Shared Items - November 24, 2008

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Items shared in Google Reader....

School - Sketchup Training, Videos, Tutorials, Podcasts, Forums, Classes, Courses, and DVDs
go-2-school.com has a great series of video tutorials for Google SketchUp and Google Earth... Our technology techer, Tony Jamesbarry uses these to prepare for his work with SketchUp with our 4th and 5th grade students.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - The Partnership and National Council of Teachers of English Create New Framework

Rodd Lucier Interview with Guzman Tierno about Google SketchUp
Rodd Lucier interviews Guzman Tierno, a teacher in Florence, Italy about his use of Google SketchUp in his classroom...

PC Magazine to end print edition

15 Tools for Your Twitter Toolbox

Every Night, I Sleep Next to My iPhone

Playing around with the Google Maps iPhone Update

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I spent some time this morning playing around with the new features in Google Maps on the iPhone. I am more and more impressed with this tool. With this update they have added transit and walking directions in addition to driving directions. Now when you are plotting a route you can see separate results for all three modes of transportation. As you switch from view to view the map is redrawn to reflect the best route based on your mode of transportation.

When the transit directions are displayed, bus stops appear and are clickable. When touched, the marker will display the arriving time for the next bus or train. (In Portland this is live data based on an estimate of the buses location using GPS, and not just based on a timetable, am sure it is the same for most of the transit systems that Google has partnered with...)

Below are some screen grabs for a route from my home to school.

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In addition, Street View is now available...

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Shared items: November 22, 2008, 8:24 am from 08:24 to 08:52

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These are items I have recently shared in Google Reader: November 22, 2008, 8:24 am from 08:24 to 08:52:

  • Stanza Demo Movie | Lexcycle - Shared by timlauer <br> A demonstration of the Stanza ebook reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

    , November 22, 2008, 8:52 am, none

  • K-12 poster series: Education: AIGA - Shared by timlauer <br> A design poster and activity series for K-12 education from AIGA....

    , November 22, 2008, 8:24 am, none

Shared Items for November 18, 2008, 5:51 am through November 22, 2008, 8:12 am

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The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker

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The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker

Shared by timlauer
John Hodgman talks to The New Yorker about his writing process. It includes a notebook and of course a Mac...

Actual ideas come away from the desk, typically. While walking through the park or talking aloud in the shower. When water damage is not at issue, I will carry an actual Moleskine with me, because they are very handy, with their nice stiff backs, and I am a cliché.

This Math Whiz Called It for Obama Months Ago - NYTimes.com

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This Math Whiz Called It for Obama Months Ago - NYTimes.com. The New York Times profiles Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com. Is interesting to think about how his site and work caught on with people as the election moved from the primaries to the general election. This election was kind of a coming out party for the power of social networks and the use of the net as a vehicle for political discussion and organization.

Legacies: Class Report: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker

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Legacies: Class Report: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker

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Roger Angell reflects on the events of Tuesday night and thinks of an old college classmate...

He died in 1975, at the age of fifty-three. He and I belong to what has sometimes been called “the Greatest Generation.” If most of us have felt uncomfortable about the honor, it may be because we’ve known that in some ways we haven’t been all that great. The election of Barack Obama as President could mean that all of us in the United States belong to the Greatest Generation now, and though this astounding event seems to have happened all of a sudden, for some people my age it wasn’t soon enough.

Reading...Better Teachers Needed

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Better Teachers Needed

Ed Glaeser does excellent economics work that often translates into puzzlingly disappointing op-eds, but this column on the vital importance teacher quality and offering a few ideas about how to get it is spot-on. President-Elect Obama has often spoken along the same lines as Glaeser in terms of paying teachers more, and then screening out ineffective ones more rigorously. Obviously, the devil is in the details, but it’s very important for the long-run fate of the economy to see some movement on this.