Monday, April 22, 2002

Well, the weblogs for service learning are finally getting off the ground. But I wasn't able to use my schoolblogs site like I wanted--no tech support on that from school plus old underpowered Digitals that seem to work fine with Blogger. I told my students that blogs are a combo: news/reflection/information/sharing. Some get it right away, some don't. Maybe all will by the end of May.

Saturday, April 13, 2002

I am trying to install blogchat on this blog, but I am totally clueless. This will be the saga of how a mind unencumbered with tech savvy tries to make it work. Stay tuned.

Saturday, April 06, 2002

A nice rationalization for plans b,c,d, ad infinitum when searching from Marylaine Block.

"Why is it worth identifying our mental maps and thinking about them? To remind ourselves when we get bogged down in a question, that we can reorient ourselves to a different map and a different strategy for finding answers."

Also check out her Neatnews and her Rules for Information.
You better not call me a user. That would make you a mis-user. And that means you are an abuser. Loser. This is a cool article about how words are misshapen into nasty words of art that ultimately come around to bite the geek butts who coined them. I love the connection of "user" in techno-speak with user" in drug-speak. Well done. I need to keep track of this guy.
Yes, e-books are alive and well in Virginia. 1600 titles. Downloaded KJV of Ecclesiastes for my Palm m100 and hope to read it next week at school. Seems dolorous enough for a the end of school.

Monday, March 18, 2002

I know I have run across this before, but now I put it on my page. I think I will ask some students to subscribe to it just so I won't be so very, very lonely. Bloglet.

Sunday, March 17, 2002

The Radio Community Server sounds like the ultimate easy, on-the-fly intranet out of a box. Combine this with RSS feeds, attendance, grading, and weblogs and you might have the ed. app. we have been looking for. Thanks to David at SIT for the heads up on this.

Friday, March 15, 2002