A Vote for Evernote

I relied on Google Notebooks quite a bit and was as disappointed as other users by their recent dumping. However, I’ve been using Evernote as well. It’s a nifty app, easy to use online and off, syncs well, works on my phone, and searches images for text making it really easy to find those items that I might not have tagged so well.

Now you can easily import Google notebooks into Evernote – just visit their blog for instructions. It took very little time, I lost no data, and now I’m using Evernote in a more organized fashion. Give it a try …

Film on the Fly

Here is a great, fun, creative idea – I’m really interested to see how it plays out. From KOCE-TV (a PBS affiliate) website:

Film on the Fly! is the latest and greatest in mobile filmmaking challenges!  On the day of the contest, you’ll receive a text message with a secret story prompt for your video.  You’ll then have up to twenty hours to make a mobile phone video and post it to YouTube. Since this is a global challenge, you’ll be able to see mobile videos that are created from all over the country, and maybe even the world!

Recent Links 01/23/2009

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Recent Links 01/22/2009

  • The Visible Body Features

    *Complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model
    *Detailed models of all body systems
    *Dynamic search capability
    *Easy-to-use, 3D controls
    *Seamless compatibility with all the most popular web browsers

    Argosy’s Visible Body is the most comprehensive human anatomy visualization tool available today. This entirely Web-delivered application offers an unparalleled understanding of human anatomy. The Visible Body includes 3D models of over 1,700
    anatomical structures, including all major organs and systems of the human body.

    tags: science, anatomy, biology, health, interactive, tools, web 2.0

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Recent Links 01/20/2009

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Recent Links 01/16/2009

  • Watch full episodes, movies, and clips of your favorite TV and online shows

    tags: tv, streaming, television, Sling, video

  • The Ultimate Collection Manager: track movies, music, wines, etc – mobile option availabe

    tags: organization, tools, collection

  • Create your own Free Teacher Website- the most powerful and easy to use Teacher Websites available anywhere.
    Broadcast important class information with a push of a button.
    Communicate and collaborate with other teachers within Bloust’s private teacher community.

    tags: teachers, free, tools, webapps, website

  • At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day, while 75 million children worldwide are not in school. By pooling surprisingly small investments, we can help to significantly improve educational access and economic development. It’s called The Small Things Challenge, and it’s a campaign based on the premise that every small action can make a big difference to ensure quality education and economic opportunity for all. We challenge you to join us in becoming a part of the solution. Your help will make a difference.

    tags: charity, fund raising, causes

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Recent Links 01/15/2009

  • Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures: Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com.

    tags: photography, tools, design

  • Lunchn is a web-based application geared towards groups trying to select a location for lunch. If you regularly meet with a group of people for lunch , check out Lunchn.

    While Lunchn can server as a basic Google Maps mashup to help you find a place to eat with no additional effort, the real benefit of the site comes when you get your lunch buddies to plug in their favorite places. Once you and your friends have told Lunchn where you like to eat, when it comes time to pick where you to to lunch you can all vote by logging in or using your mobile phones on where to go.

    tags: food, collaboration, organization, meetings

  • CastTV is a wide-reaching video aggregator that can save you some time when searching out a missed episode of your favorite show or looking for a copy of the latest must-see viral video.

    CastTV searches dozens of sites, including: YouTube, Hulu, MySpaceTV, Comedy Central, CNN, ESPN, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS and MTV. One of the benefits CastTV has over some of the other popular TV-watching destinations like Hulu is that they poll the networks web sites for new shows, so you can frequently catch new shows before they are released to other video hosting services.

    tags: tv, video

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    • we don’t tell stories about long-form writing that couldn’t have thrived in the existing constraints of print media because print media squishes things down to be too short because it doesn’t match this narrative that was first set up for TV, which is “Oh, all this new media is shortening people’s attention spans and distracting them.” To which you can, you know, you can only reply, “Yes, that’s true,” except where it’s not true. There’s no inkling of that of that explanation in the success of, say, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. And the length of that essay was, in part, of one of things that made it successful.
    • what the Web does is that it does what all amateur increases do, which is it decreases the average quality of what’s available. It is exactly, precisely, the complaint made about the printing press.
  • “I Do Solemnly Swear . . .”: Presidential Inaugurations is a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington’s in 1789 to George W. Bush’s inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music. The selections are drawn from the Presidential Papers in the Manuscript Division and from the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Music Division, and the General Collections of the Library of Congress. Additional material has been included from the photography collections of the Architect of the Capitol, the White House, and the United States Senate Office of the Sergeant at Arms. Some items, from records of early sessions of Congress to early films, that are already online in American Memory have been incorporated. An important component is the collaboration with the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, which permits the site to offer Yale’s online presentations of the inaugural addresses from Presidents Washington to Bush with associated searchable text transcriptions. A key objective of this online presentation is to make accessible to the public, many of the treasures and other important primary source materials held by the Library of Congress as well as by other institutions. The collection has been organized chronologically by presidential inauguration and an effort has been made to offer a balanced number of items for each inaugural event.

    tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies

  • US Senate site; explanation of inaugural day events

    tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies

  • Do you know which President was the only person to leave the White House but return for a second term four years later? Do you know what was happening in America during Herbert Hoover’s inauguration? Find the answers to these questions and more as you explore this interactive time line of Presidential inaugurations.

    tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies

  • On January 20th, 2009, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. Help your students understand the historical significance of this time in history through a study of inaugural addresses dating back to our first president. Following are 25 top-quality video clips HotChalk is providing free of charge for integration into your lessons throughout the month of January.
    *VIDEOS ARE NOT DOWNLOADABLE, BUT CAN BE VIEWED FULL SCREEN.

    tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies

  • At 12:00 noon on Inauguration Day 2009 (Tuesday, January 20, 2009, as set by the Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution), Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States. The Inauguration Day 2009 Schedule will keep you informed about what is happening and when on this important day

    tags: politics, political science, presidents, social studies

  • How to Become a More Effective Learner
    Tips from Psychology to Improve Learning Effectiveness & Efficiency

    tags: learning, instruction, education, instructional strategies

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