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Monthly Archives May 2010

From Students to Teachers

Today, Cindy’s tech colleagues are giving her a retirement party. As these things seem to go, a photo of Cindy appeared in today’s local paper recognizing one of the final projects she has worked on (GF Herald article on Books of Hope – free registration required). Cindy thought the article focused too much on her [...]

Posted 25 May 2010 † grabe § Ed Practice ‡ Comments (0) °

SoundPaper

Offering comment or tutorials for iPad apps would be almost too easy. One could offer several such posts a week for about as long as you could stay motivated. I don’t own an iPad, but I can borrow Cindy’s iPad and I will offer an occasional post when an app seems unique and relevant to [...]

Posted 18 May 2010 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Simple is good – Posterous is simple

I became familiar with Posterous by accident. I was reading a series of complaints identifying security concerns in Facebook and came across a Wired article by Ryan Singel. The article addressed the issue of controlling your content and I interpreted the author to indicate that the flexible and simple blogging platform Posterous would serve as [...]

Posted 14 May 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

THINKING about privacy within Facebook

I do have a Facebook account. I guess I have this account because people I know make heavy use of Facebook and having an account connects me with them. I spend very little time in Facebook, but I send excerpts from the content I generate elsewhere to Facebook so “Facebook only” acquaintances see this content. [...]

Posted 11 May 2010 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,