Archives for January, 2008
ChatMaker: IM Blocked at Work? Create Your Own Chatroom! Create your own private chat area… (tags: chat chatmaker IM messenger) TED | Talks | Ben Dunlap: The story of a passionate life (video) Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian man he met at Wofford College. In telling Teszler’s dramatic life story, [...]
EdTechConnect with Tim Lauer (tags: webinar edtechconnect discovery)
First, Kill All the School Boards Reading this on my Kindle by way of Will Richardson… (tags: mann education reform atlantic)
COVERITLIVE.COM – Home Web tool to facilitate live blogging of events. (tags: conferences web2.0 streaming socialsoftware presentation events embed) Fluid – Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard “Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on [...]
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CoveritLive is web based software for live blogging of events such as conference sessions or lectures. Through an iframe, your commentary is published on your web site in real time like an instant message dialog complete with time stamp. You can easily add polls, videos, pictures, and audio clips to our live session. Viewers of [...]
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TiltViewer TiltViewer allows you to browse Flickr’s images in a 3D space. Images can be pulled from Flickr’s Interestingness list or with specific variables such as user id, tags, and groups. A nice slide show tool alternative… (tags: api flickr gallery image images photography photos tools web2.0 slideshow)
Today 23 volunteers braved the cold and come out to work at Lewis Elementary as part of our King Holiday Day of Service. We got quite a bit accomplished including pruning our apple trees, and the cleaning out of several flower beds. Along with students, staff and parents, our work party also included 8 Americorp [...]
New York Measuring Teachers by Test Scores This looks to be a bit contentious… (tags: teachers testing tracking evaluation)
Currently Portland Public Schools utilizes polystyrene foam trays in its school lunch program. Lewis Elementary School staff, parents and students have voiced concern about the environmental impact of polystyrene and have been looking to go back to washable trays. Through the help of our PTA, we have purchased washable trays and we are involved in [...]
Any Other Bright Ideas? Compact fluorescents are efficient, but many people have not embraced their glow. (tags: energy lights lightbulb home)
JiWire Launches Free, Ad-Supported iPhone, iPod Touch Hotspot Access JiWire now provides free ad driven access for iPhone and iPod Touch users… (tags: iphone touch wi-fi free) NPR : Artist Chuck Close Terry Gross interviews artist Chuck Close… (tags: art inspiration npr close freshair) The Google Online Marketing Challenge A university challenge that has students [...]
My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven: Yesterday the Library of Congress announced that they are releasing close to 3000 photos from their collection to a new Flickr page. The images are such that there are no known copyright restrictions. This is just a drop in the bucket when you consider that they [...]
Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange “A private place for exchanging photos, video, audio, notes, docs, and more. Each is accessible only to those whom you tell exactly where to look. No signup and no account. ” (tags: 2.0 technology storage drop.io audio free hosting utilities useful)
Drop.io voice “Each drop has a phone number and custom extension (just like each has an email address). Dial the number, wait for the prompt, enter your extension and start talking. Whatever you say we will convert to an MP3 and put on your drop in a matter of a few se (tags: iphone mobile [...]
Hal MacLean has a short review of the Asus EeePC, the ultra light web enabled lynux laptop. I have one on order, according to UPS, it should arrive today, and I am looking to order about 20 if they live up to expectations.
Google Prepares for a Better Mobile Web Google upgrades its display for users of the iPhone. (tags: google mobile iphone) Google iPhone Upgrade Google announced new improvements to the integrated Google experience on iPhone. Improvements include an enhanced gmail with autocomplete address and also access to iGoogle… (tags: google iphone websites mobile)
oxford internet institute | webcast | Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet – and How to Stop It “This inaugural lecture by Jonathan Zittrain proposes a theory about what lies around the corner for the Internet, how to avoid it, and how to study and affect the future of the internet using [...]
Candidate Schedules from the NY Times The NY Times has a web page with a listing of candidate schedules. A nice way to anticipate where the candidates are visiting and what will the be the talking points of the day. You can also subscribe to the calendar with Google Calendar… (tags: calendar politics nytimes)
Doodle: Easy Scheduling Doodle helps scheduling meetings and other appointments. Doodle is simple, quick, free and requires no registration. Simply set up a poll, send a link to … (tags: doodle calendar web2.0 useful events howto) Summize – Discover reviews and blogs on millions of products Summize connects you with the opinions of millions of [...]
About « All Together We Can Do Our Best This site is led by Samuel Charles Sennott, who is a teacher focused on helping children and adults who have various labels of special needs succeed in school, communication, and writing. (tags: blog special-education special-needs) Talking Word Wall Utilize the OSX Voice over feature to create [...]
TeacherTube – Online Photo Sharing in Plain English A simple explanation of backing up and sharing your photos on the web using online photo sharing services like Flickr. (tags: flickr photos photography commoncraft howto diy)
20+ Websites Optimized For The iPhone Mashable.com points to 20 sites that are optimized for viewing on the iPhone… (tags: iphone websites web2.0 mashable)
library sponsored wireless in North Plains at walking paper Article about the North Plains Library’s free wifi network in North Plains. (tags: library wifi wireless) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Where did the computer go? An excerpt from “Burden’s Wheel,” the first chapter of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, by [...]
