February 29, 2008 Pages

Chobe is sitting in my lap and the iPhone is charging up in the office, the international headquarters for Practical Press and Practical Press Video Productions (formerly Practical Press Pictures), so I am writing todays log entry in Pages.

Chapter of the day - Chapter 2. Developing A Research Proposal, pages 36-61 in Gall, Gall, & Borg, 2003, on CourseSmart.com.

I should now follow that reading up by reviewing Terry Anderson’s Chapter 9 in the Handbook of Distance Education (Moore & Anderson, 2003), Modes of Interaction in Distance Education: Recent Developments and Research Questions, so that I can get started on an article on Adding Interactivity To Your Online Course. I also want to review Callender and McDaniel’s article, The Benefits of Embedded Question Adjuncts for Low and High Structure Builders, in the Journal of Educational Psychology (May, 2007) for mention in the article and to compare the structure of the article with Gall, Gall, and Borge’s discussion of components of a research proposal, a dissertation, and a published article.

Yesterday I set up a GoogleDoc file for the article, hoping I could then work on the article online with the MacBook Pro or with the iPhone. However, I could get to the article with Safari on the iPhone, and view it in the landscape orientation, which is what I wanted to do, but I could not go into edit mode. The keyboard only came up if I clicked in the URL box of the web page. There must be some kind of an add-on that I can use with the  iPhone to allow me read and edit Word documents. In looking back at an earlier Notes page mentioning an article, The Top 10 iPhone Applications by Ryan Fass,  I see that it says GoogleDocs are read only, but mentions Glide Mobile which allows creation of word processing documents on the iPhone which can be converted to Word, RTF, or PDF on computer and Google Notebook which allows creation of Mobile Notes which can be accessed from any computer through a Google account, and Google Reader. Google Notebook I find is only available through Firefox and Internet Explorer at the present time, so that rules out accessing it from Safari. let’s look at Glide Mobile. Well I set up a free glide account. I tried to create a new document, on the MacBook. Nothing happened. I went to Glide’s help menu and apparently to use Guide on the Mac, I have to be using one of the following browsers. Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 2.0+, or Camino 2.0+. So there you have it. I guess I will go to IE on the Alienware computer and  explore Glide from there.

But first let’s check email to see if I have any student assignment for Ed 603 online that I need to respond to. There was one assignment to respond to, a review of a casual-comparative research article.

Set up a Glide account with IE on the Alienware PC. Wrote and saved a document. The online word processor in Glide works nicely. Went to the iPhone and logged on to the Glide web site with Safari. I could read the document I had set up on the PC but could not edit it or add to it. I started a new Glide document from the iPhone and saved it to the Glide site. Then I went back to the PC and was able to view and edit the file created on the iPhone. The only improvement this has over the Notes and email system is that I can read word processing documents created on the PC with the iPhone.

I created this page with Pages, as I have already mentioned, and then pasted it into a GoogleDocs document. From GoogleDocs I saved it directly to my blog.