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Shiny magical smartphones and better tracking data

I noticed on one of my observation visits that the teacher almost never put down her clipboard. On it, she kept a chart that allowed her to track student progress and comprehension, take notes on students who needed additional help … Continue reading

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NPR and PHP

Every so often, I’m on a road trip, driving around the great southern states, and I’m overtaken with a very strong need for some public radio. Unfortunately, I don’t have one of the handy NPR Station Locator Maps. I also … Continue reading

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Processing

Conceived by a couple of grad students working with John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab, Processing is an open source programming language and environment for designers. Built on top of Java, the platform is a simplified way of allowing … Continue reading

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Federally Financed R&D Expenditures at Doctorate-granting Institutions by State, FY 1993-2006

Here we’re going to experiment with a Google gadget displaying Federal expenditures on state R & D over a period of 14 years: Source: SSTI

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Incipit

I figured that the best way to encourage myself to revamp appratt.com would be to just delete everything on the site and install WordPress. Here we are. Now on to step two, putting my own stuff back on.

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