Archives for December, 2005
It also allows you to save your document in a number of formats including Microsoft Word and PDF formats. You can also send email messages to Writely for further editing, and you can also post directly from Writely to your weblog...
The MAKEbot is an AIM/iChat client you can add to your buddy list to get the latest news from MAKE magazine.... For example type "search ipod" and receive back links to the 5 latest posts/stories that deal with the iPod.
Teacher Man - Practical Theory: "Quick show of hands... did every teacher out there get a copy of Teacher Man for Kwanzmaskah?"
It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and synchronizes all changes so that users always have the same version.... Suggested uses include collaborative note taking during a class, or back channel writing during a conference or phone/tele conference.
Where it is quite different from del.icio.us, is that you can also more fully annotate your bookmarked pages, and bookmarks can also be saved locally.... For example if I tag and add a sticky note to a page, I can also see other sticky notes left by others or I can send a notification to a colleague so that she can read my annotation and respond.
For those who currently have accounts on our system, please be advised that our free blogging service will only be available up until August 1, 2006.... If you choose not to pay the subscription fee your blog will no longer be available.
This album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blog BubbleShare: Upload Photos: BubbleShare is a social networking photo sharing site that has a number of interesting features.... You can send this link to fire is a link to your gallery, the other a link to an adminstrative interface where you can access a number of features including adding captions and titles, the ability to add audio captions, add or delete photos, and rearrange your photos.
Performancing is a Firefox extension that puts a weblog editor into the Firefox web browser. The How To Guide explains all of its features, but I was impressed that I could drag and drop an image into the editing area and then resize the image.
There are some things that can't be overcome by a fast Internet connection.... and another, being there to share them on Christmas.
What I would like to see is a school district take this personalized Google page and provide XML data or modules that would tie into its student information system. For example as a principal I would like to create a page that pulled in content such as our average daily attendance, a listing of absent students, tardy students, GPS routing information for school busses, a list of the most current reading assessment scores.
He also has a Drupal site set up for his school, Flushing International High School. With the ongoing New York transit strike, it is a good example of how a school can use a site to provide timely information to its community.
The New York Times is using Google Maps to create a Guide to Commuting providing transportation alternatives for those dealing with the transit workers strike.
Just in time for the neighborhood holiday party season, Google Map Mania points to Matthew Kane's Map Political Campaign Contributions in Your Area. This Google Maps mashup takes campaign contribution data from the Fundrace Project web site and combines it with Google Maps to produce a red and blue map of your neighborhood.
Cinnamon Bear Originally uploaded by timlauer. One of the perks of my job is that I get to welcome visiting dignitaries to school. Today Cinnamon Bear visited Lewis Elementary… Cinnamon Bear has a long history in Portland. You can read more about Cinnamon Bear on Wikipedia. Unfortunately Britannica does not yet have an entry…
In his post, A breath of fresh air, Jon Udell explains in a screencast how he time shifts streaming content such as NPR's Fresh Air and saves it as in MP3 format. Kind of a do it yourself TIVO for audio files...
Ben Bishop has posted a very nice introduction to Flickr, the social networking photo sharing site. He very simply explains the different fee structures, and introduces concepts such as sets, tagging, groups and other aspects of the tool.
Google Maps News Mashups: Washington Post, AP, bird flu: Over at the GoogleMaps Mania, they point to an interesting tool from 81nassau.com that combines information from Google Maps, Yahoo and the Associated Press to create an interactive news maps that plots the ten latest stories from the AP RSS feed. Associated Press (AP) News Mashup takes the current stories from the AP' national RSS feed and plots them on Google Maps.
Yesterday the AppleInsider posted about a beta of Google Earth for Mac OS X that has been showing up in Europe. This morning I see that John Johnson of Sandaig Primary School points to a beta that can be downloaded from a link here: Is a Mac Version of Google Earth Coming Soon?
Sauvie Island is a large island at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers.... Didn't take us long to find our tree and haul it back to the shop.
With Google Transit you can easily access schedules, routes, and plan trips using their local public transportation options. The first release covers my city, Portland, Oregon and the TriMet system, but they plan to expand to more systems soon, and are actively seeking out other transit organizations to partner with.
HOW TO Quickie: Embedded Flickr Slideshows: Paul Stamatiou explains on his site how to embed a Flickr slideshow in your own webpage.
Observatorium offers hundreds of photos of the earth, planets, stars, and other celestial bodies, as well as stories behind the images...... While many of the images are of interest, I kind of wonder why they feel the need to point to a site that is basically 6 years old....
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.... They use Project Gutenberg as an inspiration and post their audio files to the Internet Archive.
After the set up I was walking around talking with students and parents and noticed that one student's father was working away on his laptop. We have a building wide wireless network and he said he was getting a nice signal in the cafeteria and appreciated being able to get online while his son took part in the tournament.
Recently at Lewis, students in Sarah Jones' classroom created science projects and Sophie chose to create a diorama of Jane Goodall's Camp.... I am mainly interested in running something on our intranet that would allow me to provide students with accounts for internal photo sharing and discussion.
