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Monthly Archives June 2003

Web Sites

I collect lots of interesting web sites when I attend conferences. Some end up in our database and others I link from web pages. n nAn exaple – Geek is Chic is a site focused on encouraging gender equity in experiences with technology. Family Treasures is a site promoting a project based learning approach to [...]

Posted 30 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

NECC – Day 1

This was the first day of NECC – mostly seminars. I did experiment with one new thing., Various NECC documents are available for beaming to your Palm. You approach one these devices. Your Palm locks on and downloads both programs and documents. Now I can use my Palm to decide what I want to do [...]

Posted 29 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

It takes a long time to get from Grand Forks to Seattle. Go east to Minneapolis. Go west to Billings. Wait while plane tries to find Billings. Fly to Seattle. Even with a couple of time changes and leaving before 7 I did not arrive in time to take the shuttle to the convention center. [...]

Posted 28 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

NECC 2003

This is an anniversary of a sort. I started this blog as a short term demonstration based on NECC 2002 (note first entries). The idea was to chronicle some of the things I saw and learned at the conference. I later decided to continue keeping an online account of resources and ideas as much for [...]

Posted 25 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Filtering Allowed

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that Internet Filtering may be required in libraries (Washington Post) and that it does not violate the rights of adults wishing to use the same computers. ALA continues to disagree.

Posted 23 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

MacWorld on Blogs

MacWorld (July) offers a nice article of blog tools and services (mostly for Macs).

Posted 21 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Microsoft Producer

Here is a new multimedia authoring tool for you to explore (if you both operate a recent Windows system and own a recent version of Microsoft Office). Producer is an intuitive and FREE product allowing the integration of many media types. My understanding that it is primarily a way to connect PowerPoint slides with other [...]

Posted 20 June 2003 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °