Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Right on the heels of my post about custom podcast feeds I found that the other Tim has been thinking along the same lines. He's discovered a feature over at del.icio.us that allows you to search for particular filetypes in addition to tags and generate RSS feeds that include enclosures.
It's ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2005
I saw literally hundreds of different products in the vendor hall at NECC. Way too many, in fact, to have much of a look at many of them. One that caught my eye was a new product SanDisk was promoting. Their Cruzer Freedom USB flash drive:
is a uniquely designed USB ...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2005
My school district is working with Dr. Dennis Harper from the Generation YES project to apply for a state grant to bring the Gen Y program to Minnesota, the only state that doesn't currently have it. This podcast is a brief talk with Dennis from the Gen Y booth at ...
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
In this edition of the Savvy Technologist Podcast from NECC I chat with Dave Huber from Barracuda Networks about their flagship product the Barracuda spam firewall.
Download: STP-Barracuda.mp3 (2.6 MB, 5:46)
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
How do you know you're a geek? I'd say that if you get home from a long trip in Philadelphia, New York, and Winona, MN and you stay up until 1:30 a.m. trying to figure out why the RSS feed from your blog is invalid, you're a geek. I noticed ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
I took my new podcasting gear into the vendor hall at NECC to see how two mics would work when interviewing someone with tons of background noise. You can hear for yourself, but I think it turned out pretty well. In this, my first vendor-cast, I talk briefly to Peter ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
I had the pleasure of meeting an old long-distance colleague of mine, Jeff Elkner, face to face for the first time today. Jeff and I collaborated a bit several years ago when we were both teaching the Python programming language in our respective high schools. I used the How To ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
This session is called "Ideas for Using Technology in the Mathematics Classroom" and is presented by Frank Sobierajski.
He's talking about Geometer's Sketchpad, which is a piece of software our Hopkins math teachers have been working on since we adopted the Key Curriculum for next year in our secondary schools. He's ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
21st Century Skills come up a lot in the literature about one-to-one computing. This session is called "School Leader Development: Building 21st Century School" and is presented by a number of folks who work through Microsoft's Partners in Learning program.
The presentation begins with some information about globalization. They mention Friedman's ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
I'm hanging out in the open source pavilion watching Tom Hoffman do a demonstration of the new SchoolTool open source school management system. SchoolTool is a product being development by the Shuttleworth Foundation and Tom is the project manager.
We're looking at the calendaring features which allow students to create and ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
This session at NECC is called "From Mole Hills to Majestic Mountains: Implementing UDL." I'm beginning work on a universal design project at Hopkins, so this session is particularly timely. The presenters are Lauri Susi from Spotlight on Learning and John Laskarzewski.
The presenters' definition of UDL: Universal Design for Learning ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
Carlyn and I attended an Apple-sponsored podcasting event last night with my friend Craig Nansen from North Dakota. Perfectly timed with the release of iTunes 4.9, Barnaby Wasson from Arizone State U. presented for about 30 minutes about the educational uses for podcasting and provided a good primer for those ...
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