-
A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters
-
The Collaboration Cycle
-
See graphically where the current news stories are happening
-
Designed to teach and remind about the meaning and consequences of plagiarism
-
Just like Photoshop the volume of extensions available are extensive, and with the correct extensions can be almost as powerful.
-
Standards based math activities
-
Microsoft’s version 8 of its web browser
-
Using GPS and Geocaching in the core curriculum has become a powerful tool in enhancing student understanding of geography, scientific inquiry, math concepts, physical education, problem solving, and language arts.
-
Create your own puppet animations
GEC Computers in the Classroom- Doug’s Delicious Account
- How to Fix Your Relatives' Terrible Computer - Repair - Lifehacker November 27, 2009
- Tweet Grade November 27, 2009
- Dutch Hacker Holds Jailbroken iPhones Hostage For €5 Ransom While Exposing Security Vulnerability - Iphone jailbreak hack - Gizmodo November 27, 2009
- 61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For - Thanksgiving - Lifehacker November 27, 2009
- Colorjive - Home November 27, 2009
- Tutorials Search Engine November 26, 2009
- Get it? Got it. Good! - FOSSFORUS November 26, 2009
- YouTube - Lego Matrix Trinity Help November 26, 2009
- This Computer Gave Birth to the Internet | Motherboard November 26, 2009
- Tweeting From the Future: How to Make a Tweet Link to Itself - San Francisco Music - All Shook Down November 26, 2009
- GoogleGoogleGoogleGoogle November 26, 2009
- Wiffiti November 26, 2009
- Cartoon November 26, 2009
- Panic button plan to beat cyber-predators November 26, 2009
- Edgalaxy: Where Education and Technology Meet. - HOME - The Ultimate Guide to Google Earth for Educators November 26, 2009
Subscribe to this blog through FeedBurner
links for 2008-8-31
August 31, 2008 — dougpeteBlog Day 2008
August 31, 2008 — dougpete
It’s Blog Day 2008. If you’re a blogger, participate. If not, why not?
From the Blog Day website…
On August 31st, bloggers are asked to post recommendations of 5 new Blogs, preferably Blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers.
Here I am following the instructions…
- Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting DONE
- Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2008 DONE
- Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs DONE
- Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and DONE
- Add the BlogDay tag using this link:
http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2008 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org DONE
I am always searching for blogs myself so decided to take a different tact to find new blogs. I am a WordPress user so I logged into WordPress and used the next blog feature to find some new interesting blogs. I sure did. I am not sure that I can stop at just five though.
Chicago Theatre Blog
I like to think of the Chicago Theater Blog as a sort of “bulletin board” for the Chicago live theater scene – including reviews, news, video clips, audition info, theater website links, and even theater gossip.
AFA Today
In an ongoing effort to make the Armchair Football Association the most engaging and entertaining fantasy football leagues, I have decided to utilize the proactive nature of a blog to chronicle the league for the 2007 season and beyond.
Hokku
Many years ago I noticed that hokku — the centuries-old Nature-based verse form — was in danger of being lost and forgotten entirely. People were not only mistakenly confusing it with haiku, but they also — even the supposed “authorities” of the haiku community — had seemingly no longer any real knowledge of the principles and standards of hokku.
Club Penguin News
I go on Club Penguin practically every day. The times I go on are from about 3:00 pm. to 5:30 pm. If you want to find me then go on the last flag on the right and the last server. I am usually in the town answering questions that all of my friends have asked. If you have any questions then ask me on Club Penguin or comment me on this page.
Drawing Pictures of Birds
Michele is a designer, artist and writer based out of Santa Monica, California. She likes big cities, Ferris wheels on piers, dead languages, lawn ornaments, and talking about herself in the third person.
Social Bookmarks:
Blogged with the Flock Browser
A Mashup of Note
August 30, 2008 — dougpeteLike more and more people, I get my news online anymore. I’ve tried a number of different techniques to try and get the latest. They tend, however, to be linear.
Either they’re posted to a news site chronologically or they are arranged by the importance assigned to the story by the news editor. Both are awesome ways of handling the news. Pick up your typical newspaper and the big headlines will give you the big news of the day with huge fonts screaming from the top of the paper. Lesser articles appear on the page and they are typically continued on page … There’s also generally a story a little off the record to entice you to buy the paper and find the rest.
It’s the stuff that media literacy is built upon and the London Public Library has put together a great resource to help understand Media Literacy. Links abound to other resources and there really is a wealth of materials to dig into.
The one thread that weaves its way through this sort of presentation is that it is linear and there are editors who are paid nicely to be able to display the stories. They have two bosses – the consumer who wants quick access to the materials and the employer who wants to sell the media and even perhaps change the world.
I’d like to suggest that there’s another way of looking at the top current headlines of the day.
At Reuters, there is a traditional approach to the news. Top news stories and a sidebar on the left gives you the old familiar approach to determining what’s going on world wide.
But, dig a little deeper, and you’ll find Reuters’ News Maps. Here, the news of the day meets Microsoft’s Virtual Earth. News stories are fed to the page, presumably by RSS, and they appear on Virtual Earth. Move your cursor over the dots and see the news titles of the day as tags. Very quickly, you can see what’s happening worldwide. Find a teaser that really intrigues you and a link will take you to the complete story. What an efficient way to see what’s happening globally! And, of course, like most mapping programs, you easily zoom in and out to navigate to places of interest.
It serves to remind us that in today’s internet communication age, we are all closer to each other than ever. This will not replace the traditional approach to reading the news but, if you want to find out what’s happening world-wide, it can’t be beat and should be part of your routine to stay on top of happenings world-wide that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Social Bookmarks:
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Your Privacy
August 29, 2008 — dougpeteMany websites “respect your privacy”. But, do you care?
