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Twitter Atlas Very nice interface to the Twitter world...

Jaiku - Twitter like tool...

Jaiku Twitter like tool. Has some interesting features including allowing you to combine content from your blogs, del.icio.us and flickr account into your presence stream. You can also add the the RSS feed from your twitter stream...

Shorpy | The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog

Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century. By way of Kottke.org via Cogdogblog

Google Voice Local Search

Google Voice Local Search: Free local 411 calls from Google... I don't recall exactly what my carrier charges, but it is a lot more than free...

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-06

• Done with interviews. Waiting around for the PTA meeting to begin. #
• Out to walk the dog... #
• Teaching my weekly tech class #
• Grabbing a bit to eat before afternoon observations... #
• Observing in our Life Skills with Nursing classroom at Lewis... #

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Twitter Updates for 2007-04-05

• just finished a round of interviews for open teaching positions... long day... #
• Watching sportscenter... See that the cubs won today #
• just finished chatting with Utecht, he's at work and I'm off to bed.. #
• Listening to a presentation by Glenn Singleton #
• Crosswalk duty #

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Google Maps: My Maps

Last night Google released a new Google Maps feature called My Maps. They have added some basic editing and annotation tools to the interface so you can create custom maps with lines and polygons. You can also create a KML file for use in Google Earth. Below is a map I quickly created with our new school boundaries.

Wikisky

Wikisky, an web based detailed sky map. Works a bit like Google Maps...

More Outdoor Classroom at Lewis

On Friday the concrete floor of our outdoor classroom at Lewis Elementary was poured. Helping with this effort were Lewis parents, Antonio Chavez, Ed Sisson, Darcie and Reed McIntosh, and Gregory MacNaughton. The group worked into the evening to set and finish the concrete and the result is a great looking floor in our outdoor classroom space. 3rd grade student Antonia helped us document the work and you can view some photographs she took over at Flickr...

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Outdoor Classroom at Lewis

Last spring we started to create an outdoor classroom space at Lewis. We got as far as the structure itself, but still needed to pour a concrete pad and also finish the roof. This spring we were awarded a grant to install an eco roof/green roof on the structure and plan to do so later this spring. This left the pouring of the pad which we anticipated would cost about $800 when all was said and done. Finding the $800 was proving to be a problem, that is until last Thursday. It turns out that Lakeshore Entertainment is in Portland filming a movie titled Untraceable. One of their sets is in the Lewis neighborhood and they needed a place for cast and crew to park their cars while filming this week. Since this week is spring break in Portland, it worked out that they could use our parking lot, and in return they have made a donation to the school that will cover the cost of the concrete and pumper truck. I have rounded up a few of our parents who know how to pour and finish concrete, so this afternoon we will finish framing the pad, and tomorrow afternoon the concrete truck is scheduled to show up around 3:00 and we will pour the pad.