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I was interested to see Dorothy’s post about searching (and tagging) On the other hand the same teacher instinct was apalled by how little progress we have made teaching people how to search in a way that will return the information they are seeking. Particularly using appropriate key words to refine our searches. I have been constructing [...] On the surface it looks like I haven’t been blogging much of late. Actually I have – it’s just that I stopped going as far as publishing my posts. In an effort to tidy up at least one workspace this weekend, I present a not-quite-finished discussion about cloud computing, data safety and trust. Very few of [...] Last week at our Nga Taonga Cluster Teacher Only Day Dorothy Burt challenged the audience to Google themselves occasionally. I couldn’t determine, from the nervous titter, whether many people actually had but here I am ready to say that I regularly Google myself. And what a fascinating interweb life I have led. The first Google Link [...] The Independent Online reports that Google is attempting to defend its trademark against media who use the word ‘google’ as a verb. Beyond the sheer legal issues, one of the places where this of course gets fuzzy is in the definition of “media.” How in the world do they expect to enforce [...] Google Maps Mania (a blog devoted to all things Google Maps) has a post about some New Zealand Google Map Mashups (What is a mashup?) One of the mashups is a street map index at Mayo. I entered “Summerland Dr” and was immediately taken to my own street in Waitakere City. I tried to be tricky [...] I’m in the middle of a site tidy up and so I am in a posting mood. Long may it last. Podz has a great tutorial for getting Wordpress on a USB memory stick. I can verify that this does actually work and is a handy way of demonstrating how Wordpress works. Get the [...] |
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