Present Tensed

Found on Web Between June 28th and July 11th, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from June 28th through July 11th:

• Instruc­tify » Blog Archive » Google adds Cre­ative Com­mons image search ::
• Tech4Learning — Pics4Learning :: Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teach­ers and stu­dents. The Pics4Learning col­lec­tion con­sists of thou­sands of images that have been donated by stu­dents, teach­ers, and ama­teur pho­tog­ra­phers. Unlike many Inter­net sites, per­mis­sion has been granted for teach­ers and stu­dents to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection.
• Dis­trict 299 Chicago Schools Blog :: “It’s All An Illu­sion.” Right? :: “Noth­ing that Paul Val­las or Arne Dun­can did in the last 15 years has had any sig­nif­i­cant effect on the num­ber of CPS stu­dents who can read, write and do basic math accept­ably,” writes Bret Harte LSC mem­ber Bill Sweet­land in the Huff­in­g­ton Post
• Crayon Physics — Down­load ::
• Path­able: Social Net­work for Con­fer­ences and Events ::
• Tell Amer­i­cans What They’re Really Pay­ing for Their Food — Ideas Spe­cial Report :: Amer­i­cans pay much more than they should for their food. Thanks to a thicket of sub­si­dies and tar­iffs that sup­port Amer­i­can farm­ers and tilt the grow­ing field against cheaper for­eign pro­duc­ers, we get ripped off twice: first as tax­pay­ers who ante up for roughly $25 bil­lion in agri­cul­tural sub­si­dies each year ($4 bil­lion for milk alone in 2006); then as con­sumers who pay higher prices at the check­out counter because we can’t take advan­tage of low-price imports.
• Edu­ca­tion 2.0 — Edmodo — Free Pri­vate Microblog­ging For Edu­ca­tion :: Tra­di­tional web 2.0 tools in a k-12 class­room envi­ron­ment cre­ate con­cerns over pri­vacy. Edmodo has been built with the pri­vacy of stu­dents in mind.
• ISTE Class­room Obser­va­tion Tool :: The ISTE Class­room Obser­va­tion Tool (ICOT®) is a FREE online tool that pro­vides a set of ques­tions to guide class­room obser­va­tions of a num­ber of key com­po­nents of tech­nol­ogy integration.
• SMART Board Games | PBS KIDS ::
• Welome to SextCast­ing Is Stu­pid — Home ::
• Luidia Inc.: eBeam Edge ::
• WorldIm­ages :: It con­tains almost 75,000 images, is global in cov­er­age and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldIm­ages is acces­si­ble any­where and its images may be freely used for non-profit edu­ca­tional pur­poses Anno­tated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fworldimages.sjsu.edu
• Justin Reich — Bet­ter Strate­gies Needed for School Inter­net Access — washingtonpost.com :: The best strat­egy for pro­tect­ing stu­dents online is edu­cat­ing them about Inter­net cit­i­zen­ship and safety. Young peo­ple need to learn about safe­guard­ing their per­sonal infor­ma­tion, han­dling cyber-bullying, report­ing and ignor­ing advances from strangers, avoid­ing online scams, and being cour­te­ous in online com­mu­ni­ca­tion. They must under­stand the dan­gers and con­se­quences of mak­ing details of their pri­vate lives avail­able to the pub­lic. This edu­ca­tion needs to hap­pen at home as well as in home­rooms, health classes, school assem­blies, tech­nol­ogy classes and guid­ance counseling.
• Dan­ger­ously Irrel­e­vant: Are our train­ing efforts help­ing edu­ca­tors or enabling code­pen­dence? :: “As some­one who does a lot of train­ing and pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment for school admin­is­tra­tors, I won­der how much I’m facil­i­tat­ing code­pen­dence. In many job sec­tors, employ­ees are expected to keep up with rel­e­vant tech­nolo­gies or risk job loss. When do we require that of K-12 and post­sec­ondary edu­ca­tors? At what point do we say to them “No, we’re not train­ing you how to use this. It’s easy enough for you to learn on your own. And if you don’t, we’ll find some­one else who can.””
• Kodu — Microsoft Research ::
• HHMI’s BioIn­t­er­ac­tive — Vir­tual Labs ::
• Dis­trict 299 Chicago Schools Blog :: How’d Your School Do? ::
• Res­i­dents get first look at new school con­cepts | Chicago News, Events and Cul­ture | Chi-Town Daily News :: The pro­posed Media Arts and Sci­ences High School would slowly take over Reed Elementary’s space in Engle­wood. Under the high school’s pro­posed cur­ricu­lum, sopho­mores would choose to focus on broad­cast, film or radio, then take classes to teach them how to pro­duce, direct and edit. In their senior year, stu­dents would get intern­ships at places like CLTV and National Pub­lic Radio, the pro­posal says.
• Wol­fram Math­World: The Web’s Most Exten­sive Math­e­mat­ics Resource ::
• Buehrle might check out early — MLB — Yahoo! Sports ::
• State of the Art — Good­bye, Sticky Notes; Hello, Reqall — NYTimes.com ::
• Uni­ver­sity launches neigh­bor­hood map­ping project | The Uni­ver­sity of Chicago ::
• Man­dela Day Instal­la­tion at Grand Cen­tral July 9–22 | Man­dela Day 2009 ::
• Eco­comics: Green Lantern For Mayor: Bright­est Day ::
• FREE (full book) by Chris Ander­son ::
• Great beginner’s guide to Apple­Script ::
• Five Sapi­ent Clients Rec­og­nized by Com­put­er­world Hon­ors Pro­gram for Ben­e­fit­ting Soci­ety with Unique Use of Tech­nol­ogy ::
• Blog Smarter | Zemanta Ltd. :: “Sim­ple point
• STOCKYARD. ::
• Pool Boots Kids Who Might “Change the Com­plex­ion” | NBC Philadel­phia ::
• Five Things Google’s Chrome OS Will Do for Your Net­book | Gad­get Lab | Wired.com ::
• Best Online Image Edi­tor: Aviary Phoenix — Image Edit­ing ::
• Wet­paint — Free Web­site ::
• The MY HERO Project Home­page ::
• Fab­ri­ca­tion labs let stu­dent and adult inven­tors cre­ate prod­ucts, solve prob­lems — Cleve­land ::
• Life­hacker — Free OCR Con­verts Your Scanned Doc­u­ments to Text — Scan­ner ::
• Wel­come to Explore Chicago | The City of Chicago’s Offi­cial Tourism Site ::
• Tech­nol­ogy Inte­gra­tion Matrix ::
• Dig­i­tal Edu­ca­tion: Mal­colm Glad­well: Lessons from Fleet­wood Mac :: So what did Mal­colm Glad­well talk about dur­ing his keynote speech at NECC? Fleet­wood Mac. No, really. Look­ing closely at the evo­lu­tion and suc­cess of the late 60s rock band can teach us three impor­tant points about cre­at­ing mean­ing­ful learn­ing envi­ron­ments, he said.
• Uni­ver­sity of Chicago fresh­men to trans­late great lit­er­ary works as ‘Twit­ter­a­ture’ — chicagotribune.com :: Pen­guin Books signs duo to covert clas­sic books into tweets
• Flex­ibits | Cam­eras ::

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