Wikipedia Vs School Board Web Site: So because one or a few people have control of the board website, and everyone has control of Wikipedia, it seems as though Wikipedia becomes more accurate than the actual board website. Quentin D has a very interesting post about the relative accuracy of his school district's web site compared to the Wikipedia entry for his school district.
Read MoreIt also includes a very good introduction to RSS for those new to the technology, and for experienced users, it takes you to a directory which organizes their RSS feeds by category. In addition any page on the BBC that has an RSS feed also has the familiar orange RSS icon along with a link to the the feed.
Read MoreThe image on the left is a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.... The Dr. King Timeline page is still up and running.
Read MoreGoogle Earth Community: Viewing forum: Dynamic Data Layers: In the Google Earth Community there is a forum call Dynamic Data Layers.
Read MoreA Great Session on Mac’s and Accessibility: Dave Warlick attended Carol Anne McGuire's MacWorld session on the use of technology by students from Imperial Elementary School in the Orange Unified District.... Carol is a Disney award winning teacher at Imperial Elementary who uses tools such as Garage Band and iMovie with her students.
Read MoreStephen Downes has created MyGlu, is a Javascript that takes an OPML file and generates a web page from the RSS feeds associated with that OPML. Similar to SuprGlu, except you can a page with your own look and feel.
Read Morehttp://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73329429&s=143441
Read MoreThe SkyScout from Celestron is a handheld device that identifies and/or locates any celestial object visible to the naked eye. The blurb on their web site indicates that you can point the SkyScout at any bright object in the night sky, and it will identify the object from a database of over 6000 objects.
Read Moretimlauer's photoblog: Photobloggr is a tool to view your Flickr photostream by tag, by date taken or by date uploaded...
Read MoreAllPeers is a Firefox extension that will utilize BitTorrent to facilitate P2P sharing of media. Currently in a limited Beta...
Read Moreretrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch. More information can be found on their about page...
Read MoreVersioning is supported so that you can compare various versions of the document history.... An interesting option is a downloadable back office version that can be run locally on your own server.
Read MoreHe discusses a piece of software called NoteTaker, from Aquaminds Software and notes an additional piece of soon to be released software called NoteShare.... He notes ...Its design expresses two impulses that are both the history and the future of the computing business: letting people connect more thoroughly, broadly and richly; and making it steadily easier for them to do so.
Read MoreTim Stahmer over at AssortedStuff has a nice new design for the new year.
Read MoreIt also allows you to save your document in a number of formats including Microsoft Word and PDF formats. You can also send email messages to Writely for further editing, and you can also post directly from Writely to your weblog...
Read MoreThe MAKEbot is an AIM/iChat client you can add to your buddy list to get the latest news from MAKE magazine.... For example type "search ipod" and receive back links to the 5 latest posts/stories that deal with the iPod.
Read MoreTeacher Man - Practical Theory: "Quick show of hands... did every teacher out there get a copy of Teacher Man for Kwanzmaskah?"
Read MoreIt allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and synchronizes all changes so that users always have the same version.... Suggested uses include collaborative note taking during a class, or back channel writing during a conference or phone/tele conference.
Read MoreWhere it is quite different from del.icio.us, is that you can also more fully annotate your bookmarked pages, and bookmarks can also be saved locally.... For example if I tag and add a sticky note to a page, I can also see other sticky notes left by others or I can send a notification to a colleague so that she can read my annotation and respond.
Read MoreFor those who currently have accounts on our system, please be advised that our free blogging service will only be available up until August 1, 2006.... If you choose not to pay the subscription fee your blog will no longer be available.
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