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Steve Burt's travellogue about his trip to Mongolia.
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Standalone panoramic digital camera...
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Slidez is an online service to create and share albums, portfolios and presentations on your slidez domain (yourname.slidez.net). You don't have to install anything. You can also embed your Slidez gallery in your website or weblog.
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Wired article about Google Maps...
links for 2007-06-30
Google Maps: Drag and Drop Directions
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Google Maps has added a feature that allows you to get directions, and then by dragging and dropping points, instantly update and change the route and the information. Great for planning walking field trips at school. For example a popular trip for our teachers is to visit the Cooley Art Gallery at Reed College. Reed is less than a mile away. If you type in a request for driving directions, you get a pretty good route by car, but since we are walking, we need to adjust the map. Just click on the blue route marker and drag and the route is automatically updated. A video from Google below shows how easy this is.
links for 2007-06-28
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"Developing trends on virtual globes - like Google Earth, World Wind, and Virtual Earth - and social virtual worlds like Second Life, There, and World of Warcraft. "
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TwittergramHijacking is an Applescript to automatically upload recordings from AudioHijackPro to Dave Winer’s Twittergram service
links for 2007-06-27
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danah boyd essay about high school kids and which ones are on MySpace and which ones are on Facebook...
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Send links to sound files via twitter...
PicLens: Immersive Full Screen Images...
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PicLens is an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the Web. Supports the presentation of images in the following web sites:
- Flickr
- Google Images
- Yahoo Images
- Friendster
- Picasa Web Albums
- Media RSS
This is a pretty slick little tool for Firefox and Safari. Basically if you are visiting one of the sites listed above, you just need to mouse over an image and click the arron icon to engage the tool. It darkens the screen and the image grows full size to fill the screen. Am thinking this would be great for presentations and classroom demonstrations and such. Throw some images into Flickr, arrange, and you have an instant, low overhead, presentation.
Am thinking this would be great for presentations and classroom demonstrations and such. Just throw some images into a Flickr set and arrange and you have an instant presentation.
By way of Lifehacker...
VoiceThread
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Joyce Valenza points to VoiceThread, a tool for adding sound recordings, and text messages to slide shows and images.
Turner Field Panorama
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Went to the Tigers vs. Braves game last night with some friends. This is the view from the upper deck in right field at Turner Field. Like most modern ball parks, it is a baseball field built around a food court.
Sky Views in Google Earth
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Barnabu blog discusses how to add a sky with clouds over any spot on earth using Google Earth and a network link he has provided. He has created a half dome in Google Sketchup with diameter of 50 miles and placed a cloud texture within the dome. He then made this object a network link which will grab your current view and place the skydome model around that location. I navigated to Atlanta in Google Earth, invoked the skydome link and then turned on 3d images to get this view of Atlanta complete with a cloudy background. Sketchup is an amazing piece of software that teachers and students can utilize in very creative ways.
By way of Google Earth Blog...
e-learning 2.0 Wrap Up From Read/Write Web...
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