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Monthly Archives March 2004

TechTV Description of EZ SiteMaker

Looking for a simple way to prepare basic web pages? Try EZ SiteMaker. TechTV article describes this free software and provides a video description.

Posted 31 March 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Wireless Microphone

Here is a product recommendation. One of the most difficult aspects of creating your own video is the sound. For example, if you are collecting material in a classroom setting, you will find that the sound carries the most useful information and is also most difficult to capture. A wireless mike (a remote mike the [...]

Posted 29 March 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Local promotion

Our local paper, the Grand Forks Herald, ran a front page article on use of technology in the Grand Forks Schools. I frequently reference articles from “major pages” (NY Times) so I thought I should give some screen time to a local resource. Cindy and my writing has been purposefully based in our direct and [...]

Posted 28 March 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Alert – TechTv Sold?

It appears TechTV has been sold (Yahoo News). I wish I knew if this was a good or a bad thing.

Posted 25 March 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

An analysis of Apple in Education

Posted 24 March 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Kids Create Web Sites

Andy Carvin’s listserv (WWWEDU) carried a description of a Washington Post article describing the generation of web sites by kids age 6-17. The article contains a statistic provided by Grunwald Associates claiming the existence of 2 million sites and predicting that 6 million would exist by next year. The exact reference for these data was [...]

Posted 24 March 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

How educators use online resource portals’

GEM, a project of the U.S. Department of Education, is an effort to provide access to online educational resources through a common Gateway. This is not a unique idea, but little is known about the effectiveness or valued features of such sites. Now, an effort has been made to conduct an evaluation – see Evaluation [...]

Posted 23 March 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °