I did a web search for some information about freedom and software in schools then stumbled across the following inspirational quote."Those who profess to favor freedom, yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many ( Read more... )

Things are getting serious with these web 2.0 companies. IT News mentions that Yahoo has purchased del.icio.us as they have already with Flickr. Back in September I did have a look at social bookmarking using Furl. Today I registered a del.icio.us account and give it another look in. It integrates nicely into Firefox and Thunderbird on my computer ( Read more... )

When I teach touch-typing to my middle school students, I have found that the old grill and drill teaching style seem to work best. Students would work their way through a series of structured lessons, clattering away at their keyboards as I hover about, correcting and killing off any bad habits as soon as they appear ( Read more... )