Archives for November, 2005
This got me thinking of something I read of in September when a post by Cory Doctrow on BoingBoing lamenting the fact that the items in the Library of Congress' American Memory project were locked in a Web .5 interface that made navigation and retrieval of information cumbersome. Simon Willison read the post and quickly came up with a Greasemonkey script that renderered the American Memory pages in a much more visualizing appealing manner.
Contributors first find their location on a Google Map, then they contribute their story, picture or other file (am thinking this could be an audio recording, size is limited to 5 mgs, but if you have a larger file you can send them an email and make arrangements for upload...), then they provide some general information about themselves and upload the information.... This is a project of The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and the Louisiana State Museum.
Today their President, Don Leu, delivered his 2005 Presidential Address entitled, New Literacies, Reading Research, and the Challenges of Change: A Deictic Perspective of Our Research Worlds.... Today I had the opportunity during Don's address to speak via iChat about weblogs and how they are being used by students and teachers.
He has updated his guide to the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us. Simply Del.icio.us is a 12 page PDF document that gives a great overview of del.icio.us and how it can be used in educational settings.
KBRT: Radio Free Clarity Originally uploaded by timlauer. Steve Burt, Will Richardson, Tim Wilson and I recorded another Ed Tech Coast to Coast podcast this evening. I went downtown to Steve’s office where he recorded the program with Will and Tim connecting via Skype. Steve should have it up on the web site later this [...]
Storynory - Free children’s stories for your iPod : Classic children's stories for download to your computer or to your classroom set of iPods.... by way of...
Superman Returns | Bryan's Journals - Video Blogs From The Set: The new Superman movie opens next year, and Warner Bros.... Looks a bit like Comic Life, but the little frames contain video clips about the production of the movie.
MonitorThis is a site that creates an OPML file of RSS feeds that track your search quarry. Tell MonitorThis your desired search terms, and it creates an OPML file that you can save and import into your favorite news reader...
Tim Wilson points to Stellarium an open source desktop planetarium for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX.... I've wanted to include an astronomy tool like this on our disk image at Lewis, but could not afford to pay the licensing fee for something like Starry Night.
HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software: Dave Winer points to a post by Mark Pilgrim which details how to use a program called Handbrake to rip a DVD to a video iPod. This and the recent announcement that TivoToGo will export content to iPods and the PlayStation Portable makes a portable video player look more interesting.
If the image is not yet geotagged, you can navigate within the map to the location where the photo was taken, and once you have the image location, you can add geotags to the image... A slide show mode is also available which automatically pans your map to show additional geotagged images in the Flickr photo stream you are viewing...
Gizmo -Advanced Features - Call Recording: Gizmo is a voice over IP application that is similar to Skype, but that has a few interesting features that look attractive...... Callers can dial one of these access numbers from a conventional phone and connect to your Gizmo account free of charge...
Shoefiti: Shoes Hanging from Power Lines and Telephone Wires: Another interesting use of Google Maps...
Over at Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds writes about the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs during presentations. The author compares the presentation styles and relates them to the Zen asthetic...
WAVM...The Eyes and Ears of Tigertown: Because of a bureaucratic loophole, a Massachusetts high school radio station with over 30 years of service to its community, is scheduled to loose its license because it wanted to upgrade it transmission capacity from 10 watts to 250 watts.... MARLENE DORTCH, SECRETARY FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 445 12TH STREET S.W WASHINGTON, DC 20554 You can also let the folks at Living Proof know how you feel...
NPR Podcasts of the late John Ciardi's pieces from the 80's...... NPR DOUBLES ITS PODCAST CONTENT TO 33 TITLES, LAUNCHING TODAY: The first use of NPR archival material in podcasting: the series "On Words with John Ciardi," a popular element of "Morning Edition" in the 1980s featuring the unique commentary of the poet and etymologist...
For example I have created a SuprGlu page that takes the content I create from this site, from the Lewis Elementary page, from my various Flickr accounts, and from my del.icio.us accounts.... For example I am teaching a class at Pacific University to pre-service teachers and we have been exploring the use of several web services tools including Flickr and del.icio.us.
TextMarker allows you to highlight various sections of text on a web page and then copy the various pieces of text to the clipboard for pasting into another document.... A student reading an article can highlight selected paragraphs while reading the article and then when finished, copy the highlighted sections with one action.
.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lost and Found, originally uploaded by lewiselementary. Am having a lot of fun using Comic Life at school. Today our newsletter contained this plea for parents to come take a [...]
Techlearning > > The Promise of Social Networks > November 1, 2005: Techlearning has an article about the use of Flickr in an educational environment.... Nice to see some type of educational publication take a rational look at social software tools such as Flickr.
