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  • Second Brain as a PLE

    One of the things that web2.0 has left us with is more places to dump everything that we make or find. There are a number of services that have started up to help mitigate this. Social Networking sites seem to be the high flyers here, but what about the great host of other aggregators out…

  • Posting Safety

    This is an interesting post to have stumbled on (paper). After all the news about how social networking sites are dangerous in terms of sexual predators that may lurk within. Here is some of the first research to look at what the case truly might be from within the world of the user, not the…

  • Evernote

    Windows users have been “blessed” with this utility for a while. Evernote allows users to capture text in images and archive/index/search them later on. I’m thinking that this could be a great tool for making classrooms accessible (assuming anyone, or anything can read the prof’s writing). Students could take shapshots of notes for later reference and to supplement their…

  • Journo Quest

    Neverwinter Nights seems to be the game that keeps giving to the education realm. The first project using the game that I became aware of was ScriptEase – developed here at the U of A and now there is Journo Quest. Both use the game engine to tell stories. But where the U of A engine is trying to…

  • Easter Eggs

    Well it seems that I have been bitten by the bad luck bug. Last night my work machine was purring along just fine. Tripping up here and there, but nothing over the top considering I was thinking that my issues were with Google, slow scripts and the like. Then I come into the office this…