Developed by Adriaan Tijsseling, Ballpark is a small Mac OS X app that loads Yahoo's MLB GameChannel information into a separate window which can float over others, or become part of the desktop background. By sticking it into the background, you can use Exposé to quickly hide all your open windows and reveal the gamechannel information.
Read MoreThe administrative interface allows you to control map width and height, zoom level, and also set the latitude and longitude of where your map is centered.... Having student research the local neighborhood history and then use a map such as this to tag the locations.
Read MoreI sat down last week and printed out this article from Make, and walked through the steps of making an enhanced podcast. Of course I could of saved myself a bit of time if i had just gone to the end of the article where the author points to some tools to help with this process.
Read MoreAt Lewis Elementary School we are using Moveable Type to publish a weekly publication we call Classroom Notes. The idea is to utilize the Moveable Type interface to make it relatively easy for teachers to publish timely information about their classrooms.
Read MoreHas some interesting features including the ability to save and share routes. Click on any of the markers for your route and see how far this point is from the start and what the estimated time would be for a given speed.
Read MoreFrom time to time I also will take the bus and i have found the Tri-Met Transit Ticker to be a great tool. All TriMet buses have GPS units, and the Transit Ticker gives real time arrival information for any particular stop.
Read MoreI use this site mainly to make notes to myself about technology and how it can be used by teachers and students to gain a greater understanding of their world, and as a means to tell their stories... Questions or comments can be addressed to tim at lauer dot com Publications "Innovative Approaches To Literacy Education: Using The Internet To Support New Literacies" (International Reading Association) "Bringing Children and the Internet Together (Bill Harp professional teaachers library)" (Tim Lauer, Kathy Betancourt) Scott Foresman Internet Guide: Recent Presentations Articles/Interviews “Google Maps inspire creativity” by Corey Murray, eSchool News Online, June 15, 2005.
Read MoreGoogle Maps: Google Maps has added a new feature.... The hybrid view overlays street and landmark names on the satellite image.
Read MoreIn Search of the Characters of New York: TypeCon is a yearly gathering of typographers and font enthusiasts. Participants spent the last week in New York discussing typography, attending sessions, and taking part in Typography Tours.
Read MoreSince the files ended in a .mp3, del.icio.us added them to a unique RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/timlauer/system:media:audio+educast If others also used the tag, educast to tag educational related podcasts, then I could also subscribe to those postings by using this URL: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:filetype:mp3+educast This can get pretty powerful when other folks are tagging items. For example if Tim Wilson, or Steve Burt, or Meredith Melragon uses the educast tag to identify podcasts that they find of interest, these will pop up in iTunes or in my RSS reader, Netnewswire.
Read More23 Photo Sharing: Introducing 23: Some kind of Flickr clone right down to the look and feel. Has tags, rss feeds, a feed reader.
Read MoreAmassing a Treasury of Photography - New York Times: The Eastman House and the International Center of Photography To be completed in the fall of 2006, Photomuse, a joint project of the Eastman House and the and as both institutions work out agreements with estates and living photographers, the intention is to add tens of thousands more pictures.... For example, a Hine picture of an Italian immigrant couple could be found under the headings of "immigration," or "Italian-Americans" or "Ellis Island" or "urban photography" or under the headings of exhibitions where the photograph has been shown through the years.
Read MoreGoogle Moon - Lunar Landing Sites: In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, Google has created Google Moon...... (Via <a href="http://the.taoofmac.com/space">The Tao of Mac</a>.)
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Over at cogdogblog, Alan Levine points to Mastercards with flickr. Basically the old game of concentration using images from Flickr. Type in a tag and up comes a grid of images. Click on the question marks to reveal an image. Maybe I'll upload images of my staff to Flickr so our students can play Lewis Elementary Staff concentration...
Last week I attended an administrative leadership institute at Fordham University in New York. (I'd point to the institute website, but they don't have one... more about that in another post...) While the sessions and speakers at the institute were good, one of the highlights of the trip was having the opportunity to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I had read recently in The New Yorker about a painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna called, Madonna and Child. The Metropolitan had recently purchased the painting for $50 million dollars. The New Yorker article tells the story of the painting and how the Metropolitan acquired it. When I read the article I made a mental note to go see it when I was in New York.
On Friday, I noticed a post on Jason Kottke's weblog about the painting. He had written a nice piece about the painting and I decided I would go see it before leaving on Saturday.
The painting itself is tiny, only about 8 x 10 inches. It is housed in plexiglas case in a room with other paintings from that period. I was expecting a large crowd, but basically had the room to myself.
Kottke also points to other Duccio resources, including a Wikipedia entry...
Where 2.0: A Collection of Map Hacking Goodies Over at O'Reilly Radar, Nat has a great collection of Google Maps hacks from the Where 2.0 conference. Very interesting stuff including hacks for weather, wi-fi access, and a very slick one that overlays a map on a satellite image...
New York Times article that discusses witnesses posting images of the London bomb blasts to sites such as Flickr...
"There was a cliché that journalists write the first draft of history. Now I think these people are writing the first draft of history at some level, and that's an important shift."
Originally uploaded by Shari Pix.
Woke up this morning to the news of the London bomb blasts. Have been listening to NPR and following events on the web. Lifehacker has a rundown of information from various sources including Flickr groups, Wikipedia and weblogs...
Update: Eamonn Sullivan of London has a post (London attack) on his weblog... Is very interesting how this technology can be used to connect you very quickly and closely to people and events...
London bombing news roundup: "
(Via Lifehacker.)
Includes eyewitness photos from London residents; messages to family and friends; screenshots of TV coverage
This Wikipedia page is surprisingly detailed with up to the minute coverage
Gmaps Pedometer:
Gmaps Pedometer calculates the distance of a route you choose on a Google Map in miles. Great for walkers and runners.
(Via Lifehacker...)
