Buck O'Neil

His stories of the game and of the Negro Leagues introduced many to the story of the Negro Leagues and to that period in our history. It is sad that the special Baseball Hall of Fame Veteran's committee that recently considered additional inductees to the Hall overlooked his contributions to the game both on the field and off.

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Google Code Search

Code Search crawls and indexes publicly hosted archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip) and CVS and Subversion repositories, making them searchable in one place.... One example included WordPress config files that were left in open directories complete with logins and passwords exposed.

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Google Reader

Tom Hoffman points to the new interface for Google Reader, Google's answer for Bloglines.... I normally use NetNewsWire as an RSS feed reader but also have my OPML file in Bloglines and also Google Reader.

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PortaPortal

The process for adding sites is cumbersome, and you can't add any descriptive information about the sites that you are pointing people to.... We also take advantage of Firefox and GreaseMonkey and have built the del.icio.us tag tool into the browser toolbar to make it easy for teachers to tag the sites they want.

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OTEN Conference

The Network is a collection of 6 Oregon based teacher education programs that are working to integrate technology into university instruction and pre-service teaching. I am again teaching a class at Pacific University and Dr.Roblyer was the keynote speaker at an annual conferene that Pacific holds in conjuction with other members of the Oregon Technology in Education Network.

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Music Listening Program at Lewis

One composer is featured each week and one selected work of that composer is repeated each day over the school's PA system, or on a portable stereo.... Each week our music teacher, Tony Jamesbarry writes a short web post for the staff and community with more information about each featured composer.

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