January 22, 2010 by Screenbeard
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Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
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There’s this new craze on Twitter to get people to ask you questions anonymously and answer them on Twitter or your website. It uses this little site (run by FormSpring.com) called formspring.me to solicit questions, and people derive some amusement from it.
BUT
The day I heard about it, I thought immedaitely of skribit.com which I had only JUST installed on my site a week earlier and does exactly what formspring.me does only prettier, usefull-er and integrated-into-your-site-ier which for me are all important things.
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Tags: free software, fun, review, skribit, Tech
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May 22, 2007 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
Out with the Old
This intro is aimed at people who can use the Internet, and are comfortable using the last version of Microsoft’s Internet browser: Internet Explorer 6 (also known as
IE6).
You may know, a browser is any program that allows you to view — or browse — web pages. Because Internet Explorer is the most widely used browser, some of you probably know it only as “the Internet”. It looks like this:
and you usually start it with this icon:
In with IE7
Recently, Microsoft released an updated version of their Internet Explorer browser called Internet Explorer 7 (or
IE7). It fixed a lot of problems that
IE6 had, and looks a lot prettier. More than the superficial changes though, it adopted a lot of excellent little features that make Internet surfing safer and easier. It’s these changes that I’m going to explore in this article, so you can learn what makes
IE7 different and get used to using it in your school or at home.
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Tags: internet, old dogs new tricks, software, Tech
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May 4, 2007 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
Here’s an easy to use little app for both staff and students. It’s called Jump Knowledge (jkn for short) and it allows you to grab a copy of any webpage you’re reading and write whatever you want all over it (called annotating).
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March 12, 2007 by ScreenbeardcloseAuthor: Screenbeard
Name: Joshua Nunn
Email: josh@nunnone.com
Site: http://joshnunn.nunnone.com/
About: Josh Nunn is a technology-loving-guy working in a large metropolitan high school. He lives in South Australia with his wife Camilla and his daughter Amelynne. [more]See Authors Posts (402)
This was my first thought when Al said he’d created an EduBlogs blog for me. I already blog infrequently on two of my own blogs, and it seems every website that ever tried to be ‘two point oh’ offers a free blog. I have an unused blogger account, a wordpress blog that I had to sign up for to use Akismet (an antispam plugin), and if I’d ever been suckered in to using MySpace, Facebook, or any other social site I’d be drowning in the guilt of too many unused blogs.
But I’m not going to feel guilty about this one. I recently made a vow to myself to do something creative daily, and one of the options I gave myself was to blog. Maybe it wont be here, but I should be blogging more regularly. About the same time, Al and a couple of other bloggers he linked to have been inspiring me to have a bit of a say about education. I hesitated because my perspective is not unique — there are hundreds of other IT people in the South Australian education system. I also hesitated because I fear that there is not much I can say that hasn’t been said already by people who can write betterer.
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