Portlandjazzjams.com Podshow: Very nice web site with a Podcast feed of live Jazz performances recorded at Portland area clubs.
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Citation Machine -- The Landmark Project
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Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers in modeling the proper use of information property.... David indicates that he plans on making the code available so that schools can host the Citation Machine on their own servers if they like...
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Calling All Luddites - New York Times
The world is moving to an Internet-based platform for commerce, education, innovation and entertainment. Wealth and productivity will go to those countries or companies that get more of their innovators, educators, students, workers and suppliers connected to this platform via computers, phones and P.D.A.'s.
Friedman has a great column today about how the US is falling behind in the technologies and access to technologies that are key in driving the wealth and productivity of our economy...
RSS Mashups...
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These include our staff bulletin, the public web page, a Flickr photo gallery, a multi-author classroom notes site, book recommendations from our library, and a weblog to power our reader board.... With a tool like FeedDigest, I can mix them into one RSS feed that will give me a chronological look at the weblog activity at Lewis, all in one place...
Read MorePortland Informal gathering about education and open source
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Clarity Innovations, the folks who provide my school with technology support, are sponsoring a get together for folks interested in Open Source software and education.... The event will be held this Thursday, August 4, 2005 at 5:00 pm at Old Town Pizza which is located in NW Portland, not far from the MAX lightrail train line...
Read MoreIf Only the Flier in Front of You Were a Fan of Miss Manners - New York Times
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If Only the Flier in Front of You Were a Fan of Miss Manners - New York Times: Ira Goldman, president of Right Brain Ltd., took matters into his own hands in 2003 and invented the Knee Defender (www.kneedefender.com). These are small pieces of plastic that slip onto the legs of the tray table to prevent it from closing, and therefore, stop the seat in front from reclining.
Read MoreDelivr - Digital Postcards from Flickr Images
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Send digital postcards from Flickr images. Delivr , developed by Charles Coxhead, allows you send postcard from any of Flickr's Creative Commons licensed photographs.
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