August 2008
Is Facebook Reconnecting With Students Or...? →
Way back in 2004, Facebook launched. It was for students and it centered around schools. In 2006, they opened up to
everyone else and the school aspect moved out of the center.
Facebook has…
“Uses of White Noise: * Aid Sleep * Enhance Privacy * Block Distractions * Mask...”
– SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet.
SporeVote →
Pick a celeb’s Spore creature and the winner gets $$ donated to their fave charity. Promo for new Spore Sims game. (Is it a game?)
Delizzy and Delicious →
So here’s a plug for a little beta tool called del.izzy - a free service
that lets you search through your del.icio.us bookmarks. Why can’t
you just do that with delicious? (BTW, they did…
Do I Want To Go Pro? →
In the
mail today:
Hi ronk53, You have 184 photos stored on Flickr. Once you hit 200, you’ll need to upgrade to a Flickr Pro account or
you’ll
only be able to see your most…
A Kinder Kindle Price →
Have you had a chance to use one of Amazon.com’s revolutionary wireless reading devices - the Kindle? They now has more than 160,000 books, plus top newspapers and blogs available…
Olympics Stadium Panoramic Photo →
The Finnish photographer Kari Kuukka has posted a very cool panoramic view of Beijing’s Olympics Stadium, The shot is from men’s 100m final, when Usain Bolt electrified the crowd. It may take a…
Justice
comes in many forms.
Blog Action Day: Poverty →
Blog Action Day last October had more than 20,000 bloggers with an estimated combined audience of
over 15 million viewers, reading and discussing issues on the environment.
In 2008, the…
Blu-ray Movies at Half Price →
Amazon is offering a special up to 50% off sale on select Blu-ray titles from now until August 29 while supplies last. What’s Blu-Ray anyway, you ask? During the high definition…
iTunes U List: The Last Update →
Back in May 2007, Apple added iTunes U (the area for colleges and universities) to the iTunes Store and I blogged
about the first 16 colleges whose podcasts were being included there.
That was…
TGIT: The Four Day School Week →
Many U.S.
college campuses operate on 4-day weeks during the summer. At NJIT, they lengthened the 4 work days. At PCCC, employees
take half-hour lunches and need to make up 45 hours during…
Model Your Campus →
From the Peking
University entry
I was interested to see the results of the 2008 Model Your Campus Competition that Google
sponsored. They had put out a call early this year for…
What's Up With Serendipity35 Lately?
I know. It has been acting funky and erratic - especially on weekends when Tim is away from the server.
Of course, Google Docs went down recently for hours. Twitter always seems to crash. So, we’re not in bad company. Of course, they have farms of servers, but they have lots of “farmers” too.
Tim promises a new machine at the end of the month. As with many projects at schools...
Wikipedia Search Tool →
I added
this little widget called Wikipedia Finder to the sidebar of Serendipity35 tonight. No, I don’t think that Wikipedia is
the ultimate research tool, but it is the place that many of…
Mind Mapping For Note Taking →
Mind mapping is a kind of graphic note taking system that teachers sometimes use with students as an prewriting
activity. Since more people are using software to do mapping, it’s easier to images,…
The Last Thursday Poetry Reading: August 2008 →
I have posted here before that for New Jersey area poetry fans and readers of Poets Online, the Last Thursday Poetry Readings series should be of interest. The series runs on the last Thursday of…
Web 1.0 Killer App Still Rules →
I used to hear,
in the days of Web 1.0, that email was the killer application. The past few years I have heard that email is dead. Our
students prefer text messages, IM, Twitter and other…
New Poems? (Ballistics by Billy Collins) →
I see that Billy Collins has a new collection of poems coming out in September. Sure to be a good seller at the Dodge Poetry Festival that month. I’m a Collins fan. I bought …
This Is What Web 2.0 Means →
Posted by Jessica Hagy http://indexed.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-is-what-20-means.html
Can You Find Georgia on a Google Map? →
The recent conflict between
Russia and Georgia has had people going to their Google Maps to see exactly where the fighting is occurring. This would
probably be a natural geography lesson if…
Adding the e to Portfolios →
This summer at PCCC we have been
looking at tools and platforms for having students put their writing portfolios online into what many people call an
ePortfolio. We’re not breaking any new…
Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder →
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Richard Louv is a child advocacy expert and this book is an expression of his fears…
John Lennon's killer denied parole for 5th time →
“The parole board said the although Chapman has had a clean disciplinary record since 1994, he told board members during the hearing that he planned and conducted Lennon’s killing “with an essentially clear mind.”
Great Break-Up Songs (A Work in Progress) →
Atlantis is working on a mix CD - check out her list and make suggestions…
Blackboard Next Generation →
The course management software Blackboard is currently at release 8 of its Academic Suite software. Many
schools, including PCCC and NJIT, are moving forward in versions carefully. In some…
eTutoring and Collaborating Online →
Passaic County Community College began using etutoring for writing several years ago. We are part of a consortium of
colleges in the northeast. We supply tutors to support the service based on the…
Threadless T-Shirts - cool designs →
Stephen King's "N." - An original video series... →
The Dude Abides →
The Coen Brothers’ film, The Big Lebowski, has developed a cult following. It’s a quirky comedy-thriller bowling movie avant-garde art film with nihilistic Austrians and it has The…
Still Paying It Forward →
Haley Joel Osment as Trevor in the film version
Are you
familiar with Catherine Ryan Hyde’s book Pay It Forward or perhaps the movie version? It
has been 9 years since I…
Song Swapping Back to Court →
The Recording Industry Association of America claimed a big victory when they got their first and only win over a piracy suspect in a jury trial ten months ago. (Bet you thought they had already…
Enough Video To Flatten A Classroom →
I have been encouraging
my fellow teachers to use film & video in their lessons for three decades. Usage seemed to peak in the earlier days.
Oddly enough, I have seen a decrease in the use…
No Comment →
“Anonymous” posted a comment here that said… “I’m very curious about poets as bloggers. No doubt you know quite a few poets and at least a few poet-bloggers. Poets Online is a wonderful…
Born in the Information Age, Teaching in the... →
You studied the Industrial Revolution in school, right? It started in England, around the 18th century and spread
through Europe and North America during the 18th and 19th centuries. It was…
Templates For Google Documents →
If you thought one weakness of using Google Documents was that it didn’t offer any templates, you should check out
the templates that are now available at docs.google.com/templates.
You can…
You Probably Think This Poem Is About You →
Novelist Erica Jong wrote this: WHERE does autobiography end and fiction begin? Best seller lists and publishers’ catalogues assume we know the answer to this question, as they assume…
China’s Olympics Report Card on Tibet →
With the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening this week, China is still failing to comply with its Olympics commitments, particularly with regard to Tibet - even though the International Olympics…
Race For Tibet →
“Truth is our only weapon,” the Dalai Lama always says. Make sure you’re well equipped to support this non-violent movement for Tibetan rights by knowing the issues….
Vote for GHOSTHORSE in the Native American Music... →
My lifelong friend, Dan Grigsby, has been doing music forever. From our basement bands and acoustic pairings, to his professional life of the past few decades as a producer and…
Open Minds Conference →
The K-12 Open Minds
Conference is unusual. It’s an international event specifically for K-12 educators to make open source and open
systems more widely available. It will be held in…
