Archives for April, 2007
MLB Credits Hank Aaron With 50 Lost Home Runs One way to solve the Bonds problem…
ImageManager 2.0 A WordPress plugin that allows you to upload and edit images for inclusion in WordPress posts. A very nice interface for working with images in your WordPress posts. ThisFlash demo explains it well.
The Sphere Related Content plug-in displays an icon link at the end of your blog posts. When a reader clicks on the icon link, Sphere will find blog and media articles related to your blog posts. They appear as a pop-up right in your web page. I’m gonna turn it on and watch the types [...]
WordPress Theme Generator Boy do I need this!
“TwitterCamp is a desktop application that allows you to monitor tweets from your friends using the popular Twitter service. The application is especially suited for running on large displays such as plasmas, LCDs, and projectors at conferences. It is simple to customize the interface so that you can use the application for your conference…” By [...]
TwitterViz gathers your friends’ Twitter data over time and saves it to a local XML file for graphing and analysis. The longer you run TwitterViz, the more data it gathers, and the better the pattern that emerges. Requires Adobe Apollo
The Authors@Google program brings authors of all stripes to Google for informal talks centering on their recently published books.
The Library of Congress has a weblog…
Billionaires Start $60 Million Schools Effort – New York Times “Eli Broad and Bill Gates, two of the most important philanthropists in American public education, have pumped more than $2 billion into improving schools. But now, dissatisfied with the pace of change, they are joining forces for a $60 million foray into politics in an [...]
egorcast EgorCast provides a gateway between the messages from Jott and social mo-blogging services such as Twitter and Jaiku (or both if you want). EgorCast will also send your messages to your WordPress blog with a specific category or tag.
egorcast EgorCast provides a gateway between the messages from Jott and social mo-blogging services such as Twitter and Jaiku (or both if you want). EgorCast will also send your messages to your WordPress blog with a specific category or tag. This looks interesting… Twitter from my phone while driving…
David Halberstam, He was the best, and the brightest…
The Latest on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia – New York Times
Dangerously Irrelevant: Margaret Spellings is under fire Over at Dangerously Irrelevant, Scott McLeod has a post outlining some of the issues surrounding the funding of educational technology initiatives at the federal level.
Below are some images from Saturday’s Earth Day work party at Lewis Elementary.
From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet – New York Times
Talking to the folks that are putting the eco-roof on the Lewis outdoor classroom… # Heading out to pick up pizza for dinner… long week at the ranch.. Earth Day Work Party tomorrow at Lewis… If in PDX come and help out, 9 # Earth Day Work Party at Lewis today: 9:00 – 1:00… # [...]
align=”left”Embed Google ‘My Maps’ Map into Your Blog I’m playing around with this little tool that allows you to embed your Google My Maps into a web page. The map above is one I created that shows the attendance boundary for Lewis Elementary. I think I found this by visiting Derek Baird’s site...
Today, Saturday, April 21, 2007, we are holding an Earth Day Work Party at Lewis Elementary School. Parents, students, and community volunteers will be working on various projects around the school to enhance and maintain our Outdoor Center and garden areas. If you are in Portland today and would like to help out, please stop [...]
On my way to work # Helping kindergarten students plant nasturshums near our school entrance… # 5th graders are back from camp # Powered by Twitter Tools.
MySay – How are you today?Twitter for voice… by way of Blackrimglasses
Post over at Leadertalk: Today I posted about Oregon’s online testing woes over at Leadertalk. The site is written by and for school leaders. I’m really impressed with the quality of posts on the site. Scott McLeod deserves some kudos for setting this up.
Reading: “Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life” (http://tinyurl.com/2m9t8a) # Good Morning from Portland… # At Lewis… putting together a painting easel for our life skills classroom… # Visiting another school this morning # Back at school for a bit, than to another meeting…. # In an admin meeting… # Powered [...]
Jott: Sending Email via Voice Mail (Techlearning blog) I posted about Jott over at the Techlearning Weblog…
On way back from Oregon Coast. Visited 5th graders at camp, pictures on Flickr later… # finally finished school newsletter… sun’s out… hopefully an outside lunch recess today… # Powered by Twitter Tools.
