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OSBA Capital Conference ’09 Presentation Page Now Up
[][] 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…
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Next presentation – OSBA Capital Conference, 11/10/09, Columbus, OH
I will be presenting at the Ohio School Board Association’s Capital Conference at the Greater Columbus Convention Center on November 10 at 3:30pm. My presentation is on using cell phones and other mobile network devices in the classroom.
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Organize your email with a Flagged folder
I have multiple email accounts, and read it from various devices. It’s all based on IMAP, so folders, messages read, etc. stay the same from device to device. The problem I was having was when I’d read a message on my iPod Touch or Samsung Omnia (a Windows Mobile cellphone). Sometimes it would be a…
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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 it up so it’s more stand alone, you’ll be able to use it anywhere you can have a php based…
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Language arts teachers, take note, experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in real time
Dracula Experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a new way — in real time. Dracula is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries,) and this blog will publish each diary entry on the day that it was written by the narrator so that the audience may experience the drama…
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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 sign up required, you just share a unique URL with the people you want to collaborate with. Each user is…
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The Kindle DX is available for pre-order, does anyone care?
Today’s announcement of the Kindle DX, a 9.7″ version of the Kindle is being hailed as some sort of savior of the newspaper industry and a breakthrough for the college textbook market. At almost \$500 I don’t see it as either. The biggest negative about the Kindle will also be the last thing fixed, if…
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OS X not saving passwords?
About a month ago I noticed that passwords weren’t being saved in apps in OS X like Safari, Omniweb, etc. I didn’t bother trying to figure out the problem, until today when I would go to a site in Safari and it would ask to save the password. I said yes everytime, but it still…
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Gmail presents Autopilot
From the website: The easiest email could possibly be. As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages. With Gmail autopilot no longer do you…