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Can Insync dethrone Dropbox as a cloud storage service?

January 13, 2012 – 3:22 pm |

A couple of weeks ago I read a Techcrunch article about Insync. It is a service that works almost identically to Dropbox. Their differentiating feature is the fact that they use your Google Docs account …

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Can Insync dethrone Dropbox as a cloud storage service?

January 13, 2012 – 3:22 pm |

A couple of weeks ago I read a Techcrunch article about Insync. It is a service that works almost identically to Dropbox. Their differentiating feature is the fact that they use your Google Docs account …

The Senior Experience – Student Blogging for School Pride and High School Credit

November 15, 2011 – 8:30 pm | Comments Off

Madison Local School District
Ohio School Public Relations Association
AJ Huff – Coordinator of school community public relations
The Senior Experience
- class
What
- 21st century teaching and learning
- language arts credit
- students apply, 6 students in class
- blog …

Following lots of people on Twitter? You need ReadTwit

January 12, 2010 – 8:06 am | Comments Off
Following lots of people on Twitter? You need ReadTwit

A couple of months ago I decided to expand my use of Twitter, and began following more and more people in the education community. This was awesome, until I realized I could not keep up with the barrage of data that I was being given. In November I started brainstorming ideas on how to keep up

Facebook’s new privacy settings

December 13, 2009 – 3:45 pm | Comments Off
Facebook’s new privacy settings

photo credit: ekurvine
Facebook has begun rolling out new settings for who can see your Facebook profile and what they can see on your profile. I suggest you double-check what is viewable about you. I …

Setup a Facebook Page instead of using your personal FB account

December 6, 2009 – 8:05 pm | 3 Comments

One common question I see asked all the time is whether or not teachers should friend students on Facebook. Although you can set your privacy settings on Facebook to hide certain aspects of your life …

Group Twitterbot is broken. :-(

May 11, 2009 – 11:53 am | Comments Off
Group Twitterbot is broken. :-(

Twitter updated how direct messages are emailed, so my Group Twitterbot code is now broken. I’m hopefully going to be able to work on it this week. I’m planning on fixed this problem and set …

Online collaboration with EtherPad

May 7, 2009 – 11:14 am | 3 Comments
Online collaboration with EtherPad

Etherpad, which was open to users, then closed, appears to now be open again. It is an online collaborative text editor usable by anyone with an Internet connection, a browser, and Javascript. There is no …

Google Spreadsheet Forms for class/meeting sign-ups

February 9, 2009 – 9:20 pm | 2 Comments

I was trying to think of a quick and easy way to have my staff sign up for classes. Right before I sat down to whip something up with a little php/mysql I realized I …

Group Twitter bot

January 16, 2009 – 2:48 pm | Comments Off

Chris Hamady had the idea that at the eTech Ohio State Technology Conference we should be able to use Twitter to communicate great things that individuals see throughout the conference. It needed to be set …

Free access to Encyclopedia Britannica articles

April 19, 2008 – 7:23 am | Comments Off

Encyclopedia Britannica, through their Encyclopedia Britannica Webshare program allows web publishers free online access to the encyclopedia and the ability to give their readers free access to an article in its entirety.
A special program for …