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Kludging Scuttle

Friday, August 18, 2006

This is just a quickie braindump post so I have some notes on a bit of tweaking I just did on the school’s installation of Scuttle, an open-source social bookmarking tool similar to del.icio.us. The problem we were running into was a lack of administrative control to get rid of undesirable (spam) links in the [...]

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TLt 2006: Using iMovie and iChat for educators

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Jay Wilson is talking about using iMovie/iChat. Some key points Ugly is good. Don’t worry about making it beautiful – capturing good content is more important than competing with Spielberg. A lot of educational video is not played back under optimum conditions – low bandwidth, old equipment, etc. so spending a lot of extra time [...]

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Wiki-ing the research process

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

A grade 11 biology class that I teach has been involved in an interesting project that I’ve meant to pass along to you. The course objectives include a study of classification of organisms and a study of some basic ecological principles. I wanted to combine these two into a long term project for the course [...]

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try ruby: a great programming tutorial

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

I was just taking a look at try ruby! (in your browser), a very cool little programming tutorial for the Ruby language. Normally, I would just add this to my del.icio.us feed, but del.icio.us appears to be well and truly bollixed at the moment. (Sorry if this is offensive language to anyone, but it is [...]

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NORAD? Google Earth is the way to go for Santa Tracking!

Saturday, December 24, 2005

I see that many bloggers are signing off for a little break including Rick, who has pointed out that we can monitor Santa’s path using NORAD Santa Tracker In the meantime, remember to follow Santa’s movements around the globe from the NORAD tracking station. Hmmm – I think NORAD tracker is a little too 20th [...]

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Games, Learning and Fun

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

I’ve been reading Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson. One section in particular that I enjoyed was his discussion of how games provide an opportunity for cognitive growth. A good example of this is Planarity, a cunningly simple game that will is so much fun, you might not even realize that you [...]

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