The past several months have presented a few challenges for us concerning some domain names. As new customers are completing their sites they want to start the transfer process. While you think this

This post is much more personal than professional, but I was sorting through some digital pictures on my computer and I thought I would share my favorite pictures of 2007. Each picture has a story

We have already launched the first phase of some new blogging tools at TheChurchDoor.com. Blogger's will have the ability to create their entries online or though the use of Windows Live Writer .

Recently I've come across an ABC news article and an article from the San Francisco Chronicle which summarize current findings from organizations such as the Pew Internet and American Life

Merry Christmas to all my friends and readers of LutheranTech. May the Christ child guide each of us as we seek to serve Him in the coming year.

I realized from a comment that Josh S. made to a previous post that I have not done a good job of reminding people that links that I've shared through this blog and other links I've found have been saved for viewing at http://del.icio.us/dawblack. Feel free to use this link at any time to view other educational links. I've also added this information to the left sidebar underneath my photograph along with my email and Skype contact information.

I've had a little time over the past couple of days to play with Pageflakes, a site which allows users to create personalize home pages (complete with tabs for additional pages) pulling information from all over the Internet. I'm quickly finding this to be a very useful tool, and I'm starting to like this better than iGoogle for organizing information.

Here are various links for educators found recently on the web:

Another valuable Technology in Lutheran Schools conversation has led to the discovery of some new resources for Scratch, programming software for students created by MIT. While I haven't had the chance to spend as much time with this software as I would like, I intend to use this with students for the first time during the second semester.

Are you a patient person? Me neither. Read on to see the payoff of patience.

A thread on the TechLearning blog entitled Death of a Blogger has been getting some buzz in the educational blogging world. There are some who seem to believe that blogging is a dying art (already!), something that is being taken over by other technologies. However, I see this discussion as having the potential to build some discernment in identifying which technology tools are most appropriate for specific tasks.

_{Igot to celebrate two birthdays last week.}

Many of you know that Mozilla Firefox as my Internet browser of choice. Right now work is being done on version 3 of the browser -- a version that does not promise updates in the look and feel of the program, but rather targets internal improvements in the way that the software manages and renders web pages. Read one review about version 3 here.

I used an online snowflake creator with my kindergarten students yesterday. I had no idea these children would find the activity so wildly fun and engaging. There were plenty of smiles and laughter throughout the class period -- so much so that I'm sure I will give some other classes the chance to give this activity a try.