assign tags to your images to help keep them organized. They [...]
Russell Beattie Notebook – 25GB I know I’m going to learn from experience. The next time I decide to put out a potentially popular media file like that, it’ll definitely be on BitTorrent first. Russell Beattie discusses a possible downfall of becoming a popular Podcaster… bandwidth usage/charges. There has been lots of talk about Podcasting, [...]
AssortedStuff: It will be interesting to watch these “small school” experiments as they unfold, although it will probably take years to see the total effect. There is one advantage of a high school with less than 500 students, however. They won’t be able to field much of a football team and that will remove a [...]
Now I can go to bed…
flickr object: “ Alan Levine talks about the use of “Notes” in Flickr, the photosharing/community web space. Flickr has a feature where a user can assign notes to parts of an image. For example if you had a picture of a group of students, you could assign a note to each student which when moused [...]
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InsideGoogle: New Gmail Features Google’s GMail has a new feature… Atom/RSS notifications…
1. What is Google Print? Google Print enables publishers to promote their books on Google. Google scans the full text of participating publishers’ titles so that Google users can see books that match the topics that they are searching on. When a user clicks on a book search result, they’re taken to a Google-hosted web [...]
Saturday, October 2, 2004 – News: ” On Saturday, I attended the first session of the Ed 436: Technology Across the Curriculum course that I am taking as part of the MAT Flex program at Pacific University. That’s why I now find myself blogging. I am again this fall teacher a technology class for preservice [...]
Technology > Circuits > Flip Open That Cellphone: It’s IM on the Move” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/technology/circuits/07mess.html?oref=login”>The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Flip Open That Cellphone: It’s IM on the Move It looks more and more as if IM has outgrown its exclamatory roots in teenage chatter. The Washington-based Pew Internet and American Life Project [...]
FlickrBlog Flickr Unavailable Flickr has been only sporadically available since Sunday morning and was completely off the map for about 5 hours. You may still be experiencing difficulty accessing the site — if you are, try going through www1.flickr.com, www2.flickr.com, www3.flickr.com or www4.flickr.com. Looks like you can still get to it from the alternative sites…
Our music teacher at Lewis, Mr. Jamesbarry, had a great idea that we recently implemented. Last year we had talked about setting up a server to share some of the music he uses with classrooms. This summer when we moved all of our machines to OS X, he got the idea of setting up a [...]
Ed-Tech Insider: Rendezvous and Instiki: No Bookmarks To Set, No IP Numbers to Remember… I along with a few other folks including Anne Davis, Tom Hoffman and Will Richardson are posting to a community weblog over at eSchool News. My first post on that site talks about our experience at Lewis Elementary using a wiki [...]
