O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

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Remixing Wikis for Elementary School Classrooms: Instiki, Wifi, and RendezvousTom Hoffman, Manager, SchoolTool Tim Lauer, Principal, Lewis Elementary School

Tom Hoffman and I will have the opportunity to present at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005 in March in San Diego. I have had the opportunity to attend this conference twice in the past and have found it to be one of the best conference experiences I have ever had. You learn as much in the hallways as you do in the sessions.

Our session will highlight how some of the teachers at my school, Lewis Elementary, are using the Instiki wiki as a student writing environment, and how we utilize Rendezvous on OS X to make it very easy for students to find their work. In addition, since Instiki is installed on the teacher's laptop, we will also talk about how this has facilitated their adoption of the technology.

Interview with Caterina Fake from Flickr

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Engadget Interview with Caterina Fake from Flickr:
"Flickr is quickly becoming one of the most popular“moblog” and photo sharing site, is it the interface? The APIs? Caterina talks about this and more!

Do you plan to support video in the future?
We would like to support short-form video — like the kind of video you can take with your digital camera.

This is something I have been wondering about. Am glad to see they plan to offer this. With many of the digital cameras, short form video can be used very effectively to create short pieces for posting. I have used this when traveling to put together short little pieces that give the folks back home a bit of the flavor of my trip. Example: Chicago, July 2004

Necessity: A computer, a data projector and a file cabinet...

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My good friend Andy is one of the best teachers I have ever met. That being said, he does have a tendency to drop his laptop from time to time. This morning he came to work and discovered after another drop that his Powerbook screen would not come to life. I find his approach to solving this problem both novel and frightening. Thanks to Melissa for the image...