technology

Teachers and Blogging

Some observations on teachers maintaining blogs.

Blogging in Microsoft Word 12

testing the office 12 blog posting tool

via mamamusings

Not very long ago, I was invited by one of the MS Word product groups to join a discussion about blog posting functionality in the Office 12 version of Word. It was a lively and interesting meeting, and I came away cautiously optimistic about their plans.

Now that I’m running v2 of the Office 12 beta, I’m able to test the posting functionality. Setup was surprisingly smooth—it offers wizard-like options for the main hosting services (Blogger, TypePad, Spaces, etc), but also supports the MetaWeblog API, so I was able to quickly and easily input the information for my Movable Type blog.

All in all, I’m very favorably impressed with what they’ve done. Now I hope the Mac team implements something similar in their next release!

Social Networking

The common theme of the central topics of this blog about blogs, podcasting, and wikis is social networking. This article in BusinessWeek explains how social networking is impacting search engines, probably the most commonly used technology besides email (until other forms of social networking move email over to the side - which will probably be sooner than we think.)