Archives for November, 2008
Items shared in Google Reader…. Bill Gates And His Silver Bullet – Forbes.com Bridging Differences: Good Intentions, Ignorant Elites, and ScoundrelsDiane Ravitch on good intentions, ignorant elites and scoundrels… TiVo’s Mobile Interface Gets Things Recording on the Go BigTweet Sends Tweets from Any Web Page (Up to 280 Characters) Can She Save Our Schools? – [...]
Items shared in Google Reader…. Griffin Technology: ClarifiProtective case for the iPhone 3G with a built in close up lens…
Items shared in Google Reader…. Tarpipe begins to tackle personal content overload | Webware – CNET Happy Politically Correct Thanksgiving Vestal schoolyard now field of dreams – Portland News | Oregon …
Items shared in Google Reader…. Tarpipe begins to tackle personal content overload | Webware – CNET Happy Politically Correct Thanksgiving Vestal schoolyard now field of dreams – Portland News | Oregon …
Items shared in Google Reader…. Simple audio annotations in Google Earth My Moving MapMy Moving Map is an application for the iPhone that uses GPS to track your location and broadcast it online so that your friends can find you. The position and the routes that you take are broadcast, viewable online on this website [...]
Items shared in Google Reader…. Nimbuzz for iPhone- VoIP anywhere in landscape Google LatLong: Happier travels through Street View with PegmanGoogle Maps Street View has been updated. The little Google Maps Pegman is now accessible in Google Maps from the Google Maps zoom slider. When viewing maps with street view, you can easily move around [...]
Items shared in Google Reader…. Editorial Observer – Map Upon Map – New Dimensions in What Maps Can Do – NYTimes.comNew York Times article by Verlyn Klinkenborg about NYCityMap, a tool that allows you to bring up all kinds of information about the city. Portland has something similar, portlandmaps.com.
Items shared in Google Reader…. School – Sketchup Training, Videos, Tutorials, Podcasts, Forums, Classes, Courses, and DVDsgo-2-school.com has a great series of video tutorials for Google SketchUp and Google Earth… Our technology techer, Tony Jamesbarry uses these to prepare for his work with SketchUp with our 4th and 5th grade students. The Partnership for 21st [...]
Items shared in Google Reader…. The Screens Issue – Moments That Mattered – NYTimes.com
Items shared in Google Reader…. The Screens Issue: The New York Times Magazine – Features – Columns – Style – The New York Times
I spent some time this morning playing around with the new features in Google Maps on the iPhone. I am more and more impressed with this tool. With this update they have added transit and walking directions in addition to driving directions. Now when you are plotting a route you can see separate results for [...]
Items shared in Google Reader…. 123people.com | Find everyone you (want to) know! Tiny Geo-coder | The fastest way to find latitude and longitude
These are items I have recently shared in Google Reader: November 22, 2008, 8:24 am from 08:24 to 08:52: Stanza Demo Movie | Lexcycle – Shared by timlauer <br> A demonstration of the Stanza ebook reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch. , November 22, 2008, 8:52 am, none K-12 poster series: Education: AIGA – [...]
These are my links for November 18, 2008, 5:51 am through November 22, 2008, 8:12 am: Tweetie – fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch – Education: AIGA – What I know now…. – Night Camera – Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It – Turn iPhone into a Number keypad for your Mac [...]
A New York Times video piece about the Hyde Leadership Public Charter School rugby team. [From The New York Times - Video Library - Home Page]
Mocha VNC for iPhone – iPod Touch. Free Lite Version.. Playing around with MochaSoft VNC Lite for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Set up was very simple. Am typing this on my MacBook through my iPhone… A bit too meta….
The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker Shared by timlauer John Hodgman talks to The New Yorker about his writing process. It includes a notebook and of course a Mac… Actual ideas come away from the desk, typically. While walking through the park or talking aloud in the shower. When water damage is not [...]
Google Adds Searching by Voice to iPhone Software – NYTimes.com Shared by timlauer Will be interesting to see how well this works. I am more and more impressed with these location based applications… I love the various transit apps that help me with bus and train arrivals.
Stuff and Nonsense Shared by timlauer Whenever I have a bad day, or a day that I think is out of the film Brazil, all I have to do is visit “Have a Gneiss Day” and I get perspective…
State of the Art – A Projector That Fits in Your Jeans Pocket – NYTimes.com Shared by timlauer This looks pretty amazing… A data projector not much bigger than an iPod… When a 100-inch screen is overkill, a ridiculously simple micro-projector like the Optoma Pico really shines.
Phoenix Mars Lander: This is My Farewell Transmission From Mars Shared by timlauer Creative writing…. Plan to share this with my staff…
This Math Whiz Called It for Obama Months Ago – NYTimes.com. The New York Times profiles Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com. Is interesting to think about how his site and work caught on with people as the election moved from the primaries to the general election. This election was kind of a coming out party for [...]
Legacies: Class Report: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker Shared by timlauer Roger Angell reflects on the events of Tuesday night and thinks of an old college classmate… He died in 1975, at the age of fifty-three. He and I belong to what has sometimes been called “the Greatest Generation.” If most of [...]
Better Teachers Needed Ed Glaeser does excellent economics work that often translates into puzzlingly disappointing op-eds, but this column on the vital importance teacher quality and offering a few ideas about how to get it is spot-on. President-Elect Obama has often spoken along the same lines as Glaeser in terms of paying teachers more, and [...]
dy/dan » Why Reduced Class Size Is A Joke Shared by timlauer Dan Meyer notes that reduced class size doesn’t matter much if you continue to teach 15 students in the same way you teach 100… via lsshanks What I’m saying is that reduced class size is useless if you’re still going to teach like [...]
