Google Reader Shared Items

Recently found items... - November 26, 2008

Items shared in Google Reader....

Nimbuzz for iPhone- VoIP anywhere in landscape

Google LatLong: Happier travels through Street View with Pegman
Google Maps Street View has been updated. The little Google Maps Pegman is now accessible in Google Maps from the Google Maps zoom slider. When viewing maps with street view, you can easily move around from location to location. Also you now have more options for displaying information when in street view, including a view that splits the screen to show the street view and the map...

Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
A guide for searching with Google... a web page and a also a printable PDF...

Well - A New Face for A.D.H.D., and a Debate - NYTimes.com

Shared Items - November 24, 2008

Items shared in Google Reader....

School - Sketchup Training, Videos, Tutorials, Podcasts, Forums, Classes, Courses, and DVDs
go-2-school.com has a great series of video tutorials for Google SketchUp and Google Earth... Our technology techer, Tony Jamesbarry uses these to prepare for his work with SketchUp with our 4th and 5th grade students.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - The Partnership and National Council of Teachers of English Create New Framework

Rodd Lucier Interview with Guzman Tierno about Google SketchUp
Rodd Lucier interviews Guzman Tierno, a teacher in Florence, Italy about his use of Google SketchUp in his classroom...

PC Magazine to end print edition

15 Tools for Your Twitter Toolbox

Every Night, I Sleep Next to My iPhone

Shared items: November 22, 2008, 8:24 am from 08:24 to 08:52

These are items I have recently shared in Google Reader: November 22, 2008, 8:24 am from 08:24 to 08:52:

  • Stanza Demo Movie | Lexcycle - Shared by timlauer <br> A demonstration of the Stanza ebook reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

    , November 22, 2008, 8:52 am, none

  • K-12 poster series: Education: AIGA - Shared by timlauer <br> A design poster and activity series for K-12 education from AIGA....

    , November 22, 2008, 8:24 am, none

Shared Items for November 18, 2008, 5:51 am through November 22, 2008, 8:12 am

The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker

The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker

Shared by timlauer
John Hodgman talks to The New Yorker about his writing process. It includes a notebook and of course a Mac...

Actual ideas come away from the desk, typically. While walking through the park or talking aloud in the shower. When water damage is not at issue, I will carry an actual Moleskine with me, because they are very handy, with their nice stiff backs, and I am a cliché.

Legacies: Class Report: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker

Legacies: Class Report: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker

Shared by timlauer
Roger Angell reflects on the events of Tuesday night and thinks of an old college classmate...

He died in 1975, at the age of fifty-three. He and I belong to what has sometimes been called “the Greatest Generation.” If most of us have felt uncomfortable about the honor, it may be because we’ve known that in some ways we haven’t been all that great. The election of Barack Obama as President could mean that all of us in the United States belong to the Greatest Generation now, and though this astounding event seems to have happened all of a sudden, for some people my age it wasn’t soon enough.

Reading...Better Teachers Needed

Better Teachers Needed

Ed Glaeser does excellent economics work that often translates into puzzlingly disappointing op-eds, but this column on the vital importance teacher quality and offering a few ideas about how to get it is spot-on. President-Elect Obama has often spoken along the same lines as Glaeser in terms of paying teachers more, and then screening out ineffective ones more rigorously. Obviously, the devil is in the details, but it’s very important for the long-run fate of the economy to see some movement on this.

How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Shared by timlauer
New York Times article by Claire Cain Miller on how the Obama campaign used the Internet and changed politics...

One of the many ways that the election of Barack Obama as president has echoed that of John F. Kennedy is his use of a new medium that will forever change politics. For Mr. Kennedy, it was television. For Mr. Obama, it is the Internet...

“The campaign’s official stuff they created for YouTube was watched for 14.5 million hours,” Mr. Trippi said. “To buy 14.5 million hours on broadcast TV is $47 million.”

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Shared by timlauer
For me the best thing about the media coverage of the 2008 election is the work that Nate Silver did. Also anyone who comes up with PECOTA is simply a genius...

Nate Silver owned this election on the polling front: one young guy with a background in baseball stats beat out the mainstream media in a couple of months. And he beat out the old web: I mean if you consider the total joke of Drudge's recent coverage and compare it with Silver's, you realize that the web is a brutal competitive medium where only the best survive - and they are only as good as their last few posts.