Archives for February, 2006
PDX Originally uploaded by timlauer. Waiting to board to travel to Chicago to present at IL-TCE. It looks to be a very good conference and am looking forward to the opportunity to talk with folks about technology and schools…
Dave Winer wonders how Joe Luft (aka: Brooklyn Joe) can be a Yankees fan...... I've saved the screen grab for posterity and Joe's curriculum vitae...
"Students and researchers whether in San Francisco or Bangladesh can watch remarkable video such as World War II newsreels and the story of Apollo 11 - the historic first landing on the Moon."... With more and more audio and video content making its way on to the web, this kind of access requires that schools have adequate projection equipment.
Teaching Reading 3-5 is designed to give teachers the strategies they need to help all students become better readers and writers in the intermediate grades. The series of eight workshops provides current research, questions for reflection, tips for new teachers, activities to enhance teaching, and classroom video segments.
In another example of how the Google Maps interface is influencing web design, John Johnston, of Sandaig School in Glasgow, has created an interesting Flash based interface to view examples of student art. The art pieces are large wall sized murals and you can navigate and zoom in around the art work similar to moving around on a Google Map.... We have a very large mural at Lewis Elementary, and I'll have to ask John to help me do something similar...
I guess I look at this and wonder how valuable are the assessments we are giving our students if they can be foiled by giving away answers.... She said that at her school during exams, they employ jamming technology that makes the cell phone inoperable...
Originally uploaded by timlauer. An example of posting from Flickr to a weblog...
After the initial batch process, I then went in and changed the map markers to denote the different types of schools in the system.... Mapbuilder.net is a very impressive tool and a wonderful example of a web tool that has immediate application in an educational setting.
The printing company web site describes the the process: The material is made up of tiny ridges or lenses (hence the name “lenticular” printing). We take raw images and process them through a computer algorithm, which matches the lens surface of the lenticular material.
Userscripts.org: Amazon PDX Linky: This Firefox Greasemonkey script, based on the LibraryLookup tool by Jon Udell, works to add two links to a book page from Amazon based on the ISBN.... Powells has several locations in Portland and once at their site you can find new and used copies of the book and see which store has copies.
It would be nice if Google would allow a district to use the Adword technology to push educational related links based on the content of the mail. For example when reading an email that mentions your term paper topic, the sidebar would not be full of ads, but rather links to resources.
This is a web tool that allows you to build a table of data from various reports and download it in tab delimited or Excel format.... Parents and staff are sometimes looking for the location of various schools and programs and this would be a nice feature to add to our site.
That's where we come in. We're testing a new service with the school by hosting Gmail accounts with SJCC domain addresses (like student@jaguars.sjcc.edu), plus admin tools for efficient account management. Massive storage and features that tame the most unruly inboxes, like powerful mail search, conversation view for messages, and a fast interface, make Gmail very handy for students.
Reinvention Chapter 2—"I Quit": Will posts about his decision to leave his school district position and strike out into the Web 2.0 world. One bit of advice though, I think I'd tell my wife first before mentioning it to Steve Dembo, Jon Pederson, Tom Hoffman and 1000 other folks...
Basically you can add building data for buildings that don't show up when you turn on the buildings layer in Google Earth. I made a quick outline of my school using the tool and then opened the resulting kml file in Google Earth to create the image above.
