Tim Lauer's Public Library

09 Nov 09

08 Nov 09

Google Earth Library

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How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal

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04 Sep 09

Getting bookishly appy with the iPhone | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times

A look at book applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. I have a few of these and like reading on the device.

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There are separate apps for many books in the public domain, either as stand-alones, like Bram Stoker's "Dracula," or organized by author, like Jane Austen. But if having a separate app for each book or author seems inefficient -- and it does to me -- you have a choice of several apps that let you download and organize lots of public domain books. One that people seem to like is Classics, which has a luxurious-looking interface, including illustrations, and costs

Obama's Plot To Brainwash Your Children! | The New Republic

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More broadly, Obama is the leader of this entire nation. It doesn't matter if you voted for him--or even if your head threatens to explode every time you think about him. He is the president, and, as such, it's a big deal that he's speaking directly to students about the importance of education.

04 Aug 09

Palm and Apple Squabble Over iTunes Access on the Pre - NYTimes.com

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Now Palm is calling foul and is trying to rally the consumer electronics industry to its defense. Palm says that Apple, which allows only its own devices to connect directly with iTunes software, is misusing the standards put in place to foster interoperability between computers and devices using a U.S.B. connection.

Diigo: Beyond Bookmarking…WAY Beyond | Clif's Notes

A short video highlighting the features of Diigo...

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18 Jul 09

Today in History

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bb began his professional career at the age of eighteen with the Detroit Tigers with which he played twenty-two of his twenty-four seasons. Like the careers of baseball greats Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Cobb's was marred by scandal. He was allowed to resign in 1926 in lieu of being banned for alleged gambling violations. However, Cobb was subsequently exone

14 Jul 09

Education - Change.org: Technology: The Wrong Questions and the Right Questions

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That was the wrong question then, and it is the wrong question now. The right question is, what can schools, what can education, contribute to these new technologies?
Students who behave, and learn, most like their teachers do the best in classrooms. Teachers see this reflection as proof of their own competence - "The best students are just like me." And thus all who are "different" in any way - race, class, ability, temperament, preferences - are left out of the success story.
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- We must abandon the one-way classroom communication system, be it the lecture or use of the "clicker," and teach with conversation and through modeling learning itself. We must lose the idea that "attention" means students staring at a teacher, or that "attendance" means being in the room, and understand all the differing ways humans learn best. We must stop separating subjects rigidly and adopt the contemporary notion of following knowledge where it leads us.

06 Jul 09

Shareaholic for Safari - The browser add-on extension to share, tweet, bookmark, save and e-mail web pages quickly

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27 Apr 08

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

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So
I tell her all this stuff, and I think, "Okay, we're going to
have a conversation about authority or social construction or
whatever." That wasn't her question. She heard this story and
she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?"
That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No
one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the
time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been
masking for 50 years."
However lousy it is to sit in your
basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal
experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if
Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.
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- Well,
  the TV producer did not think this was going to be a big deal; she
  was not digging this line of thought. And her final question to me
  was essentially, "Isn't this all just a fad?" You know,
  sort of the flagpole-sitting of the early early 21st century? It's fun to go out and produce and share a little bit, but
  then people are going to eventually realize, "This isn't as good
  as doing what I was doing before," and settle down. And
  I made a spirited argument that no, this wasn't the case, that this
  was in fact a big one-time shift, more analogous to the industrial
  revolution than to flagpole-sitting.
- Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships
  broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not
  be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the
  people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go
  through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan's
  Island, they just assume that media
  includes consuming, producing and sharing.

05 Apr 08

Dr. King, Forgotten Radical | The American Prospect

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"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Ozzy Knows Best | PBS

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So forget about personal computers: the future of education probably lies with digital games.
Stories came out this week from the NPD Group announcing that 72 percent of Americans play PC or video games with 58 percent of those played online. Those numbers -- which apparently don't include kids, by the way -- are HUGE and explain all by themselves much of what is happening to traditional mass media like TV, magazines and newspapers.
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- And at a time when what we're decrying is the lack of attention our children and grandchildren are paying to traditional modes of education, they are spending hundreds of hours learning to steal virtual cars and play lead air guitar.
- I am not saying schools will disappear. I AM saying that new modes of instruction will emerge and they will inevitably involve processing power and context. We took our kids to Washington, D.C. for Spring Break and I would have loved to outfit them with MP3 players loaded with age-appropriate descriptions of what we saw. That's just scratching the surface.
- People want to do new stuff with their Wii's, so why not use them to learn?
- The truth is we won't. If we have more students, we just build more devices. Classrooms aren't absolutely necessary, nor will location even matter.

Famous Quotes at QuoteDB - Interactive Database of Famous Quotations

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A database of famous quotations... also includes tools for adding random quotes and quote of the day features to your web site... - timlauer on 2008-04-05

04 Apr 08

Dr. King Timeline by Students from Buckman Elementary School 1996

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A timeline of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King illustrated by young students at Buckman Elementary School and originally published to the web in 1996. - timlauer on 2008-04-04

03 Apr 08

Remembering MLK's Prophetic 'Mountaintop' Speech : NPR

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Video and audio of Dr. Kings' prophetic Mountaintop speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968. - timlauer on 2008-04-03

01 Apr 08

Baseball Extras: The Curious Case of Sidd Finch

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30 Mar 08

James Fallows (March 30, 2008) - Reality check

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Google Visualization API - Google Code

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"The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large." - timlauer on 2008-03-30

The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data
that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations.
The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used
to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer
community at large.

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS

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