Archives for March, 2006
The visitors' center has a nice film the explains the expedition from the point of view of the Clatsop people who happened to be here when Lewis and Clark paddled down the Columbia.... For each corresponding day during 2004-2006, the weblog shorthands the expedition’s activities and then describes something else happening in American history on that day.
Over the weekend I read about the announcement that the folks who create the Opera web browser are working on a version for the Nintendo DS.... I tried the browser that Sony provides for the PSP, and was not impressed, but Opera is a great browser.
So far I just have a few accounts set up, but after spring break I plan to offer it to any staff that would like to take advantage of it.... Like I said before, it would be nice if instead of adds, there were links to education related resources based on the content of a mail message...
Google Earth maps of avian flu spread: Declan Butler, a writer for the journal Nature, has created a Google Earth file that charts the outbreak of avian flu. The map is updated weekly and can be linked to in Google Earth as a network link, which will automatically update itself with new versions when you reload it on your computer.
If you would like to follow along at home, the local Portland paper, The Oregonian, has a page up with all their most recent articles about the PPS budget situation. I'm finding that the Yahoo News and Google News RSS search feeds to also be a good source for not only news articles about the situation, but also links to local blogs where folks are talking about this situation.
Odeo: Ed Tech Coast to Coast #7: Steve Burt talks with Tim Wilson, Will Richardson and Steve Dembo from FETC in Orlando...
Wes Fryer has been very busy lately posting podcasts and notes about the SITE conference and FETC.... Dr. Swenson passionately challenged educators at all levels to engage in advocacy for children in an era where high stakes testing and federally mandated accountability...
Also check out the the feature on the history of disruptive social trends. Points out the doom and gloom that was predicted with the introduction of things like the Waltz and the novel...
Access Database is a program that our students must master in order to pass the NC 8th Grade Computer Skills Test. I know that we could use MS Works still for our high school kids to learn how to use databases, but no one in the real world uses it...
This example, , is the preliminary data from the first round of state math testing we recently conducted Lewis Elementary . Red indicates students not meeting benchmark, green indicates those that meet or exceed the benchmark score.
L.VALENTIN in the The Stranger Originally uploaded by lydiamariadelapatafria. My oldest daugher is a graphic design major at Seattle University. Her most recent project involved creating a poster similar to what you find plastered on phone poles around Seattle and Portland noting concerts or social causes. Someone saw it and it made the Poster of [...]
The idea is to give lecturers the ability to insert questions into their lectures (directly unto their PowerPoint slides, for instance) and then poll the students.... I see teachers getting excited about the quiz show aspect of these clicker things and kind of missing the point about bringing interactivity to a lecture or a talk.
The Savvy Technologist » Blog Archive » Joe Lambert: Digital Storytelling, Part 1 Tim Wilson has posted another of his Savvy Technologist podcasts.... This one would be a great one to share during a staff meeting and I plan to do so in the near future.
Today, Jeff Utecht has a great post entitled Traditions. In it he relates the daughters in the play Fiddler on the Roof to our traditional views of education...
Not content to be the best mapping web site on Earth, Google has launched Google Maps Mars.... The about page has lots of background information about exactly what you are seeing.
He notes they are using: Drupal with the Organic Groups module to do this exact thing - student teachers write their “journal” entries, and select the group(s) that can read it.... This replaces a really dysfunctional paper-based process, where students would write their entries in a blue binder, and hand that in to their prof or mentor for review.
ZoneTag Photos: ZoneTag, a new feature from Flickr, can automatically tag your phone camera photos with the location, based on the cell tower, in which they were taken.... One nice feature is its integration with Google Maps, but with Firefox and the GMif Greasemonkey script, this functionality is already available in Flickr.
DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone: TechCrunch points to a very interesting web based tool called dabble-db.... The sort of applications you would create and then use are what most of us normally hack together in a spreadsheet or using some other database application that is often complex.
Greased Lightbox is a Greasemonkey/Creammonkey user script designed to enhance browsing on websites that link to images such as Google Image Search, Flickr, Gmail, and Facebook. It basically allows you to follow a link to a larger image without leaving the page.
flickr leech is a tool from Houser Design that will pull thumbnails from flickr and display them on a page. It will pull the first 200 images based on any of the following criteria: Interestingness, Username, User ID, Photoset, Group Pool and Tag.
Writely Confirms Google Acquisition: Looks like Google bought Writely...
One additional feature is that we can utilize Bonjour (Apple's implementation of Zero Config networking) within our network to connect and record audio sessions.... The actors will all be connect via iChat locally and will recite their lines while the teacher machine is connected and recording the session in GarageBand.
Parks lead a fascinating life and his work and life cover a large period of time which saw many changes in our country.... These primary sources are such great tools for ourselves and our students as we work to share the stories of others and as we work to give our students the perspective of their lives and work.
Not a podcast, but a live Internet broadcast of our high school basketball games in the state tournament being done by two freshman coaches using a Macintosh Powerbook. Thursday 3:00 pm Boys, 7:15 pm Girls http://www.gomagi.org/ Instead of commercials they cut away to interviews of players, coaches, cheerleaders, etc. done using Garageband.
) a web based music mixing tool similar to GarageBand, but accessible through your web browser.... It still has a login issue, since I really don't want to use tools with my student that require them to login.
