Using Hotspots
I’ve been getting more and more interested in the complexities of READING images, be they photographs or maps or whatever. Alan Levine is onto something here with Flickr’s Hotspot feature, which I hadn’t explored until this posting nudged me to do so. Take a look at this image (one from the Joe Wilner exploration)
Levine is startlingly obviously screamingly RIGHT about this as a tool that has all sorts of applicability in teach/learn situations in just about EVERY discipline, wherever there are images or visualizations.
links for 2006-02-16
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“acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”
links for 2006-02-14
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“…the ability to save the map out as a webpage to share with others and to generate a KML file of your geocoded locations to share with Google Earth”
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“a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive overview of epidemic and pandemic influenza. Access to the online version is free.”
links for 2006-02-13
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…From acting profile parts in the “legit,”
He came to this; and he is sick of it.
The singing part is easy. What he hates
Is traveling with these damned degenerates,
Tight-trousered, scented, both with women’s hips,
With penciled eyes…
links for 2006-02-12
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by Ray Fenwick
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a Flickr group
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Flickr group
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Flickr group
links for 2006-02-09
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parsing and mapping NYT stories, by the day
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“a curated knowledgebase of biological pathways”
Glogowski does it again
Here’s another of those trenchant distillations, from Konrad Glogowski at Blog of Proximal Development:
I want them to see their writing as an attempt to capture the current state of their engagement with ideas not the final pronouncement on the assigned topic. Writing and learning itself are not about coming to immutable conclusions. They are about negotiation, about branching off into other avenues, about exploring possibilities.
links for 2006-02-06
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“…lets you draw a path or a polygon on a Google Maps image which can then be written into a KML file”.
links for 2006-02-04
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“a web site that tries to make things clear”
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one of the coolest mashup ideas in a long time