Mobile Birding App and Geologger Let’s call this idea “BirdApp” and make it for the iPhone (or any location-aware handheld computer with internet access). [Update: Apparently I didn't get this posted soon enough. There's already an iPhone bird guide App called iBird (of course). It doesn't include my Shazam-like idea to help identify birds by their song, but it does [...]
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All I need… High heat silicon spatulas – I had a great set a few years ago, but they disappeared about the time that a roommate moved out…. [Update: I'll make do with the ones on my Kona.] Nokian Hakkapelita 700X35 Bike Tire 106 Studs for winter biking. I think I only want one — for the front. That should keep me from [...]
New Technologies for Local Learning On Friday, November 7, at the Green Charter Schools Conference, I was invited to present on my research on place-based games in the “Outta-The-Box” Schools & Anywhere, Anytime Learning section. Technological innovations are changing the ways young people learn. In innovative new environment-focused schools, students can attain knowledge and skills through mobile and [...]
The folks at PARC have got it right, as evidenced in this CNET article, From PARC, the mobile phone as tour guide Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC–the Xerox subsidiary that was the birthplace of the computer mouse, the graphical user interface and Ethernet–has developed a mobile application that offers up information that would be [...]
64.067. Empowering Young People Through Environmental Adventures, Motivators, Narratives, and Classrooms. SIG Ecological and Environmental Education. Sheraton, Sheraton Ballroom, Section V, Level 4. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm. Chair: Marcia Diane McKenzie, University of British Columbia Participants: Motivations to Environmental Action Participation by Exemplar Youth: UNEP International Children’s Conference on the Environment. Annelise Carleton-Hug, Montana [...]
47.064. Going Beyond Traditional Boundaries: Applying Novel Methods and Perspectives to Environmental Education. SIG Ecological and Environmental Education. Sheraton, Huron, Level 2. 8:15 am to 9:45 am. Chair: Bob Jickling, Lakehead University Participants: Students’ Perspectives on Environmental Education: “I’m Not Looking at It From a Tree’s Point of View.” Nicholas A. C. Hopwood; Oxford University; [...]
16.065. Managing, Locating, and Theorizing Human-Nature/ Ecological Relationships. SIG-Ecological and Environmental Education Sheraton, Ohio, Level 2 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Chair: Justin S. Dillon, King’s College – London Participants: Management of Human-Nature Relationships in Environmental Education Resources. Joan M Chambers, University of Alberta; Patricia M. Rowell, University of Alberta Farming and Land Management as [...]
Some lights in a house stay on quite a bit. Some only need to be on occasionally. In my apartment the outside porch light is on all night (roommates get home late), entry hallway is dark, and the steps up to the main floor are dark. The main hallway gets enough sunlight that it doesn’t [...]
On Monday nights I attend an EnAct small group meeting. Last week we talked about energy, and we happen to have an energy worker as a group member whose insight into these things is really valuable. Tuesday nights I’m part of a Sustain Dane study group that is looking at The Natural Step framework for [...]
It happened last Tuesday, February 6th, 2007. It took about 75 minutes. I brought bottled water, Trader Joe’s dark chocolate-covered ginger, fresh pineapple and strawberries, and a 10-minute Apple Keynote presentation (on YouTube here, or at a better resolution on my site here, but with me explaining things instead of music by Moby). My committee [...]
