Archives for May, 2005
During the spring quarter I have been working with two fourth grade reading groups 4 days a week. One group has recently been reading John Reynolds Gardiner’s Stone Fox. It is the story of a boy named Willie who lives in Wyoming with his ailing grandfather on a potato farm and they are facing some [...]
With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour: “The rise of podcasting is now enabling museumgoers to concoct their own unofficial audio guides and tours.” Today the New York Times has a piece about the rise of do it yourself museum audio tours. Instead of renting the museum audio device, you might download to [...]
WNYC – News – Flushing School Serves Immigrant Students There are more immigrants living in New York City than at any time since the 1920s. Thirty six percent of all New Yorkers were born outside the United States, according to the 2000 Census. The immigration boom has changed the face of the city’s public schools. [...]
Podcast support in next version of iTunes: Over at O’Reilly Radar, Tim O’Reilly details a presentation by Apple’s Steve Jobs at the Wall Street Journal’s D Conference where Jobs discusses ipodder like features coming to iTunes. I especially liked his Wayne’s World comment. The aspect of podcasting that interests me is the time shifting of [...]
60 second story The 60 Second Story web site takes submissions of 60 seconds or less. They are works of fiction “1 minute and 1 second or less in duration told in low-bandwith video clips. They’re easy and and fun to make, and make the web one story richer.”
Kaifeng-on-the-Hudson: “Nicholas D. Kristof says the Big Apple could go the way Kaifeng, China, if the U.S. doesn’t make some bold changes.” Today, The New York Times has a multimedia piece (Flash Movie) from Nicholas D. Kristof discussing the furture of New York and comparing it to Kaifeng, a city in central China that in [...]
Chicago crime database | chicagocrime.org: Another interesting use of Google Maps with a data set. This time Chicago crime statistics. I want to do this so I can produce a map of where my students live. Would come in handy when I have to make a home visit. (Via O’Reilly Radar.)
> How To: Start Your Own Blog > May 15, 2005″ href=”http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163100418″>Techlearning > > How To: Start Your Own Blog > May 15, 2005 Technology & Learning magazine has a good article on starting a blog. It is written by Tim Stahmer of Assorted Stuff. The article is a good introduction for teachers just learning [...]
The other night, The Daily Show had a great piece on CNN’s new blogging feature. It basically is two young woman sitting in front of computer screens reading blogs. Stewart gets in some great comments. Lisa Rein has the clip…
Wists. Social bookmarks, wishlists, photoblogs. Category: all This looks kind of interesting. Wists is similar to del.icio.us and Furl in that it allows you to organize sites with tags. It also lets you grab an image from the page to be associated with your bookmark.
College Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital Age: “Books are being cleared away to make room for digital learning laboratories, a phenomenon that is transforming research and study on campuses around the country.” (Via NYT > Most E-mailed Articles.)
More Is Better: “The “new and improved” SAT test was offered for the first time in March and, in one of the major changes, students were required to write an essay as part of the annual ritual. The College Board thinks this alteration makes the test more relevant. Others are not so sure it’s an [...]
Time Travelers to Meet in Not Too Distant Future: “Some students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have organized what they call the first time traveler convention.” If you are reading this in the future, please note that it is a potluck… Also the organizers ask that you please bring something to prove you are [...]
Geobloggers has created an web interface that takes photos from Flickr with geocoding tags and places them on maps from Google. Check out their downtown Chicago map… (Via FlickrBlog.)
Google’s search page art honors National Teacher Day.
The Greediest Generation: “We boomers won’t be remembered as the “Greatest Generation.” Rather, we’ll be scorned as the “Greediest Generation.”" In today’s New York Times, Nicholas D. Kristof details the extent to which we demonstrate our lack of concern for children while catering to aging baby boomers…
Blogs Will Change Your Business BusinessWeek discusses weblogs and business and also starts its own business related weblog called Blogspotting… A nice overview that can be used when you try to explain all of this to your mother…
