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"A new breed of tinkerers mix science and craft to make things both goofy and grand..."
Lewis Butterfly Garden Project
At Lewis, we are in the middle of creating a butterfly garden near the west side entrance to the building. This is being led by our Americorps Volunteer, Julia Hamlin, and with the help of many parents. Tomorrow, Sunday, May 18, we are having a work party to finish the project. Below are some images from our work this past week...
Challenge Month Won't Change Antonia's Routine...
Challenge Month won't Change Antonia's Routine.:
The folks over at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance have a nice profile of one of my students, Antonia. Antonia rides her bike to school every day, rain or shine. The article also talks about the involvement of Lewis in the BTA's Walk and Bike Challenge...
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News and updates on the Phoenix Mars Mission... they even have a Twitter feed...
The Giant Pool of Money: This American Life
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This American Life :The Giant Pool of Money
If you are wondering how we got into this housing/credit crisis take a listen to this episode from This American Life. This episode is a joint production with NPR News and it very effectively describes how the crisis came to be.
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"The masses in China are overwhelming; the people in them are vividly and irrepressibly individual."
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Speak to iTunes Audiobook Service
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Michael Tyson, a Computer Science PhD student, living in Melbourne, Australia, has created a service (Speak to iTunes Audiobook Service) running on Mac OS X that converts any text to an iTunes compatible audio file. Select some text, invoke the service, and his tool converts the text into a spoken file using the Mac OS X text to speech tool. The file is placed in the Audiobooks section of your iTunes collection.
I installed the service and converted a few articles. I found the result to be pretty good. Not the same as having had it read by a person, but useful none the less.
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"Brightkite is a location-based social network that enables people to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and make real-world friends."
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Hit the snooze button on your verbose Twitter friends... I can appreciate that it was inspired by Merlin Mann...
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Chris Lehmann at Lewis
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Chris Lehmann at Lewis
Originally uploaded by timlauer
Chris Lehmann was on Portland last week and stopped by Lewis Friday
afternoon.
Lewis Butterfly Garden
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On Thursday we began construction of a butterfly garden around the SW entrance to my school, Lewis Elementary. This garden was made possible through the $3,700 WISE Owl Grant and PSU. The design is by our Americorp Volunteer, Julia Hamlin
We are in need of volunteers to help on the following days:
Thursday, May 1st 3-6 (cut trenching for pathway),- Thursday May 15th 3-6 (load sod in a trailer & spread compost),
- Sunday May 18th 9-12 (planting)
- Thursday May 22nd 3-6 (finishing touches and bird bath installation).
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Interview with Michale Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore's Dilemma: Searching for the Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
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Michale Pollan's posts, "Today's food movement has many faces, some of them more prominent in certain places than others. There is the movement to reform school lunch. There is the effort to regulate or ban the marketing of food to children.
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Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herecomeseverybody.org%2F2008%2F04%2Flooking-for-the-mouse.html
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Coverage from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of UCLA was shown. Segments are available separately.
Clay Shirky: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody:
Clay Shirky has a post up this morning that is a transcription of a speech he recently gave at the Web 2.0 conference. He discusses the social surplus that for the last 50 years has been consumed by television watching and is now being used by people to create, share and interact using technology. His arguments about "finding time" are something to think about as we work with our colleagues who are constantly asking that same question...
"From now on, that's what I'm going to tell them: We're looking for the mouse. We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?" And I'm betting the answer is yes."
Update: Here is the video...
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"The Coalition for a Livable Future undertook the Regional Equity Atlas Project to advance equity - the right of every person to have access to opportunities necessary for satisfying essential needs and advancing their well-being..."
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Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.
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A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.
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"Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them..."
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"This site provides price comparisons among over a dozen online stores that are either booksellers, auction sites, used book dealer networks, or a combination of two or three."
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A Twitter visualization. There are quite a few of these around, but this is the most polished I've seen...
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A program for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. Complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if you like, an easy way to give your readers background on topics you write about.