June 2008
35 posts
Plurk seems more socially fun than Twitter. →
At least that’s what I’m finding out during the recent Twitter outages. Twitter seems to have become my email and Plurk, my social site. I like the commenting along the timeline and sure, it is…
50 Words on Buyer’s Remorse →
During last week’s Indiana Teachers of Writing National Writing Project Advanced Institute on the University of Notre Dame campus, we had one prompt of “In 50 words, write about buyer’s…
Episode 17: Teach me Moodle, okay? →
One approach to staff development as we consider how to teach (not so much train) teachers Moodle. Show notes: Most of the information for this podcast is from a outline of a proposal I did…
Episode 18: Why edutopia might disappoint you →
GLEF magazine “edutopia” bills has the tagline now of “What Works in Public Education” but is the publication headed in the right direction? Some contend that the publication is…
“Now that is a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution,” Dobson said....”
– Evangelical Leader Blasts Obama Speech : NPR
AppleScript: Integrating shell scripts - The... →
Introducing eyeOS →
Brief introduction to the eyeOS Project, Open Source Platform and Operating System which runs on the web.
EOF - Why to Build on FOSS in the First Place →
How to Predict the Weather Without a Forecast -... →
wikiHow article about How to Predict the Weather Without a Forecast.
Spotlight tips →
Just in case you need to know how to stop Spotlight (via mdutil tools and friends) from indexing your Volumes and holding up everything by eating up all CPU energies.
Word Counter webscript page →
A handy little web app that counts words pasted into the text window…also, it does word frequency…pretty handy sometimes.
reddit – Trac →
Coffee Stains: Smug Green Monster →
My first real car, the 1988 Ford Festiva of Love, got rear ended by a van full of Amish folk. The current car, the 1993 Ford Escort, hasn’t lived up to the myth-like status of the…
Taking Moodle for a spin (Part 2) →
Sandboxing Moodle is all fine and dandy, but to really get into the heart and potential of Moodle, you really should try your own install on your own server.
The easiest way to play with your own…
Is Google Making Us Stupid? →
What the Internet is doing to our brains
Take Moodle out for a spin (Part 1) →
If you are interested in migrating some or all of your classroom to the internets, you should be looking at Moodle. It’s open source, it’s free, it’s really, really good. In fact, if you haven’t…
Episode 16: How much has technology hurt the... →
Top of the show recommendations: This week, I’m sharing stuff I like around the home
The Week (best digest of all that is happening in one publication)
Senseo Coffee maker (no mess…
InstructionMeta_Analysis →
Marzano’s literature review that is the basis for the text “Classrooms that work” and the rest of the Data-driven movement.
America's Digital Schools 2006--Key Findings →
An overview of a study sponsored by Pearson.
It begins with dropping the rhetoric →
We use words to attempt to communicate to others what we mean and sometimes we honestly can’t articulate what is in our mind. And, sometimes, we are so excited about what we want to say that we use…
beesoft.org: a page for c/c++ programmer →
Nick Carr: Is Google making us stupid? →
I’m trying to refrain from reading this as “The internets is making us idiots, so abandon all technologies and read books.” I like to think that there’s more to the use of the internet and all of…
Focus, People! There’s Work to Do - NYTimes.com →
NYTimes article about the various writing sessions for TV shows.
A Technological Singularity: What are the... →
The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It →
The html version of the book.
Video: Leah Culver (Pownce): “Webapp in 5 steps” →
Leah Culver talked about starting Pownce.com, how they came up with the name and the idea, the whole story about their API, how networking helps entre
P2-04-210 Kohler ballcock assembly1-1BX style for... →
Just in case I need to get another replacement for the upstairs toilet, I thought I might just park the url here.
How Much Self-Employment Tax Will I Pay? →
Seems like it’s a fairly accurate way for determining self-employment taxes.
Episode 15: I went to a text file to live... →
Shelf Stuff GoodReads.com I noticed at our school corp year-end celebration that many of the retirees said that they’d now have more time to read and it seems as teachers, we like to read more….
“Aaron: I think people overestimate how much has changed since 1991. If we thawed...”
– InformIT: Interview with Aaron Hillegass > Interview with Aaron Hillegass
Ben Stein's Expelled: No Integrity Displayed:... →
Plain text - 43FoldersWiki →
Todo.txt - Task tracking for command line lovers →
Life hacks using text files →
Twitter execs talk about scalability and troubles →
Scoble talks with Ev regarding the rough week for Twitter and to clear the air.