next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). 
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's 
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (
[UPDATE 9.24.08 - WARNING: A USER IS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH IMACROS. SEE COMMENTS.] Here’s a handy web tool that I can’t live without — iMacros for Firefox. I’m not sure if there are versions for other browsers. [See Tim's comment re the IE version!] It’s like bookmarks or favorites, only smarter. Click on a site that you’ve added to the iMacro list, and it not only goes to the site, but it actually goes through the log-in process for you. And it doesn’t end there. It’ll enter the site as far as you want. Here’s how to set it up for your Firefox browser:
1. Go to the iMacro download site and click on install. After Firefox sets it up for you, restart Firefox.
2. An iMacro sidebar appears on the left of the browser. To close or open it, press F8. (If you don’t see the sidebar, press F8 to open it.)
3. Go to the opening page of the website that you want to add to iMacro. If Firefox has automatically inserted your log-in name and password, clear the fields by deleting them. You want iMacro to “learn” how to do it.
4. Click on the “Rec” tab, and click on “Record.”
5. Key in your username and password, and log in to your site. If there are additional steps to get to where you want to go, click until you’re there.
6. When you’re at your destination, click on “Stop” and “Save.”
That’s it. Your new log-in macro is ready to launch.
iMacro’s free so it comes with a bunch of macros already installed. I simply deleted them all so that my sites are the only ones showing.
Re security — iMacro gives you the option to encrypt the keys it stores in its memory bank.
iMacro starts as a sidebar on the left when you fire up Firefox. As mentioned earlier, you can make it disappear by pressing F8 or make it reappear instantly with F8.
I’ve added all the sites requiring passwords that I frequently visit, and all the hassles of logging in are a thing of the past.
UPDATE 7.7.08: I’ve had to uninstall iMacros from Firefox. It was behaving erratically and locking up my laptop, a Sony NR385E. I’m not sure what the problem is. It might be related to a change in the way I’m connecting to the internet. I’m using AT&T’s wireless USBconnect 881 instead of my usual Roadrunner cable. I’ll post an update later if I get to the bottom of this.
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Hi! iMacros is really useful. Unfortunately we (have to) use IE at work, but there is a free version for IE as well:
http://www.iopus.com/imacros/compare/all
I can use the same macros in IE at work _and_ Firefox at home!
Tim
Hi, Tim. Thanks for the tip! I just went to the site via the link that you’ve provided. I’m glad to hear they have a version for IE, too. And it’s great that we can use the same macros in either browser! Do you know if the business versions are worth the cost? -Jim
I only use the free versions, and they work well for me. So I am not sure about the commercial editions. But their user forum is very active, which is certainly a good sign.
Thanks for the update, Tim. I was just curious about the pay version. I almost always go with the freeware versions as a matter of principle and only grudgingly shell out for the pay version. There are many other repetitive tasks in web surfing and in using OSs such as Windows so I’m hoping developers will crank out more of these macro wonders. -Jim
I downloaded iMacros for Firefox and restarted Firefox… followed all the directions. Since then, my Firefox will not connect to the internet (I have to use IE now). I can not find out how to uninstall iMacros to see if that fixes the problem. Any suggestions?
Jasen
p.s. All my firewalls are disabled, so that’s not preventing Firefox from accessing the internet.
Hi, Jasen. Thanks for the feedback. I haven’t used iMacros since my old desktop went down. Based on your experience, I should probably warn people not to use it. To uninstall, try this:
1. click on “Tools” in the menubar at the top
2. click on “Add-ons”
3. find iMacros and click on “Uninstall”
If you’ve tried this or it doesn’t work, please let me know.