Archives for 2006
I’ve been playing around with a couple of Flickr centric plugins for WordPress. Falbum and Flickr Photo Album both allow you to pull in images from your Flickr account and display them on your site. When I say display, it is not just a little badge, but rather individual photos along with associated tags, comments [...]
John Blake points to a very cool hack of the Wii gaming system. This hack involves using the Wiimote (that’s Wii remote) to control a Roomba. Speaking of the Wii, my kids got a Wii for Christmas from their uncle and I’m pretty impressed. This morning I played nine holes of golf, then took in [...]
Here is a little video holiday card… Happy Holidays….
I’ve been playing around with a new theme and some new WordPress plugins. Just testing some things now…
In my last post, I mentioned iShowU, the Mac OS screen recording software. Below is a link to a quick little screencast I made about VideoEgg. VideoEgg is a video sharing and creation tool. It has some very nice features including the ability to tap into webcams and if you have a recent Mac, your [...]
Alan Levine recently talked about iShowU, the Mac OS screen recording application. iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from a microphone (built-in or external) as well as any audio from the mac itself. It can be configured in a number of ways and is [...]
del.icio.us: tagometer: del.icio.us released two new tools for display on web sites. The Tagometer Badge can be displayed in two ways. The tall badge is meant for sidebars and shows in a narrow multiline presentation the number of folks who have bookmarked your site on del.icio.us. There is also a one line version that fits [...]
Top 100 Education Blogs The next time someone does one of these they really should go the extra mile and create a web tool that allows the winners to create a badge denoting the honor. I mean that would really get them some traction. I’m wondering… who’s 101? Hoffman? Proud to be number 93…
xpapr: Make custom wrapping paper using images from Flickr…. Technorati Tags: xpapr, Flickr
Snö is the Swedish word for snow, and is a little freeware Mac application that makes snow fall over your desktop. It can be invoked as a screen saver or on top of your open applications. The preferences allow you so select types of flakes, wind speed and wind direction, flake speed and flake size. [...]
dead.licious is a tool for verifying that your del.icio.us bookmarks are still valid. It allows you the option of removing dead links. It also allows you to check the Internet Archive and Google’s cache to see what the page looked like before it went away. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 Technorati Tags: dead.licious, del.icio.us
Flickr recently announced they have upped the previous limits on uploads to unlimited. Basically for $24.95 a year you can get the following: Unlimited uploads Unlimited storage Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited photosets Permanent archiving of high-resolution original images The ability to replace a photo Ad-free browsing and sharing They have also made changes to the Free [...]
Photo Booth is an application that comes with Intel based Macs that allows you to utilize the built-in iSight camera. Flickrbooth is a plugin for Photo Booth by Tristan O’Tierney which allows you to upload photos you take with Photo Booth to Flickr. Settings allow you to automatically upload after each shot or to manually [...]
Mike Winiski of Furman University points to an interesting AJAX application called Timeline. It is part of the SIMILE project at MIT and is basically: a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Timelines are something that my upper elementary teachers use and have their students create. [...]
Jon Udell recently announced he is leaving Infoworld and heading over to do work for Microsoft. Jon also has a new blog at jonudell.wordpress.com. On his new blog, Jon further explains his reasons for taking the new position. Jon Udell is one of the best reads on the web. He is interested in the many [...]
At Lewis we use the Brummitt-Taylor Music Listening Program as a way to expose our students to different classical composers. The program consists of short (2 -5 minute) musical pieces and a daily oral introduction that a teacher would read before playing the piece for the students. I have written before about how we are [...]
They flipped the switch today on Portland’s free municipal wi-fi network. When completed next year it will cover 95% of Portland with free wi-fi coverage (advertisement supported, ad free for $20 a month…) This is really interesting. I can see teachers and students on class field trips taking along one of the laptops to blog [...]
I have been using Parallels for a few months on my MacBook Pro. Mainly I wanted to be able to run Windows XP so that I could run the Groupwise email client. My district uses Groupwise as our email solution, and the native Mac client that Novell provides is pretty flaky. Otherwise I have to [...]
4th and 5th grade teachers and students at my school, Lewis Elementary, are working to raise funds to take part in an environmental education science camp next spring. The camp (sponsored by OMSI) provides our 4th and 5th grade students with a high quality off site overnight experience on the Oregon coast. They are working [...]
I have started to contribute a few times a month to the TechLearning blog. My first post deals with using WordPress as the tool that drives our Classroom Notes page… To learn more please follow the link above… Technorati Tags: techlearning
Jon Pederson has started to document his use of del.icio.us and how, with Firefox 2.0 he has completely replaced his static bookmarks with his del.icio.us bookmarks. The first part of his Del.icio.us Guide for Educators explains how to do this and why you would want to. Technorati Tags: del.icio.us, John Pederson
This is a great little clip of whimsey and fun… Technorati Tags: Google Earth, google maps
I’ve been looking for a way to generate circles in Google Earth. For example I’ve been looking for a way to easily share with students some common distances and represent them on the map. Today I found the KML Circle Generator. It is a web tool that allows you to enter latitude and longitude coordinates [...]
Tony Jamesbarry, the music and technology teacher at Lewis Elementary, has been working with his 4th and 5th grade students learning Google Sketch-Up. They are currently creating houses, learning how to wrap textures, place objects and manipulate the environment within in Sketch-Up. This is leading up to a planned community building activity, both figuratively and [...]
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