Archives for January, 2006
: Beth Kanter has posted a very nice lesson plan (Learning Object??... It includes links to resources on the web and some that she has created herself.
At Lewis Elementary we are working with our city traffic department to add some crosswalks and pedestrian improvements in our neighborhood. I can now share with them specific information about our students and show them the need for these improvements based on where our students live.
Just a post to note that the New York Times now is making podcasts available. Content includes a daily summary of the front page, a weekly review of science, technology and environmental news, and music reviews.
Google in China at The Thinking Stick: Jeff Utecht laments the sad state of affairs when corporations, such as Yahoo Google and MSN, are willing to do the bidding of governments and deny freedom to their users " to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful..." When will Google amend their mission statement?
The great thing about Scuttle is that you can download the source and run the application on your own server. Today my friend, Dick McPartland, came by and installed the necessary software and we now have Scuttle running locally at school, Lewis Elementary This means that we can provide our students with a social bookmarking tool, running locally in our building.
iTunes Signature Maker... Here's mine...
The Martin Luther King, Jr.... 100 random quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...
Our technology/music teacher, Tony Jamesbarry, is also having them use Google Maps to create a map that will highlight the routes and voyages of their particular explorer.... Once your map is finished you have a number of options on how it can be displayed, including grabbing the HTML source and using that source code on your site.
Paul Nelson: K-12 Linux Terminal Server Project: Tim Wilson interviews Paul Nelson... Paul is a leader in the k-12 Linux movement and an all around great guy...
Clockr - It's Flickr Time: A clock using numeral images from Flickr...
tickr for flickr Tickr is a Mac OS X application that provides a moving ticker of images from Flickr. These can include a ticker of images from a specific user, from a tag, or from search string.
Wikipedia Vs School Board Web Site: So because one or a few people have control of the board website, and everyone has control of Wikipedia, it seems as though Wikipedia becomes more accurate than the actual board website. Quentin D has a very interesting post about the relative accuracy of his school district's web site compared to the Wikipedia entry for his school district.
It also includes a very good introduction to RSS for those new to the technology, and for experienced users, it takes you to a directory which organizes their RSS feeds by category. In addition any page on the BBC that has an RSS feed also has the familiar orange RSS icon along with a link to the the feed.
The image on the left is a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.... The Dr. King Timeline page is still up and running.
Google Earth Community: Viewing forum: Dynamic Data Layers: In the Google Earth Community there is a forum call Dynamic Data Layers.
A Great Session on Mac’s and Accessibility: Dave Warlick attended Carol Anne McGuire's MacWorld session on the use of technology by students from Imperial Elementary School in the Orange Unified District.... Carol is a Disney award winning teacher at Imperial Elementary who uses tools such as Garage Band and iMovie with her students.
Stephen Downes has created MyGlu, is a Javascript that takes an OPML file and generates a web page from the RSS feeds associated with that OPML. Similar to SuprGlu, except you can a page with your own look and feel.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73329429&s=143441
The SkyScout from Celestron is a handheld device that identifies and/or locates any celestial object visible to the naked eye. The blurb on their web site indicates that you can point the SkyScout at any bright object in the night sky, and it will identify the object from a database of over 6000 objects.
timlauer's photoblog: Photobloggr is a tool to view your Flickr photostream by tag, by date taken or by date uploaded...
AllPeers is a Firefox extension that will utilize BitTorrent to facilitate P2P sharing of media. Currently in a limited Beta...
retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. More information can be found on their about page...
Versioning is supported so that you can compare various versions of the document history.... An interesting option is a downloadable back office version that can be run locally on your own server.
He discusses a piece of software called NoteTaker, from Aquaminds Software and notes an additional piece of soon to be released software called NoteShare.... He notes ...Its design expresses two impulses that are both the history and the future of the computing business: letting people connect more thoroughly, broadly and richly; and making it steadily easier for them to do so.
Tim Stahmer over at AssortedStuff has a nice new design for the new year.
