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Monthly Archives June 2007

Report From the Frontier

“We’re not selling the iPhone in North Dakota,” said AT&T spokeswoman Natalie Bauer. This makes it official. I live in an outpost on the frontier. The GFHerald (you will have to register to gain access, but it is free and you may enjoy the comments on frontier life) ran an article on the iphone. Unlike [...]

Posted 30 June 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

NECC 2007 – Sharing

What is it that prompts individuals to share resources they have had to invest a great deal of time and expertise to create? Today, I attended a session on the future of the book. While the general opinion appeared to be that the traditional book can no longer serve as the only source of information, [...]

Posted 26 June 2007 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Roger and HyperStudio Are Back

This is kind of interesting. We happened by the MacKiev booth near the end of the day and stumbled into a presentation by Roger Wagner. Roger was the original developer of HyperStudio. After he sold HyperStudio (the details of why are a little vague), HyperStudio kind of faded. At one point, development ceased. One of [...]

Posted 25 June 2007 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

NECC07 – Be the blogger

It appears that blogs are still in. Will Richardson’s session (webblog-ed) was filled to capacity. Presentation originated from a room offering participants the opportunity to use refurbished old computers running a stripped down open source operating system without a harddrive. Folks looking for ways to contain costs and offer more equipment. Blogging about blogging (metablogging) [...]

Posted 25 June 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

NECC07 – Participate from afar

NECC (National Education Computing Conference) 2007 begins today. This has been one of the conferences I have attended consistently over the years. It is what I consider a K-12 educational practitioners conference and a great place for me to keep up on issues and practices. It also has possibly the best vendors area of any [...]

Posted 24 June 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Small Pieces and the Big Picture

I came from work early today so I could mow the lawn. We are leaving for NECC tomorrow (5 AM for me) and I wanted to make sure the the house looked occupied for the next week. I like mowing the lawn. It is a time to put one foot in front of the other [...]

Posted 22 June 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) °

Read/Write by Age

A post on 21st Century Learning alerted me to some data reported in BusinessWeek concerning who is doing what online. I have pulled out the data for read and write activity (read is the higher value). The data are for blogs, web pages, and video. Social networking which some might suggest involves both read and [...]

Posted 21 June 2007 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: