This got me thinking of something I read of in September when a post by Cory Doctrow on BoingBoing lamenting the fact that the items in the Library of Congress' American Memory project were locked in a Web .5 interface that made navigation and retrieval of information cumbersome. Simon Willison read the post and quickly came up with a Greasemonkey script that renderered the American Memory pages in a much more visualizing appealing manner.
Read MoreContributors first find their location on a Google Map, then they contribute their story, picture or other file (am thinking this could be an audio recording, size is limited to 5 mgs, but if you have a larger file you can send them an email and make arrangements for upload...), then they provide some general information about themselves and upload the information.... This is a project of The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and the Louisiana State Museum.
Read MoreToday their President, Don Leu, delivered his 2005 Presidential Address entitled, New Literacies, Reading Research, and the Challenges of Change: A Deictic Perspective of Our Research Worlds.... Today I had the opportunity during Don's address to speak via iChat about weblogs and how they are being used by students and teachers.
Read MoreHe has updated his guide to the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us. Simply Del.icio.us is a 12 page PDF document that gives a great overview of del.icio.us and how it can be used in educational settings.
Read MoreStorynory - Free children’s stories for your iPod : Classic children's stories for download to your computer or to your classroom set of iPods.... by way of...
Read MoreSuperman Returns | Bryan's Journals - Video Blogs From The Set: The new Superman movie opens next year, and Warner Bros.... Looks a bit like Comic Life, but the little frames contain video clips about the production of the movie.
Read MoreMonitorThis is a site that creates an OPML file of RSS feeds that track your search quarry. Tell MonitorThis your desired search terms, and it creates an OPML file that you can save and import into your favorite news reader...
Read MoreTim Wilson points to Stellarium an open source desktop planetarium for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX.... I've wanted to include an astronomy tool like this on our disk image at Lewis, but could not afford to pay the licensing fee for something like Starry Night.
Read MoreHOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software: Dave Winer points to a post by Mark Pilgrim which details how to use a program called Handbrake to rip a DVD to a video iPod. This and the recent announcement that TivoToGo will export content to iPods and the PlayStation Portable makes a portable video player look more interesting.
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