> 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 about weblogs, and gives good step by step instructions for setting up a weblog on Blogger. Also the article reveals the name of Tim’s “overly large school district on the Virginia side of Washington DC” where he is employed…

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 improvement.

On Thursday, Tim Stahmer wrote about a report from National Council of Teachers of English that is critical of the writing component of the new SAT. He points out that it looks like the more you write, the better your score. The report, and an article linked from Tim’s post, points out that the longer the piece, the higher the score. Les Perelman of MIT suggests that students write as much as possible and include lots of facts… Doesn’t seem to matter if they are correct, just put in a lot of them… Not exactly how we teach the writing process at Lewis…

Update: NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday has an interview with Les Perelman this morning. The audio will be available after 1:00 pm Eastern time.

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 from the future… Maybe the program from the 2099 World Series…

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.)