A long time ago, I decided that I would diversify my email accounts. One of the decisions that I made was to use my Gmail account for social media and Web 2.0 things. Without a doubt, it’s the most active…
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Give a Little; Get Back a Lot
Recently, I had blogged about how to create Big Data Sets. At the core of the post was reference to the website generatedata.com. For Computer Science teachers, this can be a real timesavers. Rather than create significant test data files,…
Tagged with: BigData, computer science, Data Warehousing, diigo, generatedata.com
Posted in Computers, Del.icio.us, Diigo, Education
Posted in Computers, Del.icio.us, Diigo, Education
New Diigo Extension
During my morning reads today, I ran across this story about Google’s London Web Labs. ”With more than 5m visitors so far, Google’s London Web Lab experiments are still going strong“. As per my normal habits, I thought the story…
Tagged with: diigo, Google, Social network, Twitter
Posted in application, Diigo, Read/Write Web, Teaching
Posted in application, Diigo, Read/Write Web, Teaching
Business to Education
I have a favourite line in a Murray McLauchlin album – “We’re all in sales”. I guess that it’s not always immediately obvious. But nowhere in education is it more obvious than in blogging. From the youngest blogger to the…
Searching it All
When I’m searching for things on the internet, I really don’t want to spend time wandering around aimlessly trying one strategy and then another. I’ve had a lot of success by changing the way that I think about search. I…
Tagged with: Alex Trebek, diigo, Google, Google Chrome, Google Search, IKEA, Twitter, Web search engine
Posted in Computers, Diigo, Google, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in Computers, Diigo, Google, Read/Write Web, software
What Does Learnist for PD Mean?
I’ve been keeping a lot of resources for a long time. I felt the need to do so when I had a computer at home and a computer at work. It was then that I realized that bookmarking a link…
8 Weeks to Web 2.0
Do you want to learn about Web 2.0 this summer? Probably not, right? You know all about it and that’s why you’re reading this blog. You’ve got it nailed. But, you probably know or work with someone who needs to…
When you want more than tabs…
I’m a real collector — of web browsers. Any computer that I own has a nice collection so that I can always test anything with a variety of browsers. It lets you get to the end experience for any resource…
When to Tweet?
I originally tried out SocialBro just to see what it’s all about. After all, in a data driven world, you can’t have enough data, right? <tongue in cheek> I did have a purpose at first; I was looking for a…
Getting More Comfortable with Pinterest
Today, I spent a little more time learning about how Pinterest works. I think I’m starting to see the way that it might fit into my personal routine. At present, I’m using: This blog where I record my own original…
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- Maine school districts have eyes for Apple | The Morning Sentinel, Waterville, ME
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- How to prevent code rot | TechRepublic
- Classroom Management with EFL Students (by Natalie Britton) – Teaching Village
- A Simplified Bloom's Taxonomy Poster For Students
- 10 Little-Known Twitter Tools For Connected Educators http://t.co/5rWPP7LibQ via @zite
- Digg’s Google Reader Replacement To Launch Next Week, Available To All By June 26 http://t.co/y2F5HSXvWJ via @zite
- Feedly Gets Its Own Syncing Service, Detaches You From Google Reader http://t.co/0PpBtD14El via @zite
- Elaine Weiss: Another Casualty of Excessive Testing: Great Teachers
