Embed Google 'My Maps' Map into Your Blog

Embed Google 'My Maps' Map into Your BlogI'm playing around with this little tool that allows you to embed your Google My Maps into a web page. The map above is one I created that shows the attendance boundary for Lewis Elementary.

I think I found this by visiting Derek Baird's site...

Earth Day Work Party at Lewis

Today, Saturday, April 21, 2007, we are holding an Earth Day Work Party at Lewis Elementary School. Parents, students, and community volunteers will be working on various projects around the school to enhance and maintain our Outdoor Center and garden areas. If you are in Portland today and would like to help out, please stop by the school between 9:00 and 1:00... (location map)

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-20

• On my way to work #
• Helping kindergarten students plant nasturshums near our school entrance... #
• 5th graders are back from camp #

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Post over at Leadertalk: Today I posted ...

Post over at Leadertalk: Today I posted about Oregon's online testing woes over at Leadertalk. The site is written by and for school leaders. I'm really impressed with the quality of posts on the site. Scott McLeod deserves some kudos for setting this up.

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-19

• Reading: "Get a First Life: A One Page Satire of Second Life" (http://tinyurl.com/2m9t8a) #
• Good Morning from Portland... #
• At Lewis... putting together a painting easel for our life skills classroom... #
• Visiting another school this morning #
• Back at school for a bit, than to another meeting.... #
• In an admin meeting... #

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Twitter Updates for 2007-04-18

• On way back from Oregon Coast. Visited 5th graders at camp, pictures on Flickr later... #
• finally finished school newsletter... sun's out... hopefully an outside lunch recess today... #

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Twitter Updates for 2007-04-17

• Heading over to son's baseball game... raining of course... #
• Heading out with the dog for a walk... #
• Classroom observations this morning #
• At Oregon coast with 5th grade class #

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Twitter Updates for 2007-04-16

• heading home for dinner... #
• Watchn Dodgers/S.D: Anniversary of J. Robinson breaking color barrier,lots of great interviews,a history lesson disguised as a baseball game #
• looking at: http://tinyurl.com/2cfy68 #
• ESPN has a nice feature on Jackie Robinson on right now... #
• Good Morning from Portland... #
• At work... Looking to order a video camera... #
• Reading: "Giving Away Information, but Increasing Revenue - New York Times" (http://tinyurl.com/2wuv3a) #
• Lunch duty... #
• Helping with ESL testing... #
• Just finished Staff Meeting... Shared the Sir Ken Robinson talk from TED 2006... #

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Twitter Updates for 2007-04-15

• At circuit city looking at a HD JVC Camcorder. Pretty nice... #
• At blockbuster... Cyprien goes to much cooler places than I #
• playing with posting to Wordpress from Quicksilver... #
• @cyprien: Take good notes... Post good notes... #
• Taking Nando to visit his cousin... #
• At daughter's soccer game #
• At Lewis... getting ready for the week... #

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Posting to Wordpress from Quicksilver

Testing of posting to Wordpress via Quicksilver on Mac OS X. Planning to set up a private WP blog for taking notes of staff and student interactions at school... Update: Looks like it works. Am using Quicksilver along with the QSPresstitle script . Lifehacker has a good series of posts about Quicksilver and how folks use it as a productivity tool. For example to illustrate this post I wanted to grab a screenshot of the Quicksilver interface, and place it into Flickr so I could include it in this post. Using the application SanpNDrag, I was able to grab the image to the left and place it on the clipboard, then I invoked QuickSilver, pasted the clipboard contents into the Quicksilver window, tabbed over and invoked the Flickr upload command and the image was uploaded to my Flickr account. I have Wordpress set up so that my Flickr photos are easily accessible via the Wordpress editing window.