Top 25 Google Earth stories of 2007

From the excellent Google Earth blog by Frank Taylor, here's a post that lists the top 25 GE stories of the year. Cool new features, layers, Easter eggs, the California fires, trying to find Steve Fossett, rising sea levels... and much, much more!

I LOVE these guys!

The Common Craft Show has some fantastic tutorials on Web 2.0 technologies explained in plain English. Here's the social bookmarking tutorial:

Kwout is too cool!

I use the screenshot tool extensively here on this blog and in many presentations and tutorials I've created. But this new tool kwout is amazing! AND FREE!! You can even put a kwout tool on your browser toolbar. It captures a webpage, then allows you to draw a box around the specific region of the page you wish to use, then generates the code to embed that into your webpage, flickr, or blog. Like this:

Monroe County Intermediate School District's web site (home page) via kwout

But it's even BETTER than that! The links in the image above are live! Go ahead and try it! And how about the way it creates a citation and link to the original webpage?

A great big THANK YOU to Jane Hart's E-learning pick of the day blog for sharing this great website!

Copyright, or Copywrong?

I just read an interesting post by David Pogue on his blog entitled "The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality."

This would be a great article for your students to read, discuss, and debate. Be sure to read the MANY insightful comments as well!

Need a good laugh today?

I did. This website is guaranteed to make you chuckle. Here's a sample:



moar funny pictures

Watch this video!

It was created by Greg Craven, a high school teacher in Oregon. You may have your own opinion about global warming, but you can't argue with this man's logic. "What's the worst that can happen?" Have you ever said that? I'm sure I have in the last week! Well, that's the basis for this 9 minute video.

At the conclusion of the video, Mr. Craven shares what is so powerful about the Web 2.0 world in which we live: "In today's information age, you can change the culture. You CAN help change public policy and remarkably, some times just a few mouse clicks is all it takes to start an avalanche."

Read more about this video in an article on the USA Today website.

JFK video from a Dallas TV station now online

Thanks to the Librarians' Internet Index blog for this link to JFK Video: The Dallas Tapes.

This website has dozens of video clips, some of which are available nowhere else on the Internet!

This is a great resource! A unique collection of historic video. Practically a primary resource.

Browse the collection on the left side of the home page. You'll find video of the president's arrival in Dallas, coverage of his breakfast speech in Fort Worth, interviews with Governor Connally, Marina Oswald, and some more recent Dallas TV news reports from 1992.

Fascinating stuff!