Archives for February, 2004
teachnology : news I’m sorry but I just have to say this. I cringe every time I use the term “learning object.” There, I feel better now. Dan Mitchell and Will Richardson are talking about Learning Objects. As I read their posts I noticed that my son was actually using some real, tangible Learning Objects… [...]
Russell Beattie Notebook Russell Beattie points to a very nice Mozilla/Firefox extension… It allows you to edit your web page’s CSS in the left sidebar and watch the change in realtime in the browser pane. I installed this on Firefox and it works very well. Just call it from the Sidebar submenu and the CSS [...]
Shirky: VoIP – Plan A vs Plan B Plan B, however, is resistant to this strategy, because while it creates the same value as a phone call, it does so without any of the mechanics that regulation attaches to. No dialing, no phone numbers, no phones even, and, most ominously for the incumbents, no charge [...]
Hey, Gang, Let’s Make Our Own Supercomputer Some class science projects get out of hand. That is certainly the case with Patrick Miller’s graduate course in do-it-yourself supercomputing at the University of San Francisco. On April 3, his students plan to assemble the first “flash mob supercomputer” in the school gym. While brainstorming about how [...]
The Stanford Daily Online Edition Increasingly more Stanford professors are using “Weblogging”, more popularly known as “blogging”, in their classrooms. Traditionally used for online social networking — people write diary entries and others reply — blogging is now being used so that students can post messages and participate in discussions. Ann Davis points to this [...]
Six Apart is participating in DEMO 2004, and this morning we made some big announcements regarding mobile features for TypePad. You can see some of these features in action at our DEMO or Bust! moblog. New mobile features from TypePad include, mobile posting to blogs from multiple authors, audio annotations to camera phone posts, and [...]
This is what I’ve been working on for the past several months. It’s a combination of a custom J2ME based mapping client, weblog service and location alerting system. It’s being sold to carriers, not to the general public, but you can play with the public weblog site above. This is the piece I developed. It [...]
DEMO 2004 The DEMO2004 conference begins tomorrow in Phoenix. A weblog (DEMO 2004 Weblog) is in place for the conference. DEMO is recognized around the world as the premier event that reveals the products and services poised to have the greatest impact on the technology landscape in the year to come.
MobileWhack Christian Lindholm, father of the Series 60 interface, has made an abstract of his book, “Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone” available for WAP download to your Series 60 handset as an interactive Maxdox app (JAR file). Rather a nice format, actually, and certainly worth a gander if you’re [...]
Business leaders sent to principal’s office – 2004-02-05 – The Business Journal of Portland On Thursday, 115 community and business leaders are learning what real job stress is like: serving as “principals for a day” in Portland’s public schools. Lewis Elementary took part in this event. Our guest was Dan Williams, Comcast area director of [...]
O’Reilly Network: O’Reilly Network — 2004 Emerging Technology Conference Coverage I was able to attend this the past two years. Unfortunantly, I won’t be able to go this year, but the folks at O’Reilly, and many of those attending, do a great job of sharing the information presented. So tomorrow between lunch room duty, and [...]
To paraphrase Phil Windley: school communities will usually get the websites they deserve. [Tuttle SVC] Tom Hoffman responds to Will’s post about his frustration with publishing approval issues that are getting in the way of having more teachers publish at Will’s high school. My district has purchased a content management system that promised this kind [...]
