The New Literacies Research Team at the University of Connecticut is a continually evolving consortium of professors, graduate research assistants, school districts, organizations, policy makers, teachers, and school leaders who seek to prepare students for the new learning and literacy skills required by information and communication technologies such as the Internet. I have known and worked with Don since my days as a kindergarten teacher at Buckman Elementary and I look forward to learning more about the work of his team and following their New Literacies Team Blog...
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.
Read MoreJoshua Schachter: Future of Tagging
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Beth Kanter has a very good and detailed post about Joshual Schachter's (the guy behind del.icio.us) recent presentation at the Berkman Center... Last night I attended Berkman special evening event titled “Future of Tagging” with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger, Berkman Fellow, who moderated. (Schachter also gave a luncheon presentation and you can read Deborah Finn's notes and David Weinberger's live blogging of the session.)
Read MorePodcast Publishing With MovableType
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Podcast Publishing With MovableType: Alan Levine posts about using MoveableType as a Podcast publishing/posting engine. He has created a system of several templates available for download that allow you set up a system for cataloging podcasts, and producing RSS feeds associated with them.
Read MoreNCLB and Value Added School Ratings
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NCLB and Value Added School Ratings: Tom Hoffman points to a very interesting article in The Washington Monthly on NCLB assessments vs. other methods of school assessment.... The article points to the work done at Herbert Marcus Elementary School in Dallas and how it fares in a value added type of assessment compared to the requirements of NCLB.
Read MoreComic Life: A talk with Robert Grant and Cris Pearson
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Tim Wilson has another great podcast up on his Savy Technologist site.... this time a talk with Robert Grant and Cris Pearson of Plasq Software, the creators of Comic Life.
Read MoreTim Wilson's Podcasts...
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Several folks responded in comments and I thought I would share my experience using Oregon's online assessment tool, TESA In Oregon we have the option to have students test online using a web based application called TESA rather than the paper pencil test.... I find it interesting that in some states, rather than see that the technology provides for new opportunities, they try to fit the technology into old models such as a short testing window, testing all students at the same time, and only assessing once a year...
Read MoreKids and the Internet
This morning, Eamonn Sullivan has a very good post about children and the Internet. He outlines some ideas for keeping children safe while using the Internet and suggests some strategies for monitoring and more importantly discussing with children their life on the Internet, and their lives in general.
Read MoreLost and Found Item of the Week...
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The Lost and Found item of the week...... This and many other lost and found items can be found on the rack in the Lewis cafeteria...
Read MoreBike and Walk to School Day
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Am messing around with a iPhoto plug-in called Photon. It allows you to post to Moveable Type from within iPhoto...
Harold's Lunchbox
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Harold's Lunchbox,
originally uploaded by lewiselementary.
One of the better looking lunch boxes I've seen so far this year.
Google Reader: An RSS Reader from the Big Kid on the Block...
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Google has introduced Reader, a web based RSS reader.... You can search Google for content and if the content you find also has an RSS feed you can subscribe to the feed.
Read More'Folksonomy' Carries Classifieds Beyond SWF and 'For Sale'
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'Folksonomy' Carries Classifieds Beyond SWF and 'For Sale': Today's New York Times has an article discussing folksonomy and specifically tools such as del.icio.us.... I tag sites that I'm going to share during the presentation with a common tag, then load them up in Firefox using their live bookmark feature.
Read MoreNew Whiteboards
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Spent some time at school on Saturday helping my music teacher, Tony Jamesbarry, replace his old chalkboard with whiteboard material. He picked up two 4' x 8' sheets of tileboard for $22 at Lowe's. The dimensions of the old chalkboard were the same as the tile board, so we easily unscrewed the frame from the wall, took down the old chalkboard sheets, replaced them with the whiteboard sheets and reinstalled the framing. Quite an improvement...
We plan to tackle another classroom next week and hope to get them all completed through the course of the school year.
Flyr: Flickr + Google Maps...
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Flyr is a web tool that combines a Flickr search tool with a Google Maps interface. Search results can be displayed as an overlay in Google Earth, plotted onto a Google Maps, or returned as a set of thumbnails images.
Read MoreAreameter.... Using Google Maps to Calculate Area
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The Areometer Google Maps Tool computes the area of an enclosed path. Similar to many of the Google Maps pedometer tools, except this one computes the area of an enclosed space.
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) One thing I have been very busy with is developing and revising school related schedules for things such as lunch duty and rainy day recess.... Also has a presentation mode so you can create multiple pages and present them from within the application.
Read MoreGoogle Maps as a Visual Disaster Wiki
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Wired has an interview with Jonathan Mendez and Greg Stoll who have created a map using Google Maps, that allows people to report on the condition of locations damaged by Hurricane Katrina...
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