Archives for “Daily Links”

Literacy Debate – Online, R U Really Reading? – Series – NYTimes.com “The Simses of Old Greenwich, Conn., gather to read after dinner. Their means of text delivery is divided by generation…” The picture with the article is priceless… (tags: literacy leu reading)

Bomb blasts in Bangalore: A summary and thoughts on communication infrastructure (tags: bangalore communication) A Blueprint For a Site For Young Readers | FunnyMonkey – Tools for Teachers (tags: coppa drupal fitzgerald)

Doug Johnson Website – dougwri – Wikipedia Ban It or Boost It (tags: wikipedia) Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past This article was originally published in The Journal of American History (tags: wikipedia history article) Mac 101: Pairing/Unpairing Apple remotes – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (tags: apple mac [...]

Back to basics? (tags: martinez hoffman basics assumptions)

Copyright Advisory Network “This website is a way for librarians to learn about copyright and seek feedback and advice from fellow librarians and copyright specialists.” (tags: ala library reference libraries copyright)

Digital Copyright Slider Tool An interactive tool to help determine copyright restrictions on certain types of documents… (tags: library fair_use copyright tool)

SimpleCC Flickr Search Allows you to search for Creative Commons images and then provides the html code to use in a post, along with the attribution information…. (tags: flickrcc photos creativecommons flickr) Newspaper Front Pages | See What’s Making the Front Page of Leading Newspapers @ ThePaperboy.com Images of the front pages of newspapers from [...]

Sample AYP Reports and Calculators – Oregon Department of Education AYP Calculators (tags: ayp oregon assessment) Intervention Central: Your Site for Response To Intervention Resources (tags: Education RTI Behavior resources Intervention)

The Effects of Computer Use on Child Outcomes This paper examines the impact of having access to a home computer on child and adolescent outcomes. (tags: technology computers students 1:1)

Our Electric Future — The American, A Magazine of Ideas Andy Grove talks of moving our transportation use from oil to electric… (tags: energy electricity cars electric) WordPress for iPhone A native application for administation of WordPress blogs via an iPhone… (tags: wordpress blog iphone)

TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » The Enterprise iPhone Twitter Connection (tags: gillmor techcrunch iphone) Twitter / trackthis Track packages with Twitter… Should be seeing more and more of this type of thing… How about snowday updates from your child’s school? (tags: search twitter packages tracking) Visual History of the Cell Phone (tags: phones history) Google [...]

Teaching Music RSS feed from EBSCO for Teaching Music (tags: music ebsco-journals)

FotoViewr. Stunning photo galleries for your Flickr photos. Flash slideshows for your online photos. Coverflow for your Flickr images (tags: gallery flickr images photo photos tools slideshow widget)

David Alison’s Blog: Adding Quicksilver to your Mac (tags: quicksilver mac)

RSS to ePub, Mobipocket/Kindle and PDF – MobileRead Forums (tags: kindle) Free RSS Feeds on your Kindle – MobileRead Forums Create mobi documents bases on RSS feeds and update them on your Kindle. (tags: kindle)

PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB drives (tags: usb free portable apps opensource software) University of Manitoba: Information Services and Technology – Michael Wesch and the Future of Education Michael Wesch lecture… (tags: Web2.0 media education wesch literacy Learning)

FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed iPhone interface FriendFeed now has a nice shiny iPhone friendly interface… (tags: iphone friendfeed)

posterous – The place to post everything. Just email us. Email just about anything to your posterous blog… (tags: blog email web2.0 Tools blogging) Shirky: Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data (tags: shirky wireless article) MySocial 24×7 – Firefox Companion for FriendFeed MySocial 24×7 is a sidebar extension for firefox. (tags: friendfeed twitter socialnetworking aggregator plugin) [...]

Metro: Nature in Neighborhoods capital grants Metro is now accepting grant applications for capital projects that re-green and re-nature neighborhoods (tags: metro grants lewis neighborhoods)

Ubuntu Eee Ubuntu Eee is Ubuntu optimized for the small Asus Eee (tags: mobile ubuntu eeepc linux eee) The cellphone anthropologist – New Scientist Jan Chipchase, a design researcher for Nokia, studies how people around the world are using mobile phone technology… (tags: chipchase cellphone anthropology mobile Nokia ethnography)

Thirty-Three Interesting Ways (and tips) to use your Interactive Whiteboard – Google Docs Tom Barrett has put together a nice Google Presentation about interesting ways to use an Interactive Whiteboard… (tags: whiteboard Interactive tombarrett presentation)

‘Golden Memories’ of Father-Daughter Bonding : NPR An essay by a woman about her connection with her father, through the writing of Jean Shepherd… (tags: Shepherd dad hammond essay lancaster)

100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home By way of Paul Hamilton… (tags: web2.0 study education resources tools) jkOnTheRun: Breaking news- eReader for the iPhone in the works (tags: ebooks iPhone)

Jetbook e-book reader ECTACO An ebook reader that handles text and PDF files… (tags: kindle ebooks e-ink)

Ernie The Attorney: Kindle update #2 (a month later) (tags: kindle ebooks)