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Monthly Archives November 2006

Update on Riverdeep and Houghton Mifflin

This post is for one of my readers who tried to convince me that the Allyn and Bacon rep told her Houghton Mifflin would be owned by Allyn & Bacon. Information released to the press today seems to indicate that the Riverdeep purchase of Houghton Mifflin is still a go. At first blush, we’re smaller, [...]

Posted 29 November 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Gates Foundation Funds Local District to Post Curriculum

The Seattle Times reports the Gates Foundation has provided the Bellevue school district nearly 2 million to post the districts entire curriclum. The article contends that the site will be wiki-like allowing external input and possible lesson ratings. While there are many “lesson web sites” available, I suppose what makes this effort unique is the [...]

Posted 28 November 2006 † grabe § Ed Practice ‡ Comments (0) °

Quintura Search

Quintura is developing a new search service that relies on a unique interface. The initial search requests returns “hits” and a tag cloud. Clicking on tags within the cloud both brings additional tags to the fore and allows tags to be added to the original search request for secondary searches. I like the description of [...]

Posted 23 November 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Last.fm

I am fascinated by social software and experiment with applications in a wide variety of domains. My present interest is last.fm. This service provides software for analyzing personal musical preferences and locating others with similar musical tastes. The system works in the background while I listen to my iTunes and accumulates data on my listening [...]

Posted 21 November 2006 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) °

Final Thoughts

We are now back in Grand Forks. We arrived at about 11 in the evening and I got out of bed today at 2 in the afternoon. I am still a little bit foggy, but I wanted to complete my entries on the China trip before I go back to work tomorrow. So, with some [...]

Posted 19 November 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Big Buddha – We Got Size Fit You Too

I am becoming a little self-conscious about my size. I am a little taller than the average U.S. male and weigh more than I should, but here people look at me. I started to notice this yesterday. It started during our visit to the Forbidden City. They asked us to wear these strange hats so [...]

Posted 17 November 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Tiananmen

Our Internet access has worked great, but we have encountered one “issue”. Cindy was trying to write about our viewing of Tiananmen Square when we visited the Hall of the People and was attempting to locate the proper spelling. She found that the entry in Wikipedia was “reset” when she attempted to load the link [...]

Posted 16 November 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: