Jeremy Kaiser's Blog – April 2010 Archive (2)

Last week I wrote about how Etherpad was going shut down pads starting on the 14th. Since then I have learned of another new alternative. Actually, this one is Etherpad in a resurrected form. Apparently, in December of 2009, Google bought Etherpad with hopes of integrating it with Wave. However, according to Lifehacker.com, they quickly shut it down. This didn’t make Etherpad users happy, so Google put the collaboration platform back online as an open source app. To make a long story short,…

Ok. This is might sound lame, and it won’t take you more than two seconds to guess that I am an English teacher. Today, my classes took a day away from the computers to do research. We actually used those bound paper piles in the library known as books. I will admit that, at times through the day, it was painful, mostly because the computers were within ten feet at all times, and the research might have been easier…