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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 from groups of friends, this isn’t fool proof. Friending everyone including students and parents simply begins breaking down yet another wall between your professional life… Read more →

[][] I’ve finally gotten some time to put up a rough outline of the presentation I presented at the OSBA Capital Conference in November. Most of the material is there except for the actual audio. I’m working right now at editing in the slides into the audio. It’s slow going but I hope to have it finished soon! The page… Read more →

Codeweavers is offering two of their products for Mac and Linux free today only. I’ve only played around with Crossover when it was still in Beta, but this is some exciting news. I’m hoping it can run VMWare’s console application so I don’t have to start up VMware Fusion on my MacBook. Read more →

Showing off the WordPress app for the iPod. Read more →

This is a test, posting from my iPod Touch. Read more →

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 physics after the age of… Read more →

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 the Internet. You get complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if you… Read more →

[][] ![Creative Commons License][] credit: javYliz In the technology world it seems we’re continually confronted with new products, services, software, hardware, etc. And for those of us who have a tough time focusing on one thing at a time, this dizzying array of choices can easily distract us or keep us from finishing previous tasks. In The Paradox of Choice:… Read more →

[![][]][] [Linux Terminal Lab (and test post )][] Originally uploaded by [mr.rcollins][] This is an eight station computer setup in one of our middle school classrooms. Five of the machines are Linux terminals, booting over the network. (* I’m also trying a test post of a picture sent from my phone to Flickr. *) []: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15076398@N00/2363091899/ “photo sharing” Read more →

I was thinking about my blog post from last week, contemplating on how I should be more positive. People using technology in schools are already facing enough of an uphill battle without me picking on them. 🙂 Stealing Alvin’s Efficiency Tips idea, I want to post little tips, tricks, ideas to help the technology support staff in the education sector.… Read more →