Archives for January, 2010

Bigshot: A Camera for Education

via bigshotcamera.org A program from the Computer Vision Laboratory at Columbia University… Students build and learn to use a digital camera… Love the lens wheel…. Posted via web from Tim Lauer


1st Grade Challenge: Design a house for the 3 Little Pigs…

Students in Mrs. Logue and Ms. Leake's classrooms were given a challenge to design a house for the 3 Little Pigs that could withstand the wind of the Big Bad Wolf… (see boxfan photo below… ) Lots of interesting designs… I especially like the home made of sticks with the 3 pigs made out of [...]


Shared Items From Google Reader – January 30, 2010

Sikuli Automates Almost Anything with Screenshot Ease January 30, 2010


Visiting music class…

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Shared Items From Google Reader – January 27, 2010

See the latest GeoEye imagery before it’s added to Google Earth January 27, 2010


Today we’re rolling out a change in Google Reader that lets you create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don’t have their own feed. via googlereader.blogspot.com This is great. I can now follow my school district pages which for some reason do not have an RSS fee…. Posted via web from Tim [...]


Rowfeeder.com - A tool from Untitled Startup that allows you to track Twitter mentions of keywords and save the information to a Google Spreadsheet. Nice for tracking mentions of an event or mentions during the course of a conference.


Rain on the roof of our cob bench…

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Shared Items From Google Reader – January 24, 2010

Free dental clinic at Creston Elementary will close after 48 years … January 23, 2010


Playing with Push Notification Apps

For a while I have had my Twitter account set to send SMS messages to my phone whenever I received a direct message. It is a nice way to be alerted quickly to direct messages sent from folks I follow on Twitter. Of course every time I got one, I was charged for it by [...]


Saturday ride…

A very nice afternoon in Portland today. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Tim Lauer


At Nando’s game… Nice day in PDX

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Shared Items From Google Reader – January 23, 2010

Top 10 Tools for Better Reading, Online and Off January 23, 2010


At the dance…

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Late Opening this morning at Lewis…

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Beautiful morning in Portland

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MLK Day at Lewis

In honor of the Dr. King holiday, we held a garden work party at Lewis Elementary. We had a great turn out and got quite a bit of work accomplished. Thanks to all those that took part… Posted via email from Tim Lauer


Heading to school for our MLK Day of Service…

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Heading to school for our MLK Day of Service…

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Revised Bike Shelter Design

Revised design. By the first of March we should have two new bike shelters installed at Lewis. They are being made by a company called Dero (http://dero.com). I went to their web site and was reading about our particular model and noticed that they have for download a Google SketchUp file of the shelter. I [...]


New Bike Shelters coming to Lewis…

By the first of March we should have two new bike shelters installed at Lewis. They are being made by a company called Dero (http://dero.com). I went to their web site and was reading about our particular model and noticed that they have for download a Google SketchUp file of the shelter. I spent some [...]


Downtown Portland…

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