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, 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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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Apple's announcement yesterday of a full software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone exceeded my expectations. As I followed along with Engadget's coverage, I had two thoughts: Apple is making a serious play for the corporate enterprise, and we are going to see some seriously amazing mobile apps. They also ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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