Category Archives: On the Web

I was Canadian – Part 4

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Linus

Our interviews with famous dead Canadians are pretty much wrapped up now. I learned a few things in the process. If you’re going to alter people’s voices to make girls sound like guys and guys sound like girls, subtle changes … Continue reading →

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Sometimes it works out well

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Linus

This year I was assigned a computer media course to teach which intimidated me since I really don’t know that much about that stuff. Clearly, I learned at least as much as the kids did. I also learned (again) that … Continue reading →

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Kidblog.org

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Linus

For one of my classes I try to have the kids blog regularly. It’s a hard thing to do from a technical point of view. There are very few inexpensive or free sites where I can have the students write … Continue reading →

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I love Opera!

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Linus

Though kind of partial to Firefox, I really don’t pay a lot of attention to whatever the latest web browser version is. For most things you do it doesn’t really matter. However, Opera has just released a new version of … Continue reading →

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Quickly Publishing to the Web

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Linus

Via Dogtrax’ blog comes news of this rather incredible web publishing tool. If you’ve ever looked for a way to quickly and easily get a document onto the web without all the tedious mucking about with HTML, File2.ws presents a … Continue reading →

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Getting it online

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Linus

I’ve been having the kids in my Applying Information and Communication Technology 2 15 F class (gotta love the short, snappy course name!) build websites as one of the their projects. They’ve been using Weebly for the exercise. Weebly is … Continue reading →

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Shooting the Schlieffen Plan

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Linus

In the course of teaching history/Social Studies, it seems that nearly every year I have to teach the kids how World War I got started and how the Schlieffen Plan kicked in. It’s a fairly complex sequence of events, and … Continue reading →

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