May 31

Links From The DEN Diigo Group (weekly)

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May 30

Our Geocaching Workshop Links

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https://docs.google.com/View?id=dtp6fnh_99ghck7mdg

May 29

What I Learned about on May 29th

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These are my links for May 29th:

May 29

Geocaching with an iPhone – Part 4

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…continued from Geocaching with an iPhone – Part 3

We’re continuing our look at the menus available on the iPhone Geocaching App icon. The following the menu continuation under Cache Info.

Hints will show you any hints that the cache owner would like to give to help people on their adventure.

Geocaching

Again hints can totally give away a location or be more cryptic than any other clue.

Jumping down to Find Nearby Caches, this will show you your location (blue ball), the location of the cache you are currently looking at the information for (blue marker) and all of the nearby caches (green markers).

Geocaching

View on External Map takes you to the menu where you get the menu wheel to choose which mapping service you want to use.

Geocaching

More in the next post…

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May 29

Geocaching with an iPhone – Part 3

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…continued from Geocaching with an iPhone - Part 2

On the previous menu we saw Navigate to Cache. Touching that menu item takes us to a map screen.

Geocaching

It will show you as a blue ball and the cache as marker with the cache ID above it. The buttons at the top determine what you are looking at – you and the cache, just you, or just the cache.

The View Compass button at the top allows you to see a compass with a direction pointer as to which way to walk toward the cache.

Geocaching

I find that switching between Map view and Compass view is helpful because it refreshes your location in relation to the cache. I tend to forget to use the longitude and latitude at the bottom although once you figure out which way to travel so the numbers get closer to matching it does make finding a cache easier.

Backing up to Cache Info menu again, touching the Description menu item shows something like this.

Geocaching

Again keep in mind that the description may be practically nothing, i.e. it’s under some leaves to something shown above listing the different stages and problems to solve.

Recent Logs will look like this picture below.

Geocaching

Remember that warning about spoilers. Part of the fun for people is working to find the cache. People sometimes put too much information in their logs. But for a counterpoint if you are having trouble locating a cache reading through the logs may indicate that the cache is now missing in action or moved.

We’ll look at the rest of the Cache Info menus in the next post.

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May 29

Geocaching with an iPhone – Part 2

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Continued from Geocaching with an iPhone – Part 1

From your result list when you tap on one of the caches you will be shown a page with information about the cache.

Geocaching

So here we see the name of the cache and who placed it along with the unique geocache identification number, latitude, longitude and approximately how far away it is from the place you searched. Pay attention to Difficulty and Terrain as it can help you avoid getting frustrated and giving up. Some caches can include long, hard hikes and hard clues that involve multiple layer puzzles to figure out.

The next few lines are links to other information about the cache. Navigate to Cache will take you right to a map showing were you are and where the cache is.

Save for Offline Use allows you save the info to your iPhone so you see it if you don’t have a connection or want to save battery by turning off your network connection.

Description will give you more information about the cache that may also include clues to help you find it.

Recent Logs will show you notes from other geocachers that have either found or not found the cache.

Further down on the page we find more menu items.

Geocaching

Hint shows you any hints available. This may be grayed out if no hints are available or the hints may give too much away and spoil the fun.

Inventory can show any special objects that the cache may include such as travel bugs or geocoins.

Post a Field Note allows you to post a note about your adventure such as whether you found the cache or not.

Find Nearby Caches will show you other caches that may be close to the one you are looking at right now.

View on Geocaching.com will show you the cache information in the web browser on the Geocaching site.

View on External Map will allow you to view the the cache location to your location on Google Maps or Live Search Maps or Yahoo Maps.

We’ll take a look under the hood of each one of these in the next post…

Geocaching with an iPhone - Part 3

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May 29

Geocaching with an iPhone – Part 1

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One of the best applications I have on my iPhone is the official Geocaching App
icon from Groundspeak. The way it integrates the controls found on most handheld GPS units along using the huge database and tools of the main Geocaching web site is tops of any other iPhone app I have seen.

If you have been geocaching before and have an iPhone, you’ll want to check this app out. Even though it costs $9.99 it is well worth it. If you have never been geocaching but have an iPhone this app makes it easy to get started and helps you join the community of people that get out and go.

This should serve you as an introduction to the app for the iPhone to show you just what all you can see and do with this on your geocaching adventures.

Geocaching

You can see above that this is one of the menu screens from my iPhone. The Geocaching app uses the Groundspeak logo and can be found in the 2nd row.

Geocaching

Touching the icon brings up the front page reminding us that Geocaching can be dangerous.

Geocaching

For beginners to Geochacing remember this “With over 810,076 geocaches hidden worldwide, there is likely one nearby waiting to be found.” This is how easy it gets. Your next screen assumes the obvious, you want to go geocaching. So let’s find some that are near you. the My Current Location will use the iPhone GPS to find where your location is in relation to it’s vast database of hidden caches.

You can also search by a cache code you have been given or looked up on the web site or search by address. Looking up by address can be helpful if you want to scope out a place you will be going in the future, say on your next vacation.

Geocaching

However you search, the next screen will list the caches in that area with the closest first. Tap on the one you want look for or find out more information.

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May 29

Daily Links From The Arlington Public Schools Instructional Technology Coordinators 05/29/2009

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May 28

My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 27th through May 28th

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These are my links for May 27th through May 28th:

  • AvatarsDB - Free avatars - Welcome
    Welcome to AvatarsDB - the largest and best organized database of free forum avatars. To make it even easier for you, we host these avatars for free so you don’t need to search for image host. To start, simply select avatar of your choice, copy the generated code and paste it on your favorite forum, blog, website or save it for use with instant messengers. We currently have 34919 avatars available for download organized in 545 categories.
  • wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions - wiseGEEK is a very straightforward website: we offer free and clear answers to common questions. The best way to explore our articles is to use the search box that is available at the top of every page. For further information, please visit: What is wiseGEEK?
  • Psykopaint - Online photo painting tool - Welcome to Psykopaint beta1!

