From the Source…

One of the primary principles of the American democracy is right of the people to know what our government is up to. Across history, as government operations become more secret, they also become more corrupt, and tend to deviate from the values and goals of the society. There are reasons for the government to keep [...]

Posted on January 31st, 2006 by John Schinker
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Finding Education Podcasts

I’ve described podcasts, and given some examples of podcasts about education and technology. But technology is not an end unto itself. If these things are going to be useful for teachers, we have to use them to teach science and social studies and math. You can search the general podcasts repositories, but it’s hard to [...]

Posted on January 27th, 2006 by John Schinker
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We Got the Beat

What’s that song? You know, the one that’s playing in your head that you can’t remember the words to? It’s bothering you now, and you can’t quite put your finger on it. Sure, you could probably hum a few bars, but what good is that going to do? Well, go over to The Song Tapper [...]

Posted on January 24th, 2006 by John Schinker
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What’s a Wiki?

Basically, a wiki is an editable web page. Traditionally, a web page was created by one person (or entity) and viewed by many people. I could make a web page for my computer applications class, and the students and their parents could go to that page and read the information that’s there. On a wiki, [...]

Posted on January 23rd, 2006 by John Schinker
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Ask and Ye Shall Receive

I was complaining (in Searching Audio and Found It) about not being able to search audio archives. I was looking for something I heard in a podcast, and couldn’t find it, and, since it was audio, I couldn’t Google it either. Along comes PodZinger. This is a search engine for podcasts. I looks like they [...]

Posted on January 20th, 2006 by John Schinker
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