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BubbleShare, the photo sharing tool that allows you create audio slide shows has added a new digital zoom feature. Use the zoom tool to navigate around a Bubbleshare image and zoom in on details.
Read MoreDave Winer wonders how Joe Luft (aka: Brooklyn Joe) can be a Yankees fan...... I've saved the screen grab for posterity and Joe's curriculum vitae...
Read More"Students and researchers whether in San Francisco or Bangladesh can watch remarkable video such as World War II newsreels and the story of Apollo 11 - the historic first landing on the Moon."... With more and more audio and video content making its way on to the web, this kind of access requires that schools have adequate projection equipment.
Read MoreTeaching Reading 3-5 is designed to give teachers the strategies they need to help all students become better readers and writers in the intermediate grades. The series of eight workshops provides current research, questions for reflection, tips for new teachers, activities to enhance teaching, and classroom video segments.
Read MoreIn another example of how the Google Maps interface is influencing web design, John Johnston, of Sandaig School in Glasgow, has created an interesting Flash based interface to view examples of student art. The art pieces are large wall sized murals and you can navigate and zoom in around the art work similar to moving around on a Google Map.... We have a very large mural at Lewis Elementary, and I'll have to ask John to help me do something similar...
Read MoreI guess I look at this and wonder how valuable are the assessments we are giving our students if they can be foiled by giving away answers.... She said that at her school during exams, they employ jamming technology that makes the cell phone inoperable...
Read MoreOriginally uploaded by timlauer. An example of posting from Flickr to a weblog...
Read MoreAfter the initial batch process, I then went in and changed the map markers to denote the different types of schools in the system.... Mapbuilder.net is a very impressive tool and a wonderful example of a web tool that has immediate application in an educational setting.
Read MoreThe printing company web site describes the the process: The material is made up of tiny ridges or lenses (hence the name “lenticular” printing). We take raw images and process them through a computer algorithm, which matches the lens surface of the lenticular material.
Read MoreThis is a web tool that allows you to build a table of data from various reports and download it in tab delimited or Excel format.... Parents and staff are sometimes looking for the location of various schools and programs and this would be a nice feature to add to our site.
Read MoreThat's where we come in. We're testing a new service with the school by hosting Gmail accounts with SJCC domain addresses (like student@jaguars.sjcc.edu), plus admin tools for efficient account management. Massive storage and features that tame the most unruly inboxes, like powerful mail search, conversation view for messages, and a fast interface, make Gmail very handy for students.
Read MoreReinvention Chapter 2—"I Quit": Will posts about his decision to leave his school district position and strike out into the Web 2.0 world. One bit of advice though, I think I'd tell my wife first before mentioning it to Steve Dembo, Jon Pederson, Tom Hoffman and 1000 other folks...
Read MoreBasically you can add building data for buildings that don't show up when you turn on the buildings layer in Google Earth. I made a quick outline of my school using the tool and then opened the resulting kml file in Google Earth to create the image above.
Read More: Beth Kanter has posted a very nice lesson plan (Learning Object??... It includes links to resources on the web and some that she has created herself.
Read MoreAt Lewis Elementary we are working with our city traffic department to add some crosswalks and pedestrian improvements in our neighborhood. I can now share with them specific information about our students and show them the need for these improvements based on where our students live.
Read MoreJust a post to note that the New York Times now is making podcasts available. Content includes a daily summary of the front page, a weekly review of science, technology and environmental news, and music reviews.
Read MoreGoogle in China at The Thinking Stick: Jeff Utecht laments the sad state of affairs when corporations, such as Yahoo Google and MSN, are willing to do the bidding of governments and deny freedom to their users " to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful..." When will Google amend their mission statement?
Read MoreThe great thing about Scuttle is that you can download the source and run the application on your own server. Today my friend, Dick McPartland, came by and installed the necessary software and we now have Scuttle running locally at school, Lewis Elementary This means that we can provide our students with a social bookmarking tool, running locally in our building.
Read MoreiTunes Signature Maker... Here's mine...
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