1001 - A Desktop Flickr Client...

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Kula: 1001 1001 is a desktop client to be used in conjunction with Flickr, the online photo-sharing website. 1001 not only uploads photos to your Flickr account, it notifies you anytime new photos from either your contacts, everyone, or your favorite tags are uploaded. 1001 allows you to step into the stream of photos passing through Flickr and to quickly see what's new at the moment. Just run the app in the background and if triggered, 1001 pops up a small unobtrusive window to notify you of new photos. (Via Joi Ito's Web.)

This is pretty nice. Another interesting use of Flickr that demonstrates the hooks they have built into it for use by developers. I've got it running and it is kind of nice to see pictures pop up as they are posted to the Flickr site...

New Flickr Features...

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flickrinline.jpgFlickrBlogTwo new features from Flickr, the photo sharing/community site. First, in-place editing for photo titles and descriptions. You can now edit the title and description information while looking at the photo in context.

Another feature is tag relatedness. Flickr already allows you to assign tags to your images to help keep them organized. They have added a feature where related tags are also posted. For example going to the Flickr site associated with the word VOTE, and you will get all the images that have been tagged with that term. Also listed on the page are links to related tags... election, Kerry, Bush...

Podcasting and Bandwidth Usage...

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Russell Beattie Notebook - 25GB

I know I'm going to learn from experience. The next time I decide to put out a potentially popular media file like that, it'll definitely be on BitTorrent first.

Russell Beattie discusses a possible downfall of becoming a popular Podcaster... bandwidth usage/charges. There has been lots of talk about Podcasting, positioning audio for easy incorporation into devices such as an iPod. While I think the opportunities for time shifting are great and would love to see more existing audio content available via this method of distribution, I'm not that excited about the do it your self variety. It sounds to me a bit like Wayne and Garth without the basement set...

Smaller High Schools

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AssortedStuff: It will be interesting to watch these "small school" experiments as they unfold, although it will probably take years to see the total effect. There is one advantage of a high school with less than 500 students, however. They won't be able to field much of a football team and that will remove a major distraction.

Tim Stahmer discusses recent moves in Chicago and Los Angeles to redesign large high schools into smaller learning communities. Joe Luft of Flushing International High School, and Tom Hoffman of Feinstein High School in Providence have some experience in this area. Also Portland's Marshall High School has recently begun a reorganization as part of a Gates Foundation grant. The Northwest Regional Educational Lab describes their progress in an article entitled Anatomy of Change in the latest issue of Northwest Education.

Flickr Notes...

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Alan Levine talks about the use of "Notes" in Flickr, the photosharing/community web space. Flickr has a feature where a user can assign notes to parts of an image. For example if you had a picture of a group of students, you could assign a note to each student which when moused over would reveal their name. A nice feature for a substitute teacher.

Alan talks about creating learning objects with Flickr. I think Flickr is a very interesting platform for education. For example at Lewis, some classrooms will soon be involved in the Flat Stanley Project. Flat Stanley is a book character and a rich tradition has grown up of students creating a paper version of Stanley and then sending him via postal mail to another school for a visit. In the process students at both schools share email (or a weblog post, or now, Flickr posts...) about Stanley's adventures at the visiting school.

Google Print

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1. What is Google Print?Google Print enables publishers to promote their books on Google. Google scans the full text of participating publishers' titles so that Google users can see books that match the topics that they are searching on. When a user clicks on a book search result, they're taken to a Google-hosted web page displaying a scanned image of the relevant page from the book. Each page also contains multiple 'Buy this Book' links, allowing users to purchase the book from online retailers.

Here is an example...