Greetings, knowledge-searches-and-sifters!

I wanted to let you know what we just released Boolify version 2.2, which brings some additional power to the engine.

Although the release was primarily focused on bugfixes, we also have added the ability to search additional content types (videos, blogs, books) and to utilize either strict or moderate filtering (keeping in mind that although unfiltered brings about the best range of results, Boolify is used primarily in schools). 

Greetings, confounded-cereal-buyers!

On the off-chance that you were unable to decide about what to do with the next hour, or the cereal to buy, I suggest you spend a bit of time watching a lecture by  Jonah Lehrer, which is a fine summary of the difficulty we humans have with decision-making.

Greetings, private citizens!

This post is a commentary addendum to a Slashdot note about a comment made by Mark Zuckerberg at the Crunchie Awards in San Francisco: 

"In the last five or six years, blogging has taken off in a huge way. People have really gotten comfortable sharing more information and different kinds but more openly and with more people," Zuckerberg said.

Greetings!

I wanted to share an article, "Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them" from the New York Times series on Math and learning. 

In his article, Benedict dives right into an interesting curricular junction between cognitive science and education and thankfully, mentions the junction of the two as "awkward" at best. 

Greetings,

We're very proud to announce that the Harvard Business School's Harbus Foundation Venture Philanthropy Fund selected PLML from among a select group of innovative non-profits as the recipient of their 2009 Harbus Venture Philanthropy Project Grant!

The grant provides funding and pro-bono consulting assistance to help us develop organizational measursements that will guide and improve our impact. 

Greetings all,

Development of the multiplication tool is progressing nicely, and proving to be a unique learning experience. We have almost completed the technical specifications, and are looking to resolve some challenging questions we've posed to ourselves.

Greetings, educatorati!

We'd like to announce the creation of the Boolify Toolset, which is an extension of the very popular Boolean search tool, Boolify.

The Boolify Toolset will become an information literacy toolset; designed to help teach search and research more deeply than before.

Greetings, fellow educators!

I'd like to invite your participation in our next tool, an unnamed Multiplication teaching tool. The tool is designed to teach multi-digit multiplication through a variety of methods, including standard, Lattice and partial products. 

We're asking educators to provide feedback and input into the design - would you like to be part of the design team? Let us know!

Cheers, 
--Dave

In case you had been reading about Bing, well, time to shift focus. Google Wave just (steam)rolled ashore. Google Wave isn't a site; it's an engine. It isn't simply a service; it's also a series of protocols and development tools. It's exciting, and... 

Google Wave is, well, simultaneously tough to wrap around, and incredibly tantalizing. From their site: 

 I'd like to take a minute to introduce The Alpheios Project, a fascinating project developed by equally fascinating individuals we became acquainted with at NECC. 

From their description: