There’s been a big push on to get faculty thinking about possible distance learning tools in the light of the H1N1 virus. We’ve all been asked to think about how we’d deal with either faculty or students being isolated for … Continue reading →
I read with great interest an article in the local paper, the Valley News today Creating Hartford on the Web about a course at a local high school Designed and co-taught by social studies teachers Mike Hathorn and Woody Rothe, … Continue reading →
WordPress.com Introduces VideoPress for WordPress.com users Posted using ShareThis On the way down to lunch I had a curbside discussion with one of the faculty on the subject of our video server, KUtube, and our new WordPressMU install, KUAPress and … Continue reading →
Interesting take on the search engine: spezify still in beta. Searching for nile monitor +florida (after reading this fascinating article in the New Yorker (print version) … Continue reading →
I seem to be on the mailing list for eSchool News, which in a idle moment led me to Teacher’s Domain “Digital Media for the Classroom and Professional Development”. Teachers’ Domain, a library of free digital resources and fee-based professional … Continue reading →
What caught my eye this morning was this Guide to Most Useful Bookmarklets for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. from the Digital Inspiration Technology Blog. Readability of course is in there, but also things like : PrintWhatYouLike – A brilliant bookmarklet … Continue reading →
Now here’s a tool I’ll be looking at further : GoView. One of our courses is being reorganized for next year and the instructors plan to have a lot of materials online. (That was one of the thoughts behind KUAPress, … Continue reading →
Adds a Reload button to the footer so you can get links back and adds to the effectiveness, now works on over 90% of pages (they say)
After attending a WordCamp back in February with a young colleague we both became pretty excited about the idea of setting up our own multi-user WordPress blog site here on campus. (same as Harvard uses, whoop-t-doo!) Or WordPress.com fo that … Continue reading →
The Revenge Of The Readers This intriguing title in my Netvibes reader yesterday, alerted me to what has got to be one of the best web tools ever: Readability. This is ” a simple tool that makes reading on the … Continue reading →
