Archives for October, 2008

Studs Terkel, Listener to Americans, Dies at 96 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com Mr. Terkel was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as an important historical genre.

Unlocking access to millions of books Posted by Adam M. Smith, Director, Product Management We’ve always said that in a sense, Google Book Search is as old as Google itself. Back in their Ph.D. days, Larry and Sergey dreamed of a way to make it easier for anyone, anywhere, to access the information held within [...]

UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Shared by timlauer Some of our students will be working on panorama photography later this year. This looks like a great tool for displaying and exploring the images… Google Map Image Cutter is an application designed to take any image or digital photo and cut it into tiles which [...]

Google Labs adds Calendar, Docs gadget to Gmail One of my native Google Apps dislikes is that the apps themselves are pretty disjointed. Sure there are links to the other apps if you’re in one, but there’s a productivity benefit to having certain data types on the same screen. You could go the Greasemonkey route [...]

QuickLook Plugins List Shared by timlauer A listing of plugins for the Quicklook feature in Mac OS X. Quicklook allows you to quickly view a document without having to launch the file application.

Evernote Shared by timlauer Jon Hicks takes another look at Evernote. I too am finding this to be quite a useful tool for organizing information such as receipts, paper documents that for some reason my district does not send out as electronic files, and snapshots of things like white board notes and items notes with [...]

iPhoto2Gmail: New Version: iPhoto2Gmail 1.0 Shared by timlauer A plugin for iPhoto that allows you to email images from our iPhoto library using GMail…

Kevin Rose Debuts Video-Recording Qik iPhone App Shared by timlauer Kevin Rose shows off the Qik iPhone application that is coming to the App Store… Kevin Rose Debuts Video-Recording Qik iPhone App

Five Interesting Ways to use Google Docs in the Classroom – Google Docs Shared by timlauer Tom Barrett with some more suggestions for using Google Docs in the classroom. He points out the user limits for collaboration on the different types of Google Docs. Our teachers at Lewis are really liking the collaboration features…

David Sedaris: Undecided Shared by timlauer Davis Sedaris looks at the undecided voter… I don’t know that it was always this way, but, for as long as I can remember, just as we move into the final weeks of the Presidential campaign the focus shifts to the undecided voters. “Who are they?” the news anchors [...]

Matthew Yglesias » Regular Needs Children Shared by timlauer Matthew Yglesias points out that if you believe that special needs children and their families need support, then it isn’t much of a stretch to realize that other children and their families may also need support… by way of Tom Hoffman… It’s nice, I suppose, that [...]

Conference Presentations… Shared by timlauer Tom has some interesting ideas about why most conference presentations are not that great… What I completely don’t get is the virtual conference, or the internet broadcast of typically crappy real-world conferences.

The Lightning Rod – The Atlantic Shared by timlauer Reminds me a bit of our former leadership… I’ll leave it at that… MICHELLE RHEE CHARGED IN as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools wielding BlackBerrys and data—and a giant axe. She has made a city with possibly the country’s worst public schools ground zero [...]

Powering a clean energy revolution Shared by timlauer Google has created a little web calculator to help people realize some of the simple steps they can do to save energy, money, and reduce their carbon footprint. A nice tool to use with students when discussing energy conservation… Spooked by high energy prices? Save money with [...]

HOWTO give a good presentation :: walking paper Shared by timlauer Aaron Schmidt with some good advice on how to give a good presentation…

Cruz: A Smart, Multi-Pane Browser Shared by timlauer Taking a look at Cruz…. Think you’ve found the best browser to surf the web with? You may be selling yourself short. Mac users with Leopard should check out the latest entrant into the browser world, Cruz.

Convert PDFs to Word Online with Three Clicks [PDF] Shared by timlauer I’ve been looking for something like this… Stuck with a PDF file and no application that will let you edit it? PDF UNdo Online is easy, free, works on any computer and there’s no registration required.

Marking work in Google Docs | ICT in my Classroom Shared by timlauer At Lewis we have been using Google Docs with our older students and staff this fall. Tom Barrett has been using Google Docs with his students for a while and his web site is a great resource for those just starting out… [...]

Apple Working On Kindle-Killer? John Markoff at the New York Times writes that there’s evidence that Apple is working on a Kindle-killer.*According to Markoff, his contact at a search engine company has*”spotted Web visits from an unannounced Apple product with a …

Greater access to voting information Shared by timlauer A voting resource from Google… At Google, we pride ourselves on helping people find things on the Internet. And every four years in America, Google Trends shows that people are searching to find voting information, like how to register and where to vote. It's hard to believe [...]

NatsuLion Shared by timlauer Another Twitter client for the iphone… NatsuLiphone is a simple Twitter client for iPhone/iPod touch. It’s based on NatsuLion for Mac OSX.

My Proposal to use Google Docs for Online Reporting to Parents | ICT in my Classroom Shared by timlauer Tom Barrett is planning to use a shared Google Doc to update the parents of his students on their progress in class… What follows is a proposal I submitted to my headteacher regarding a trial of [...]

Pew Internet: Networked Families Shared by timlauer I heard about this yesterday, and hope to have some time to read it later this week… The internet and cell phones have become central components of modern family life. Among all household types, the traditional nuclear family has the highest rate of technology usage and ownership.