Katrina Evacuees Go All the Way to Memphis At a Red Roof Inn in downtown Memphis, general manager Michelle Williams and hotel guest Randy Adams are coordinating efforts to help a weary collection of hurricane evacuees cope.... After all the stories of the slow response from the government it was nice to hear the story of Michelle Williams and Randy Adams, two people to rose to the occasion...
Read MoreOn Thursday afternoon, I sat down to talk, via Skype, with Will Richardson and Tim Wilson and the result is Ed Tech Coast to Coast #2.
Read MoreMy friend Steve Burt is on a two week trip to Peru.... I on the other hand am getting ready for the start of school and making sure that the floors are waxed and supplies are delivered...
Read MoreGoogle Talk: Google's entry into the voice over IP world...
Read MoreOver at AssortedStuff, Tim Stahmer has a great post about the current state of most school, and school district web sites and the thinking, or lack of, behind them...... It’s actually a very appropriate title since many school, and central office, sites are updated as often as most museums."
Read MoreEXCELLATRONIC COMMUNICATIONS: Geotagging Flickr with Google Maps and Greasemonkey Part 2: I have written about Greasemonkey, the Firefox browser extension that allows for the incorporation of user end scripts that modify or reformat web content. These scripts get installed on the user machine and can do everything from showing the availability of a book being browsed at Amazon at your local library, to striping out posts from specific authors at sites such as BoingBoing.
Read MoreSmugmug is a site for geocoding your photostream with Google Maps. Lots of interesting features including an easy to use interface for coding images....
Here is one that I created using some of my own pictures (without being a registered Pixagogo user) in 5 short minutes: Pixagogo Photo Maps Click the images on the map to view the photos and use the Google Map interface above as you would on the Google Maps site.... Although you can use this service without being a registered user, the site does mention that: "..having a Pixagogo account makes it possible to upload an unlimited number of photos and to create private Photo Maps."
Read MoreNPR defining new Podcast strategy: According to Tristan Louis, it looks like NPR has let its contract with Audible expire and is exploring providing more content via Podcasting... I already listen to On The Media and some clips from The World.
Read MoreIf you are comfortable playing around with html code, then utilizing GoogleI had to find the latitude and longitude information for specific addresses and found the site Portlandmaps.com to be very helpful.... I still haven't figured out how to do the markers and icons but as I have been reading the Google Maps API support groups, I have come across all kinds of interesting information and I look forward to playing with this more and sharing what I have learned with my teachers.
Read MoreOn Thursday afternoon I had the opportunity to join take part in a discussion via Skype involving Tim Wilson, Will Richardson and Steve Burt.... While the recording may be of interest to about 15 people, I found just having a chance to talk with folks who are also experimenting with technology in their schools and districts to be quite nice.
Read Moreadaptive path » an interview with flickr's eric costello : Over at Adaptive Path, Jesse James Garrett interviews Eric Costello of Flickr. The article discusses the evolution of Flickr from The Game Neverending, what was to be a massively multiplayer web-based online game, to the original Flash based Flickr Live, into its current form as a photo sharing and community site.
Read MoreThe Focus on Effectiveness web site brings together research about effective instructional practices, and carefully selected technology tools and recommendations for their use. Created by the Northwest Educational Technology Consortium and the Learning Innovation & Technology Consortium, the site builds on the work of educational researchers Robert J.
Read MorePortlandjazzjams.com Podshow: Very nice web site with a Podcast feed of live Jazz performances recorded at Portland area clubs.
Read MoreCitation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers in modeling the proper use of information property.... David indicates that he plans on making the code available so that schools can host the Citation Machine on their own servers if they like...
Read MoreCalling All Luddites - New York Times
The world is moving to an Internet-based platform for commerce, education, innovation and entertainment. Wealth and productivity will go to those countries or companies that get more of their innovators, educators, students, workers and suppliers connected to this platform via computers, phones and P.D.A.'s.
Friedman has a great column today about how the US is falling behind in the technologies and access to technologies that are key in driving the wealth and productivity of our economy...
These include our staff bulletin, the public web page, a Flickr photo gallery, a multi-author classroom notes site, book recommendations from our library, and a weblog to power our reader board.... With a tool like FeedDigest, I can mix them into one RSS feed that will give me a chronological look at the weblog activity at Lewis, all in one place...
Read MoreClarity Innovations, the folks who provide my school with technology support, are sponsoring a get together for folks interested in Open Source software and education.... The event will be held this Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 5:00 pm at Old Town Pizza which is located in NW Portland, not far from the MAX lightrail train line...
Read MoreIf Only the Flier in Front of You Were a Fan of Miss Manners - New York Times: Ira Goldman, president of Right Brain Ltd., took matters into his own hands in 2003 and invented the Knee Defender (www.kneedefender.com). These are small pieces of plastic that slip onto the legs of the tray table to prevent it from closing, and therefore, stop the seat in front from reclining.
Read MoreSend digital postcards from Flickr images. Delivr , developed by Charles Coxhead, allows you send postcard from any of Flickr's Creative Commons licensed photographs.
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