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There’s a great little conversation going on about what sorts of things you’d include on a Video Wish List!. Hall listed some of his gear of choice, and several other people have chimed in with their own contributions.
From my days as a tech director, we found ourselves sort of reinventing the wheel, trying to […]

A friend of mine who just started blogging recently (and has been writing up a STORM) shared a post entitled Anonymity, where art thou? describing how he used the internet to track down somebody that had recently visited his wedding site. Essentially, he found the person’s IP address in his logs, used Geobytes.com to […]

Kate took the time to respond to my Wikipedia v. Britannica postJust be careful letting your students use Wikipedia - because it is NOT an acceptable college
resource - so perhaps it is best not to teach your students bad habits.
Want to see an example of the garbage in Wikipedia - go to the entry for […]

Looks like I’m going to be heading out to PodcasterCon in January! I love the idea. It’s a totally free, Open Space conference. Want to discuss something specific? Then set it up! Right now I’m looking forward to hanging out at Warlick’s session: Podcasting as a Teaching/Learning Strategy, but there’s […]

Wordpress 2 was released yesterday. I still haven’t gotten my current template to work right in Wordpress 1.5 yet! Guess that means there’s no reason not to give it a whirl, eh?

Via The EduBlog: Savings With Open Source in Schools
Also, I watched our network administrator try to install Linux on a new Dell. The linux distro was sent to our district by Novell as a demo. The install went very smooth. I then asked if he could install a program for my students to edit photos […]

It might be the worst name for a web service in history, buy it’s a pretty darn cool little piece of code. The Rasterbator is a service that allows you to input an image (photo, graphic, illustration, etc…) and it will create a giant new rasterized image from it. “The rasterized images can […]

A starter set of EduBlogs
The entire DEN team recently got together in Maryland for a series of team building activites, meetings and trainings. I did a whirlwind tour of the blogging world and got everybody started up in Bloglines. I just realized that the list I pulled together for them might have some […]

I’m in Iowa City for the holidays, visiting the in-laws. There’s just a few things that are still hanging over my head so I figured I’d try to get just a little bit of work done in the mornign so I could enjoy the rest of the day. However, several seperate events have […]

Via Will Richardson:
When I’ve recommended that students use Wikipedia as a resource, I’ve always told them that they can’t trust what they’re reading 100% and that they should always verify their facts with a second source. But do people do the same with the Encyclopedia Britannica?
In case you didn’t see it, The Journal […]

eSchool news is currently accepting nominations for their first ever Education Blog Awards.
In March 2006, eSchool News will award its first Education Blog Awards, sponsored by Discovery Education, at the Florida Educational Technology Conference. These awards are designed to honor the widespread emergence of blogs in the education field and recognize exceptional work […]

It’s been about three or four days since I went through the aggregator. And I am like so totally behind on all the news. Ok, seriously though, I really do feel like I’m way behind. In particular, the two biggest ones are Yahoo buying del.icio.us and the Google Earth beta for OSX […]

I’ve been having a ton of conversations lately about people being able to subscribe to blogs via email, and have come to the personal decision that it is most definitely a ‘good thing’. Not everybody is ready to drink from the cup of Kool-Aid. But this is definitely one way to get people’s […]

If you’re sick of hearing me go on about the new job, then just skip this post. I just can’t seem to help it though, it’s all so new and incredibly exciting. There’s just so many good things in the works and of course I want to share it all!
I’m sitting here in […]

It’s sad to say, but the Teach42 podcast is going back to the dark side. I’m selling off my Powerbook and need to figure out the best way to create a podcast in a Windows environment. I spent a few hours prior to this podcast trying out some different software. I never […]