Archives for August, 2009
Editorial: Great Lakes Rescue August 31, 2009
Editorial: Great Lakes Rescue August 31, 2009
Was at school this morning with over 40 volunteers working to clean up the school grounds in anticipation of the new school year…
Dr Mona Mourshed on The Importance of Good Teachers August 26, 2009 Nice iPhone tripod mount August 26, 2009
Rhee Spells Out Teaching Expectations With 200-Page 'Learning Framework' August 24, 2009
iPhone/iPod Apps for K-12 August 24, 2009 – Free or almost free apps for k-12
I’ve been playing around a bit with Posterous and its ability to post audio recordings from my iPhone along with several images to create audio postcards. The example linked below is of a recent trip up to Mt. Tabor park for an evening concert. It is a pretty easy process.( a good description of this [...]
John Johnston has a post up about picPosterous, an iPhone camera app that allows you to post a series of photos to a posterous post. Nice for adding images to a gallery over the course of an event or through the course of a day. John points out a few limitations and from reading the developers [...]
How to do almost anything with Posterous – The Next Web August 22, 2009
Will Richardson has a nice post up about the start of the new school year and questions about school that he hopes his own children will have answers to when they are asked about their school day. A nice way to frame what we would like our students to experience in our classrooms. More suggestion [...]
WSJ Sightings: Terry Teachout on the New-Media Crisis of 1949 – WSJ.com August 21, 2009 – Network radio’s fate has some lessons for today. Wordle Blog: How to make Wordle safe for classroom use. August 21, 2009
Sites for Teachers – Google Sites Help August 21, 2009 – Examples of school use of Google Sites…
See and download the full gallery on posterous I’ve recently written about a web data tool called Your Flowing Data. It allows you to enter data based on keywords using direct messages to Twitter. For example I have been biking to work for the past few weeks and have been using Your Flowing Data to [...]
Mount Hood, Oregon August 16, 2009 Information Addiction : The Frontal Cortex August 16, 2009 – “What makes new facts so rewarding?”
Local Lunch Voices – Portland Public Schools August 16, 2009 – A post about efforts in Portland Public Schools to improve the quality of our cafeteria food programs…
via portlandonline.com Today my street becomes a park… Sunday Parkways… http://www.portlandonline.com/Transportation/index.cfm?c=46103 Posted via web from Tim’s posterous
Willfully ignorant vs. aggressively skeptical August 15, 2009
Bringing the power of Creative Commons to Google Books August 13, 2009 Global Soundscape: CitySounds.fm | Brain Pickings August 13, 2009 No Social Media For CPS Teachers August 10, 2009
Source: Google Blog Search: portland public schools: http://bit.ly/z0QPl posted from Google Reader via Posterit Posted via web from Tim’s posterous
“To counter Amazon.com, Sony and other device makers as well as several publishers will use the same technology, called ePub, for digital book sales…” via nytimes.com The New York Times reports that Sony announced that they will now support and use the ePub digital book standard. This will help address the issue of not reading [...]
In Memorium: Nancy Greenhouse August 13, 2009 Snapshot: Shooting by moonlight August 12, 2009
Paul Tough’s report that he did for This American Life about Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone is airing again this weekend. You can read more at Paul Tough’s blog.
ipodclassroom – home August 11, 2009
Listen! via AudioBoo Posted via web from Tim’s posterous
Why I Stopped Being Paranoid and Started Using Mint [Money] August 7, 2009
