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Monthly Archives October 2005

Finding questions online

I think anyone who uses Google or perhaps other search engines is likely to be continually amazed at what information problem solving tasks can be accomplished with such services. Or, perhaps everyone is not amazed and perhaps how we use such services is one of those differences that separates those of us who are supposedly [...]

Posted 30 October 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

DigiTales

DigiTales is a site addressing all aspects of digital storytelling (and digital projects). The site organizes resources, offers opportunities for developing collaborative relationships, and promotes books and workshop opportunities. One resource I think is unique is the “Scoring Guides“. This resources identifies project types and then offers suggestions for attributes of each type that the [...]

Posted 27 October 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) °

gOffice

File this one in the “I am not sure what this means, but it looks cool and it may eventually be important” category. gOffice intends to be a browser-based office suite. At present, it is a browser-based word processing program (kind of). Using standard browsers (at least some of them), a user can create, save, [...]

Posted 25 October 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Global Education Learning Community

eWeek.com has a recent article describing Sun Microsystem’s interest in education and the creation of a free-standing project – Global Education Learning Community (GELC). The GELC site is intended to offer access to open source learning resources. The GELC site offers resources for primary, secondary and university students. I did not find a lot of [...]

Posted 25 October 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Connections

I have not posted for several days because we have been out of town and our time has been occupied. We made a trip to Ames, Iowa, for Iowa State University’s homecoming festivities. Cindy and I graduated from ISU MANY years ago and we returned for homecoming because we were recognized by ISU with an [...]

Posted 24 October 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Flock

This is a blog entry written in Flock – a new open source “social browser.” Flock is considered beta at this point, but if you see this post it works. If you want to experiment, the website for downloading is http://www.flock.com This image was uploaded after the message appearing above was posted. ZDNet Description of [...]

Posted 20 October 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Google Vs. Publishing Industry

John Battelle writes critizing the AAP (Association of American Publishers) decision to sue Google over plans to digitize copyrighted work. I really don’t get this. I have been both a publisher and an author, and I have to tell you, these guys sue for one reason and one reason alone, from what I can tell: [...]

Posted 20 October 2005 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °