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Your Flowing Data: Using Twitter to Track Your LifeAugust 3, 2009 In a recent post, Alan Levine discussed the use of a web tool called Your Flowing Data. Your Flowing Data(YFD), is a Twitter application that lets you collect data about yourself. It allows you to use direct messages from your Twitter More..
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Tim Lauer reviews the Kindle2June 8, 2009 The first thing to note is that the Kindle is not the first e-book reader. Its basic functionality can be found in similar devices from Sony and other manufacturers. The difference with the Kindle is in the delivery of content to the More..
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Make Your Handwriting into a Font by Tim LauerApril 10, 2009 YourFonts is a free online font generator that allows you to easily create a computer font from a sample of your handwriting. Fonts created work on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The process of font creating involves downloading and printing More..
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Readabilty by Tim LauerMarch 23, 2009 Readabilty is a web browser bookmarklet that allows you to display the full text of an article in a text only minimalist view, stripping out advertisements, images and other web page clutter. Basically it will render just the text More..
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Kindle Content Comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch by Tim LauerMarch 18, 2009 Amazon recently made available a free application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows you to download and readbooks that they have made available on their Kindle e-reader platform.The application allows you to add bookmarks, More..
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Sharing an Audio Journal with Your Community Recorder by Tim LauerMarch 1, 2009 Sharing an Audio Journal with Your Community Recorder is an audio recording tool for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is great for recording short audio memos, or to record a talk or a lecture. Similar applications are available for other More..
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Posterous Web Publishing ServiceJanuary 12, 2009 Posterous is a web publishing service that allows users to publish via email. Sounds pretty simple and it is. Basically you send text and attachments (video, photos, audio files, etc.) via email to an address at Posterous and then More..
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Google adds New Content for Google Earth and Google MapsNovember 26, 2008
Recently Google added Street View content for major cities in Italy and France their mapping and geography products. Both Google Earth and Google Maps have this new content. I recently spent some time with our 5th grade students More..
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Very Small Data ProjectorsNovember 19, 2008
Recently a new line of very small data projectors has hit the market. These pocket size devices provide mobile projection for laptops and portable devices such as digital cameras, mobile phones and iPods. One that was recently More..
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Google Earth for iPhoneNovember 12, 2008
Google has released a version of Google Earth for Apple's iPhone. While the handheld version does not have all the functionality of the desktop application, (for example it can't yet read kml files) it is really quite remarkable More..
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Using Google Docs Forms and Spreadsheets to Document Classroom VisitsNovember 5, 2008
Google Docs spreadsheets have a feature that allows you to capture information in a web form, and instantly add that information to a spreadsheet. I have been using a Google Docs spreadsheet to keep track of classroom visits More..
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WordleOctober 22, 2008
Wordle is a web tool for creating "word clouds" from text that you provide, from a specific web address, or from the tags associated with a users delicious.com account. The clouds created can be customized with different fonts, More..
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Electing a US President in Plain EnglishOctober 15, 2008
The folks at Common Craft, creators of a series of popular videos that explain things such as wikis and RSS in simple and concise terms, have focused their attention on the United States presidential election and have created More..
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WebspirationOctober 8, 2008
Inspiration, the popular outlining and concept mapping tool, has recently come out with an online version that works in your web browser. In addition to providing many of the same tools as the desktop software version, Webspiration More..
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