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Steve,

YOur recent blog about walking the line is a delicate matter. I agree that things should be in one place or another. THe DEN stuff can be referenced from teach42.

On another subject, do you know anything about DEEPFREEZE? DO you know of any schools using it? I am curious as some thought is being given to it here. As you know my WIN skills are minimal so I would appreciate your insight.

Thanks, mem

Maureen,

We used DeepFreeze on all of our Mac labs last year (desktop and mobile machines) and while it had some real advantages, we ultimately took it off for this school year because of difficulty of management. I’m happy to give you more details, if you’d like.

Hope this helps,
Barbara L. Cohen

bcohen@mcds.org

Steve: I personally think you should cross-post. It is interesting when you ask people in traditional publishing about this, or people that are coming more from a traditional publishing background, because it seems much of their concern can be about “controlling” or “focusing” the conversations that ensue from blog posts. I think idea distribution and interaction is the key. So I really don’t see it as a disadvantage if there are people posting in 2 different places about the same ideas. Using a content aggregation tool like Technorati, you may be able to get an updated list of what people in different parts of the blogsphere are posting about your ideas. That may not be a perfect solution, but I am not sure one exists. The goal is idea exchange and interaction, I think. To that end, cross-posting makes sense to me.