Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
I have now emerged from the geek cave. Actually, my Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) installation went smoothly and I've been chugging along quite successfully since I finished the install last Saturday. There are a ton of new features, but my favorite so far is Spotlight, Apple's system search tool. It's ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
I found myself needing to send a very long URL to a group of teachers today and I suspected that not all of their email clients would handle a four-line hyperlink gracefully. So I reached into my bag of tricks and paid a visit to TinyURL.com, a handy little site ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
One of the best parts of my job is the opportunity to get into our district's schools and see what's going on in the classrooms. I see something really cool nearly every time. Earlier this week I was in a 4th grade class at Glen Lake Elementary watching a teacher ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
Lots of people have posted today about Google's new Q&A service. SearchEngineWatch, for example, has a useful summary.Let's try some sample Q's and check Google's A's:who is governor of minnesotawhat is the population of canadawho wrote war and peacewho was neil armstrongwhat is the length of the mississippi riverNot bad. ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
Saw this today on Jon Udell's weblog. It seems that with enough knowledge of javascripting, Flash, and access to a handheld GPS unit, it's possible to create semi-animated walking or driving tour using the new Google Maps service. Jon, inspired by Matt's work, has created a five-minute guided tour of ...
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
The Gateway to Educational Materials is a online, searchable database of thousands of educational resources scattered around the public Internet. One of the things I like most about this site is the way that you can narrow your search results by subject, type of activity, grade level, and keyword. Take ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
Just saw this on Slashot. Google is interested in hosting some of the Wikimedia projects. This will be a great boon for Wikipedia, the largest wiki in the world and a frequent victim of its own success. I talk to educators often about wikis and have been frustrated many times ...
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
Comment spam is much more annoying than standard email spam because it's splattered all over a public Web site. I can deal with the occasional offer for a low interest mortgages, online gambling, and assorted male "enhancements," but neither I nor any teachers in my district want to put up ...
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Friday, November 19th, 2004
A couple articles have surfaced in the last week or so about large scale wireless deployments in Seattle and Taipei. These cities may be on the cutting edge, but the wireless revolution is coming to a city or town near you within a few years.
According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
When I was a high school physics teacher I envied by social studies colleagues every time a presidential election year rolled around. Many high school students, even ones who aren't old enough to vote, feel strongly about politics and public policy and love to share their views. There is nothing ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2003
Professional Videos With Final Cut Express presented by James McLellan
I finished browsing the vendor area and picked up a few more ideas. Sound Learning from Minnesota Public Radio looks good and I'll have to poke around their site. I have to admit that I'm attending this session on Final Cut ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2003
The folks at Google Labs have just released their latest Web search innovation. The Search by Location feature gives the typical Google search some geographic smarts. You add your search terms and a zip code or an address and Google will try to return results that are close to that ...
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