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Will Richardson has a post about my ASCD presentation up on his site. During the session Will shared some of the work that he and his students are doing. Tonight he and I are going out to dinner with Pat Delaney... Has been great to have a chane to meet them.
This is a test....
Recently I have been playing with an application called Spring. Spring is a desktop alternative for OS X. You can create canvas areas with objects that represent people, places, RSS feeds... (hooks to NetNewsWire) just about anything. The developers also have a weblog.
Andrew Orlowski of The Register...
Spring gives you a variety of panes, with object inside them that can be grouped. These can tap into the underlying infrastructure - the OS X address book, or AIM, or iTunes, or the Sherlock web services client - thanks to the much underrated power of AppleScript. It's exceedingly well done and Spring offers you a way of organizing your life, and files, as you wish.
The New York Times also has an article about Spring... Turning the Desktop Into a Meeting Place
[by way of... Jon's Radio]
Concerns over the use of text messaging language in exam answers are voiced by markers and teachers in Scotland. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] I kind of find this humorous.
BBC NEWS | Technology | School bus offers web on the go Information technology teacher Alex Townsend is using his 3G handset to provide a wireless broadband internet connection for schoolchildren.
I love stuff like this. He's using his laptop as an access point and allowing the iMacs to connect...
Brooklyn BloggEd (Side B) This morning Joe Luft points to my posting about audioBLOGGER. Trackback is enabled on his post, so if you go to his site you will notice that this post is referenced on his site...
Hiptop Nation A community weblog for those posting from a Danger Hiptop. Very easy to post, just send an email message from your Hiptop/Sidekick (Hiptop is the name that Danger calls their product, Sidekick is the name that T-Mobile markets it under) to a specific address and the result is a post to the Hiptop Nation web site... Individual posts can be organized into a specific user weblog. An RSS feed is also produced (see example in the right sidebar).
Geek.com Geek News - Microsoft's Threedegrees IM software The software, called Threedegrees, aims to create peer-to-peer social groups of up to 10 people. This allows for groups of friends to communicate with one another in their own groups so they can chat, share photos and video, and listen to music together.
I'm afraid my daughters will find out about this... :-) The article in Newsweek made an interesting point... that normally Microsoft creates productivity software... This stuff is designed to enable you to goof off...
Sony Ericsson Clicker adds even more love to the growing relationship between my Sony Ericsson T68i cellphone and OS X’d iBook.
The Clicker turns your cellphone into a remote control for your Mac. [ by way of...raelity bytes]