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Monthly Archives February 2011

We are North Dakota – We Get our Teachers for Cheap

Cindy and I had a brief argument over coffee this morning. It turns out I had skimmed an editorial in the GF Herald (I mean, really, who reads the Herald carefully). The source was an opinion piece written by Tom Dennis concerning the differences between the way North Dakota and Wisconsin have addressed teacher concerns [...]

Posted 20 February 2011 † grabe § Policy ‡ Comments (1) °

Open Source Textbooks

This is the video that started me thinking about about open source textbooks. In trying to determine if David Wiley had more concrete recommendations on this submit, I was able to locate his site. There I found links to several businesses focused on open source. Note – open source is not exactly the same as [...]

Posted 16 February 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Free should not equal lack of control

I have been thinking about doing a couple of posts focused on educators assumptions regarding the cost of instructional materials. So, in the spirit of using someone else’s work to create the background for our discussion, I would like you to read this NY Time article by David Carr. The author describes the sale of [...]

Posted 15 February 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

NY Times discovers the Dakotas

It took the Verizon release of the iPhone, but it appears the NY Times has discovered the Dakotas.

Posted 12 February 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Free pretty much equals shallow

I will get around to explaining the title near the end of this post. In my previous post, I introduced an interesting idea I read about in MacWorld. The MacWorld article described a new service, Readability, and interesting mechanism for supporting content creators proposed by the company that created Readability. So many of us make [...]

Posted 06 February 2011 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Guilt Trip

A recent MacWorld description of Instapaper and Readability reminded me (and probably you if you try the link) that we accept conveniences that take advantage of others. These apps strip the text we want to read out of online pages and store the text for consumption at our leisure. We may accept this convenience with [...]

Posted 02 February 2011 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °