Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Monday, May 12th, 2008
At the most recent meeting of the Minnesota Education Media Organization Technology Special Interest Division (I couldn't resist writing that out) I learned about a cool professional development opportunity called 23 Things On a Stick. Curious about the name? If you've visited the Minnesota State Fair you'd know how we ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Here's a little tweak that should make Twitterator just a bit more useful. You can now pass the URL for the list of people to follow in the link to Twitterator itself. For example, let's say you've collected a list of Twitter usernames in a text file at http://mytwitternames.com/lsdf28sdf. A ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
The Lake Minnetonka Half Marathon was my first try at the 13.1-mile distance, and I was bound and determined not to repeat the rookie mistakes I've made in previous races. In last year's Run For Oromia 10k and Twin Cities Marathon, I felt good at the beginning and started way ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Big news in my world this week. Starting on July 1st I will be changing school districts to become the Chief Technology Officer in the Osseo Area Schools. It's a really exciting opportunity to work in a large metro district (22,000 students in 31 schools) with a great leadership team ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
I've made a few tweaks to Twitterator over the last couple days, the most significant of which is a measure of compatibility with DabbleDB. If you create a basic DabbleDB database with a single column of twitter usernames, you can specify the URL to the .txt or .csv versions of ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
I may attract the trademark police for this, but so be it.
It seemed like an innocent enough question at the time, but when Steve Dembo (teach42) posted a tweet last week looking for a way to import a list of Twitter names to follow I decided to run with it. ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Seen on TechCrunch:
Heads up YouTube, Flickr announced today that it has added video capabilities. Note that for now only Pro subscribers can upload video. This was just in time for me, because I was trying to decide how I was going to share a short video that I took on ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
I've been using a variety of online survey tools for quite a few years now including Zoomerang, SurveyMonday, and KeySurvey. My new favorite is SurveyGizmo.
We've been increasing the use of online surveys greatly in my district this year. We love how easy it is to gather feedback following a staff ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
According to USA Today, Comcast is planning to spread a little broadband love to its customers in Minneapolis/St. Paul this year. In an effort to compete with Verizon and its FiOS service, Comcast will roll out 50 Mbps download/5 Mbps upload service. They say they're planning to go to 100 ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Link courtesy of @briancaldwell:
This is the granddaddy of all blog posts about Twitter. With links to various Twitter software tools and some interesting Twitter use cases, that page is a great place to send someone who wants to get up to speed on the latest technocrack quickly.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Love him or hate him, Robert X. Cringely's column on PBS.org is often provocative. He addressed the American education system is a recent post, and I found a couple points pretty interesting. First, the comparison between knowledge and search:
Andy Hertzfeld said Google is the best tool for an aging programmer ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Earlier in the month I posted about the strategy I've been employing to back up my 24" home computer. Using SuperDuper! and a 500-GB external drive attached to my Airport Extreme works great, but it doesn't really solve the my-house-burned-down-and-now-I-lost-all-of-the-embarrassing-pictures-of-my-kids problem. To address that glaring deficiency I needed a way ...
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