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Flushing International High School Profiled on WNYC...

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WNYC - News - Flushing School Serves Immigrant Students

There are more immigrants living in New York City than at any time since the 1920s. Thirty six percent of all New Yorkers were born outside the United States, according to the 2000 Census. The immigration boom has changed the face of the city's public schools. About two out of five city students live in households that speak a language other than English. New schools are opening to meet their needs. WNYC's Beth Fertig visited one of them, which is called the Flushing International School.

The link above is to a report from WNYC radio about Joe Luft's school in New York. Joe is the principal of Flushing International High School in Queens. Joe worked at Brooklyn International High School before becoming a principal. There are several of us hoping he finds some time to post to his weblog about his work at his new school.

Podcast support in next version of iTunes

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Podcast support in next version of iTunes:

Over at O'Reilly Radar, Tim O'Reilly details a presentation by Apple's Steve Jobs at the Wall Street Journal's D Conference where Jobs discusses ipodder like features coming to iTunes. I especially liked his Wayne's World comment. The aspect of podcasting that interests me is the time shifting of content I already listen to.

I'm currently using NetNewsWire to subscribe to podcasts from shows such as Science Friday and Tech Nation. NetNewsWire 2.0 does a very nice job with enclosures and I can scan the RSS feed of a particular show and choose to download podcasts as I'm browsing my feeds, and they are automatically entered into my iTunes library. Will be interesting to see how Apple rolls this functionality into iTunes.

Chicago Transit Authority and Google Maps

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Chicago Transit Authority map on Google Maps
Adrian Holovaty has come up with a very cool Greasemonkey script for Firefox which allows him to combine the Chicago Transit Authority map with Google Maps. The script adds an additional option to Google Maps which allows you to view your search results overlaid on the CTA map.

This is pretty interesting for organizations, such as school districts, which have maps that provide boundary information and such.

Book: Innovative Approaches to Literacy Education: Using the Internet to Support New Literacies

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Today the Internation Reading Association publishes, Innovative Approaches to Literacy Education: Using the Internet to Support New Literacies. This book is a collection of chapters written by teachers and administrators highlighting the use of the Internet in classrooms. I contributed a chapter dealing with my work at Buckman Elementary as a teacher and my work at Lewis using weblogs as a vehicle for school communication. A sample chapter is available.