This nifty art was created using IOGraph. It captured my mouse movement and clicks from 6:48 AM to 9:32 PM on April 13, 2010.
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2010
A Day of Mouse
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2009
Lifestream
August 31st |
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Bloom’s Taxonomy: Bloomin’ Peacock with Web 2.0 goodness http://bit.ly/9EehJC [dgoshorn]
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August 27th |
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I just became the mayor of East Pennsboro Area Middle School on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/a2gMaF [dgoshorn]
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August 24th |
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August 20th |
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EP Board approves mediator proposal 9-0 [dgoshorn]
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August 17th |
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I just ousted Debra F. as the mayor of East Pennsboro School District on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/by5m9R [dgoshorn]
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August 13th |
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http://ping.fm/p/7si6H - We're sailin' on the bay. [dgoshorn]
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http://ping.fm/p/cY1Lx - Sunset cruise on the Woodwind out of Annapolis. A very relaxing birthday trip! [dgoshorn]
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August 6th |
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http://www.fox43.com/videobeta/0a452610-59a7-4b23-b1a3-3eb917cf70d4/News/8-5-Teacher-Strike-Rally Video covering our EPEA rally. [dgoshorn]
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August 5th |
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Pennlive article re: EPEA rally tonight http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/08/east_pennsboro_officials_teach.html [dgoshorn]
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I just ousted Debra F. as the mayor of East Pennsboro Area High School on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/aQs0iG [dgoshorn]
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August 4th |
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East Pennsboro teachers authorize strike, plan rally | PennLive.com http://bit.ly/d8pOyp We've worked 11 months, 3 days without a contract [dgoshorn]
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WGAL: East Pennsboro Teachers Vote To Authorize Strike http://bit.ly/9Kuyr1 - been 11 months and 3 days since working with a contract [dgoshorn]
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22
2009
Classrooms For the Future Coach Funding Lives for 09-10!
FROM: Dr. Edward Vollbrecht [via PennLINK]
SUBJECT: CFF Coach Funding
DATE: October 21, 2009The Pennsylvania Department of Education is pleased to announce that the 2009-10 Education budget includes funding for Cohorts two and three 21st Century Teaching and Learning technology integration coaches (previously the Classrooms for the Future program.) These coaches may support teachers utilizing technology for teaching and learning in grades 5-12 in any subject area.
We expect that the funding will be available for the second semester and encourage you to plan to release your coach or hire a coach to support your teachers at that time. If you expect to have a new coaches, please have them send a resume and cover letter to Kara Thomas at c-kthomas@state.pa.us. There will be a coaching meeting planned for the second semester for new coaches.
08
2009
Yearbook Color Design Tools
It’s that time of year. I mean, the time when the teenagers on your yearbook staff spend way too much picking out a color scheme to accompany the book’s theme. Fortunately, there are many web-based tools out there to speed up this process so that they can get to work!
Whether you have a theme already selected or not, check out Cymbolism. According to the site, it tries to “quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.” Whenever you first load the site, you are given word, and asked to choose the color that you associate with the word. Imagine thousands of folks doing this a day, and you’ve got a powerful tool. Click the Words button at the top to check out the results for all of the words on the site, organized alphabetically. You can even compare results over time.
If you like daily inspiration with color schemes, browse on over to COLOURlovers, and check out their blog. Sometimes they find videos or photos and build color schemes based on them, and other posts include unique patterns. In fact, their Palette library contains over 900,000 different user-generated combinations. Regardless, the color combinations are always thought-provoking. This site provides a nice resource for keeping current with current trends in colorful design. Also check out their COPASCO tool to work with custom combinations.
