It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Nov 23

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Now that my US friends have Thanksgiving behind them, we can look forward to the Christmas season. I decided to get a head start with installing a new firefox theme called Tinseltown. You can click on the image to see a larger image with more detail. I never install themes, but after a day with this one, I like it…. What’s that? You don’t use...

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Podcast 21….Kathy goes to Philly

Nov 21

Podcast 21….Kathy goes to Philly

Kathy Cassidy is on a whirlwind tour. It began with a trip to Saskatoon this fall as the winner of the provincial award for computers in education. Then she was off to Philadelphia as one of 5 teachers honored as a Microsoft Innovative Teacher Award. Next she’s off to Cambodia. This is a short interview on her trip to Philadelphia. Unfortunately, there is...

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My personal tour of Shanghai

Nov 21

My personal tour of Shanghai

Using Skype, I dropped a quick compliment tonight for Jeff Utecht on using his screencast for a workshop I did. What ensued was a lenghthy exchange of ideas and for me a personal tour of the city of Shanghai where Jeff resides. Using Google Earth, he and I shared a little bit about both of our worlds. Early into the tour, I happened upon one of the schools Jeff works...

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Google Earth and a Dell XPS 1710

Nov 18

Google Earth and a Dell XPS 1710

I’d rank Tim Lauer and Quentin D’Souza as the biggest educational advocates for Google Earth but I’m right behind them. I recently got a brand new Dell Computer. It’s loaded up with a great video card and beautiful screen. (It also has red LED lights that have caused odd looks and good natured teasing during meetings). I found some great tips...

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Spell with Google Earth Buildings

Nov 15

Spell with Google Earth Buildings

This is just plain good fun.  Spell with Flickr was fun but this is really cool. Type any name or phrase and geogreeting finds buildings that will spell your phrase The page itself actually finds shows the building locations as it builds your name.  Tim Lauer will love...

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