L.VALENTIN in the The Stranger
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My oldest daugher is a graphic design major at Seattle University. Her most recent project involved creating a poster similar to what you find plastered on phone poles around Seattle and Portland noting concerts or social causes. Someone saw it and it made the Poster of the Week feature in the Seattle weekly, The Stranger. Note the cool conspiracy theory associated with her work...
The idea is to give lecturers the ability to insert questions into their lectures (directly unto their PowerPoint slides, for instance) and then poll the students.... I see teachers getting excited about the quiz show aspect of these clicker things and kind of missing the point about bringing interactivity to a lecture or a talk.
Read MoreThe Savvy Technologist » Blog Archive » Joe Lambert: Digital Storytelling, Part 1 Tim Wilson has posted another of his Savvy Technologist podcasts.... This one would be a great one to share during a staff meeting and I plan to do so in the near future.
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Read MoreHe notes they are using: Drupal with the Organic Groups module to do this exact thing - student teachers write their “journal” entries, and select the group(s) that can read it.... This replaces a really dysfunctional paper-based process, where students would write their entries in a blue binder, and hand that in to their prof or mentor for review.
Read MoreZoneTag Photos: ZoneTag, a new feature from Flickr, can automatically tag your phone camera photos with the location, based on the cell tower, in which they were taken.... One nice feature is its integration with Google Maps, but with Firefox and the GMif Greasemonkey script, this functionality is already available in Flickr.
Read MoreDabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone: TechCrunch points to a very interesting web based tool called dabble-db.... The sort of applications you would create and then use are what most of us normally hack together in a spreadsheet or using some other database application that is often complex.
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Read Moreflickr leech is a tool from Houser Design that will pull thumbnails from flickr and display them on a page. It will pull the first 200 images based on any of the following criteria: Interestingness, Username, User ID, Photoset, Group Pool and Tag.
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