HOW TO Quickie: Embedded Flickr Slideshows: Paul Stamatiou explains on his site how to embed a Flickr slideshow in your own webpage.
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DOE Points to "Legacy" Data...
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Observatorium offers hundreds of photos of the earth, planets, stars, and other celestial bodies, as well as stories behind the images...... While many of the images are of interest, I kind of wonder why they feel the need to point to a site that is basically 6 years old....
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LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.... They use Project Gutenberg as an inspiration and post their audio files to the Internet Archive.
Read MoreJane Goodall's Camp on Flickr
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Recently at Lewis, students in Sarah Jones' classroom created science projects and Sophie chose to create a diorama of Jane Goodall's Camp.... I am mainly interested in running something on our intranet that would allow me to provide students with accounts for internal photo sharing and discussion.
Read MoreFord Memorial Library Podcasts: Click-A-Story
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The other day I posted about Storynory, a website with podcasts of children's stories.... This site is less commercial than Storynory and the readers are members of the library staff.
Read MoreNational Reading Council Conference
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Today their President, Don Leu, delivered his 2005 Presidential Address entitled, New Literacies, Reading Research, and the Challenges of Change: A Deictic Perspective of Our Research Worlds.... Today I had the opportunity during Don's address to speak via iChat about weblogs and how they are being used by students and teachers.
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KBRT: Radio Free Clarity
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Steve Burt, Will Richardson, Tim Wilson and I recorded another Ed Tech Coast to Coast podcast this evening. I went downtown to Steve's office where he recorded the program with Will and Tim connecting via Skype. Steve should have it up on the web site later this week...
Storynory
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Storynory - Free children’s stories for your iPod : Classic children's stories for download to your computer or to your classroom set of iPods.... by way of...
Read MoreSuperman Returns Video Blogs From The Set
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Superman Returns | Bryan's Journals - Video Blogs From The Set: The new Superman movie opens next year, and Warner Bros.... Looks a bit like Comic Life, but the little frames contain video clips about the production of the movie.
Read MorePondering the PSP and the Video iPod...
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HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software: Dave Winer points to a post by Mark Pilgrim which details how to use a program called Handbrake to rip a DVD to a video iPod. This and the recent announcement that TivoToGo will export content to iPods and the PlayStation Portable makes a portable video player look more interesting.
Read MoreGMiF: Google Maps in Flickr...
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If the image is not yet geotagged, you can navigate within the map to the location where the photo was taken, and once you have the image location, you can add geotags to the image... A slide show mode is also available which automatically pans your map to show additional geotagged images in the Flickr photo stream you are viewing...
Read MoreShoefiti: Shoes Hanging from Power Lines and Telephone Wires
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Shoefiti: Shoes Hanging from Power Lines and Telephone Wires: Another interesting use of Google Maps...
Read MoreGates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic
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Over at Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds writes about the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs during presentations. The author compares the presentation styles and relates them to the Zen asthetic...
Read MoreNPR Increases Podcast Content
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NPR Podcasts of the late John Ciardi's pieces from the 80's...... NPR DOUBLES ITS PODCAST CONTENT TO 33 TITLES, LAUNCHING TODAY: The first use of NPR archival material in podcasting: the series "On Words with John Ciardi," a popular element of "Morning Edition" in the 1980s featuring the unique commentary of the poet and etymologist...
Read MoreSuprGlu...
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For example I have created a SuprGlu page that takes the content I create from this site, from the Lewis Elementary page, from my various Flickr accounts, and from my del.icio.us accounts.... For example I am teaching a class at Pacific University to pre-service teachers and we have been exploring the use of several web services tools including Flickr and del.icio.us.
Read MoreLost and Found Plea in Comic Life
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Lost and Found,
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Am having a lot of fun using Comic Life at school. Today our newsletter contained this plea for parents to come take a look at our growing lost and found collection...
Techlearning > > The Promise of Social Networks > November 1, 2005
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Techlearning > > The Promise of Social Networks > November 1, 2005: Techlearning has an article about the use of Flickr in an educational environment.... Nice to see some type of educational publication take a rational look at social software tools such as Flickr.
Read MoreMore Thoughts on Flickr and Remixing My Images
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What I would like to see is some type of web application that lets me create a book or poster from Flickr images by way of a PDF so that I can download the PDF and do the printing myself. I can imagine some type of interface similar to QOOP, but the end result is a downloadable PDF file.
Read MorePrints, Posters, Books and Stamps With Your Flickr Images
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Your Photos - not on Flickr!: This past week, Flickr announced you can order prints to be delivered by mail, or pick them up at your local Target store for one hour printing. In addition to prints, you can also order posters and books made from your Flickr images via QOOP.
Read MorePodcast Equipment Options...
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Spending: From Your Living Room to the World, via Podcast: The Sunday New York Times has an article by Anne Eisneberg outlining the equipment options for the production of a podcast.
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