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January 2009

January 13, 2009

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In the last little while, through my Twitter contacts, I have been exposed to so many interesting and fascinating tools available on the web.  Many of these offer intriguing opportunities for applications in the classroom.
The problem is that there are so many out there, and so little time to explore them properly!  Spending time with [...]

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I do my best to keep my private family life out of this blog.  But I’m going to break this rule for something very important I read today.
I manage a web page in a private domain where I can share pictures of my family with my family and friends.  It is not publicly available.  I [...]

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January 15, 2009

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I had a most amazing live video streaming experience today.  I’m still in awe at what I was able to witness.
One of my hobbies is following news stories about astronomy.  I like to monitor what is happening with many of the current space missions that NASA and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) administer.  Two of my [...]

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January 20, 2009

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Google recently made the news by announcing that it would be discontinuing some of its services, google notebook among some of them.  It’s clear that a big company like Google is not immune to the current economic times.  Predictably, many other on-line services are proposing to pick up some of the slack.
This fact, along with [...]

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January 29, 2009

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I have just finished another project using my wiki space: group lab reports for grade 12 chemistry.
What an amazing success!  I absolutely loved how easy this was to manage, how much information about page editing my wiki service, pbwiki, provides me, and how the students enjoyed it a lot more than they thought they would.
In [...]

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