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How I spent my Sunday. More information about this project can be found on the Lewis Elementary web site.

Google Earth Community: Wikipedia-places

This Google Earth KML file shows the 80 best described landmarks in Wikipedia currently in the field of vision on Google Earth. For example, load the KML file into Google Earth, travel to a location and the file pulls in links/placemarks to associated articles in Wikipedia . Click the link in the description box and the associated article opens up in Wikipedia.

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Using Google Earth, teachers can fly their students around the world to talk to them about issues like climate change and how it has affected places like Glacier National Park, the Chesapeake Bay and Los Angeles. And they can introduce students to community initiatives across the country where volunteers are cleaning up their cities, planting trees and beautifying. Using Google Earth, teachers can show their students placemarks of the towns where outreach projects are taking place and students can get involved in cleaning up their own environment.

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Today my school, Lewis Elementary, was host to an Earth Day work party. Teachers, students, parents and community members came to Lewis this morning to work in our garden area and take part in Earth Day celebrations. In addition to our local community members, students from Portland State University and employees from the Clif Bar company volunteered their time to help on various projects. These included building compost bins, weeding beds, planting flowers and vegetable starts and helping with a general clean up of the grounds. We had a great turn out and it is one of those events that make me so glad I am part of a school community.

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Scrapblog - online scrapbooks:

This is a very slick web based tool for creating online scrapbooks. While not a maker of scrapbooks, I was impressed with the Flash and Java based interface. Worked a lot like a desktop application. For those who want to do more than just post and comment on images… Includes RSS feeds, email notifications. Scrapbooks can be either public or private.

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This should be interesting… I can imagine all kinds of interesting hooks being developed to gather and publish content from Google Calendar. I hope someone quickly comes up with a widget of some type that pulls an RSS feed based on a number of variibles such as daily, weekly and monthly… I need this today…

Google Calendar data API:

Last week, there was Google Calendar. This week, developers can start writing code that uses it. Enter the Google Calendar data API, which can be used to write external applications that query, create, and update Google Calendar events, so they’re available to Google Calendar users or other API-enabled applications.

Find more details here.

From the Google Blog

I was looking around the other day at the Podcast offerings on iTunes. I came across a great recording of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Marc Devine. Each recording in this series is approximately 30-40 minutes encompassing 2 to 4 chapters. There were several reviews of the work on the iTunes site, each giving an enthusiastic endorsement of the work, though one review stood out and gave me a good laugh…

More recordings of literature in the public domain can be found on the Loudlit site.

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