Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
I carry my 15-inch Apple PowerBook pretty much everywhere I go. Until recently I used a standard leather shoulder bag to lug my gear. But when the seams started to give way, the zipper broke, and my neck finally couldn't take it anymore I decided to trade up to a ...
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
My guest for this edition of the Savvy Technologist Podcast is Earle Harrison. Earle is an assistive technology consultant and owner of Triumph Technology, a source for adaptive technology and adaptive media solutions. We talk about universal design, assistive technology, and accessible Web design. I learned a lot during my ...
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Friday, September 9th, 2005
Apple announced its awesome iPod nano last week and the accompanying software, iTunes 5.0, has a great new feature that will make it much easier to include text with a podcast. It's billed as a music feature, but I see lots of other applications. From the iPod nano review at ...
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
I feel like reprising my first podcasting post from last October. Just when you thought you had podcasting figured out, along comes DTV from the Participatory Culture Foundation. DTV, an acronym I have yet to find defined anywhere but I suspect stands for "Distributed TV," is a system that mirrors ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Blogging and podcasting has been the single most important part of my personal professional development over the last two years. Now that Apple has built blogging into OS X Server and has made creating blogs for users as easy as clicking a checkbox, my goal of getting blogs going at ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
As much as we'd all like our students to spend all of their time doing hard-core constructivist school work, the fact remains that a lot of the learning we ask kids to do is not much more than memorization. So until cranial expansion slots are commonplace there will be a ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
NetNewsWire, my favorite RSS aggregator, supports podcasts in its latest beta version. Until now I'd been using NetNewsWire for my daily RSS feeding frenzy and iPodder or iPodderX for my podcast downloads. The new version of NNW downloads RSS enclosures and automatically imports MP3s into iTunes. If you run OS ...
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2004
I'm happy to report that my presentations went well on Tueday. I was easily outnumbered by the audience which is never a sure thing at a conference, especially when the topics are fairly specialized. I gave Eric Meyer's S5 presentation tool a try and it worked great. It was an ...
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Sunday, December 5th, 2004
My blog and wiki workshop at the TIES conference went well. None of the atttendees had a real clear idea what blogs were about when they started. I'd like to think that they left at the end of the day with some good ideas about how blogs and wikis can ...
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Friday, November 26th, 2004
Here's the list of technology I carried with me to my parents' house for Thanksgiving this year:
Apple 15" PowerBook G4 with a bluetooth mouse and iSight camera
Apple 20 GB iPod
Apple 12" iBook G4
Linksys firewall/router
Linksys wireless access point
Canon A95 digital camera
Sony Ericcson T610 cell ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2003
Eleven Tools for Creating Cross-Platform Digital Portfolios presented by Morrie Reece, Senior Education Development Executive at Apple Computer
Morrie started with three questions: What is a portfolio? Why do we create them? How do you store portfolios?
Portfolio News is a publication of the Portfolio Assessment Clearinghouse. I'll have to look this ...
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