April 19, 2007
Blogging in the Classroom
I still continue to get so many questions about opportunities that blogging can bring into the classroom that I decided to address this once again. The most recent request is in a comment here from Kevin. I think a post might be better than a comment back. First, check the previous posts on this blog: Blogging and Pedagogy Blogging in... Read the full story...
March 29, 2007
Hold Those Purchase Orders! $200 Laptops Coming Soon To US!?
After a long series of rumors and false-starts concerning distribution of the OLPC "$100 Laptop" (now known as the "XO") in the US, the Financial Times reported today that Quanta, manufacturer of the XO, will market a low cost commercial laptop in the developed world. The hardware will be based on the XO, and since the XO's software is all... Read the full story...
March 15, 2007
$2 Million for Open Source, But Where's the Source?
Here's an email I just sent to Kenneth Whang, the NSF program officer in charge of their award for the Scratch programming environment: Dear Mr. Whang, I am writing in reference to NSF grant number 0325828, entitled "ANetworked, Media-Rich Programming Environment to Enhance TechnologicalFluency at After-School Centers in Economically-DisadvantagedCommunities," which includes development of the Scratch programmingenvironment. The investigators are Mitchel... Read the full story...
• KDL: The biggest problem is that they have wasted a most valuable resource over the last few years. The code that they will ...
• KDL: The biggest problem is that they have wasted a most valuable resource over the last few years. The code that they will ...
• rahart: Shive, The other extreme is to do the work and then ask for the grant to cover the cost. One example is Break Out Sou...
March 13, 2007
It Is Good To Have A Blog
If you've been paying close attention, you might have noticed last week a post warning of the potential liabilities of renting off-site servers which are exposed to potentially large fees for bandwidth overages. More to the point, the post was about the increasingly large amount of money I was being charged by a company called ServerPronto for bandwidth I was... Read the full story...
February 22, 2007
Long time! No blogging!
I miss blogging! I am knee-deep in a research piece on blogging with elementary students. I think it is going to produce some very interesting results but I never knew research required so much time! Universities seem to have the same plight as the K-12 schools. Everytime you need something to get the job done you're told to write a... Read the full story...
• suruji: Hi, I m from India. I would like to publish Daily news paper in regional language. First i will start with weekly and t...
• Kev: Hi Anne You could be my life saver?? I am a third year teaching student living in Cumbria, England doing a dissertatio...
February 13, 2007
Bitfrost: the OLPC Security Model
The One Laptop Per Child project continues to seemingly follow Frederick the Great's maxim: "Audacity, audacity - always audacity!" attacking computer security as boldly as they have every other problem. A detailed specification of Bitfrost, the security model for the "$100 laptop," (now known as the XO) as originally reported on in eSchool News, was released last week. While no... Read the full story...
February 12, 2007
The Realities of Cell Phones as an Educational Platform
Anyone getting too geeked up about the idea of bypassing laptops and using cell phones as the 1-to-1 computing platform of the future should be required to read this paper by Tim Wu on the decidedly un-neutral and closed nature of the cellular networks. The rest of us, who already know this is a bad idea, can just read Cory's... Read the full story...
• Skybird2: Personally folks, I seriously doubt that any of you have been in a public middle or high school lately. Students in man...
• erich: I personally don?t have a problem using cell phones as a 1 to 1 way of getting educational technology out but they prima...
• Tom Hoffman: I suppose it depends on the scope of your ambition. If it is simply to allow students who have mobile phones that work ...
January 21, 2007
Get CNN Student News via Video Podcast
CNN has now made it much easier for teachers to use CNN Student News - it is available as a podcast that can be subscribed to using iTunes.
• Vdub144: Visiting the CNN page at: http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/ Produces an additional URL for those of us who do ...
• Vdub144: Why iTunes? I use a different video aggregator, and find it very disappointing to see the number of "feeds" that have ch...
Frank Krasicki Advances the Amero Story
From the Region 19 BOE Gazette: The Alex Eckelberry Op-ed piece in the Norwich Bulletin has triggered a very interesting set of responses (view all the comments).Alex got me wondering about what might have been the environment at the time of Julie Amaro's malware encounter. What I discovered was more than a little troubling. In June and July of 2004,... Read the full story...
January 17, 2007
Um... Yeah... Project Inkwell?
I was just pondering last week whether or not it was time to call out Project Inkwell. I checked out their site again. No activity. I Googled around a bit. Nothing. Were they ever going to release anything, or is this just another front group made up of industry insiders and useful idiots created to maintain the status quo by... Read the full story...
• Tom Hoffman: Bruce, I do think it could be very beneficial, if they came up with a good spec, not so much for, say, processor speed...
• Bruce Fulton: Is K-12 really clamoring for this kind of specification? I dunno. Do you really need a vendor-backed industry group to t...
• JimMc: The name "Project Inkwell" evokes one of those benignly-titled evil dastardly plots from a James Bond film. One that mig...
January 15, 2007
Learning By Doing: My Short Career as an Amateur Sys Admin
If you read my personal weblog, you might have noticed that it has been down since the end of last week. I was hacked. First off, let me say that this is by no means the first time a server or site I've run has been hacked, nor am I particularly alarmed or offended by this occurrence, any more than... Read the full story...
December 14, 2006
Leveraging a Free Javascript Timeline Widget
Tim points to Timeline, a free Javascript widget you can use to embed a cool customized timeline in any web page. The live examples demonstrate how you can create a wide variety of styles. The examples also show how a wiki can be integrated with the timeline to provide further commentary. Since timelines of various sorts are a common assignment... Read the full story...
• Ian Bicking: Ivan Krstic (with OLPC) was pretty excited about the timeline; but it performs poorly even on powerful machines, and it'...
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