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Monthly Archives October 2009

Advancing Note Taking

I learned about Pear Note (from Useful Fruit) some weeks ago, but until today I had not had the opportunity to try it in a “real world” situation. Pear Note is intended to improve note taking. I tend to think of note taking as a practice related to educational activities, but it is a necessary [...]

Posted 30 October 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (2) °

PBS Teacher Activity Packs

I typically describe useful web sites I encounter on my other blog. However, this blog receives more attention and I wanted to make certain the resource I describe here is promoted. PBS has organized some of its own resources and other supplemental materials as Activity Packs. The packs are organized by grade level and content [...]

Posted 28 October 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) °

More Game Camera Pictures

My brother Dan is visiting and he brought some new pictures captured with a game camera taken on the farm where I grew up. I find this technology fascinating. The camera switches from visible light to infrared depending on the time of day (Game Scouting Camera).

Posted 25 October 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

College Alternatives – I can beat $99

I read a recent blog post (The Coming Colleagiate Crash) that reviewed a Washington Monthly article entitled “College for $99 a month“. The post and the article address the cost of coursework and potential alternatives. The article begins with a description of a student taking a course from StraighterLine for $99. I took a look [...]

Posted 21 October 2009 † grabe § Policy ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Feed From My Reader

I have added a RSS feed to the sidebar of this blog (near the bottom to be less distracting). This feed offers the titles of the 15 most recent blog posts I have saved at my feed reader site. I am presently reading blogs using a self-hosted aggregator called Fever . Fever offers some interesting features [...]

Posted 19 October 2009 † grabe § General § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Google Canned Responses

Do you have to send the same email to many individuals on different dates? If this is a common experience, it is worth learning how to use Google Canned Responses. Here is my situation so you get the idea. Cindy and I offer a free online resource (book) focused on participatory web applications in K12 [...]

Posted 15 October 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) °

Self definition in an age of options

I have been reading an Educational Researcher article titled “Web 2.0 and classroom research: What path should we take now” (vol. 38, 246-259). The article is too wide ranging for me to summarize here. The section that is the focus for this comment is titled “Cultivating academic lives online and social scholarship”. This section is [...]

Posted 13 October 2009 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °