Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Boys & Girls Club kids create web site
Reports Kristen Cates in The Southern Illinoisan: "Through WSIU, the Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale was able to secure grant funding from PBS KIDS Go! to work on a virtual tour of the forest and create an interactive Internet Web site.
Beth Spezia, outreach coordinator for WSIU Public Broadcasting, said this is part of a yearlong Trees Across America grant that will focus on the theme of ecology. . . .
The children have been learning how to use digital cameras and videos. Friday, they spent a few hours in the New Media Center on SIUC's campus learning how to create a movie. . . . Using recent photos and videos taken at the club, the children spent time learning how to mesh the photos together and create a video.
Ultimately, this will be a lesson the kids can use when it comes time to creating their Trees Across America software . . . . Once that software is built, . . . it will be distributed to all of the Boys and Girls Clubs across the country as a training video and lesson plan about different trees in the forests.
Bryan Gottschalk, tech center director at the Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale, said not only will this teach other children about ecology, but it offers something to the kids in Carbondale as well."
Beth Spezia, outreach coordinator for WSIU Public Broadcasting, said this is part of a yearlong Trees Across America grant that will focus on the theme of ecology. . . .
The children have been learning how to use digital cameras and videos. Friday, they spent a few hours in the New Media Center on SIUC's campus learning how to create a movie. . . . Using recent photos and videos taken at the club, the children spent time learning how to mesh the photos together and create a video.
Ultimately, this will be a lesson the kids can use when it comes time to creating their Trees Across America software . . . . Once that software is built, . . . it will be distributed to all of the Boys and Girls Clubs across the country as a training video and lesson plan about different trees in the forests.
Bryan Gottschalk, tech center director at the Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale, said not only will this teach other children about ecology, but it offers something to the kids in Carbondale as well."
Friday, July 15, 2005
waiting for podot
I'm off to purchase a digital voice recorder in order to give local citizens the opportunity to speak "on the record" about matters of concern to the community. Currently, the Town Square business community is concerned about the result of demolishing the old Bank of Carbondale building and replacing it with a parking lot. In the next few days, I'll record the interviews and post them to this web site.
Monday, July 11, 2005
Arizona school will not use textbooks
Yahoo! News reports: Arizona School Will Not Use Textbooks: "A high school in Vail [Arizona] will become the state's first all-wireless, all-laptop public school this fall. The 350 students at the school will not have traditional textbooks. Instead, they will use electronic and online articles as part of more traditional teacher lesson plans. . . . Vail Unified School District's decision to go with an all-electronic school is rare, experts say. Often, cost, insecurity, ignorance and institutional constraints prevent schools from making the leap away from paper.
'The efforts are very sporadic,' said Mark Schneiderman, director of education policy for the Software and Information Industry Association. 'A minority of communities are doing a good or very good job, but a large number are just not there on a number of levels.'"
'The efforts are very sporadic,' said Mark Schneiderman, director of education policy for the Software and Information Industry Association. 'A minority of communities are doing a good or very good job, but a large number are just not there on a number of levels.'"
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Plant Web site features 'weirdest of the weird'
Plant Web site features 'weirdest of the weird': "A botanist at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Daniel L. Nickrent tends a fertile, award-winning Web site he created with more than 1,700 images, representing 224 genera or 82 percent of all parasitic flowering plants "
Monday, July 04, 2005
Illinois Information Service
From the collapsing-right-before-the-finish-line department: Has anyone else visited the website for IIS radio? How nice of the state to post all of their audio news releases in MP3 format for download or for streaming. Great! Now I can use their RSS feed to subscribe to the audio and automatically download the twice-daily newscasts to my computer?
No. No, you can't. There is no RSS feed.
You mean to tell me they took the time to set up the page, and to record and serve the files but didn't take an extra nanosecond to make them podcastable?
You've cracked the case, Hercule.
Fiendish state employee-in-charge whose name I cannot be bothered to search for, J'accuse!
[end of fake conversation. There was actually much more but I cut it because it became increasingly ridiculous and difficult to sustain from both a psychological and a comedic perspective]
Seriously, the state's wasting an opportunity for bandwagon behavior, and if anyone is going to jump on a bandwagon, shouldn't it be a functionary for the state? A flunky? A flunktionary?
No. No, you can't. There is no RSS feed.
You mean to tell me they took the time to set up the page, and to record and serve the files but didn't take an extra nanosecond to make them podcastable?
You've cracked the case, Hercule.
Fiendish state employee-in-charge whose name I cannot be bothered to search for, J'accuse!
[end of fake conversation. There was actually much more but I cut it because it became increasingly ridiculous and difficult to sustain from both a psychological and a comedic perspective]
Seriously, the state's wasting an opportunity for bandwagon behavior, and if anyone is going to jump on a bandwagon, shouldn't it be a functionary for the state? A flunky? A flunktionary?
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