Oh Noes! The Childrens of the World need maps! 11!

Apparently Miss Teen South Carolina’s War on Maplessness has sparked a massive effort to respond to this cartographic crisis! Over at Maps for Us, a smartass of colossal proportions (which is to say s/he has my undying respect and admiration) has launched a lonely crusade to bring maps to the children of the US, Iraq, [...]

The beginnings of our hyperlocal future

My friend Patrick sent me the link to this new(-ish) wiki, Make Mine Local, which is designed to help central Kentuckians support locally grown and locally produced products. The site strongly emphasizes organic and sustainable agriculture. The site is still new, so it’s a little light on content and is still a little too text-based, [...]

Miss South Carolina Sez: More Maps!

I just wanted to weep big manly tears for the future of our country when I saw this answer given by the lovely but clearly-in-over-her-head Miss South Carolina. I still can’t figure out what the hell she was trying to say, even with the help of this map.

Sad, really. Or funny [...]

Robert Scoble interviews Dr. Elliot Soloway on technology and education

I’d never heard of Elliot Soloway before, but I find his ideas on incorporating technology into the learning process to be important. Note that I said “into the learning process” and not “into the classroom.” I believe as time goes on we are going to have to get away from education being a classroom-centered activity, [...]

Embedding YouTube Videos in a PowerPoint presentation

Fantastic! Here’s a video illustrating how to download YouTube videos and convert them for use in a PowerPoint. I’ve been dying to find a way to do this. It requires some extra freeware (see this Lifehacker post for more, including links to the required freeware), but it’s not terribly difficult to do. I’m looking forward [...]

Rethinking the Logic of Food Miles and Eating Local

Last week, James E. McWilliams did an op-ed in the New York Times title “Food That Travels Well” that got me thinking. For a long time sustainability activists have joined forces with the local food/slow food activists in what has seemed like a mutually beneficial partnership. Now it turns out, according to the article, that [...]

Notely: Notetaking and Organization for Students

I realize I’m late to the party on this one, but I just ran across an interesting online note-taking and organization app aimed at college students called Notely. Notely is a collection of online apps that allow you to create lecture notes, make a to-do list, keep track of homework, papers and other assignments, manage [...]

Do Schools Kill Creativity? (Ken Robinson @ TED)

Attention Conservation Notice: I’m posting this video of Ken Robinson for two reasons. First, he has a great presentational style, and I like to collect examples of such things to use in constantly refining my own presentational approach and (2) it gets to what I’ve been blathering on about in terms of Teaching the Web [...]

The Greatest Kentuckian (Evah!)

Found over at Warren Ellis‘ place. A 1978 BBC piece on Hunter S. Thompson, the greatest Kentuckian ever.

I should probably put On the Campaign Trail ‘72 in my reading queue to reread with the statewide elections coming up. I’ve toyed with the idea of assigning it as supplemental reading in my freshman American Government course, [...]

Internet Killed the Video Star?

(Bless you if you’re old enough or nerdy enough to get the Buggles reference.)
Came across an article at Read/Write Web this morning – “Is the TV Channel Dead?” – which examines a question posed over at Techdirt: Is there any real need for the concept of the TV channel anymore? In this age of timeshifting [...]