I was presenting at the Iowa Technology and Education Connection conference in Des Moines, Iowa. The great thing was that I got to meet a number of people who follow this blog. One of the interesting questions that I received was about the photo that I have in header above […]
LifeHacker asked their readers to submit their favorite Free Apps. It was a simple process. They posted the challenge and the readers were to comment with their favorite apps. It appears that they had 484 comments with hundreds of suggestions. After a great deal of review, they whittled is down […]
Twitter and Facebook have DEFINITELY made an impact on Academia!!!! APA Style now has defined how to cite them in a formal APA-formatted paper/article! It’s not even in the latest 6th edition of the APA Style Manual (you remember, the one with so many mistakes in its first printing that […]
On January 20, 2009, photographer David Bergman covered his first inauguration and took a photo (actually 220 photos) using his Canon PowerShot G10 camera and then “stitched” them all together to create a 2 GB 1,475 megapixal photo (59,783 x 24,658 pixels). That’s HUGE.Big is good, but what is exciting […]
“Wow Man!! I was SOO wasted!!”“This job is really boring.”“I think that I am getting tired of my girlfriend.” These are all phrases that can get people into BIG trouble when they share them on FaceBook. FaceBook is a great way to communicate with your friends and share what’s happening […]
What YouTube Videos do you identify as your MUST SEE videos? I was just reviewing Steve Dembo’s posting about Mandatory YouTube Videos and it got me thinking about which ones I think people should watch. Steve lists a few videos that I knew and liked including: Wesch‘s A Vision of […]
The State of Iowa has been hit HARD by the recession. Admittedly, it is nothing like what California or Michigan have seen, but it hurts none-the-less. In mid-October, Iowa’s Governor Culver announced that ALL governmental entities would have to cut their budgets by 10%. This include the courts, governmental offices, […]
A couple of days ago I had coffee with my friend, Gordon Dahlby, and he told me a story that “added a new dimension” to my life. Gordon told me about one afternoon when he was walking with a friend around the Mall in Washington D.C. They came to a […]
Twitter is sometimes considered a tool that is “a solution looking for a problem to solve.” it is cool and immediate and useful for people to keep in touch. Here are some resources that educators will hopefully find useful when considering using Twitter in their classrooms. Twitter Handbook for Teachers […]
Had to share this one with you. This group, theFunTheory.com, believes that we can get more people to exercise if we make it fun to do it. In this video, filmed at the Odenplan metro station in Stockholm, Sweden, the group has placed musical “plates” on the stairs so that […]