BurningbirdEric Langhorst is a history teacher in Liberty, Missouri. He’s been specializing in ways of using the internet in order to aid in the teaching of history, and has posted conference notes about his research for the MidWest Education Technology conference here in St. Louis. It’s a nice presentation, but it does demonstrate the growing importance of […]
Roger Johansson details his browser testing strategy and it is far more extensive than mine–at least for CSS and markup, though I go much further when it comes to JavaScript. I start with, and use extensively, Firefox on the Mac. The main reason why is the extensions, specifically Firebug. I think that Joe Hewitt’s Firebug is the third […]
The only domains I’m keeping are burningbird.net, shelleypowers.com, and missourigreen.com. Burningbird is my major site, I’m turning the shelleypowers.com into an online CV, resume, what have you, and developing MissouriGreen more fully. One unique feature of Missouri Green is that most of the site resources will be hosted on Amazon’s S3. I’ve already tried out […]
Invited to speak on technology and education, Steve Jobs decides to let loose on teachers unions of all things, as the thing most harmful for schools. Not once does he exhibit any understanding of the differences between unions, teachers associations, and the concept of tenure as a separate entity, he blasts away making the statement about how […]
I guess now it’s OK to be against nofollow. Well, thank goodness our opinions have been validated.