Wired.com takes a look at the Clover, an $11,000 coffee machine hand-built by Stanford engineers.
links for 2008-07-21
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Allows you to search for Creative Commons images and then provides the html code to use in a post, along with the attribution information....
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Images of the front pages of newspapers from around the world...
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Cameras, Action and Accountability
Lesson Writer Helps Teachers Quickly Conquer an Often Menial Task
Shared by timlauer This looks interesting...
If you’re educator near the middle of the K-12 curriculum, and you’re feeling a bit lacking in terms of online tools available to help increase your own efficiency in the case of schoolwork, this ite...
Read MoreNew updates to Google.com for the iPhone
Unless you're living on a deserted island -- and maybe even if you are -- you know about Apple's 3G iPhone and App Store launch last week. Hopefully you know about the Google Mobile App that we launched last week, as well. And some of you may have no...
Read MoreShock Resistance
I’m reading Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine, and I see the standards movement in US education policy now less as an isolated case, that is, isolated to the US and education in particular, and more connected to events in the larger world of politics an...
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This paper examines the impact of having access to a home computer on child and adolescent outcomes.
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Andy Grove talks of moving our transportation use from oil to electric...
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A native application for administation of Wordpress blogs via an iPhone...
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Track packages with Twitter... Should be seeing more and more of this type of thing... How about snowday updates from your child's school?
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Wed site of Dan Meyer...
Summer Reading List
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Chris Lehmann tagged me with his Summer Reading meme, so below I have listed what I have been recently reading and what I plan to read over the summer.
Recently Read:
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven Johnson
Shakespeare, by Bill Bryson
Currently Reading:
A Schoolmaster of the Great City, by Angelo Patri
This weeks selection in the Gary Stager book club is quite frankly a remarkable book. I am about a third of the way into it, and am finding it fascinating to read the reflections of this man who wrote of his experience over 90 years ago. I believe that we who work in education do not think enough about those who came before us and this book is a good reminder that we need to take advantage of that knowledge.
Queued up in the Kindle, or soon will be, or on the coffee table...
The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It , Jonathan Zittrain
I have this on my Kindle, and also on my phone thanks to a Twitter post by Bud Hunt who alerted me to the fact that Zittrain has made electronic copies of the book available on the web. Recently I came across a great ebook reading tool for Mac OS called Stanza. Stanza has the ability to read and convert from several different ebook formats and one option is to convert a book to a .plist file, or basically a bookmark. It's an interesting way to put ebooks on an iPhone/iPodTouch. More about Stanza here...
The Post American World, by Fareed Zakaria
In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollen
The Great Deluge, by Douglas Brinkley
Eight Men Out, by Eliot Asinof
The story of the 1919 Chicago White Sox and the eight ball players who threw the 1919 World Series...
Wanted to also note that I am really enjoying the ability to download a sample chapter to the Kindle before buying a book. I find myself listening to interviews with authors and then looking on Amazon for the Kindle edition of the book and then downloading the sample chapter. Quite frankly, Amazon makes the book buying process a little too easy... :-)