Archive for the ‘ETI’ Category
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
One of the industry rags I like to read is eWeek. It's just the right size for casual consumption between meetings or, in my case, while waiting for the flight attendents to announce that I can take out my laptop. The October 22 issue has an article entitled "5 Steps ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Fellow ADE Simon Elliott has got a huge list of free OS X applications on his web site. A huge number of the apps are open source and look like they could be of great use in the classroom. Looking through the list, I see quite a few that I ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
Fellow ADE Rae Niles sent me a link to a short, online anti-cyberbullying video entitled "Let's Fight It Together." It's nicely done and worth a look.
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
We got our first family computer on Tuesday, and my boys are pretty excited. I've got a couple laptops, but they're for work and I don't let the kids use them. Now, though, we're ready to roll. I've downloaded Scratch, Google Earth, and Sketchup, and I'm looking forward to working ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
David Pogue has a video review this week of the XO laptop (a.k.a. the $100 laptop). I haven't actually paid much attention to this project, so it was interesting to see the little laptop in action. I love the collaborative way the apps work and the transparency of the technology.
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Eben Moglen is a law professor at Columbia and Director of the Software Freedom Law Center. He is well-known in the free software world for his important work on the next generation of the GPL software license, the GPLv3.
Professor Moglen gave a talk last April at the MySQL Conference, ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
If there's a distinguishing characteristic of educational reform, and reform efforts in general, it's the lack of patience in sustaining difficult effort over time. We criticize students who can't seem to exercise delayed gratification, but don't seem to notice that educators, government officials, and the general public aren't any better.
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
It was only a matter of time. According to a story in the Washington Post, two McLean High School students are suing Turnitin.com for infringing their copyright. The crux of the matter seems to be that students are required to license their work to Turnitin so the service can store ...
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
I don't exactly know how I got on the mailing list, but I've been receiving the Google Earth Sightseer in my email inbox. Make sure you subscribe if you're using Google Earth in your classroom or would like some great ideas about how to get started. The February 2007 issue ...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
I got the following tidbit in an email from ISTE today.
*Visit ISTE on MySpace*
Known to most people as the premier social networking site, MySpace is home to tens of millions of users. People of all ages use this free service to communicate with one another through pictures, videos, blogs, ...
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Personal Computing In the Classroom and Beyond!
Jim Hirsch, Plano, TX
Jim is talking about how to reach every student in the classroom no matter how limited the technology resources might be. He says "the future is here already, it's just not widely distributed yet." I think that's a Tim O'Reilly quote ...
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
What Role Do Our Beliefs Play in Using the Internet for Teaching and Learning?
Sara Greenhow, University of Minnesota
I love the title of this session. I've observed over and over again that teachers' beliefs do affect how they use technology. I've talked to teachers who hold fundamental beliefs about the place ...
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