Archives for November, 2004
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.)
News from Reading Today Daily The International Reading Association has started a companion weblog for their publication Reading Today, Reading Today Daily. RSS feeds and everything… Nice to see that organization start to utilize blogs and more importantly RSS…
Intelligent Agents power Student Support ‘Chat-bots’: “The South Orange County Commuity College District has put intelligent agents to work fielding questions from students through instant messaging. Students are able to ask questions about classes,their college and resources available to students in” (Via EDUCAUSE Blogs -.) Cyprien Lomas points to an interesting support approach utilizing an [...]
