Northwest House BlendA tasty mix of weblogs on education, technology, and the environment(Untitled)- October 31, 2002 Happy Halloween! Here are some interesting jack-o-lanterns, along with instructions for how to make your own fancy-schmancy designs.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/31.html#a128 (Untitled)- October 31, 2002 I've started to use NetNewsWire Lite to more easily track breaking news. It's great for handling sites that support RSS syndication, but doesn't help me handle sites that don't, like Ed Week and the Chronicle. It's be nice to see NetNewsWire let me package both frequently read URLs and RSS feeds in one place.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/31.html#a127 (Untitled)- October 31, 2002 Hey, Arts and Letters Daily is back! Kudos to the Chronicle for rescuing a great resource for thought-provoking writing.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/31.html#a126 (Untitled)- October 22, 2002 LESTER (Learning Science and Technology Repository) is an online community and information space focused on innovations in learning science and technology. It's somewhat similar in intent to the CILT Knowledge Network.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/22.html#a125 (Untitled)- October 22, 2002 Apple is offering any K-12 teacher a free copy of Mac OS X 10.2.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/22.html#a124 (Untitled)- October 14, 2002 Conference announcement: Designing for User Experiences (DUX) 2003, San Francisco, 5-7 June 2003. ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH, and AIGA Experience Design are pleased and excited to offer an unprecedented joint conference: DUX2003. DUX2003 will gather together designers of all kinds from our intersecting communities who deliver user-centered designs for the digital age. (Submissions due 1 Feb 2003.)http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/14.html#a123 (Untitled)- October 14, 2002 ISTE publishes Palm(TM) Handheld Computers -- A Complete Resource for Classroom Teachers.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/14.html#a122 (Untitled)- October 8, 2002 Massachusetts Sued Over Graduation Tests. Education Week reports on the suit, on behalf of students who did not pass the state's high stakes graduation tests, that attacks the validity of the assessments.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/07.html#a121 (Untitled)- October 7, 2002 New Palm handhelds break the $100 price point.. This means you can get a Palm (albeit with only 2M of RAM, and probably not upgradeable) for slightly more than the cost of a TI-82 graphing calculator, and significantly less than a TI-92.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/07.html#a120 (Untitled)- October 7, 2002 Webcams in space! The upcoming Atlantis flight will include a live video feed.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100163/2002/10/07.html#a119 |