Social Explorer lets you create easy displays of census data. It also has a built-in slide show generator and a report generator. via Lifehacker […]
Year: 2007
Design a Space Pennant for NASA
NASA has announced a contest to design a pennant to be flown into space on the STS-818 shuttle mission. From the official site: The STS-118 flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour will be the first spaceflight of an Educator Astronaut, mission specialist Barbara Morgan. STS-118 is also an important step in the ongoing assembly of […]
Ficlets
Ficlets A fun writing site (although I can’t promise content appropriateness). Basic premise, you publish a short story (minimum character count 64, max 1,024). Then people add on prequels or sequels. Once you’ve written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel. In this […]
Looking for ways to procrastinate?
Some Friday fun: Lifehackerposted “a mathematical formula for procrastination” awhile back. Sorry it took me so long to pass it on to you. Oh, and speaking of procrastination, here’s a tenacious young man who tried with all of his might to nail jello to the wall. (via BoingBoing) Now get out there and do something! […]
Creating stop action movies
Lifehacker has a couple of helpful resources for creating a stop-action movie for Windows and Mac. Nothing like digital storytelling with “old school” charm! Pictured above: a single frame from my upcoming epic–Captain Limespear. […]
Create an rss feed with magic
Ok, not magic, but with Feedity. From time to time I come across a website I would love to get updated content from, but the site doesn’t offer a feed. This has frustrated me in the past, but not anymore! Punch in the URL and wahh-laa (or Abracadabra), you have a dynamic feed. via Lifehack […]
Interactive Periodic Table
Popular Science has an amazing interactive periodic table posted on their site. Each element is represented by an image of where that element shows up in nature or is used in the world. Click on the element and get a quick explaination of its use and a link to further info. via The Junk Edublog […]
7 Tips to Get Blogs into Reluctant Schools (prt 1)
The first rule of blog club is don’t talk about blogs. The second rule… I know it’s a stretch but this is a fight and you will have to employ subterfuge, guerrilla tactics, mind games and stealth to pull this off. Ignorance and fear are your opponents. Defeating them will enable you to put a […]
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Organization in a MetaData World (Part 2)
Jim’s finally figured out how to use this system effectively! A month ago I blogged my entrance in to the GTD (Getting Things Done) world of organization. Looking back, I haphazardly entered the system. I did all of my research online, and, when I finally pieced my system together, there were major holes that caused […]
Possible Fun Writing Prompts
Wikipedia’s “speedy deleted” article titles might make a fun, no hassle writing prompt reservoir. I’m not exactly sure how Defective Yeti got these but I’m sure some of you wikipedia experts could tell me (and then I’ll update the post and feel less inadequate). Some are, of course, not school safe but you could just […]