Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Everything must go! Congrats to Tim for his new gig as Director of Technology for the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools. I think we need ed-minded people in IT jobs right now more than tech-minded people in ed jobs. Also, Tim has a link to the new Google SketchUp. If you haven’t realized it by now, this move should make it clear that…

I rolled up to LinuxWorld Boston with a free pass to the exhibit floor. It is the second year I’ve done this, and it is a worthy way to spend an afternoon. Made it up there in time to catch fellow Providence Geek Brian Jepson’s talk on Ubuntu Hacks. He had some nice virtualization gags built into the talk (accessing…

Oooh, Snap! Worst of all, I can’t believe Microsoft actually held this big nonevent “event” only a few days before announcing another screw-up in Vista. If Ballmer knew he was about to announce a delay and still had this event, he’s crazy. If he didn’t know Vista was about to slip again, then Microsoft is in worse shape than anyone…

Kudos to David Thornburg for stepping up as the first of the ed-tech keynote warhorses (that I’m aware of) to make open source and desktop Linux a focus of his talks. Wesley Fryer has notes on Thornburg’s “March of the Penguins: Linux on the Student Desktop” talk at TCEA 2006, and a podcast to follow….

I’ve been feeling a bit guilty about calling Bill Bennett a “compulsive gambler” in a recent post. I’m not a shrink, so I shouldn’t be offering crackpot diagnoses. In fact, I think that Bennett simply chooses to gamble because he’s rich and it’s fun. If it feels good Bill, do it. On the other hand, this article in the Washington…

NECC has hosted a Free Software Center and email garden for the past few years, providing a space for folks to check their email, get some first hand experience using desktop Linux, and absorb some Linux advocacy. Things have been a bit discombobulated this year in terms of scheduling demos and such at the center, but here’s a last-minute slate…

From BBC Technology News on June 24, 2005

Microsoft’s next version of its browser, Internet Explorer 7, will make it easier for people to keep automatically aware of website updates. IE7 will have an orange button on the toolbar which will light up when it detects a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed on a site. […]

After a week, I’m going to pause the automatic ‘Daily Discoveries’ posting from my Jots account. It is a somewhat inelegant way to interject quick links into this forum, but it gave us some interesting ideas, I think, which will probably resurface sometime soon in a more smoothly integrated form. I think it is important to have a way to…

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