Archive for the ‘Web technology’ Category
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Here's yet another shot across Microsoft's bow. Google announced yesterday that presentations have been added to their online office suite. Their offerings are getting more and more compelling.
I'll post more on this soon, but I'm thinking about going to the Google Apps for a student email solution for next school ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I discovered the U. of MN's Assignment Calculator back in 2004 and thought it was a really cool idea. I learned at the TIES meeting today that MEMO, Minnesota's statewide media organization, has collaborated with MINITEX at the U. to develop a new version of the Research Project Calculator which ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Now that Microsoft has released a new version of Office with a different default file format, we're starting to have kids show up at school unable to open a document that they created at home. The version we have at school is now one generation behind, and with the cost ...
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
Here's part of an email I received recently:
I'm trying to find a way to work with a wiki with my students. We're trying to do some collaborative writing type activities. I want them to work in real time in the same document so a wiki seemed perfect. However, because ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at IL-TCE on Thursday and Friday.
Blogging
The Savvy Technologist
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Getting started with blogging: Wordpress.com, Blogger
Google Maps mashups
Housing Maps
Chicago Crime
Tag searching
IL-TCE postings
...
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Google launched another salvo against Microsoft last Thursday when it announced Google Apps Premier Edition, a subscription service that offers enterprise support for Google's email, chat, word processing, spreadsheet, and web page creation tools. Wired has a short article that describes some of the pros and cons of the Google ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
I'm giving an informal talk about Skype and Web 2.0 technologies at TIES for the Key Instructional Contacts group. This video by Prof. Michael Wesch from Kansas State University gives a pretty nice overview of the concept.
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
Computerworld has a handy article comparing four leading web-based office suites. Their favorite by a wide margin is ThinkFree Office Online, a free suite offering a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tool. It looks like the ThinkFree crew has more in store:
Currently, ThinkFree hosts only a free version. By April ...
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Monday, January 1st, 2007
I was doing a quick Google search recently using the built-in search of Firefox 2.0. I don't remember the search query exactly, but it had some numbers in it and I noticed that Google Suggest was operating in calculator mode. How cool! I did some more playing with it and ...
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Blake Ross is something of a wunderkind. He starting working for Netscape at age 15 and cofounded the Firefox project soon after. Not content to stop there, an article in IEEE Spectrum describes Ross's latest project called Parakey. Parakey is an attempt to obviate the need for separate desktop ...
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Monday, September 4th, 2006
It looks like Flickr has started expanding its features by integrating more tightly with its parent company Yahoo!. They've recently added the ability to geotag photos by dragging and dropping onto a Yahoo! Maps interface. Once you've got some photos geotagged you can see links to all your photos on ...
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Good news for OS X users. Google just released an updated version of Google Earth and Mac-compatible update of SketchUp. Lots of good stuff in both programs. They have tremendous potential as learning tools. If anyone has some good examples of using either one with students, please post in the ...
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