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danah boyd essay about high school kids and which ones are on MySpace and which ones are on Facebook...
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Send links to sound files via twitter...
links for 2007-06-27
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PicLens: Immersive Full Screen Images...
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PicLens is an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the Web. Supports the presentation of images in the following web sites:
- Flickr
- Google Images
- Yahoo Images
- Friendster
- Picasa Web Albums
- Media RSS
This is a pretty slick little tool for Firefox and Safari. Basically if you are visiting one of the sites listed above, you just need to mouse over an image and click the arron icon to engage the tool. It darkens the screen and the image grows full size to fill the screen. Am thinking this would be great for presentations and classroom demonstrations and such. Throw some images into Flickr, arrange, and you have an instant, low overhead, presentation.
Am thinking this would be great for presentations and classroom demonstrations and such. Just throw some images into a Flickr set and arrange and you have an instant presentation.
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VoiceThread
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Joyce Valenza points to VoiceThread, a tool for adding sound recordings, and text messages to slide shows and images.
Turner Field Panorama
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Went to the Tigers vs. Braves game last night with some friends. This is the view from the upper deck in right field at Turner Field. Like most modern ball parks, it is a baseball field built around a food court.
Sky Views in Google Earth
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Barnabu blog discusses how to add a sky with clouds over any spot on earth using Google Earth and a network link he has provided. He has created a half dome in Google Sketchup with diameter of 50 miles and placed a cloud texture within the dome. He then made this object a network link which will grab your current view and place the skydome model around that location. I navigated to Atlanta in Google Earth, invoked the skydome link and then turned on 3d images to get this view of Atlanta complete with a cloudy background. Sketchup is an amazing piece of software that teachers and students can utilize in very creative ways.
By way of Google Earth Blog...
e-learning 2.0 Wrap Up From Read/Write Web...
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Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students
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Over at Read/Write Web Josh Catone has a great roundup of web based applications for students. While geared towards college students, this piece gives a good overview of these tools and how they can be utilized by students. Everything from word processors to calculators is covered.
links for 2007-06-24
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The governor of Oregon has been doing this since in office. (He also attends the funerals of Oregon soldiers killed in action.) A visible reminder of the sacrifice given by others. Also
links for 2007-06-23
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links for 2007-06-22
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Phoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development.
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Lewis staff discuss the outcomes of a year long effort to improve writing instruction...