How often when you visit a website, particularly in this day of the explosion of Web 2.0 applications, do you read and understand the privacy policy before registering for whatever the service provides.
When I was the webmaster at OSAPAC, we spent a great deal of time getting our policy in place to say exactly what we needed it to say. You can check it out at this link. Does this language give you pause before you use the website?
In the past week, Microsoft took shots at Google over its approach to privacy. This link will take you to an interview with a Microsoft official on ZDNet Australia.
In an unrelated issue, it was revealed that some of the images from Google’s new StreetView were taken from private property.
One of Google’s driving philosophies is that you can make money by not doing evil.
If this is true, and I doubt that the corporation is intentionally doing evil, what of those who do aspire to do evil? Or, at least make a few bucks by doing things that we might construe as evil.
It’s good food for thought and is definitely something that you need to consider when you plop down an email address for registration or feedback or offer for a freebie on a website.
You should care, because your privacy is important. What happens when you lose that?
Social Bookmarks:
Blogged with the Flock Browser
links for 2008-8-29
August 29, 2008 — dougpete-
To help reduce those costs and enhance your classroom, take advantage of the following ways to get free stuff.
-
Google Docs Help Center
-
Using Electronic Whiteboards in Your Classroom: Profiles, ideas, lesson plans and web sites
-
Some are just for SMART Board, others are generic, and others are simply links to interactive sites that you could use even if you don’t have an interactive whiteboard.
-
Resources for using IWBs in the classroom
-
Interesting Ways * to use your Interactive Whiteboard
-
Post Jaikus, add icons, customize your design, share your Web feeds
-
GimPhoto + GimPad = free Photoshop alternative
links for 2008-8-28
August 28, 2008 — dougpete-
This free tool will create a valid XHTML embed code for any YouTube video.
-
myUdutu is easy-to-use online learning authoring software that allows you to build your course very quickly no matter where you are, and no matter who you need to involve.
Free Stuff
August 28, 2008 — dougpeteWith school starting next Tuesday, it’s time for a refresh to classrooms and resources.
There have been back to school promotions at many teacher favourites:
Apple, BestBuy, Scholastic, Staples, Walmart, Yahoo!, Zellers
or just go hog wild!
For the web using teacher, you need to check out Alisa Miller’s post. It’s entitled “100+ Ways to Score Freebies for Your Classroom”.
The price is right and there are things there to make every great classroom even better.
I’ll use the opportunity to plug my own GEC Computers in the Classroom Newsletter. Every month, there’s a new 10 page newsletter there with resources, suggestions, and inspiration.
Wishing all my educator readers the very best for the new year.
Social Bookmarks:
Blogged with the Flock Browser
In Search of Blogging Efficiency
August 27, 2008 — dougpeteSo many blogs to read; so little time to do it.
I’m always looking for ways to become more productive in my blog reading. There is so much to read and so much to learn. I’ve tried RSS readers, switched to the Flock Browser for its built-in features, lots of gadgets for my iGoogle homepage, and have noticed marked improvement in my ability to bring it in. But, I can’t help but think that there’s something, somewhere, that will do it.
Right now, the biggest aid in productivity was a book about how to speed read that I bought to help me through Grade 10 English. I studied that sucker from cover to cover and it pays off daily.
Today, I just happened to be zipping though the results from a Google search for “Essential Firefox Add-ins” and was amazed at the number of people who had devoted time and effort to developing content that fell into that niche.
I read so many, I forgot to remember which one lead me to this add-in. It was number 10 and I was about to speed off to read another when I read the name of the add-in. It was called BlogRovr. I’ve always been a sucker for focussing on misspelled words…
It installed nicely in my Flock 2 browser and then we’re off to configure it. You log into their web service to create an account.
Then, you choose your blogs. This is where my productivity ground to a half. Not only do they provide this resource, but they have lumped together blogs of the same content. Of course, NOW I have to check out all of these new found blogs. I started from wanting to increase the productivity of the few blogs that I read regularly and now all of a sudden, I have over 60 new ones to check out.
The neat thing is that now that BlogRovr is installed, it pops out a little tray based upon the RSS of the various blogs that I’ve added. In the background, it’s polling the feeds of the blogs that I’ve added and keeping me apprised of the latest entries.
This is going to take some time. If I don’t post tomorrow, you’ll know why!
Social Bookmarks:
Blogged with the Flock Browser
links for 2008-8-27
August 27, 2008 — dougpete-
Your online social life in one place!
-
Speed up design collaboration and get projects approved faster
-
Edit your images online
-
Reading website for emerging readers.
-
Ways to make Firefox and Flock better
-
- What’s happening at Twitter?
- dougpete: @shannoninottawa @kentmanning is just like that and do generous. He had my Christmas present all wrapped for me at ECOO.
- dougpete: @aforgrave @mguhlin or OpenOffice
- dougpete: @pmcash We'll have to get her to install Ping! When she jumps.
- dougpete: @aforgrave Oui.
- dougpete: @qdsouza too bad you cant come. Would be nice to touch base again.
- dougpete: Un nouveau jeu interactif donne aux élèves de l’Ontario des compétences en matière de cybercitoyenneté responsable http://bit.ly/7dlC8D
- dougpete: @kellmoor Is your floor smooth enough to try that?
- dougpete: Giants? or Broncos?
- dougpete: @halyung I forgot about the tape on the floor. You're right; hillarious.
- dougpete: @MaryKayG @KentManning - No, it's from Mr. Carlson.
