Archives for 2003
Just read about this on Mobilewhack and gave it a try. Romeo, and Veta Universal turn your Nokia 3650 into a Bluetooth remote control for your Powerbook. It can be used to do all sorts of things like advance slides in a Powerpoint or Keynote presentation, control iTunes, iDVD and even control the mouse.
EdBlogger Praxis: Whittier School contemplates use of blogs for NSF project. Al Delgado’s school in Chicago is involved with an NSF project looking at using geographical information systems with his elementary students. The official title is… “Designing Learning Environments for Teaching Scientific Argumentation and Mathematical Reasoning with Geographic Data.” A description of the project can [...]
movabletype.org: News The other day Ben Trott posted information about the upcoming release of Moveable Type 3.0. New features will include comment registration. This feature will be very helpful for teachers looking to utilize Moveable Type with students, but who have been worried about comment spam and also unwelcome comments. He notes that those interested [...]
blosxom :: the zen of blogging :: I installed and played with Blosxom last winter. After reading about the latest version of this weblogging tool on Pat Delaney’s site, I tried it again and I am very impressed. I have it running up on my web space and also on my Powerbook. I have been [...]
Widgetopia Elizabeth Lane Lawley points to Widgetopia, a weblog about user interface components found on web sites.
SyChip say they’re close to introducing an WiFi SD expansion card that’s compatible with Microsoft Smartphone-powered cellphones like Motorola’s MPx200 and Samsung’s i600. Now if only someone would make one that works with the Treo 600. Read… [Gizmodo] My friend has a Treo 600. A very nice phone with a SD slot. If it can [...]
Jeff Brown, Children’s Writer Jeff Brown, a magazine editor and short-story writer who created Flat Stanley, the two-dimensional hero of an enduring series of children’s books, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 77 and lived on the Upper East Side. My students always liked the Flat Stanley books… I mean who wouldn’t want to [...]
MobileWhack MobileWhack is all about that mobile handset, palmtop, hiptop, ipod, or laptop in your pocket, purse, briefcase, or dangling from your utility belt. It’s about squeezing every last ounce of mobility out of your mobile device. From Rael Dornfest comes Mobilewhack, a weblog about mobile devices. Bryan Bell did the layout and through the [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband arrival for GNER trains Broadband arrival for GNER trains GNER is the first UK rail firm to offer passengers broadband internet First-class train travellers speeding along GNER’s East Coast route can get fast broadband net too as wireless web trials get under way. This would be great on the [...]
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Ok, so $30 is a really good price for a DVD/VCR combination player, but is it worth nearly crushing another human being to death just to get one? Apparently so:A stampede of shoppers left a woman seriously hurt this morning. She was trampled by a crowd of bargain hunters at a Central Florida Walmart. 41-year-old [...]
movabletype.org: News The “Email this to a friend” functionality in the mt-send-entry.cgi script is vulnerable to being used by spammers to send spam messages. In principle, all “email this to a friend” programs are vulnerable to being used by spammers, because they allow the user to specify a To: address and a message body. But [...]
School Is Haven When Children Have No Home With unemployment and spiraling housing costs pushing a growing number of families into homelessness, school systems across the country are seeing more and more children like Mariah living in shelters, cars or motels. Some states are reporting a nearly 50 percent increase in homeless students over the [...]
SixApart Announcements… The great news is that we’ve got a new version of Movable Type planned for release in the next couple months that is a response to the sort of features and requests we’ve been hearing from our current users and other webloggers. Because of the success of TypePad and our ability to staff [...]
Cyprien Lomas Discover SubEthaEdit (formerly Hydra) One of the folks I met this weekend at edBlogger was Cyprien Lomas. He a Research Associate with Skylight: The Science Centre for Learning and Teaching at the Faculty of Science at University of British Columbia. Cyprien was one of the folks using SubEthaEdit to take collaborative notes during [...]
Pat lists some of the things he learned at edBlogger “03. Pat did an excellent job organizing and staging this event. As he mentions, using his school really helped to keep costs down, and the generous support of other organizations helped to make the whole thing very enjoyable and worthwhile. Thor Prichard and Paul Bradley [...]
Notes from the Sunday EdBlogger panels taken using SubEthaEdit (formerly Hydra) can be found at…cogent life…
Photo Am thinking I’ve dropped my camera phone one too many times…
Train stop at PDX.
Train to airport…
Lewis Elementary main hall. —This post was made with a trial version of BlogPlanet, a photo blog client for mobile phones. For more information visit www.blogplanet.net.
From the SFUSD press release about EdBlogger SF-03 Galileo staff and students, U.C. Berkeley Bay Area Writing Project, KCSOS Web Team, and teachers from kindergarten through university levels from across the country. This event will be taking place over the weekend at Galileo Academy of Science and Technology. I’ll be taking part in this, and [...]
Remote Possibilities No, today’s phones are about having a cyborglike connection to every aspect of your network. It’s like having an extra limb. Your phone collects your e-mail from work; it zaps tiny text messages to friends far or near. It captures exquisitely embarrassing pictures from drunken office parties. It feeds your cat. The mobile [...]
The RSS feed from Chicago Uncommon is one of the sites I visit often with my aggregator, NetNewsWire. Dawn Mikulich, the author of Chicago Uncommon, uses MoveableType to manage her weblog, posting new images from time to time. Inspired by her site, we have been cataloging images from Lewis Elementary School using MoveableType and incorporating [...]
