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Web publishing and authoring tools

The Mozilla project just released Sea Monkey – the newest version of the integrated web suite from the open source provider. I am not aware of the origin of the name, but this product appears as the updated version of a product that has been around for some time. At one time I was a [...]

Posted 02 November 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

XtraNormal – Avatar-Based Movies – Write Your Own

My previous post invited you to view a very creative project intro developed by a couple of Grand Forks teachers. Their mini-movie was created using a new online resource called xtranormal. xtranormal allows users to script avatar-based movies. The narrative is generated by typing a script. You can select camera angles and the set. The [...]

Posted 25 November 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

PageFlakes for Educators

I make use of personal web portals and while I was aware of Pageflakes, I have always classified it as another personal portal. By personal portal, I mean a web page hosted on a remote server that users can easily customize with “widgets” (or whatever the host companies calls function specific modules that can be [...]

Posted 05 December 2007 † LuellaHuffman35 § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also 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 † LuellaHuffman35 § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Teaching to Learn

A certain type of guilt has been embedded within my academic personality. I credit this to my early academic training. I am tempted to compare this to religious training, but I do not want to be accused of being politically incorrect. If I become excited about something and become an advocate, there is a little [...]

Posted 30 March 2007 † grabe § Research ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Google Creator – Efficient Web Page Creation

Google has added a new tool to its collection of online resources. Google Page Creator is a template-based web authoring tool. A web author interacts with the tool using a browser much in the way one would interact with a blog tool. Google hosts the site (you are allowed 100 mb of content at present). [...]

Posted 04 April 2006 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: