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, April 14th, 2008
I may attract the trademark police for this, but so be it.
It seemed like an innocent enough question at the time, but when Steve Dembo (teach42) posted a tweet last week looking for a way to import a list of Twitter names to follow I decided to run with it. ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
We've been preparing to implement the ITIL standards in my district for about a year now. Now that five of us have achieved the foundation certification, I think we're poised to make some significant headway this year. This presentation from the TIES Conference is a description of some of the ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Kurt Steinhaus is Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Education in New Mexico. (He's also a marathoner who ran 4:38 at the 2007 Duke City Marathon.) The title of his talk is "Enjoying T-Time by the Sip or by the Gulp?". His slides will be available on the conference wiki.
Kurt wants us ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Here are some notes from my presentation about virtualization technology. I'll update this post after my session to cover some of the topics that come up in the discussion.
Learn more about virtualization
An Introduction to Virtualization by Amit Singh
The Pros and Cons of Virtualization
Server virtualization at InfoWorld
Intro to Virtualizaton and Virtualization ...
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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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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Jimmy Wales joined Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur on net@nite recently. It was a pretty standard conversation about Wikipedia that wouldn't surprise anyone who frequents the site. There were a couple quotes worth noting, however. I'll keep these handy when I do presentations that mention Wikipedia and the inevitable question ...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Here are links to all of the sites I'll be mentioning in my talk at TIES on Tuesday.
Blogging
Mabryonline.org with Dr. Tim Tyson
Lewis Elementary School (Principal Tim Lauer)
Google Maps mashups
Housing Maps
Chicago Crime
Google Sketchup examples
Technorati searching
TIES postings
Blog posts tagged "ties2006"
...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Here are the links for the open source tools that I mention in my talk at the TIES Conference.
Moodle, online learning management system
Audacity, audio editing
Inkscape, vector drawing
Scribus, desktop publishing
OpenOffice.org, office suite
NeoOffice, Mac version of OpenOffice.org
Linux, free Unix-like OS
Creative Commons
Open Source
Flickr, online photo sharing
Wikipedia, world's biggest encyclopedia
VLC, media player
Drupal, content management ...
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Doug Johnson is a maven of media here in Minnesota and elsewhere where he is known as an author, teacher, and presenter. His blog, The Blue Skunk Blog, has also become quite popular in the last year.
Doug's been in the business long enough to be able to reflect on the ...
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
We talked a lot about disaster recovery, monitoring system availability, and financial accounting for IT services on day #2.
Does your school district (or other organization) have a disaster recovery plan in place that lists each IT service and how fast you plan to recover back to full operation? Have ...
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