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Monthly Archives May 2007

CNN Pipeline Will Be Free

Deja vu! I do not purchase access to many online services, but when I do, it seems that the service is then made available for free. Back in the day, if you wanted to include images in your blogger account, you had to pay a fee for Blogger Pro. I did this and then Blogger [...]

Posted 29 May 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Fact Check

Holding public officials accountable (e.g., Dan Rather) has been touted as one of accomplishments of bloggers. I was listening to public radio this morning and heard an interview with one of the core group from factcheck.org. This individual discussed “spin” and our tendency to be taken in. The example I remember concerned a famous Republican [...]

Posted 26 May 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Video Game Revolution

If you are interested in video games, you might find a site from PBS to be of interest. The site offers supplemental material associated with a program entitled the Video Game Revolution. The site does contain video segments from the program and a flash approximation of a classic game (similar to Galaga).

Posted 23 May 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Is the party over?

I read a very brief piece in Technology and Learning (April) I had to check out. The short article summarized some Technorati data reported through valleywag showing that interest in blogging may have peaked. If you check out the technorati data, the key is not the number of blogs, but the number of active bloggers. [...]

Posted 23 May 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Open Source for K-12

Steve Hargadon just posted a list of free/open source software (FOSS) suited to the K-12 environment. There are some resources noted that were unfamiliar to me so I thought I would pass the list on.

Posted 20 May 2007 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Change of Scenery

The site looks a little different. This is another consequence of the lack of required commitments the summer provides. Anyway, WordPress (the blog software I use) has undergone an upgrade that offers the opportunity to use widgets. I suppose I could get by without widgets but when the alternative comes down to playing with the [...]

Posted 19 May 2007 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Philip Rosedale on Second Life

Many of us are curious about Second Life. The online environment defies explanation because it fits no existing models – it is an online experience that largely allows the users to shape the environment to their own interests. Educational bloggers (e.g., David Warlick) are fond of speculating on the potential of the environment for educators [...]

Posted 18 May 2007 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: