Random

QOOP

in

QOOP Web-based remote print and publish. This looks pretty interesting. I saw a link to this on Caterina Fake's Flickr blog. Remote publishing of any digital file. Am thinking this might be interesting for school. We could create books and photo albums associated with school events and activities, and then make them available to familes for purchase. For an example take a look at the Flickr blog...

Wired Article About Wikipedia

in

Wired 13.03: The Book Stops Here

Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future called Wikipedia...

Now Wales has brought forth a third model - call it One for All. Instead of one really smart guy, Wikipedia draws on thousands of fairly smart guys and gals - because in the metamathematics of encyclopedias, 500 Kvarans equals one Pliny the Elder...

This month's Wired has a very good article about Wikipedia and some of the people who write the articles found there. I found the story of Einar Kvaran to be interesting and instructive about the authors and their motivations for writing for Wikipedia. According the article Kvaran is currently unemployed, but spends about six hours a day reading and writing about public art and sculpture and publishes his work in Wikipedia...

FlickrFox...

in

Flickrfox is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a Firefox sidebar. You can choose streams to display including everyone's, friends and family, contacts and groups... Keep up with new photos while you work on the web...

(Via Lifehacker.)

The Gates Project: Installation Crew

in

Gates Crew
Originally uploaded by timlauer.

The Gates Project
A lot being written and said about the Christo, Jeanne Claude installation in Central Park. From the New York Times today...

Even at first blush, it was clear that "The Gates" is a work of pure joy, a vast populist spectacle of good will and simple eloquence, the first great public art event of the 21st century. It remains on view for just 16 days. Consider yourself forewarned. Time is fleeting.

The Times also has a special section with all of its coverage. One of the parents from my school is in New York working on the project. She was part of an installation team.

In Motion: African American Migration Experience

in

In Motion

A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Told in historical texts, rare visual materials, and contemporary photo-journalism.

This site from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture provides access to 8,300 images, 17,000 pages of texts and over 60 maps. In Motion focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Includes a section of educational materials for teachers and students.

A good example of an institution making their collections available to others through the web.

(Via Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report.)

Lydia's Poster

in

#2
Originally uploaded by lydiamaria.

My oldest daughter is a graphic design student at Seattle University. She uses Flickr to post some of her work. Her is a draft of a submission for one of her classes...

FlickrGraph

in

Flickr Graph is a visualization tool that looks at the social relationships inside flickr.com. It lets you visually see contact connections between yourself and others. Type in a username and see a display of their contacts. Click on contact and see their connections. Another example of someone taking advantage of the API's built into Flickr.

PowerPoint Keynote Goes to the Science Fair

in

Technology > Circuits > PowerPoint Goes to the Fair" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/technology/circuits/27fair.html">The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > PowerPoint Goes to the Fair

Technology is changing that annual academic ritual, the science project, as more students abandon poster-board displays in favor of computer presentations.

Nando's Science Project I didn't see too much evidence of this at the recent Glencoe Elementary Science Fair, but would imagine I would see more of this at a high school event. My son is in second grade at Gelncoe and his display was a bit of a hybrid involving a cardboard display and a laptop. We worked on an animation project that utilized traditional animation techniques such as flip books, and also a digital version using a program called iStopMotion. A very nice stop animation program from Boinx Software.

NPR : When Web Rumors Run Amok

in

NPR : When Web Rumors Run AmokScott Simon talks with Henry Farrell about weblogs, rumors and international affairs. Farrell has co-written an article, Web of Influence, published in Foreign Policy. From the article...

Every day, millions of online diarists, or “bloggers,” share their opinions with a global audience. Drawing upon the content of the international media and the World Wide Web, they weave together an elaborate network with agenda-setting power on issues ranging from human rights in China to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. What began as a hobby is evolving into a new medium that is changing the landscape for journalists and policymakers alike.

Farrell also writes for Crooked Timber...

Safari U: Create Your Own Technology Textbook

in

Orginally posted at Ed-Tech Insider...Ed-Tech Insider: Safari U: Create Your Own Technology Textbook Safari U Imagine you are asked to teach a class or workshop about a particular technology topic. Immediately you think of all the books and texts you have read about the particular topic and think of the best sections or chapters that you would like to share with your students. You wish you could just pull the relevant information for your students and produce a text that allowed you to share with them the best of what you have found...

Well now you can. O'Reilly Publishing has recently introduced a technology that allows a teacher or professor to pull information relevant to their particular course and produce a unique book that captures the information that needs to be shared in the course. While currently this is limted to O'Reilly content, other publishers are to be added to the system to allow teachers and professors to produce textbooks that pull content from a variety of sources that meet the needs of the course. I have recently created one such book for use with my staff. As O’Reilly adds additional publishers to their system, I look forward to using this service for both in-service classes with my staff, and for workshops and classes I teach.

Dr. King Day

in

Dr.King TImeline Monday is the Dr. King Holiday. The image to the left is by a young man named Jackson and is part of the, The Dr. King Timeline, a project I did with my kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students in 1995. We read a book call My Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr by Faith Ringgold and in the back of the book was a timeline of major events in his life. We used the timeline as the basis for a classrom book and also for a web site about the life of Dr. King. The web site has been up for 10 years and the last time I looked was the most accessed page on our school district web site. The students who did this work are all now in high school.

iPod Shuffle vs. Podcasters

in

Rui Carmo of The Tao of Mac discusses the new Apple offerings from the past week and make an interesting comment about podcasters and complaints about the iPod Shuffle. I found the quote below pretty funny...

Valid points, however, are not being made by the kind of raving lunatics that have such a distorted sense of reality as to go around posting that the iPod Shuffle stifles podcasting - as if podcasting was a driver for any sort of MP3 player sales. Or, let's be honest, of any real interest except for the propagation of self-centric blogosphere memes. The spool, as usual, hits the nail on the head, carefully avoiding the use of the quaint English term "w*nkers".

Technorati and Tags

in

Technorati Takes Tags Global (Ross Mayfield):

So just think about the emergent intelligence mechanism we are creating with a neural network overlaid on the net. Considered blog posts gain authority through link attention. Consensual wiki pages gain authority over time. Links and snapshots bridge across places, physical and virtual. Tags are applied in the blink of an eye and patterns emerge from the crowd.

Ross Mayfield discusses Technorati's announcement that they now support a tagging feature similar to Flickr and del.icio.us.

Ice Storm...

in

kgw.com | News for Oregon and SW Washington | Local News Winter's grip descended on the Portland-Vancouver metro area and the Columbia River Gorge for much of Saturday, causing hundreds of accidents, canceling flights in and out of Portland International Airport as well dozens of weekend events, and knocking out electricity to some neighborhoods.

Woke up today to the sound of sleet that soon turned to freezing rain. A layer of ice is covering everything... A lot of the more recent images on Flickr that are tagged as ice are from folks in the Portland area...

Technorati Tags: |