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Archive for December, 2007

links for 2007-12-31

Monday, December 31st, 2007

TwitDir - a Twitter directory - Find your friends and more on Twitter!
(tags: twitter search)

Open Source Living
Welcome to Open Source Living, an archive of the Web’s best Open Source software, applications and references for a zero-cost / top quality digital experience.
(tags: mac tools opensource)

Juicy Geography�s Google Earth blog
Tips and Tricks to using Google Earth in [...]

How many Miles (km) have you Traveled in 2007?

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Thanks to Ewan McIntosh and his blog post “2007 and Travels in Review” on EduBlogs, I found the following fun site “Great Circle Map“.
Enter the airport codes or city names that you have traveled to and it will give you an good amount of interesting facts: Latitude, Longitude, Initial Heading Direction and miles or [...]

Connecting the Dots… with Google Earth

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Connecting the Dots… with Google Earth or creating a virtual fieldtrip.
It is all about facilitating for our students to connect dots… to let them make connections to previously learned knowledge. We all know the frustration as teachers when we realize that our students don’t take what they have learned in our classroom and apply it [...]

links for 2007-12-30

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Tweet Scan - Real-time Twitter Search
(tags: twitter search)

Glogster - Poster Yourself
(tags: generator poster images)

Global Audience?…Are you Globally Friendly?

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

If you are writing a public blog, professionally or with your students, you need to asks yourself the question “Do I have a global audience?”
Between search engines, technorati, other bloggers who reference yours and comments you leave on other blogs and (now) Twitter, the word gets out fast. If you want NO ONE reading your [...]

links for 2007-12-29

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

ooVoo - Free Video Conferencing and Video Messaging
ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication — a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video conversation with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.
(tags: webconferencing video_conference VoIP collaboration)

Blog Oh Blog
(tags: wordpress themes)

Wordpress SEO for Beginners | Blog Oh Blog
Download free [...]

1000 Places to See before you Die- Another list

Friday, December 28th, 2007

I am browsing through the book by Patricia Schultz “1000 Places to see before you die- A Traveler’s Life List”. As I am skimming through then book’s table of content, I am immediately taken back by noticing how short the Latin America chapter is (which includes Mexico, ALL of Central and South America). My [...]

Create a Rotating Header Image for your Blog

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Here is another tip to customize your blog by creating a Rotating Header Image. You can see an example on my Langwitches Travels Blog .
Pay attention to the banner image, then refresh your browser and you will see another banner image. I only have 6 header images to choose from at this point, so [...]

New Year- Create a New Look for your Blog?

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Now that the mad shopping rush is behind most people, it is time to look towards the end of the year and the beginning of a new year. This seems to be the time for reflecting on the old and resolutions and hopes for the new year. Maybe a fresh start for some…
To give it [...]

links for 2007-12-28

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Creative Commons Licenses - Creative Commons
Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) by nc nd Choose by-nc-sa licenseThis license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Other
(tags: creativecommons copyright)

QIK | Streaming video right from your phone
(tags: Streaming video cell_phones [...]