A few days ago I bought a Rio MP3 Player from Overstock.com. I was great for only $35. I holds up to 2 hours of music, has a stopwatch and some radio stations. The radio reception was poor.I could only hear two stations, but I didn’t buy the MP3 player to listen to the radio. […]
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Combining Google Maps and Flickr to create a memory map is an interesting idea. It’s pretty easy to do. It would be nice to have a way to get a larger map and to have more elaborate notes, maybe with links to […]
I’m doing a Digital Storytelling workshop for parents at the local school next Monday at 9 AM. We may have 3 participants, which is a start. We’ll see what we can do. My goal is to get a few parents to participate in taking pictures and making digital stories for the teachers. I have been […]
I remember Cliff Stoll when he was just the hyper guy at BMUG meetings in Berkeley. Since he became an authority on the proper role of technology in schools, I’ve found his commentaries to be a little repetitive. In yesterday’s LA Times, his op-ed piece — “Computers in class are lousy teachers” — some good […]
Memory maps on Flickr are an interesting use of the comment feature paired with satellite images (most seem to come from Google Maps). A nice way to memorialize a trip or someplace you’ve lived. It also seems like a great opportunity to connect geotags with the maps to make them even more interactive. Instead of […]
