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Parent Car Wash

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Parent Car Wash

Parent Car Wash,
originally uploaded by lewiselementary.

As part of Staff Appreciation Week at Lewis Elementary, parents and students put on a car wash for staff members...

ThinkFree Online beta

ThinkFree Office Online is the first-ever online office suite that gives users free access to editing and the creation of Microsoft Office files, including Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, without buying any software.... ThinkFree Office Online service, using Java technology, is a web-desktop hybrid solution, combining the convenience of server-based computing with the power and responsiveness of desktop-based applications.

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Beautiful Day to Ride a Bike...

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As I headed out to crosswalk duty, I took this picture of the bikes in our bike racks. It is nice to work in a building where so many students can walk or ride bikes to school. We have been involved with a program to encourage students and families to do more of this and it has been a great success.

Tomorrow night Lewis Elementary will hold its 18th annual Art Night. This is a annual night were we highlight the art work of our students and provide an opportunity for our 3rd grade Recorder Club, Beginning and Intermediate Bands, and Marimba Band to perform. If you happen to be in Portland tomorrow evening, please stop by...

Lewis Elementary Outdoor Center Greenhouse

#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;} #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:link, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:active, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#3993ff;} #flickr_badge_wrapper {background-color:#ffffff;border: solid 1px #FFFFFF} #flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;} On Sunday, April 30, 2006 members of the Lewis community came together to work on moving our Lewis Outdoor Center greenhouse to a new location.... Lewis parent Martin Nicholson, along with our Americorps Volunteer, Kelly Alsup and PSU students Angela LeVan and Matt Bibeau helped lead a group of volunteers from our community, and Portland State University, in prepping the new location and moving the greenhouse from its old location.

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Wikipedia-places.KML

Google Earth Community: Wikipedia-places This Google Earth KML file shows the 80 best described landmarks in Wikipedia currently in the field of vision on Google Earth. For example, load the KML file into Google Earth, travel to a location and the file pulls in links/placemarks to associated articles in Wikipedia .

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Celebrating Earth Day: Scholastic & Google Earth Hook Up

Using Google Earth, teachers can fly their students around the world to talk to them about issues like climate change and how it has affected places like Glacier National Park, the Chesapeake Bay and Los Angeles.... Using Google Earth, teachers can show their students placemarks of the towns where outreach projects are taking place and students can get involved in cleaning up their own environment.

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Google Calendar data API

I can imagine all kinds of interesting hooks being developed to gather and publish content from Google Calendar.... Enter the Google Calendar data API, which can be used to write external applications that query, create, and update Google Calendar events, so they're available to Google Calendar users or other API-enabled applications.

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Google Map Maker

Richard Stephenson has created a very nice little tool, Google Map Maker, for generating Google Maps. The interface is very simple to use and you can easily add placemarks to a map, add popup content, and generate the code, all from a single page.

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