Archives for June, 2007

Google Maps has added a feature that allows you to get directions, and then by dragging and dropping points, instantly update and change the route and the information. Great for planning walking field trips at school. For example a popular trip for our teachers is to visit the Cooley Art Gallery at Reed College. Reed [...]

PicLens is an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the Web. Supports the presentation of images in the following web sites: Flickr Facebook Google Images Yahoo Images Friendster Picasa Web Albums Media RSS This is a pretty slick little tool for Firefox and Safari. Basically if you are visiting one of the sites listed [...]

Joyce Valenza points to VoiceThread, a tool for adding sound recordings, and text messages to slide shows and images.

Went to the Tigers vs. Braves game last night with some friends. This is the view from the upper deck in right field at Turner Field. Like most modern ball parks, it is a baseball field built around a food court.

Barnabu blog discusses how to add a sky with clouds over any spot on earth using Google Earth and a network link he has provided. He has created a half dome in Google Sketchup with diameter of 50 miles and placed a cloud texture within the dome. He then made this object a network link [...]

Over at Read/Write Web Josh Catone has a great roundup of web based applications for students. While geared towards college students, this piece gives a good overview of these tools and how they can be utilized by students. Everything from word processors to calculators is covered.

Lowering Flag for War’s Dead Brings a New Rift – New York Times The governor of Oregon has been doing this since in office. (He also attends the funerals of Oregon soldiers killed in action.) A visible reminder of the sacrifice given by others. Also (tags: war iraq flags) Google Apps: Add live Google data [...]

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Education: Connecting the Lonely Profession (tags: boss suzie suzieboss education blogs) Welcome to KidsGardening! Garden Resources, Gardening for Families, Teacher’s Garden and Shopping for Gardening (tags: grants gardening lewis)

kyte: TV out of the box (tags: tv video videoweblogs vlogs) Appropriate Housing for Urban Bats (tags: bats habitat urban wildlife) Marketcircle: iPhoney Phoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. (tags: iphone [...]

iPhoney: Until you get your real iPhone…

Tim Wilson points to the Apple Learning Interchange Conference Connections page. It provides podcasts from leading educational conferences. You can listen to a single episode or subscribe to the whole feed.

The ReDistricting Game The Redistricting Game is designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting. (tags: annenberg elections government politics games) Palm, Inc. – Products – Foleo With its 10-inch screen and full-size keyboard, the Palm Foleo mobile companion connects wirelessly with your smartphone. (tags: palm foleo laptop)

reCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA channels this human effort into helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive. When you solve a reCAPTCHA, you help preserve literature by deciphering a word that was not readable by computers. (tags: captcha npr) Tech-savvy kids learn digital lessons Article about technology use by teachers and students at Lewis Elementary… (tags: lewismedia [...]

At Lewis we have been working to finish the ecoroof for our outdoor classroom. With the help of volunteers and members of GRIP (Growing Roofs in Portland) the project is just about complete. We have a few more plants and seedlings to plant, and the irrigation system will be installed later in the week. Technorati [...]

Fellowes WB-150 Wire Binding Machine – Wire Binding Machines – ABC Office (tags: publishing binding) The Bee: Lewis, The halls are alive…with art and family Article from the Sellwood Bee, June 6, 2007. (tags: lewismedia) MARTA on Google Maps Interactive Google Map of MARTA, Atlanta transit system… (tags: altanta necc07 necc necc2007 transit)

Friday was our last day of school with students. We closed out the year with an all school assembly where we said goodbye to retiring staff members and to our 5th grade students going on to middle school. The teachers and staff produced a video farewell. Technorati Tags: lewis, lewiselementary, farewell

Journler is a daily notebook and entry based information manager. It features iLife integration, audio and video entries, document importing and instantaneous searching and filtering and AppleScript, Quicksilver and Spotlight support. I’m testing it out as my note taking and information manager. It includes tagging and smart folders. It has been described as iTunes for [...]

Lots of folks are posting about their plans for the upcoming NECC in Atlanta. While reading Tom Hoffman’s weblog this morning I was struck by how true the following statement is… We’ve got a situation akin to letting the clerks in the purchasing department decide whether or not the books ordered by teachers and librarians [...]