    This is the very first version of this great tool that is Psykopaint!

    Psykopaint is an online painting application that allow the user to paint using color of an other image, leaving the color selection process automatic giving a lot of freedom about different painting techniques.

    Psykopaint is not here to emulate traditional painting (there are already some very good softwares which does it) but more to move forward in the creation of new tools for designers as well as regular people.

    I believe it is a logical evolution of photo-editing and digital-painting which is a result of its time.

    I hope you will have as much fun playing and experimenting with it as i did programming it! I discover new ways to use it almost everyday!

    Do not forget to leave your artwork in the Gallery, i am very curious to see what you can come up with!

May 27

Daily Links From The Arlington Public Schools Instructional Technology Coordinators 05/27/2009

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May 27

Flying Humans – Flight of Discovery

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Northrop Grumman has announced their schedule for Flights of Discovery for 2009. Teachers who apply and are accepted will have a chance to experience near zero gravity.

This is similar to a microgravity flight I went on in 2007 with NASA. Although this one isn’t with NASA the amount of learning and experience teachers bring back to the classroom is unmatched.

Applications will be accepted until all the spots are filled. Find out more information here.

http://www.northropgrumman.com/corporate-responsibility/corporate-citizenship/weightless.html

 

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May 26

What I Learned about on May 26th

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May 25

What I Learned about on May 25th

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These are my links for May 25th:

  • Download YouTube Videos as an MP3, WMV, AVI, MOV, WAV for FREE! - Most people that visit this website use our tool to:
    - Download YouTube videos in video or audio format
    - Download MySpace songs in mp3 format
    - Download scripts and pictures from a website
    - Download flash games from a website
  • FrostBytez File Host - File hosting up to 50 GB ! - We’re The best file host, With a limit of 50 GB You can upload ANYTHING
  • SoundJay.com - Free Sound Effects - Welcome to Sound Jay’s free sound effects web site! You are allowed to use the sounds on our website free of charge and royalty free in your projects but you are NOT allowed to post the sounds on any web site for others to download, link directly to individual sound files, or sell the sounds to anyone else. Remember to read Terms of Use before downloading and using the sound effects or music tracks. Most files are 16 bit stereo 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz high quality sound effects. Remember to bookmark us, as we will often add new sounds.
  • Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2) - Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.

    It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.

    Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library.

  • PicardTagger - MusicBrainz - Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was. Picard is written in Python, which is a cross-platform language, and makes use of cross-platform libraries - this allows the same code to run both on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
  • GizaPage - GizaPage is a social network organizer that helps consumers and brands manage their online presence by consolidating their many social networking profiles side by side under a personalized URL. GizaPage provides a secure and centralized way to share profiles while more deeply engaging online with others by exploring their profiles and identifying additional social networks they have in common. GizaPage was founded in 2008 and develops tools to help consumers and brands organize the social web around them by consolidating their online profiles, connecting with others and more easily navigating the social sphere.

    via Tim Childers

  • PDF Form Filler - How it works*

    * Open PDF Form Filler, then open your PDF.
    * Click all the fields and checkboxes that need to be filled in to highlight them.
    * When all the fields and checkboxes are highlighted, switch to ‘Fill Form’ mode.
    * Enter text in the text fields. Check the boxes.
    * Press ‘Print’ to print your hardcopy.
    * Press ‘Save’ and the form is saved as a new PDF.

May 25

NECC09 – Be Prepared

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Last year I tweeted about getting ready for NECC and asked my network for items that I should take that I hadn’t thought about. Jen Wagner responded with taking a power strip. I put a small one in my suitcase and it came in handy a lot of the time. It also helped me make new friends when I offered that they could plug in when we were in workshops or the lounge areas with a limited number of outlets. I also used it back at the hotel to plug in and recharge everything in one spot so I didn’t forget anything the next day.

Here is small compact one you might consider.

Belkin Mini Surge 3OUT Wall Mount 75K 918J with USB Charger

 

It allows you to plug in 3 different things along with 2 powered USB ports to charge your phone or iPod.

May 24

My del.icio.us bookmarks for May 23rd through May 24th

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These are my links for May 23rd through May 24th:

  • InfiniteMb - Free File, Image, Audio and Video Hosting - Your Upload Limits
    - 500Mb per file
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    - Unlimited Downloads
  • http://www.wikiupload.com - upload any files upto 5GB that do not violate our Terms of Service
    we create a link for your file so you can share it on forums or with friends
    if your file is public we also place the file in right public category based on your tags and description
  • Free file hosting by Savefile.com - This service can be used for uploading files up to 100MB each. After uploading you will be given a link, that others can use to download your file. Our filesize limit is 100MB and each file can be downloaded unlimited times.
  • filehosting.org - free unlimited filehosting - filehosting.org provides an easy possibility for you to send large files to your friends. Just upload the file you want to share with your friends and we send you a download link to your file. You can give this download link to your friends by mail or messanger. It is also allowed to link to the download page from websites and communities. This is easy, fast and reliable filehosting!
  • Dangerously Irrelevant: Top 20 TED Talks podcasts for busy school administrators - Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dangerouslyirrelevant.org%2F2009%2F05%2Ftop20tedtalks.html
  • HOW TO: Create Custom Twitter Backgrounds -
  • Educate: The ultimate iPhone - Educate is an iPhone/iTouch application designed to support teaching professionals in schools, universities and colleges.
  • MAKE HIM OVER HUNT - This is the official sign of MHO Hunt when you see that sign, you will know that his store is in!
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