February 29th, 2008
17:40
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a new open source website to keep you up to date on Adobe open source activities…
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Are any of you working and schooling at the same time? How do you manage your time and the increased anxiety? Please share your tips. I need your help!
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‘m a big fan of Twitter. The service itself is nothing revolutionary; it’s essentially public instant messaging. But don’t underestimate the power of taking a previously siloed, private one-to-one communication medium and making it public…
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PureEdit is a new CMS/Framework project launched this month and aims to simplify the development of your website. The CMS is aimed more at developers and currently beta with a growing community on the forums.
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Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed…
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The general idea seems to be that real programmers can’t be let out of their cages. My view is just the opposite: no one should be allowed to work on an application unless they’ve spent a day observing a few end users.
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…a diagram (using MindManager) showing how the information I create flows through the online world…
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The edWeb makes it easy to network and collaborate with colleagues in education outside the boundaries of classroom walls and school buildings…
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February 24th, 2008
17:34
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Social networking is a hot topic on the internet these days, and yet, social networking is nothing new. Remember BBSs (electronic bulletin board systems) and Usenet, chat rooms and threaded discussions?
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In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. You definitely know some of them, but definitely not all of them.
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he BPL is going down the wrong path if they wish to “preserve comprehensive collections” over time. DRM uses a proprietary and secretive format that can in no way guarantee them control over their collection, and this means that DRM materials…
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What do you think? Should sites like Juicy Campus be allowed?
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Below you will find 50 web tools you can use to create a story…
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ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative and educational websites to share with the world…
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SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source license…
Popularity: 35% [?]
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February 21st, 2008
17:36
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…customize the look and feel of your calendar on paper: enlarge or reduce the font size, opt to go black and white only, switch between portrait and landscape orientation…
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EduPlatform is a Student Centered Computer Network Educational Tool which allows the instructor to develop and deliver lessons by combining common software titles like Microsoft Office documents, Web Pages, PDF and multimedia files among others.
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Welcome to the Teacher Edition of Pageflakes
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iLearn technology is an edublog dedicated to giving teachers practical tips for integrating technology into the classroom. All of the resources are free to use and simple to implement.
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Your independent source for news, information, commentary, and discussion of One Laptop Per Child’s “$100 laptop” computer, the OLPC Children’s Machine XO
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Project Tomorrow is a national, education nonprofit organization. Our vision is to insure that today’s students are well prepared to be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the world. We believe that by supporting the innovative uses
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…a new open source model of textbook creation that will allow schools, teachers, parents and even students to create custom textbooks in a way that is faster and cheaper than the traditional method. Using open source tools…
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Where teachers teach teachers about content
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Like the ambiguous “Web 2.0,” an RIA has been defined in many ways, but in general, a Rich Internet Application is where desktop applications meet web applications.
Popularity: 28% [?]
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Today’s my birthday - and as a birthday treat to myself, I decided to take a look at my blog’s statistics. (I know, fun, right?)
I officially launched the blog on December 30, 2007, but I had several test posts running before then. Now, I’m almost 2 months into this blog (and loving every minute)!
Now for the stats - drumroll, please! As of February 20, 2008…
RSS Subscribers: 38 (42 at the highest point)
Unique Page Views: 2,372
Total Page Views: 5,253
Most Popular Posts:
- Solved! iTunes/iPhoto Sync Error -50
- Choosing the Best Wiki for Your Needs
- How-To: Import Audiobook CDs to iTunes
- Best of 2007 & Predictions for 2008 Roundup
- Education, Technology, and Design Conference Calendar
Page Rank: 4
Twitter Followers: 125
StumbleUpon Thumbs Up: 1 (just me!)
del.icio.us Saves: 11
Technorati Rank: 238,665
Technorati Authority: 34
Spam Caught: 247
Money Made: $0 (nobody clicks ads? I don’t blame you, I don’t either. *grin*)
These statistics were all gathered from Google Analytics, WordPress Plugins Popularity Contest and Akismet, FeedBurner, Technorati, various social media sites, and my advertising affiliate accounts.
Any other stats you’re curious about? (Want me to help you track your stats on your own blog?) Let me know!
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In what’s been a whirlwind of a couple weeks, I interviewed and was offered (and am accepting!) a job in another state.