There are many sites out there that allow you to create, mix, match, save, and export color schemes. One of the newest and, in my opinion, coolest, is ColoRotate. ColoRotate is similar to lots of other color scheme generators, with one big exception: you can design schemes in 3D using their unique tool that allows for dragging and dropping of colors. Back in the 2D world, there is a large selection of color combination sites, including:
- Adobe’s Kuler (which you can directly plugin to CS4) - my personal fav
- Color Scheme Designer
- Color Jack (check out the Sphere and Galaxy tools)
- Color Combos
- Kolur - If you’re having trouble visualizing your palettes applied to your actual designs, check out this site where palettes are applied to graphic samples, making it easier to visualize the final product.
In addition to the sites above, there also sites that are specifically built to extract/built color palettes based on images that you upload. Each of them has its own little bells and whistles. Here’s a short list:
- Pictaculous (my personal fav)
- Color Hunter
- Colr
- Color Palette Generator
For even more color palette tools, check out Web Design Booth’s The Ultimate List of Online Color Tools for Web Developers (41 and counting).
12
2009
Google Earth Help for Educators
Google Earth Tutorials and How-Tos
- Create Maps with Google Earth & Google Maps Tutorials
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorials.html - Working With KMZ files in Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_kmz.html
Examples of Lessons Using Google Earth
- Juicy Geography
http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/googleearth.htm
This UK site has lesson plans suitable for grades 3, 4 & 12 that have been classroom-tested. - Google Lit Trips
http://www.googlelittrips.com
Students use Google Earth to explore some of the great literary works studied in class. - Google Earth Lessons
http://www.gelessons.com
A website featuring news about Google Earth, in addition to some spectacularly planned lessons that include printables, KMZ files and more! - Classroom Google Earth Wiki
http://classroomgoogleearth.wikispaces.com
A teacher-created repository of ideas, links and downloads - Asia: Continent of Contrasts (National Geographic)
http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/continents/asia/
Downloadable tours (and accompany teacher resources) of the Asian continent. - Real World Math
http://www.realworldmath.org
Using Google Earth so that students can investigate real world applications for math - 8 High School Ideas
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgdwkz9w_69chpv96f8 - The Official Google Geo Education site
http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html - Got Google? - Google Earth
http://sites.google.com/site/edinagg/google-earth
A Google Certified Teacher’s collection of lots of resources for teachers. - Map Mashups - Classroom Applications
http://mapmashing.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Applications
Project ideas for students using Google Earth/Maps
Other Neat Stuff Regarding Google Earth
- Instructions for adding your voice to Google Earth placemarks
http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/11/24/google-earth-is-our-paper-part-2-add-your-voice/
Create multimedia maps featuring you/r students’ voices. Think about the project ideas! - Geo Apps - Maps, Earth & SketchUp
http://sites.google.com/site/gtaresources/2008-11-18/geo
Interesting combinations of 3 Google applications, with some videos.
22
2009
Web 2.0 Tools for School Journalism Students and Advisers
Webcasting and Streaming:
- uStream.tv
(live webcasting) - Mogulus.com
(even better live webcasting) - Qik.com
(phone-cast!) - CuePrompter.com
(teleprompter) - TheWeekInRap.com
(good idea!)
Stuff for Print:
- Joomla
(DIY publishing platform) - WordPress
(DIY publishing platform) - my.hsj
(managed publishing platform) - Issuu.com
(make your documents look good online) - Shape Collage
(free, advanced photo collage maker) - Kuler.adobe.com
(color scheme creator) - Cymbolism.com
(matching colors with language) - BookletCreator.com
(create foldable booklets from PDFs) - Colorhunter.com
(create color pallettes from images)
Story Fodder:
- Gomoxie.org
(get free, legal music to review) - Ripoffreport.com
(get rip off ideas)
Other Stuff:
- bgjournalismg.blogspot.com
Journalism blog for advisers with lots of resources - bighugelabs.com/flickr/badge.php
Press badge generator - deep.co.uk/games/font_game
Need proof that you’re a font geek? - splc.org/falawtest
First Amendment Test - screentoaster.com
Record & share screencasts without software!

