April 2008
52 posts
An ERIC search of "word processing" →
This reflects the body of educational research of the use of word processing in schools.
Apr 30th
An ERIC search of "Technology Uses in Education" →
Reflects the current published research within education.
Apr 30th
Surveys are not the best way to assess →
And it seems that the 21st Century Skills folk would lead us to believe that by quoting percentages (which are based on surveys) that the truth of the matter has been established. I don’t think…
Apr 26th
Obama: You had me at “Audacity” →
We’re simply not ready for this: the state of the Indiana actually matters on a national level election (well, even if it is the Democratic nominee, it still is probably the most exciting voting…
Apr 26th
Episode 10: How do we know that they know? Moodle... →
It’s _the_ bottom-line question for a teacher: “How do I know that my student has learned?” Moodle has a wide-variety of ways to assess student learning and we’ll take a look at a few of those…
Apr 26th
Coffee Stains: Amateur Hour →
Sometimes I feel like I’m getting payback for how lazy I was as a child. I was not helpful around the house and I watched a lot of television in the 70s until I got to school and then I was busy…
Apr 24th
“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and...”
Apr 23rd
Douglas Ruskoff and Scott McCloud Panel, NYCC 2008... →
Rushkoff talks about McCloud’s influence and a little about the impact on the _Testament_ series
Apr 21st
Apr 21st
“The fact is, Americans are smarter than Clinton and McCain suggest. Americans...”
– Obama is not condescending:: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog ::
Apr 21st
Understanding Infrastructure | Linux Journal →
Apr 20th
Apr 19th
“The Lincoln-Douglas debates, as conducted by ABC: LINCOLN: In my opinion,...”
–  If ABC ran the Lincoln-Douglas Debates - Boing Boing
Apr 19th
BlogBridge →
Apr 18th
The ABC Debate and the Danger to Democracy | Free... →
A response to what many consider a really bad night for network news in their hosting a debate.
Apr 17th
Apr 16th
TS:EPISODE9 -- But can a computer dance? →
This week, we talked about the idea of should a computer be merely a tool or can it actually teach our students? I got to talk with “Central Florida” about her experience with educational software…
Apr 16th
"Update to Wicked Cool Shell Script #62:... →
Dave Taylor answers my question re: #62.
Apr 15th
Coffee Stains: Why I won’t be advising next year →
Because I can. And that is perhaps the long and short of it. As it stands, my teaching schedule does not include Student Publications nor Beginning Journalism and that is a first since I’ve…
Apr 14th
Social Networking and Education: My Keynote at the... →
Andy Carvin’s talk about the history of social networking and the role of educators.
Apr 12th
TS:EPISODE8 -- Toward an Open Source classroom →
Perhaps you’re just hearing about it and you’re using OpenOffice. Or, perhaps, you’ve heard that you can have good software without paying a dime for it. Better still, what does all this have to do…
Apr 11th
Jason R Briggs : Snake Wrangling for Kids →
Self-published book for teaching python
Apr 11th
Linux.com :: Ask Linux.com: Choosing a distro,... →
Apr 11th
GNUstep - Everything is so ... square and gray. -... →
Apr 11th
InformIT: GNUstep: A Free Software alternative to... →
Apr 11th
Weather whines, Obama rallies in No Indiana and →
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Apr 10th
Apple store has the Counting Crows live →
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Apr 9th
At the Lego Store on MichiganAve →
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Apr 9th
Another Lego family pix →
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
What is Darwin? | MacApper →
An nice overview of the beginnings and workings of Darwin: OSX unix foundation.
Apr 8th
The Truth According to Wikipedia →
Teases out the tension of who should “gatekeep” knowledge; worth the read and view.
Apr 8th
Creating Games with Pygame →
Apr 8th
SPACE/TIME CONTINUUM « GraphJam: Pop culture for... →
Just makes me smile: An important movie for the 80s.
Apr 8th
Playing tag at the park →
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Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
OPML site is back →
I think it is as I noticed some wacky stuff happening last week when I was working on my last Coffee Stains. Also, I notice that something is not jiving with the Twitter Friends thing. Time to…
Apr 7th
“Out of the 55 names I randomly came up with, 14 were found on Twitter while the...”
– For some reason, Twitter hasn’t yet taken the journalist community by storm | Coop’s Corner : A Blog from Charlie Cooper - CNET News.com
Apr 7th
Apr 7th
MetroPulse launched by Glenn Franxman at... →
Simple 11-line Python script for a screen saver.
Apr 7th
Watch This Zen Make Your Presentation →
From Slackermanager: “Garr Reynolds offers an hour of presentation ideas on this Authors@Google video made on March 21st. The production of the video is simple yet the ideas are invaluable. Grab a…
Apr 7th
Apr 6th
Teachers don't let other teachers start new blogs →
And perhaps we’re coming to the end of the blogging cycle, but you will still find at any technology conference for educators presentations on how to use blogs in the classroom.  If your colleague…
Apr 6th
“The latest bad news is word that Journal Register, publisher of the New Haven...”
– BuzzMachine  » Blog Archive  » Desperate times need desperate models
Apr 5th
Safari and WP 2.5 finally in step →
Not crippling or llfe-threatening, but the inability of Safari to play nice with WordPress’ visual editor has been, at best, annoying. The last major release of Safari said that all things…
Apr 5th
Coffee Stains: Colour televisions and Spring Break →
It was Mrs. Addis who told me that I’d be blind in twenty years if I looked at the solar eclipse back in 1978; I looked and I’m still looking. She also was the first person I remember to complain…
Apr 3rd
STAR WARS ASCIIMATION - Main Page →
Most of Star Wars Episode IV in ASCII: a charm to watch.
Apr 2nd
Simply ignoring April 1 →
Too many loose stories floating around today, that I just simply marked all my GReader stories as “read.”
Apr 2nd