Monthly Archives July 2003

Hacker Attack??

Government officials are concerned that a massive Internet attack exploiting Windows vulnerabilities is near.

Ed News Parents Can Use

The U.S. Department of Education has a monthly news program – Education News Parents Can Use. The program has been archived and can be accessed online.

Netscape Gone

The Register has reported that Netscape is gone. Browser options are now very limited – no Netscape and no new IE for Mac users. Let’s hope Mozilla hangs on and Safari continues to develop.

HyperStudio

Is HyperStudio off the market? I have been unable to connect to either the “official” “HyperStudio” or “SiteCentral” web sites although Google still provides inactive links. I also cannot find HyperStudio as an active product on the Knowledge Adventure web site. This has to be a fairly recent situation because I checked the web sites [...]

Harvesting Web Information?

I have been reading David Warlick’s “Raw Materials for the Mind.” I like his work and would recommend this resource. We share many beliefs concerning the educational potential of Internet resources and have a similar model that involves finding, evaluating, harvesting, processing, and applying online information. I must admit some of the specific suggestions for [...]

WebQuest Portal

Bernie Dodge presented about WebQuests at NECC. For the next few months you can view this session online. This session was interesting to me for two reasons. First, it is always interesting to understand how someone associated with a process or product understands his/her own vision. When you are acquainted with ideas indirectly, you may [...]

Digital Photography Guide

The July 2003 issue of PCWorld contains a great detail of information about current digital cameras and the reviews are available online.