Month: November 2003

Polywogg is a new blog tool for the Mac. It is presently free. You can host your blog with .Mac or with a WEBDAV server. The Polywogg system supports an wide variety of media types.

The November edition of eSchool News reports that four technology-specific programs (including PT3) are at risk in the 2004 Federal budget (note you may have to register to examine this article online). The House has been particularly problematic in supporting specific educational technology programs. Community Technology Centers, Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology, Ready to Teach, and Star Schools are presently in danger.

Cindy received a Department of Education Teaching American History grant last year. Part of the mission of this grant was to create a database supported web sites offering ideas for history lessons that could be searched by topic, standard, or grade level. This web site has just gone public – Grand Forks Teaching American History Site.

The most recent issue of Learning and Learning with Technology (Nov, 2003, 31(3)) offers several articles on a similar topic. This issue is available online and ISTE members can download the articles as PDFs.

The new Mac operating system – Panther – appears to have a problem with some specific external fire wire drives. MacFixIt reports that the data on firewire drives with a specific chip set (see article) are corrupted.

I would guess some poor users tried to do the right thing – back up essential data – loaded Panther and then tried to move the data back.

Check this out. I came across this link on the MIT Technology Review blog site. Blogger fired.