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Monthly Archives January 2008

iTunes U

Educators should make the effort to familiarize themselves with the offerings made available through iTunes U. I say this as a suggestion to you and to myself. Even if you presently have several feeds coming in, it is worth the effort to see what is new. I was reminded of this when I read a [...]

Posted 30 January 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Magical Techno Powers

This just in – digital natives may not have magical techno powers. Mark Baurlein, Emory University, points to an ETS study conducted with a very large samples of college students demonstrating that web search skills and the critical thinking skills necessary to evaluate the quality of information located through web searches were often not sufficient [...]

Posted 29 January 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

1001

Saturday at the office. Cindy is out of town. Time for a “project”. This morning while browsing LifeHacker, I read a description of a flickr tool called 1001. 1001 is a Mac only application that performs several tasks in conjunction with flickr. The one task that seemed kind of interesting was the monitoring of flickr [...]

Posted 26 January 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Comments and CommentPress

I have followed the blog if:book for some time. I have another life as a writer and the ideas about publishing expressed in the blog interest me. BTW – interest is not the same as agree. If:book has supported the development of a theme for WordPress and it now appears the capability of the original [...]

Posted 25 January 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Change in Funding Model for Lastfm

This post has nothing to do with education. It does consider changes in social networking and the profit potential in new ideas. I have been a fan of lastfm for more than a year. Lastfm is free (with ads I suppose), but I pay $4 a month. I don’t use most of the features because I am older and [...]

Posted 23 January 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (2) °

Growing Up Online – Dateline Program

Frontline (PBS) had an hour program entitled “Growing Up Online” that aired this evening. The program explores a wide variety of topics (cheating, social networking dangers, generational differences). You can view the program and related material at the PBS site. These resources would be quite useful in a pre-service teacher ed tech class. I learned [...]

Posted 23 January 2008 † grabe § Policy ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

ABC defends North Dakota

ABC saw fit to run a spot on the evening news defending North Dakota against the dark, but supposedly artistic portrayal offered by National Geographic (remember that the short days of winter are offset by longer days in summer). Pretty funny stuff – the ABC video I mean.

Posted 22 January 2008 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °