Alan’s post got me thinking of how I might use this tool. As a principal I make many visits to classrooms each day. Using the method that Alan discussed I am thinking I can use this to keep track of classroom visits throughout the school day. On my iPhone I use the Twitter application Tweetie to follow and post to Twitter. I anticipate using Tweetie to post direct messages to Your Flowing Data as I visit classrooms. I believe I will find this a pretty quick method to note and track which classrooms I have visited and help me to recognize patterns and make sure I am visiting all classrooms equally.

This morning I was testing this and posted some sample data. Once you have some data, you can use the tools on Your Flowing Data to look at that information in a calendar view, a cloud view, a timeline view and a treemap view. The screenshot below shows the treemap view for the sample data i submitted. I’m looking forward to following Alan’s examples and utilize this tool to keep track of other things including the types of tasks I find myself doing during the school day.

Using some sample data, the Treemap above shows graphically the number of times a classroom was visited.

Cross posted at TechLearning.com

“Pixelpipe is a content distribution gateway that allows users to publish text and upload photos, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 60 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and other online destinations. We provide a number of mobile & desktop applications for users, liberating their media and sharing their life…”

Pixelpipe is an online service that allows you to post images, video, audio, text and files to multiple social network sites and weblogs at the same time. On the Pixelpipe website you can set up auto posting to social networking sites such as Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Picassa and over 60 other services. You can do this via various tools including email, MMS, the web, or by using the stand alone mobile applications for the iPhone, the Google Android G1, and the Nokia N Series. In addition they provide several tools that integrate into desktop applications such as iPhoto, Picasa, Aperture, and Lightroom.

A nice feature of the app is that on the iPhone, it lets you get around the limitation of single attachments when uploading images via the iPhone Mail App…

Pixelpost screenshots from the iPhone…

via Readwriteweb

The example below is a short trip I took around my school grounds this afternoon. Along the way I took some photo graphs. The Everytrail iPhone app interface is very easy to use and displays your time and distance as you travel. My first waypoint is off, but found a fix for that on the Everytrail forum.

Conventional Map
Lewis at EveryTrail

Map created by EveryTrail:GPS Geotagging

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Lewis

Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging

via Digital Geography…

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In addition to displaying the content, the FriendFeed interface on the web, and on clients such as Twhirl or MySocial 24×7, allow you to comment on an item. For example in Twitter if you want to comment you @reply to the individual. The item is posted chronologically, and this makes it difficult to follow conversations. For example this morning Steve Dembo and Ryan Bretag are having a Twitter discussion about the merits of interactive clicker type tools in the classroom. It started last night and continues on this morning, but it is hard to follow on Twitter. In FriendFeed comments are nested with the original Tweet/post. As others comment on the posting they are added along with yours. You also have the option of sending an @reply directly to Twitter. Kind of a foot in both worlds. (the Friendfeed web interface and MySocial 24×7 allow this, Twhirl has not yet implemented this feature.)

I also like that you can follow a friend’s web contributions. For example FriendFeed allows you to aggregate posts to sites such as YouTube, Flickr and over 40 other web sites/tools. I am finding that I like following friends and collegues in this manner, rather than jumping around from various sites to see if they have posted anything new.

Update: Another feature of FriendFeed is something they call Rooms. Basically private spaces that a team or workgroup could set up to have a Twitter like discussion area, but only viewable to those that you allow in. Might be useful in a school or classroom setting…

I installed the service and converted a few articles. I found the result to be pretty good. Not the same as having had it read by a person, but useful none the less.

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TagCrowd was created by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University. You can read more about TagCrowd, and some interesting uses ideas, on the TagCrowd Blog…

By way of NancyW and Twitter…

TagCrowd Example:
The 100 most frequently found words in Tom Sawyer available at the University of Virginia…

This morning, David Warlick pointed to a nice little piece of Javascript that Cabel wrote that produces a nice visual effect when viewing images that have been posted to your web site. He calls it FancyZoom. Basically when a thumbnail link is clicked a larger version of the image appears as a call out. A very nice effect. Below is an example. Click the image to see the effect.