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HyperCard Lives – Sort of

I am guessing most readers have no idea what HyperCard is (actually was). For many of us, HyperCard was the beginning of many things. It was the beginning of hypermedia and multimedia authoring. It was often the beginning of scripting. HyperCard was very powerful. Perhaps you have heard of the graphics-intensive game Myst – originally [...]

Posted 12 August 2008 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Also 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) ° Also tagged:

WordPress Tutorial

Learning to operate open source software can sometimes be difficult because the software may not come with tutorials and you can’t always run to Barnes and Noble (Borders, Chapters, etc.) to buy a manual. Here is a useful WordPress tutorial (the blog software I am using) you may find helpful. The first segment explains a [...]

Posted 17 October 2007 † grabe § Policy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

AERA 2007

We spent the last week in Chicago and in the journey getting from here to there and back. The event was the American Educational Research Association convention (2007). The one presentation I attended that may be of interest to those who read this blog concerned the evaluation of math and reading software I just described [...]

Posted 15 April 2007 † grabe § Research ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Blogger.com Access Control

I picked this info up from David Warlick. Like many bloggers I started blogging years ago using blogger.com. At first I used their site and then I purchased the pro version so I could serve blog content from my own server. Eventually, I moved on to software that was more powerful. Blogger.com remains an extremely [...]

Posted 23 December 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

YEP

I am not a big fan of pdfs, but more and more I find myself collecting and reading from them. What has changed for me is the availability through my university library of a wide range of research journals in this format. Even when I have the journal in my office, I often download the [...]

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

The World of Educational Software is Flat

OK – my title is a derivative. In his book (by a similar name), Tom Friedman describes when he discovered the world was flat. I think this conference represents the time point at which I realize the world of educational software is flat. Now I understand that MacKiev is not a company located somewhere in [...]

Posted 07 July 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: