Category Archives: Tools

Safari and WP 2.5 finally in step

April 5, 2008 – 11:06 am

Not crippling or llfe-threatening, but the inability of Safari to play nice with WordPress’ visual editor has been, at best, annoying. The last major release of Safari said that all things with visual editors were to be fixed, but that didn’t take. And, I’m not sure who to blame or praise today, but the issue [...]

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Twitter ahead of the curve: two stories from Thursday

March 20, 2008 – 8:19 pm

The first comes from @scobleizer (Robert Scoble) who reported that @dotBen said there was an earthquake in China (7.2).
The next, is from @davewiner (Dave Winer) who reports well ahead of major networks that he’s gotten a tip about the Obama passport breach. @stevegillmor has been comparing this to Watergate and that it may go [...]

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Consolidating webspace

January 13, 2008 – 6:27 pm

bashing education is no longer…well, as far as a separate site, I’ve just deleted the wordpress.com blog and moved all the entries over here to vergilscoffee.com. (And, perhaps, you can imagine why).
My hopes for bashing education will still live and I figure that instead of having special sites for special topics really doesn’t make too [...]

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Stikkit to Lesson Plans

December 7, 2007 – 6:06 pm

(And my apologies to Stikkit for the lousy title).
I’m as interested as the next teacher who likes the technology stuff to get organized. Lesson planning is no exception.
Most of us began our scripting of beautiful lesson plans with those really nice spiral-bound Lesson Plan books that even gave us some overview of the basics of [...]

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