: Beth Kanter has posted a very nice lesson plan (Learning Object??... It includes links to resources on the web and some that she has created herself.

At Lewis Elementary we are working with our city traffic department to add some crosswalks and pedestrian improvements in our neighborhood. I can now share with them specific information about our students and show them the need for these improvements based on where our students live.

Just a post to note that the New York Times now is making podcasts available. Content includes a daily summary of the front page, a weekly review of science, technology and environmental news, and music reviews.

Google in China at The Thinking Stick: Jeff Utecht laments the sad state of affairs when corporations, such as Yahoo Google and MSN, are willing to do the bidding of governments and deny freedom to their users " to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful..." When will Google amend their mission statement?

The great thing about Scuttle is that you can download the source and run the application on your own server. Today my friend, Dick McPartland, came by and installed the necessary software and we now have Scuttle running locally at school, Lewis Elementary This means that we can provide our students with a social bookmarking tool, running locally in our building.

iTunes Signature Maker... Here's mine...

The Martin Luther King, Jr.... 100 random quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...

Our technology/music teacher, Tony Jamesbarry, is also having them use Google Maps to create a map that will highlight the routes and voyages of their particular explorer.... Once your map is finished you have a number of options on how it can be displayed, including grabbing the HTML source and using that source code on your site.

Clockr - It's Flickr Time: A clock using numeral images from Flickr...