As we (my family and I) pack and move, I don’t envision myself having a ton of time for blogging.
I’ll try to keep going with the occasional del.icio.us link post, and get back to regular posting in about a month or so. (And, I’ll have some new insights for my series on finding an Ed Tech job!)
Thanks for your patience!
Popularity: 55% [?]
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February 10th, 2008
17:33
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Enter a word to graph its use on twitter’s public feed. To add more than one plot, separate your words with spaces.
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…choosing a CMS incredibly difficult, and evaluating them is very time consuming and often frustrating. There are hundreds of options, one worse than the other…
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…ebooks are a worthy companion to their paper elders. Here’s how and why…
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Newly released chat application Digsby consolidates instant messaging, email, text messaging, and social networking into one very slick chat application…
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Google Docs adds another way to share presentations online: by embedding them, YouTube video-like, onto your web site…
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Questions in the education category.
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Users now do basic operations with confidence and perform with skill on sites they use often. But when users try new sites, well-known usability problems still cause failures.
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February 6th, 2008
17:39
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He notes that accessibility is harder to get into than it should be for several reasons, one of which being that the documentation (WCAG 1.0) is hard to understand.
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These steps won’t guarantee trouble-free file transfers between Word and OOo Writer, but they’ll help you prevent some of the most common conversion glitches.
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Windows only: There are lots of tools out there for “clipping” text and images from web pages for later access, but few of them have the feeling of web clippings’ creative predecessor, the scrapbook.
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…but it’s unclear to most people what Data Portability is all about. This video seeks to explain the concept in layman’s terms…
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The differences between hillaryclinton.com and barackobama.com can be summed up this way: Barack Obama is a Mac, and Hillary Clinton is a PC.
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….tutorials can turn out to be real life- and time-savers as they show exactly what needs to be done in order to create professional illustrations and how masters of illustration actually manage to do their magic…
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The rapid growth of these schools has provoked debates in courtrooms and legislatures over money, as the schools compete with local districts for millions in public dollars, and over issues like whether online learning is appropriate for young children.
Popularity: 43% [?]
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February 5th, 2008
12:56
Filed Under: Links, Social Media, Technology
2008, facebook, google, linkedin, mashup, myspace, politics, social networking, trends, twitter, video, youtube
Super Tuesday is here for the U.S. (I’m voting after work!), and Google, Twitter, and lots of other new media and social networking platforms are all a-buzz.
Check out some nifty tools I’ve found for keeping on top of election results, news, and the candidates, Web 2.0 style.
Mashups
Candidates on Social Networking Platforms
- Twitter: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Ron Paul, (and out-of-the-running John Edwards and Joe Biden)
- Facebook: Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Barack Obama, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney
- MySpace: Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Barack Obama, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney (a full list of all candidates, including out-of-the-running ones can be found here)
- LinkedIn: Barack Obama, Ron Paul
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Elsewhere in Blogs…
Anything I Missed?
Have you come across a political mashup, tech tool, or social networking site? Let me know in the comments!
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February 4th, 2008
17:34
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Integrating social search into search results is tricky, says Mayer, because people view search as a private activity…
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Web developers often make the same errors as each other when implementing accessibility - find out what these are and how to avoid making these mistakes.
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The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it.
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The internet doesn’t need more social networks. The internet is the social network. We have our identities, interests, reputations, relationships, information, and lives here, and we’re adding more every day.
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but what about the great, lesser-known gaming sites? This post introduces 18 great gaming sites you might not have seen before…
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February 2nd, 2008
17:36
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Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources…
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If you don’t have the money or the time for a campus-based course, there are plenty of universities that offer free writing courses…
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You’re an on-the-go worker, and the one thing you always carry with you? Your trusty laptop, of course…
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What have you done that has made you a better reader?
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Although it’s great to buy new music or videos to put on that digital video player, I can think of a lot of other things you can do to take advantage of your new iPod that won’t cost you a dime…
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Writing doesn’t always have to be a serious business. Though it’s wise to make sure that you write correctly, there’s a lot of fun to be had when playing with words…
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the month of January brought some product announcements that point to what the widespread arrival of 802.11n technology might mean, as well as some other announcements on the Wi-Fi front…
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Step inside for our picks of the best free download managers that get you the files you want fast and easy…
Popularity: 25% [?]
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