http://ryancollins.org/wp Education Information and Discussions Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:28:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Go and download it! (At the proper time, of course. :-) )ShareThis http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/06/17/firefox-30-to-be-released-at-10-pdt-100pm-for-those-on-the-east-coast/ This is a test, posting from my iPod Touch. ShareThis http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/06/12/test-post-from-typepads-blogit/ According to a recent study, names really do make a difference:Parents are being warned to think long and hard when choosing names for their babies as research has discovered that girls who are given very feminine names, such as Anna, Emma or Elizabeth, are less likely to study maths or ... http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/06/03/would-a-rose-by-any-other-name-smell-just-as-sweet/ May 22, 1973: Enter Ethernet 1973: Bob Metcalfe of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center writes a memo outlining how to connect the think tank's new personal computers to a shared printer. The memo puts forth the basic properties of -- and names -- ethernet. Looking at his diagram, he had the ... http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/05/24/happy-35th-birthday-ethernet/ Since I am home this week, I decided to get caught up on some projects. The big one was working on getting an interactive whiteboard setup going with a Nintendo Wiimote and an infrared pen. This morning, I finally got my infrared pen working. What I did was bought a ... http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/05/16/wiimote-interactive-whiteboard-success/ On the Ohio Technology Coordinator's listserv this question was posted:We already had one case of student to teacher generated e-mail that originated on a student computer inside the school. The FIRST question I got as the Tech Director was 'Why are you allowing students to send and receive email in ... http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/05/15/why-do-students-need-email/ Exempt Those Exams!ShareThis http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/05/13/end-of-year-humor/ Although the built-in editor for Wordpress works pretty well, it still feels a little bit kludgy. If I'm on my MacBook I like to use Windows Live Writer or Textmate, but Windows Live Writer requires me to fire up VMware and Textmate seems to also be a little kludgy. I've ... http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/04/23/maybe-finally-found-the-perfect-blog-editor-2/ 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 web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for ... http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/04/19/free-access-to-encyclopedia-britannica-articles/ photo credit: jigpuAfter I first read this story, I thought that it was a pretty cool: When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Sherwood, Ark., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. Upon reflection ... http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/04/17/wheres-the-outrage/