#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;} #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:link, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:active, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#3993ff;} #flickr_badge_wrapper {background-color:#ffffff;border: solid 1px #FFFFFF} #flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;} On Sunday, April 30, 2006 members of the Lewis community came together to work on moving our Lewis Outdoor Center greenhouse to a new location.... Lewis parent Martin Nicholson, along with our Americorps Volunteer, Kelly Alsup and PSU students Angela LeVan and Matt Bibeau helped lead a group of volunteers from our community, and Portland State University, in prepping the new location and moving the greenhouse from its old location.
Read MoreWikipedia-places.KML
Google Earth Community: Wikipedia-places This Google Earth KML file shows the 80 best described landmarks in Wikipedia currently in the field of vision on Google Earth. For example, load the KML file into Google Earth, travel to a location and the file pulls in links/placemarks to associated articles in Wikipedia .
Read MoreCelebrating Earth Day: Scholastic & Google Earth Hook Up
Using Google Earth, teachers can fly their students around the world to talk to them about issues like climate change and how it has affected places like Glacier National Park, the Chesapeake Bay and Los Angeles.... Using Google Earth, teachers can show their students placemarks of the towns where outreach projects are taking place and students can get involved in cleaning up their own environment.
Read MoreEarth Day at Lewis Elementary
#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;} #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:link, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:active, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:visited {text-decoration:none !important; background:inherit !important;color:#3993ff;} #flickr_badge_wrapper {} #flickr_badge_source {padding:0 !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#666666 !important;} Under the direction of our Americorps volunteer Kelly Alsup and teacher Sarah Jones, Lewis was host today to an Earth Day work party.... Special thanks also to our PSU FEED team lead by Angela LeVan and Matt Billout for their help with this event, and also a big thank you to the Portland State University ESL students for their help.
Read MoreScrapblog - online scrapbooks
Scrapblog - online scrapbooks: This is a very slick web based tool for creating online scrapbooks. While not a maker of scrapbooks, I was impressed with the Flash and Java based interface.
Read MoreGoogle Calendar data API
I can imagine all kinds of interesting hooks being developed to gather and publish content from Google Calendar.... Enter the Google Calendar data API, which can be used to write external applications that query, create, and update Google Calendar events, so they're available to Google Calendar users or other API-enabled applications.
Read MoreMark Twain, Podcasts and Helping a High School Student
There were several reviews of the work on the iTunes site, each giving an enthusiastic endorsement of the work, though one review stood out and gave me a good laugh... More recordings of literature in the public domain can be found on the Loudlit site.
Read MoreGoogle Map Maker
Richard Stephenson has created a very nice little tool, Google Map Maker, for generating Google Maps. The interface is very simple to use and you can easily add placemarks to a map, add popup content, and generate the code, all from a single page.
Read MoreThe Writer's Almanac Available in Podcast Form...
My favorite public radio program, Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, is now available as a podcast. A listing of all the American Public Media podcasts can be found here.
Read MoreUSGS Earthquake Hazards Program » A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake in Google Earth
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » A Virtual Tour of the 1906 Earthquake in Google Earth: The USGS has created a great educational resource that uses Google Earth as a tool to tell the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The site includes sections and Google Earth layers that detail the following: Global Geologic Setting of the 1906 Earthquake The San Andreas and Other Bay Area Faults The Northern California Earthquake, April 18, 1906 Historic Photographs of the 1906 Earthquake Earthquake Hazards of The Bay Area Today The site has links that open up in Google Earth that further explain and provide context to the details contained on the web site.
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