Originally uploaded by timlauer. An example of posting from Flickr to a weblog...

After the initial batch process, I then went in and changed the map markers to denote the different types of schools in the system.... Mapbuilder.net is a very impressive tool and a wonderful example of a web tool that has immediate application in an educational setting.

The printing company web site describes the the process: The material is made up of tiny ridges or lenses (hence the name “lenticular” printing). We take raw images and process them through a computer algorithm, which matches the lens surface of the lenticular material.

This is a web tool that allows you to build a table of data from various reports and download it in tab delimited or Excel format.... Parents and staff are sometimes looking for the location of various schools and programs and this would be a nice feature to add to our site.

That's where we come in. We're testing a new service with the school by hosting Gmail accounts with SJCC domain addresses (like student@jaguars.sjcc.edu), plus admin tools for efficient account management. Massive storage and features that tame the most unruly inboxes, like powerful mail search, conversation view for messages, and a fast interface, make Gmail very handy for students.

Reinvention Chapter 2—"I Quit": Will posts about his decision to leave his school district position and strike out into the Web 2.0 world. One bit of advice though, I think I'd tell my wife first before mentioning it to Steve Dembo, Jon Pederson, Tom Hoffman and 1000 other folks...

Basically you can add building data for buildings that don't show up when you turn on the buildings layer in Google Earth. I made a quick outline of my school using the tool and then opened the resulting kml file in Google Earth to create the image above.

: Beth Kanter has posted a very nice lesson plan (Learning Object??... It includes links to resources on the web and some that she has created herself.

At Lewis Elementary we are working with our city traffic department to add some crosswalks and pedestrian improvements in our neighborhood. I can now share with them specific information about our students and show them the need for these improvements based on where our students live.

Just a post to note that the New York Times now is making podcasts available. Content includes a daily summary of the front page, a weekly review of science, technology and environmental news, and music reviews.

Google in China at The Thinking Stick: Jeff Utecht laments the sad state of affairs when corporations, such as Yahoo Google and MSN, are willing to do the bidding of governments and deny freedom to their users " to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful..." When will Google amend their mission statement?

The great thing about Scuttle is that you can download the source and run the application on your own server. Today my friend, Dick McPartland, came by and installed the necessary software and we now have Scuttle running locally at school, Lewis Elementary This means that we can provide our students with a social bookmarking tool, running locally in our building.

iTunes Signature Maker... Here's mine...

The Martin Luther King, Jr.... 100 random quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...

Our technology/music teacher, Tony Jamesbarry, is also having them use Google Maps to create a map that will highlight the routes and voyages of their particular explorer.... Once your map is finished you have a number of options on how it can be displayed, including grabbing the HTML source and using that source code on your site.

Clockr - It's Flickr Time: A clock using numeral images from Flickr...

tickr for flickr Tickr is a Mac OS X application that provides a moving ticker of images from Flickr. These can include a ticker of images from a specific user, from a tag, or from search string.