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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 […]

The only reason I’m bringing this up is because A) I own a PSP and B) Many of your students own one or a similar device (such as a palm, ipod, cell phone,etc.)
Sony updated the PSP firmware and they have now built in RSS support! Sounds fantastic, eh? Unfortunately, not […]

A few days ago, John Pederson posted that his goal was to introduce href=”http://pedersondesigns.com/2005/11/11/new-blogger-challenge/#comments”>10 new people to Bloglines in 10 days.

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 […]

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 […]