Oct 21
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Contemporary Literacy. Everybody’s doing it, right?

John Pederson posted a little entry last week calledOwning Contemporary Literacy…The Next Big Conversation.
In a nutshell, the question is how do we get non-techie teachers to drink from the Kool-Aid?
Ever have that frustrated feeling while out there blogvangelizing? “When do you have time?”, “I can’t possibly find the time!”, and “There’s not […]

Author: Steve
Oct 21
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Quality problems at Wikipedia. Raise your hand if you’re surprised.

Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems | The Register
Quality problems on a site where virtually 99% of the content is written by people without any sort of editorial background or formal knowledge of the subject? That’s not exactly a huge surprise.
However, it does not take away from the usefulness of the project […]

Author: Steve
Oct 16
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Synonyms for Microsoft Word.

Had a comment in my last post (yes, I know it was forever ago) asking what an online word processor was. So while answering the person via email, I realized that other people might have a use for such a tool as well! I couldn’t find the site that I had gotten such […]

Author: Steve