Comments on: Wish a particular tool existed? Learn how to get it made! We’ll design a tool together http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/06/27/wish-a-particular-tool-existed-learn-how-to-get-it-made-well-design-a-tool-together/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Fahlberg http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/06/27/wish-a-particular-tool-existed-learn-how-to-get-it-made-well-design-a-tool-together/comment-page-1/#comment-86605 Tim Fahlberg Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:38:06 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3618#comment-86605 Thanks Wes for citing our Mathcasts wiki - projects. One of our next big projects is to see about making mathcasts accessible/creatable for/by the blind and deaf. We'll face unique challenges doing these as you can imagine but as Malcolm Gladwell writes so eloquently in Outliers "it's kind of sad to think of how much wasted potential we have in our country by not giving EVERY child the support they deserve." Eventually I can see us having both a library of mathcasts and a Q/A forum accessible to everyone regardless of the language they speak and communicate with including ASL and Braille, Nemeth code, etc. And why stop at math ... this kind of thing would be easy to do for physics, chemistry, etc too. Thanks Wes for citing our Mathcasts wiki – projects.

One of our next big projects is to see about making mathcasts accessible/creatable for/by the blind and deaf. We’ll face unique challenges doing these as you can imagine but as Malcolm Gladwell writes so eloquently in Outliers “it’s kind of sad to think of how much wasted potential we have in our country by not giving EVERY child the support they deserve.”

Eventually I can see us having both a library of mathcasts and a Q/A forum accessible to everyone regardless of the language they speak and communicate with including ASL and Braille, Nemeth code, etc.

And why stop at math … this kind of thing would be easy to do for physics, chemistry, etc too.

]]> By: Wesley Fryer http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/06/27/wish-a-particular-tool-existed-learn-how-to-get-it-made-well-design-a-tool-together/comment-page-1/#comment-86577 Wesley Fryer Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:33:38 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3618#comment-86577 Scott: I have seen Zoho's database app but haven't played with it. That fact that it's extensible and you can hire a coder to develop something custom using Zoho as a platform is also a great thing, for folks that aren't running or don't want to run a database solution on their own servers. Do you have or know of any good links to using Zoho database functionality for educators? Jim, thanks for the link to that firefox extension! It doesn't look like they have released it for NeoOffice on the Mac, however. Anyone know of a similar extension that is Mac compatible? Scott: I have seen Zoho’s database app but haven’t played with it. That fact that it’s extensible and you can hire a coder to develop something custom using Zoho as a platform is also a great thing, for folks that aren’t running or don’t want to run a database solution on their own servers.

Do you have or know of any good links to using Zoho database functionality for educators?

Jim, thanks for the link to that firefox extension! It doesn’t look like they have released it for NeoOffice on the Mac, however. Anyone know of a similar extension that is Mac compatible?

]]> By: Scott Weidig http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/06/27/wish-a-particular-tool-existed-learn-how-to-get-it-made-well-design-a-tool-together/comment-page-1/#comment-86521 Scott Weidig Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:39:42 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3618#comment-86521 Wes, under your "my wish" you list database apps... You really nerd to check out zoho.com they have zoho creator which allows quick creation for a database driven app, but also zoho database and reports which is a fully relational database within the cloud. This could handle any db app you need... Scott Wes,

under your “my wish” you list database apps… You really nerd to check out zoho.com they have zoho creator which allows quick creation for a database driven app, but also zoho database and reports which is a fully relational database within the cloud. This could handle any db app you need…

Scott

]]> By: links for 2009-06-27 | Señorita Murrell http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/06/27/wish-a-particular-tool-existed-learn-how-to-get-it-made-well-design-a-tool-together/comment-page-1/#comment-86475 links for 2009-06-27 | Señorita Murrell Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:04:58 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3618#comment-86475 [...] Wish a particular tool existed? Learn how to get it made! We’ll design a tool together » Moving a... (tags: necc code) Posted in Links. Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!) [...] [...] Wish a particular tool existed? Learn how to get it made! We’ll design a tool together » Moving a… (tags: necc code) Posted in Links. Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!) [...]

]]> By: Jim Klein http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/06/27/wish-a-particular-tool-existed-learn-how-to-get-it-made-well-design-a-tool-together/comment-page-1/#comment-86461 Jim Klein Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:00:48 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3618#comment-86461 There is also a Google Docs plugin for OpenOffice. Pull from/save to Google Docs directly from within your office suite. Works with Zoho and any WebDAV server as well. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd There is also a Google Docs plugin for OpenOffice. Pull from/save to Google Docs directly from within your office suite. Works with Zoho and any WebDAV server as well. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd

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