Flickr: Photos from The Oregonian

April 14, 2007 in Random

Matt Haughey notes that our local paper, The Oregonian, has recently started publishing photographs that appear in the paper on Flickr. They take advantage of tags including geotags.

Technorati Tags: flickr, The Oregonian, Matt Haughey

David Thornburg: On Wikipedia and the Meaning of Everything

April 13, 2007 in Asides

David Thornburg : On Wikipedia and the Meaning of Everything I still encounter educators who block student access to Wikipedia because it is "created by amateurs without peer review". (In fact, it is created by a wide audience, including many content experts, and the peer review process is so dynamic that some entries are frozen from time to time when the edits become too hectic.)

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-13

April 13, 2007 in Random

Reading: "Sudden departure of Jefferson High School's principal raises questions | KATU - Portland, Oregon | Local & Regional" (http://tinyu #
Heading to bed in Portland... #
Good morning from Portland, No students today, teacher development day... #
Coffee and the paper... #
Looking for a lost powercord... #
At: "Tony Jamesbarry'" (http://tinyurl.com/2jeqov) #
At: "Tony Jamesbarry's music education workshop at Lewis..." (http://tinyurl.com/2jeqov) #
@timwilson: Travel well Mr. Wilson... #
heading to lunch #
Sitting in on Tony Jamesbarry's afternoon workshop... http://tinyurl.com/2y8333 #

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-12

April 12, 2007 in Random

Reading: "Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead at 84; Caught Imagination of His Age - New York Times" (http://tinyurl.com/2c7s3x) #
Morning from Portland.... running late #
Classroom observation in Room 8. 1st grade literacy #
Classroom observation, Grade 4, math #
heading to lunch duty... #

Timeline Widget

April 12, 2007 in Random

The Universal Timeline generator allows you to take an Atom or RSS feed and easily create a Javascript Timeline widget based on the MIT Simile project. This can then be embedded in a web page as an iframe. The example above is of my RSS feed for this weblog. So basically anything that you can generate with an RSS feed can be displayed in a timeline format.

Technorati Tags: timeline, simile

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-11

April 11, 2007 in Random

Getting ready to head over to my son's baseball game. Hope his team gets off to a better start than the Cubs... #
Time to take the dog out... #
Just finished our first Run For The Arts of the day... #
Twaiku seems to crash Quicksilver from time to time... #
Trying to connect with Bud on yackpack... #
Looking at: "TwitterEarth" (http://tinyurl.com/yvdam7) #
On crosswalk duty #

Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead at 84

April 11, 2007 in Asides

Kurt Vonnegut Is Dead at 84 So it goes... Goodbye Mr. Vonnegut

Twitter Updates for 2007-04-10

April 10, 2007 in Random

Heading home... unlike Utecht, I have a 7 minute commute... :-) #
Reading: "Technology Review: Is Twitter Here to Stay?" (http://tinyurl.com/3y85x3) #
Listening to Patty Griffin and doing budget work... #
Morning from Portland... #
Stoped for coffee #
Simultaneous posting to Jaiku and Twitter using the Twaiku script and Quicksilver on Mac OS X... I love Quicksilver #
Twaiku script http://www.bwana.org/2007/04/09/twaiku/ #
Back from lunch duty... just discovered that our district filter now blocks Lifehacker... you know, hackers... :-) geeze #
Getting ready for a staff meeting. Topic: Medication administration ... pretty exciting stuff... #

Darfur Layer in Google Earth

April 10, 2007 in Random

Ogle Earth has a post about new Google Earth layers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that document the genocide in Darfur. It is a fascinating use of Google Earth and includes placemarks that indicate burned villages, refugee camps, photographs, and witness testimonies. The best type of educational software...

Technorati Tags: Darfur, Google Earth

Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People

April 10, 2007 in Asides

Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People Talks from PopTech are up...Via Scoble