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May
19
Refactoring with User Experience and IT Structure
May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I read an article by Peter Hornsby on UXmatters talking about utilizing the software code revisionist method of code refactoring. The idea is to make the code easier for software engineers to understand and work with. There is no change to the functioning of the software but the code gets cleaned up and easier to [...]
May
5
Educational Technology Twitter Feed
May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I am creating several RSS, social network and Twitter feeds for Achieve Kids. I thought this was a particularly interesting result.
I funneled it through Yahoo Pipes, which I am finding to be particularly useful when merging several search parameters into one feed.
{”pipe_id”:”8kj1ac453hGX5d4C3rVd_w”,”_btype”:”list”}
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Ffritzboyle.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F05%2F05%2Feducational-technology-twitter-feed%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Educational+Technology+Twitter+Feed’;
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Dec
10
Free Online Teaching Resources
December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Knowledge Community (www.intel.com/pressroom)
Price: Free
Knowledge Community creates a secure school online community for students, parents, teachers and administrators.
Spanish I A (http://www.amered.com)
This new courseware is designed to help students understand Spanish through study guides, practice activities, and interactive games.
iKnow! (http://www.iknow.co.jp)
iKnow! makes it possible to create learning modules in 188 languages for study within the community-powered suite of [...]
Apr
6
The Future of Education
April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
In the world that I picture, education will be a priority again. Not sports stars and pop stars, or wars. Instead, we will focus our energies on our childrens’ learning. We have all this amazing technology and as far as I can tell, the kids are the ones who really know how to use it [...]
