This album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blog BubbleShare: Upload Photos: BubbleShare is a social networking photo sharing site that has a number of interesting features.... You can send this link to fire is a link to your gallery, the other a link to an adminstrative interface where you can access a number of features including adding captions and titles, the ability to add audio captions, add or delete photos, and rearrange your photos.
Read MorePerformancing is a Firefox extension that puts a weblog editor into the Firefox web browser. The How To Guide explains all of its features, but I was impressed that I could drag and drop an image into the editing area and then resize the image.
Read MoreThere are some things that can't be overcome by a fast Internet connection.... and another, being there to share them on Christmas.
Read MoreWhat I would like to see is a school district take this personalized Google page and provide XML data or modules that would tie into its student information system. For example as a principal I would like to create a page that pulled in content such as our average daily attendance, a listing of absent students, tardy students, GPS routing information for school busses, a list of the most current reading assessment scores.
Read MoreHe also has a Drupal site set up for his school, Flushing International High School. With the ongoing New York transit strike, it is a good example of how a school can use a site to provide timely information to its community.
Read MoreThe New York Times is using Google Maps to create a Guide to Commuting providing transportation alternatives for those dealing with the transit workers strike.
Read MoreJust in time for the neighborhood holiday party season, Google Map Mania points to Matthew Kane's Map Political Campaign Contributions in Your Area. This Google Maps mashup takes campaign contribution data from the Fundrace Project web site and combines it with Google Maps to produce a red and blue map of your neighborhood.
Read MoreIn his post, A breath of fresh air, Jon Udell explains in a screencast how he time shifts streaming content such as NPR's Fresh Air and saves it as in MP3 format. Kind of a do it yourself TIVO for audio files...
Read MoreBen Bishop has posted a very nice introduction to Flickr, the social networking photo sharing site. He very simply explains the different fee structures, and introduces concepts such as sets, tagging, groups and other aspects of the tool.
Read MoreGoogle Maps News Mashups: Washington Post, AP, bird flu: Over at the GoogleMaps Mania, they point to an interesting tool from 81nassau.com that combines information from Google Maps, Yahoo and the Associated Press to create an interactive news maps that plots the ten latest stories from the AP RSS feed. Associated Press (AP) News Mashup takes the current stories from the AP' national RSS feed and plots them on Google Maps.
Read MoreYesterday the AppleInsider posted about a beta of Google Earth for Mac OS X that has been showing up in Europe. This morning I see that John Johnson of Sandaig Primary School points to a beta that can be downloaded from a link here: Is a Mac Version of Google Earth Coming Soon?
Read MoreSauvie Island is a large island at the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers.... Didn't take us long to find our tree and haul it back to the shop.
Read MoreWith Google Transit you can easily access schedules, routes, and plan trips using their local public transportation options. The first release covers my city, Portland, Oregon and the TriMet system, but they plan to expand to more systems soon, and are actively seeking out other transit organizations to partner with.
Read MoreHOW TO Quickie: Embedded Flickr Slideshows: Paul Stamatiou explains on his site how to embed a Flickr slideshow in your own webpage.
Read MoreObservatorium 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....
Read MoreLibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.... They use Project Gutenberg as an inspiration and post their audio files to the Internet Archive.
Read MoreAfter the set up I was walking around talking with students and parents and noticed that one student's father was working away on his laptop. We have a building wide wireless network and he said he was getting a nice signal in the cafeteria and appreciated being able to get online while his son took part in the tournament.
Read MoreRecently 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 MoreThe 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.
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