Andy Carvin: Tag You’re Delicious!

Andy Carvin wrote a great introduction to Delicious on the learning.now blog at PBS TeacherSource. It is a great place to start with delicious. If you’ve been having a hard time figuring out why using delicious would be a good thing, this will help!

Cooliris

If you are using FireFox as your web browser and Google, you want to get Cooliris!

How to use Cooliris

  • Mouse-over any link on Google search results and see the underlying content! Search within your search results without ever leaving the page or opening new windows or tabs!
  • Mouse-over any thumbnail on Google image search result and see a zoomed version of the image and a full size version of it without having to leave the page!
  • Highlight any word or phrase and right-click the selection. Choose your option from the drop-down menu and the results show up right there! You don’t have to leave the context of your work or open new windows/tabs! You can see results from Freedictionary, Wikipedia, Google Search and Google Images as of now.

Enjoy! :)

Google Earth and SketchUp Pro for MLTI

I just saw this on a blog post from Tim Lauer, a principal in Portland, Oregon. He demonstrates how he used it at his school in this post.

In my day we thought calculators were cool

The Maine Learning Technology Initiative is an innovative program that equips every one of the state’s public middle-school students with a laptop computer. This fall, more than 36,000 students will receive brand-new Apple iBooks pre-installed with great software. We think the whole thing sounds terrific, so we’re donating Google Earth and SketchUp Pro to Maine for installation on every public-school computer in the state. They accepted, and now it looks like Maine will be the first state in the US to have Google Earth, SketchUp Pro, and the 3D Warehouse available to every student, teacher, librarian, and administrator who wants it.