Archives for June, 2005
While many technology using educators are at NECC, another interesting conference is taking place in California. Where 2.0 is a conference sponsored by O’Reilly Media and its topic is… the curious new ecosystem forming at the interstices of mapping portals, GIS systems, ubiquitous GPS devices, open source, and the Web 2.0. Several interesting announcements were [...]
GarageBand Support – Recording your Podcast Apple has published instructions for recording podcasts with GarageBand. Lots of tips and tricks to help you create a recording that sounds professional. (Via Lifehacker.)
Dilworth House – Philadelphia Originally uploaded by timlauer. Was out for a walk this morning and came by this house across from Washington Square near Independence Hall. Noticed that the house is scheduled to be demolished. Next to the demolition notice a Dr. R.E. Booth Jr. posted a poem about the house and its history. [...]
The Educational Mac: Adding to the Chorus of Boos Over at The Educational Mac, Kelly Dumont laments the spotty Wi-Fi coverage at NECC. Turns out many of the session rooms do not have access. With all the emphasis on weblogs this year, and with a very large number of folks actively blogging the conference you [...]
Google Map links for Unesco World Heritage SitesBrad Templeton has created a page that links Google Maps satellite imagery to UNESCO’s World Heritage sites index.
Network Security at William Penn High Originally uploaded by timlauer. This morning, Steve Burt, Tom Hoffman, Ben Harris and I presented a workshop about weblogs and their use in education. We had a great group of folks in the workshop. A very informed group. Afterward Tom and I talked about how there is much more [...]
Screen grab of classroom notes…
Tag Subscriptions Brent Simmons writes about a new feature of NetNewsWire (his most excellent Mac OS X RSS reader) called tag subscriptions. Tag subscriptions let you subscribe to feeds on a given topic from sites such as Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Technorati. For example lots of folks at NECC are tagging weblog and Flickr posts with [...]
del.icio.us direc.tor An alternative web-based rich UI for del.icio.us. Features: * In-browser handling of del.icio.us bookmarks (tested up to 12,000 records) * Find-as-you-type searching of all your bookmarks, with basic search operators * Sort by description, tags, or timestamp * Ad-hoc tag browser
Wikipedia Animate is a Greasemonkey Firefox script that allows you to animate the revision history of Wikipedia entries. (Via Jon Udell.)
NECC Talking Points: flickr4schools… Over at eSchoolNew ETI, Tom Hoffman discusses the use of tools such as Flickr by teachers and schools, and suggests that school district IT departments need to start thinking of providing similar services. Tom goes on to make the point that… “Schools need to start taking seriously their responsibility to maintain [...]
The Montager is a web app that takes pictures from Flickr and creates a montage of clickable tiles. Just type in a tag and it returns a montage made of images associated with that tag. Drag your mouse over the image and the tiles enlarge. Click a tile, and the Montager creates a new montage [...]
Step Aside, CNN!A session on Podcasting has been added to the NECC program. On the final day of NECC, David Warlick will be presenting a session entitled Step Asside CNN: I’m Listening to my Podcast. He will also be doing a daily podcast update from the conference. It can be found at Connect Learning.
NECC Talking Points:Blogging in the Classroom Over at eSchoolNews ETI, Tom Hoffman answers viewer mail regarding the use of weblogs in the classroom. Tom discusses Pat Delaney’s idea of weblogs and wikis as digital paper. I tend to agree. This year at Lewis Elementary four teachers have been using wikis installed on their laptops to [...]
Tom Hoffman, Steve Burt, Will Richardson and I will be presenting a 3 hour workshop at NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) next week in Philadelphia. With the rather long title of… TA307 Effective Weblogs in Education: How to Create, Manage, and Communicate! the workshop session will discuss and demonstrate how schools are using weblogs and [...]
2005 National Educational Computing Conference Podcast NECC takes place in Philadelphia next week. Apple will be providing some podcasts from the conference. The Podcast page has an RSS feed… (Via D’Arcy Norman’s Learning Commons Weblog.) Update: David Warlick posts about this also…
Picture taken about 19 years ago… or 5 out of 8 children will grow up to have a Flickr account… My nephew sent me a picture of my daughter and assorted nieces and nephews taken about 19 years ago. The interesting thing is that 6 of the 10 have Flickr accounts…Click the image to find [...]
Flickr Album is an alternative way to view photos from Flickr. Written in Flash, it takes advantage of the Flickr API to display photos in an album view where you drag the corner of the page to turn the page. Albums can by displayed using a user name, or you can create albums based on [...]
More Flickr Synchronicity Over at SciFiHiFi, Buzz Andersen has a great story about Flickr, weblogs, and chance encounters…
In the main hallway at Lewis Elementary we have an LCD panel powered by an iMac that displays school images along with news and announcements. We have been using Keynote to display the images and news and announcements. This has worked pretty well, but the updates have to be done manually and I’m the one [...]
Dodgers Game Originally uploaded by timlauer. Playing around the Photoshop Elements. With its Create Photomerge feature, its about the easiest way to create panoramic shots…
Boards Get Brains, Chalk Vanishes: “Schools across the country dump dusty chalkboards for touch-sensitive whiteboards connected to computers. Kids can solve problems, surf the web and even edit video with their fingertips…” Today Wired reports on the rise in popularity of interactive whiteboards. At Lewis Elementary we currently have 6 classrooms equipped with these and [...]
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