Daily Mitzvah is delighted to host this week’s installment of the Tree Hugger Carnival of the Green.A big thank you to last week’s host, Pragmatic Environmentalism. And you’ll definitely want to check out the carnival’s next stop, Lighter Footstep, on December 21.
Let the carnival begin!
Want to see your climate question answered live on television? Earth PM has the details in “COP 15: Let your voice be heard.”
September 8th has been designated by UNESCO as International Literacy Day. Do you part with an easy start: for every click on the orange box on The Literacy Site, site sponsors make a small donation to support literacy efforts, including First Book in the U.S., and Room to Read in developing countries. All you have to do is click!
Like most campuses we’re bracing for H1N1, with daily messages about pandemic contingency plans. I’ve been looking through my favorite online resources for things that could also be handy in the unlikely event we have to cancel in-person classes for a few weeks and switch to virtual classroom instruction. Here’s a rundown of my faves — all free!: Group Chat – chatrooms to hold small class discussions URL-based, “disposable” (temporary) chatrooms * Tiny Chat: http://tinychat.com/ * Disposable Chat: http://www.disposablechat.com/ URL or embeddable * Chatroll: http://chatroll.com/ Embeddable * Parachat: http://www.parachat.com/basic/ Instant Message – IM for office hours in real time * Yahoo!Messenger (desktop app, but also has a web-based option; and an embeddable Pingbox): http://messenger.yahoo.com/ * AIM (desktop app, but also has a web-based option): http://www.aim.com * GoogleTalk (desktop app, or talk within Gmail page): http://www.google.com/talk/ * Meebo (web-based, embeddable): http://www.meebo.com Other– to create short presentations or mini-lectures * Video screencast: Jing http://www.jingproject.com/ * Audio recording and editing: Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ * Video hosting: TeacherTube: http://www.teachertube.com/ * Sharable online documents, spreadsheets, presentations: GoogleDocs http://docs.google.com/ * And of course a class blog, right here on Blogspot!: http://www.blogger.com If anyone else has resources for online classes or ideas for creative ways to keep some semblance of school going in the unlikely event we can't go to campus, please don’t hesitate to share in the comments!
Here’s an animated radar loop, which is focused mostly on TS Claudette at the moment, although it looks like Ada may show up here soon, too. I also put a Weather Underground feed in the right sidebar — their site has great tracking maps and five-day projections, too. Welcome to late summer!
Student protesters in Iran are getting news out only by the power of the web. Google Earth has tools to show the world the people in the streets — join the petition drive to have Google earth uploadcurrent images.
The National Association of Letter Carriers is holding its annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive this Saturday, May 9th. Participating is easy — this is a food drive that comes to you! Just leave your nonperishable food donations in a bag next to your mailbox. You mail carrier will happily do the rest.
Got 5 bucks? That’s all it takes to contribute a malaria-fighting bed net for a person in a vulnerable country. April 25 is World Malaria Day — a perfect day to head over to MyBednet.com, give $5, and add yourself to their Honor Roll. Check it out!
The Breast Cancer Site is trying to qualify for a matching grant. If clicks on the site in April can fund at least 200 mammograms, Greater Good will contribute an additional $10,000 toward breast cancer research. The Breast Cancer Site is a free click-to-give site, where sponsors donate a small amount of money for each visitor’s daily click on the site. The money raised goes to fund free and low-cost mammograms to women without health insurance.
There is no cost to you: simply visit the site and click on the pink box. Advertisers make a small donation for each click — and this month your clicks do double duty by helping the site reach the additional $10,000 matching goal.
