Tim Childers’ Blog

• Pixelpipe - Your uploads

  Pixelpipe is a media gateway that allows users to publish text and upload photos, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 95 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and other online destinations. We provide free mobile & desktop applications, liberate your media and share your life.

  Tags: tools, photos, upload, flickr, pixelpipe, multiple uploads

• The Killer App: Google Apps and Moodle Integration? | Learning is Change.

  Tags: moodle, googleapps

  • Moodle does a very good job of monitoring students, giving assessments/grades, providing content, and doing discussion forums. It does not do a very good job of synchronous collaboration, wikis, email, or any of the other things that Google Apps does an amazing job at. I guess that is why Moodlerooms decided that it would be a great idea to get the two projects together and create an easy way to do single-sign-on.

    I am amazed at the potential for something like this. Imagine being able to log into your classes, your e-mail, your sites, and your docs all at one place. Well, after much working on my own installation, I would like to provide a simple how to for making this process happen in your Moodle instance:

• WHOPOOPED.ORG

  Tags: science, humor, upper elementary, high school, middle school, elementary

• HBO Archives: Archival Collection: The March of Time®

  From 1935 to 1967, Time Inc’s newsreel series, “The March of Time®” chronicled the events of our lives. The March of Time® separated itself from its competitors using its trademark “pictorial journalism,” mixing highly-produced, long-form, documentary-style stories with dramatic re-enactments. These award-winning motion pictures recorded global events and brought them to big screens around the world and then later, television. The collection also contains historic footage dating back to 1913.

  Tags: documentary, video, socialstudies

  • From 1935 to 1967, Time Inc’s newsreel series, “The March of Time®” chronicled the events of our lives. The March of Time® separated itself from its competitors using its trademark “pictorial journalism,” mixing highly-produced, long-form, documentary-style stories with dramatic re-enactments. These award-winning motion pictures recorded global events and brought them to big screens around the world and then later, television. The collection also contains historic footage dating back to 1913. - By Ty Yost

• New iPhone app works by bump, not touch

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  • It is somehow fitting that University of Chicago business school students would develop an iPhone app that works by bump, not touch, on Apple’s famed screen. After all, it was a former U of C professor, President Barack Obama, and his wife, Michelle, who helped to popularize the fist bump.

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