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Joe Luft Gets the Scripting News Treatment...
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Dave Winer wonders how Joe Luft (aka: Brooklyn Joe) can be a Yankees fan...... I've saved the screen grab for posterity and Joe's curriculum vitae...
Read MoreNational Archives on Google Video
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"Students and researchers whether in San Francisco or Bangladesh can watch remarkable video such as World War II newsreels and the story of Apollo 11 - the historic first landing on the Moon."... With more and more audio and video content making its way on to the web, this kind of access requires that schools have adequate projection equipment.
Read MoreLearner.org: Teaching Reading 3-5
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Teaching Reading 3-5 is designed to give teachers the strategies they need to help all students become better readers and writers in the intermediate grades. The series of eight workshops provides current research, questions for reflection, tips for new teachers, activities to enhance teaching, and classroom video segments.
Read MoreViewing Art Work Like a Google Map...
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In another example of how the Google Maps interface is influencing web design, John Johnston, of Sandaig School in Glasgow, has created an interesting Flash based interface to view examples of student art. The art pieces are large wall sized murals and you can navigate and zoom in around the art work similar to moving around on a Google Map.... We have a very large mural at Lewis Elementary, and I'll have to ask John to help me do something similar...
Read MoreCell Phones and Such...
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I guess I look at this and wonder how valuable are the assessments we are giving our students if they can be foiled by giving away answers.... She said that at her school during exams, they employ jamming technology that makes the cell phone inoperable...
Read MoreFrosty Morning at Lewis...
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Originally uploaded by timlauer. An example of posting from Flickr to a weblog...
Read MoreMore Mapbuilder
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After the initial batch process, I then went in and changed the map markers to denote the different types of schools in the system.... Mapbuilder.net is a very impressive tool and a wonderful example of a web tool that has immediate application in an educational setting.
Read MoreNetherlands Debuts Video Stamp
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The printing company web site describes the the process: The material is made up of tiny ridges or lenses (hence the name “lenticular” printing). We take raw images and process them through a computer algorithm, which matches the lens surface of the lenticular material.
Read MoreGreasemonkey Script: Amazon PDX Linky
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Userscripts.org: Amazon PDX Linky: This Firefox Greasemonkey script, based on the LibraryLookup tool by Jon Udell, works to add two links to a book page from Amazon based on the ISBN.... Powells has several locations in Portland and once at their site you can find new and used copies of the book and see which store has copies.
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