// This is your call to flickrshow // The parameters are photoset ID, ID of target and colour // Repeat this call to have multiple flickrshows on a page fs1 = new flickrShow("72157594201929815", "fsDemo", "blue"); A slide show will appear here shortly.
Read MoreKilgour, a distinguished librarian who nearly 40 years ago transformed a consortium of Ohio libraries into what is now the largest library cooperative in the world, making the catalogs of thousands of libraries around the globe instantly accessible to far-flung patrons, died on Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C.... For example the links described below would take me to the entry for Will Richardson's book: Book: Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms http://worldcat.org/oclc/62326782 By adding geographical limiting information to the link I can limit the results to a certain zip code or state Book: Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms http://worldcat.org/oclc/62326782&loc=97215 http://worldcat.org/oclc/62326782&loc=Oregon You can also access Worldcat from within Google and Yahoo.
Read MoreGoogle Maps has added a nice feature which allows you to save personal addresses on Google Maps. A Saved Location link has been added to the right corner of the site.
Read MoreThe Chicago Tribune has recently published a special report by Paul Salopek that traces the gasoline sold at a suburban Chicago station back to its origins.... The site also includes a great little ticker that counts off US oil consumption while you are visiting the site.
Read MoreBarcelona airport strike strands 10,000 Britons - Times OnlineThe strike was sparked by the decision by Spanish airports authority AENA not to renew Iberia’s baggage handling contract.Workers blocked one of the airport’s three runways this morning to protest at possible job losses.How I spent part of my summer vacation...
Read MoreAndy Carvin has set up a site - DOPA Watch - that automatically aggregates the latest news and blog posts about the DOPA (interesting acronym) legislation.... It will be interesting to see if the owners of the types of sites targeted by the legislation will begin to lobby Congress to counter some of the perceptions inherent in the legislation.
Read MoreA few months back I wrote about Gizmo, a voice over Internet service that has many nice features including the ability to record phone conversations (great for student interviews and such...)... While this can be seen as a marketing move by the company, the result is that with a bit of organization and effort you can make voice calls to 60 countries for free.
Read MoreGoogle Video has a nice feature that allows you to link to a specific section of video stored on their system.
Read MoreOregon Public Broadcast has a report about the roll out of Portland's citywide wireless Internet plan. Starting next summer residents will be able to pick up an advertising based connection free of charge.
Read MoreThey talk about the many features of blip including hooks into bookmark tagging engines like del.icio.us and Furl, and the ability to post video not only to blip.tv, but also to the Internet Archive. They also discuss Udell's recent post about "walled gardens", and some of the features of blip that allow users to make their work more transparent and not only tied to blip's site.
Read MoreThe feed returns a comparison of the changes along side the previous saved version.... Atom/RSS feed of the Portland, Oregon article in my newsreader...
Read MoreGardner Writes » Blog Archive » Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: Jon Udell Keynote Address on 21st Century Literacy: About fifteen months after Jerry Slezak introduced me to the wonders of Jon Udell, I was standing before a capacity crowd in Combs 139 introducing Jon as the keynote speaker for Faculty Academy 2006.... Beginning with Teilhard de Chardin and Doug Engelbart, and ending with a stirring challenge to transform higher education into a truly open, outward-facing public resource, Jon provided every bit of the focus, insight, and vision that mark a truly great keynote address.
Read MoreFraser Speirs, the developer of Flickr Export, the great photo exporting tool for iPhoto has recently taken a new position as computing teacher and general IT person at Cedars School of Excellence. He has started a new weblog, Teaching 2.0 , where he discusses his work at the school, focusing on IT and technology integration issues.
Read MoreI just was reading about a conferences sponsored by MTVu looking at games and gaming and asking the question Can Social-Change Video Games Tackle Divorce, Poverty, Genocide?... Examples include Disaffected, which parodies the employment experience of Kinko's worker; Peacemaker, "a one-player game in which the player can choose to take the role of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President."
Read MoreNECC 2006 Attendees | Program: search result details: Technology Leadership Forum 2006: Road Map to Systemic Change (Hosted by SIGTC and SIGAdmin) [Forum/Institute/Symposium] Paula Don, School District of Philadelphia with Camilla Gagliolo, Don Knezek and Lynn Nolan Explore relationships and shared responsibilities of technology coordinators and district/building leaders as we continue down the road to systemic change.... For more information, visit http://www.iste.org/profdev/techleader2006.
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Petco Park
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The Western Metal Supply Company in San Diego...
I had the opportunity to join Steve Burt, Will Richardson, Tim Wilson, and Tom Hoffman at NECC for a live recording or our occasional podcast Ed Tech Coast to Coast. Topics of discussion included the one laptop per child initiative, Open Source projects and potential, and really big schwag-bags.
Read MoreNECC 2006 SIGTC Panel Podcast Clarity Innovations has posted the panel discussion from the SIGTC breakfast panel. Panel Discussion: Web 2.0 in Education – with John Hendron, Thor Prichard, Will Richardson, Tony Vincent, David Warlick and moderator Ted Sakshaug.
Read MoreAspen Ideas Festival: This week a few members of the WC team are attending the Aspen Ideas Festival, a week-long convergence in Aspen, Colorado, packed with seminars and discussions geared toward generating productive conversation around some of the world's greatest challenges, and emerging solutions.... They point to the Aspen Ideas Festival, taking place in Colorado this week.
Read MoreOver at We Are The Media, they are asking folks to document their July 4th experiences and tag them on Technorati with the tat: July4us. The video clips below are from July 4, 2004.
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