Archives for June, 2008
Below is the second in a series of videos about Lewis Elementary School produced by Emily Chapman. The video below is a piece edited down from the original that focuses mainly on the arts at Lewis The second one is an overview of the art, music and technology programs at Lewis.. A third video will [...]
posterous – The place to post everything. Just email us. Email just about anything to your posterous blog… (tags: blog email web2.0 Tools blogging) Shirky: Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data (tags: shirky wireless article) MySocial 24×7 – Firefox Companion for FriendFeed MySocial 24×7 is a sidebar extension for firefox. (tags: friendfeed twitter socialnetworking aggregator plugin) [...]
Playing around with Flickr and the video feature… It was close to 100º F in Portland yesterday. Time to bring out the Slip’N Slide.
This spring Emily Chapman talked with Lewis Elementary music/technology teacher Tony Jamesbarry about technology and art instruction at Lewis Elementary. The video provides an overview of our program and demonstrates some of the projects that students have been working on. Emily, a Media Studies graduate of the University of San Francisco, is an old family [...]
Metro: Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants Metro is now accepting grant applications for capital projects that re-green and re-nature neighborhoods (tags: metro grants lewis neighborhoods)
Dan Meyer has produced another great video, this time documenting his experience using a data projector and video to help his students understand algebra. In the process he discusses his teaching process and how it has changed because of these tools. I plan to share this with my staff when we come back in August. [...]
The Big Picture is a photo blog by Alan Taylor published by the Boston Globe/Boston.com. Roughly three times a week he posts a photograph that illustrates a news story.
Ubuntu Eee Ubuntu Eee is Ubuntu optimized for the small Asus Eee (tags: mobile ubuntu eeepc linux eee) The cellphone anthropologist – New Scientist Jan Chipchase, a design researcher for Nokia, studies how people around the world are using mobile phone technology… (tags: chipchase cellphone anthropology mobile Nokia ethnography)
The ecoroof on our outdoor classroom at Lewis is growing nicely this spring. I’ll grab some shots from the school roof later this week and post them to Flickr.
Today The New York Times has an article about a program called the Academy that offers fellowships to graduates of leading music schools to receive high-level coaching and lessons in a two-year program. In return they commit to teach music one and a half days in New York public schools. It was early in the [...]
Thirty-Three Interesting Ways (and tips) to use your Interactive Whiteboard – Google Docs Tom Barrett has put together a nice Google Presentation about interesting ways to use an Interactive Whiteboard… (tags: whiteboard Interactive tombarrett presentation)
‘Golden Memories’ of Father-Daughter Bonding : NPR An essay by a woman about her connection with her father, through the writing of Jean Shepherd… (tags: Shepherd dad hammond essay lancaster)
100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home By way of Paul Hamilton… (tags: web2.0 study education resources tools) jkOnTheRun: Breaking news- eReader for the iPhone in the works (tags: ebooks iPhone)
Jetbook e-book reader ECTACO An ebook reader that handles text and PDF files… (tags: kindle ebooks e-ink)
Ernie The Attorney: Kindle update #2 (a month later) (tags: kindle ebooks)
Stanza, currently in beta, is an electronic book reading application for Mac OS which also allows you to export content for use on a variety of portable devices. It features the ability to customize the display of text in multiple column layouts or in full screen mode. Scrolling can be set to advance automatically, like [...]
The Principal and Interest : Kindergarten Readiness Principal Dave Sherman with some kindergarten readiness advice… (tags: kindergarten readiness sherman davesherman) The Mobile Journalism Toolkit contents – Reuters Mobile Journalism (tags: mobile nokia n95 reuters digital_journalism Journalism tools)
Leadership without Followers Chris Dede article about leadership and technology… (tags: dede leadership edtech) johnaugust.com » Does a working writer keep improving? (tags: writing improvement creativity advice howto productivity) WhatTheFont : MyFonts “using our WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database…” (tags: [...]
