Archives for 2011
Clinton Street Sign, a photo by timlauer on Flickr. Clinton Street is a major east/west bike route throughout inner southeast Portland. It recently received some enhancements to acknowledge its designation as a bike boulevard. These include new signage as you can see above. More about Clinton Street can be found here: http://bikeportland.org/2011/01/13/clinton-street-bike-boulevard-enhancement-finally-coming-45936
Micro Invasion, a photo by timlauer on Flickr. A bit of urban art… Little army guys, and a dinosaur, taking up a beachhead on a bike rack on Hawthorne Blvd….
Ride to work this morning…, a photo by timlauer on Flickr. Playing around with the tilt shift setting on the Canon S95. A great pocket camera.
Old photographs from Lewis, a photo by timlauer on Flickr. Was going through some old school photos today and found these. The bicycle pictures are dated 1958… The one on the right is not dated, but judging by the clothes, I’m gonna say late 70′s or early 80′s…
Enjoying the 4th…, a photo by timlauer on Flickr. This was shot at our neighborhood Fourth of July parade today. Each year neighborhood kids decorate bikes and wagons and are lead around the block by a local fire truck. After the parade the firefighters bring out the hoses…
Got to try this again, too many cars driving by, but I really like the idea behind this…, a photo by timlauer on Flickr. I have seen some shots like this up on Flickr, and the other day my wife pointed me to http://dearphotograph.com/ , a site dedicated to images constructed with old photos and [...]
New trees at Lewis…, a photo by timlauer on Flickr. Our trees that we planted in February are doing well so far this summer.
Kathy is a teacher. She has a basket. on tumblr: http://timlauer.tumblr.com/post/6910718096/kathy-is-a-teacher-she-has-a-basket
“Screenstagram displays photos from Instagram. It can show you your friends’ photos or photos from the Instagram popular feed, which contains highly rated photos from across the Instagram community…” screenstagram : software . I don’t use a screensaver much, but when I do… This is a nice way to keep track of your Instagram friends…
Last weekend I had the opportunity to listen to Meg Wilson present a Classroom 2.0 session on using Pages on the Mac to create epub documents that can then be viewed on iBooks on iOS devices and other devices that can read the epub format. Several of our teachers have been using the method that Meg describes to publish teacher created ebooks to our iOS devices. She did a great job explaining the workflow in Pages and I recommend this session to anyone looking to learn how to create epubs using Pages on the Mac.
Dropbox rather than Sync
One aspect of the workflow that we have used at Lewis is to share the epub books with students via a live link to the epub in a Dropbox folder. Rather than sync our iOS devices with a desktop computer, we place a live link to the epub on our student web page. (We had planned on just uploading the epub files to our student web site but we discovered that our WordPress install will not accept an epub file format. The Dropbox method is a work around.) Students then use Safari on their iOS device and visit the web page with the epub link. By clicking on the link, they initiate a download of the epub file and then are prompted to save the epub file to the iOS device. They are presented with an option to open the epub file in iBooks. By clicking the iBooks option, the epub file is opened and saved within the iBooks application. Follow the link to see a few screen shots that highlight the process.
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“With Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to tell a story far deeper than those simply contained in our music,” he added. “His life, his memory and his love will live on in that story and in our band.” via nytimes.com That quote by Springsteen is very moving. After the announcement [...]
Evening Sky at Lewis, a photo by timlauer on Flickr. The view as I was leaving school last night. Image via a Canon s95, wireless transfer to iPad, then processing and posting via Camera+ app…
via flickr.com http://www.reed.edu/gallery/ On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 I had the opportunity to tour the Lloyd Reynolds exhibit at the Reed College Cooley Art Gallery. Reynolds was a professor at Reed and is seen as a leading influence on many type designers. The exhibit contained examples of his work and historical artifacts from his life [...]
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This morning I was playing around with my Canon S95 and took the image above with the Miniature Effect. The S95 is a pocketable camera that also has a f 2.0 lens. It is is great for low light situations. I carry it around with me at school and try to take several photos a [...]
(see full image) ===================================== Tim Lauer Principal Lewis Elementary School Portland, OR lewiselementary.org
Taken at Lewis Elementary School
Onswipe is a WordPress plugin that enhances your WordPress blog for viewing on the iPad. When someone visits your WordPress site from an iPad they are presented with a touch optimized view of your blog. Your normal theme is not used. It is accelerometer aware, so if you rotate your iPad, the content reformats. Also [...]
On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Chef David Anderson of Genoa visited Ms. Wieand’s classroom to help them learn about herbs and to make some pesto pasta. This is part of our partnership with Mr. Anderson, Genoa Restaurant and the Chefs Move to School program.
Taken at Lewis Elementary School
via mskennedy.posterous.com
