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 is less than a mile away. If you type in a request for driving directions, you get a pretty good route by car, but since we are walking, we need to adjust the map. Just click on the blue route marker and drag and the route is automatically updated. A video from Google below shows how easy this is.
links for 2007-06-28
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“Developing trends on virtual globes - like Google Earth, World Wind, and Virtual Earth - and social virtual worlds like Second Life, There, and World of Warcraft. “
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TwittergramHijacking is an Applescript to automatically upload recordings from AudioHijackPro to Dave Winer’s Twittergram service
links for 2007-06-27
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danah boyd essay about high school kids and which ones are on MySpace and which ones are on Facebook…
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Send links to sound files via twitter…
PicLens: Immersive Full Screen Images…
PicLens is an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the Web. Supports the presentation of images in the following web sites:
- Flickr
- 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 above, you just need to mouse over an image and click the arron icon to engage the tool. It darkens the screen and the image grows full size to fill the screen. Am thinking this would be great for presentations and classroom demonstrations and such. Throw some images into Flickr, arrange, and you have an instant, low overhead, presentation.
Am thinking this would be great for presentations and classroom demonstrations and such. Just throw some images into a Flickr set and arrange and you have an instant presentation.
By way of Lifehacker…
VoiceThread
Joyce Valenza points to VoiceThread, a tool for adding sound recordings, and text messages to slide shows and images.
Turner Field Panorama
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.
