Tim Lauer: IL-TCE 2006

Click above for a link to a short video clip of the Reader Board at Lewis Elementary. The readerboard software is TickerShock which take RSS feeds and creates a “news” crawl along the bottom of the screen.

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As the Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script.In my workshop session on Wednesday I demonstrated an example of a script that utilizes Greasemonkey. The PDX Linky script allows you to visit a book page on Amazon and as the results are returned, the script also searches for that book at Powells Bookstore (a popular Portland, Oregon bookstore), and also at the local Portland Library.

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add geo-tags to your photos,add geo-tags to others photos,locate others geotagged photos,or look up other photos taken nearby….All within the Flickr web page.Once installed, a Gmap button is added to the right most button above any Flickr image…. This works on your own images, and on other user pages that have allowed tags to be added to their images…A slide show mode is also available which automatically pans your map to show additional geotagged images in the Flickr photo stream you are viewing…This is a very impressive piece of work.

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At Lewis Elementary we are working with our city traffic department to add some crosswalks and pedestrian improvements in our neighborhood. I can now share with them specific information about our students and show them the need for these improvements based on where our students live.

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I wanted to thank everyone for a very enjoyable day. I enjoyed working with all of you and hope to run into you again. If I can be of any help, please feel free to contact me.
Tim Lauer

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It also includes a very good introduction to RSS for those new to the technology.Visit the BBC site linked below and read through their tutorial about RSS…. Think of the application of RSS technology to education, to your specific school, to student and school data?

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This is a test. This is only a test.
Google

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edublogs.org is a web site that allows educators to create free weblogs. It uses a tool called Wordpress. Travel to the edublogs.org web site and create a weblog. Once you have created your weblog, please come back to this posting and post in the comments section the web address (URL) for your page…

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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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This site will serve as the workshop space for the workshop. Wikis and Weblogs as School Communication Tools.
Not much here yet, but there should be by Wednesday…

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