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Education 2.0 | The Internet makes us the computer wearing tennis shoes

I’ve got a confession. I love the ‘95 remake of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, the one with Kirk Cameron —not Kurt Russell. Having access to all that information just seemed really cool.
For those unfamiliar, here’s a quick summary: This average guy, Dexter Reilly, zaps himself working on a state-of-the-art computer and suddenly he’s able [...]


Bookmarks for October 17th through October 19th

These are my links for October 17th through October 19th:

The Blogging Scholarship - Applying for this blogging scholarship. Hoping for the best!
Daniel Dura » TwitterCamp - Great AIR app for showing a lot of recent Tweets in an intuitive interface. Can be helpful for tracking breaking news just like watching cable news stations.
Slicehost - VPS [...]


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5 October 2008 @ 3pm

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Bookmarks for October 2nd through October 4th

These are my links for October 2nd through October 4th:

Compost Buckets - Composting - Outdoor - Eco Home & Outdoor - Gaiam - Smell-proof compost buckets are a great way to keep everything going without offending my roommates.
ReportingOn - The backchannel for your beat. - Ryan Sholin launched ReportingOn this week. The goal, from what [...]


CoverItLive reactions

As I posted earlier today, I used CoverItLive to post a liveblog of the presidential debate. I had some problems getting the thing to post in Wordpress and I found another key problem: preparation.
These blogs need a lot of prep: Photos, poll ideas, text links and invites. Invitations are possibly the greatest time consumer beforehand. [...]


Trying CoverItLive - Presidential debate in Philadelphia

Trying out a new tool, Cover It Live. Let’s see how it works with the presidential debate:
<iframe src=”http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?option=com_altcaster&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=17198ddadf&height=550&width=470″ scrolling=”no” height=”550px” width=”470px” frameBorder =”0″ ></iframe>
UPDATE: Apparently embedding the frame isn’t working with BonEcho or Wordpress
Check out the liveblog here.


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