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Revisiting Piclens...

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Last June I wrote about PicLens. It is an immersive image viewing tool that allows you to share images from web sites in a full screen mode. During the winter break I have been spending some time playing around with it again. It is a browser plugin that allows you to display images on web pages in a full screen mode. For example if you visit a Flickr photo set, you have the option of displaying the set as a full screen slide show. Another nice example is to search for images in Google and then present them full screen via the plugin. I have been using the plug-in to make presentations to staff and parents. My workflow is to quickly mock up any text slides I need in Keynote and export them as JPEGs and then post to a Flickr photo set along with any images I want to share. Not many bullet points but mostly images that frame the presentation and my discussion.

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In addition to the browser plug-in, the folks at PicLens have also created a Wordpress plug-in that allows you to provide the same experience from your weblog and it does not require that visitors have the browser plug-in installed. For example the images below are some recent shots from a trip to a local air museum. Follow the link below for an example.

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Kwout: Quoting With Image Maps...

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Kwout is a web service that allows you to quote a portion of a web site as an image and or image map. For example I used Kwout to grab a portion of the Lewis Elementary web site. When you invoke Kwout (either from their web page, or from a bookmarklet...) a medium sized screen shot is taken of the page you are quoting. You can then click and drag the cursor to highlight the section of the page you want to quote. Once you have grabbed your selection you are then taken to a page where you are presented with a number of display options. Copy the associated code and you can then paste the Kwout image map into any web page. You also have the option of posting the image on Flickr or Tumblr. Posting to Tumblr let's you continue to utilize the image map capibilities, but on Flickr, you can only post a static image.

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Meriwether Lewis Elementary School | 4401 SE Evergreen, Portland, Oregon 97206 - 503 916 6360 via kwout

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Why blog as an administrator? From Scott McLeod

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Last week Scott McLeod posted a series of FAQ type questions for why a school administrator might want to share information with his or her community through a weblog.... Information sharing and progress monitoringMarketing and public relationsCommunity building and customer relationsBranding and creating evangelistsThought leadership and advocacyToday he compiled the information into a handy PDF file that can easily be diseminated (i.e: slid under a principal's door...

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WikiMapia = Wiki + Google maps

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The interface is designed as a wiki, so anyone can add or edit content.... I don't know if this is an open source tool, but if it is, it is something that I'm going to work to put up on our school server so that so we can have a student sandbox and have our students play with this.

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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake in Google Earth

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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake in Google Earth: The USGS has created a great educational resource that uses Google Earth as a tool to tell the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The site includes sections and Google Earth layers that detail the following: Global Geologic Setting of the 1906 Earthquake The San Andreas and Other Bay Area Faults The Northern California Earthquake, April 18, 1906 Historic Photographs of the 1906 Earthquake Earthquake Hazards of The Bay Area Today The site has links that open up in Google Earth that further explain and provide context to the details contained on the web site.

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