"Peru is buying inexpensive computers for poor, rural schoolchildren, connecting them to new skills and information. Skeptics call the laptops a luxury when those kids don't have basics such as health care. ..." - Tim Lauer
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"you can now view Flickr videos on your mobile phone! Videos uploaded from today forward will be immediately viewable through our mobile site. As of today this particular feature is available to iPhone and iPod Touch users only, but we expect to rapidly expand the number of devices that we support." - Tim Lauer
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December 3 at 9:14 am
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"There is, however, one unusual and noteworthy aspect of the app called Amazon Remembers, which Amazon is calling “experimental.” The tool lets users take a photograph of any product they see in the real world. The photos are then uploaded to Amazon and turned over to the far-flung freelance workers in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program, who will try to match them with products for sale on Amazon.com. The results will not be instantaneous (between 5 minutes and 24 hours, the company says), but the idea is to entice consumers to buy products from Amazon instead of its offline rivals." - Tim Lauer
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December 1 at 10:09 am
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"An increasing body of research shows that NCLB has damaged the quality of classroom instruction, and that so-called "research based" practices are just the latest incarnation of the "policy churn" that damages children, as well as teachers." - Tim Lauer
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Louis Gray posts about a new feature from FriendFeed that allows you to post items from your various social networks automatically to Twitter. For example you can set up FriendFeed to automatically post to Twitter when you make blog posts, Flickr posts and a number of other such social networking sites that you have set to update in FriendFeed. As he points out you might not want to do this for all of your activity, but the ability to have items automatically update in Twitter is a pretty nice feature... - Tim Lauer
Some of our students will be working on panorama photography later this year. This looks like a great tool for displaying and exploring the images... - Tim Lauer
Jon Hicks takes another look at Evernote. I too am finding this to be quite a useful tool for organizing information such as receipts, paper documents that for some reason my district does not send out as electronic files, and snapshots of things like white board notes and items notes with a mobile phone image... - Tim Lauer
October 28 at 7:02 am
- quicklookplugins.com
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A listing of plugins for the Quicklook feature in Mac OS X. Quicklook allows you to quickly view a document without having to launch the file application. - Tim Lauer
Tom Barrett with some more suggestions for using Google Docs in the classroom. He points out the user limits for collaboration on the different types of Google Docs. Our teachers at Lewis are really liking the collaboration features... - Tim Lauer
October 24 at 2:46 pm
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Matthew Yglesias points out that if you believe that special needs children and their families need support, then it isn't much of a stretch to realize that other children and their families may also need support... by way of Tom Hoffman... - Tim Lauer
Google has created a little web calculator to help people realize some of the simple steps they can do to save energy, money, and reduce their carbon footprint. A nice tool to use with students when discussing energy conservation... - Tim Lauer
October 23 at 6:39 am
- tbarrett.edublogs.org
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At Lewis we have been using Google Docs with our older students and staff this fall. Tom Barrett has been using Google Docs with his students for a while and his web site is a great resource for those just starting out... - Tim Lauer
