One of the myriad sources of entertainment in the web is to coin ‘web 2.0 words’, this is usually done in two ways, either the new word is merely a snarky conflation of two other words (and the definition comes later…), or it is a nonsense word which ‘sounds’ like it is something. This second [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Adaptation
July 30, 2010
I used to be amazed by what I thought the rate of change in our culture was. If you spend much time online it seems as if it is a different kind of reality, where things happen much, much faster. But, as I started to think about it, I realized that the real changes in [...]
getting things done on the iPad
July 27, 2010
I am in the process of getting my iPad set up as an actual tool (in order to allow me to get more things done…). Besides still being somewhere on the learning curve, I’ve found that there are some things which I can do better on the iPad. But there are a few niggling things [...]
Futurism…
July 24, 2010
I mentioned a couple different (very different) blogs the other day, one of them ‘Paleo-Future’ is a very involved conceit, where the author covers views of the future from the past (i.e. 1930’s magazines, etc…). This blog got me thinking about doing a little research about what is out there now which purports to show [...]
a few apps for teachers
July 23, 2010
With all that I have seen on education blogs proselytizing the advances that will come from such things as: Twitter, Facebook, Amazon.com’s Kindle readers, the iPad, and even the iPod touch…I finally found a few very simple applications which might be of some real use to today’s teachers.
strange blogs…
July 22, 2010
Here are a few new (and some old) blogs I look over, if only because they usually have content unavailable anywhere else. The reason I decided to showcase some of these sites is that while there is so much to be seen on the internet, the fact is that the most popular and common sites [...]
Do as I say, not as I do
July 21, 2010
Almost everyone has heard his sometime in their life. I always hated it for its implied hypocrisy. I can recall hearing something which could have been construed to be about the same thing when I was young, and I knew that it was wrong. For someone in a position of power to compel others to [...]
eReaders
July 20, 2010
I saw in the news this morning that Amazon.com is selling more e-books than good, old fashioned paper books. While this could be seen as a leading indicator, the change is happening sooner than I would have expected. While there are a couple of these readers in the eye of the populace, there are actually [...]
why I quit using paper…
July 19, 2010
There are plenty of reasons to diminish the use of paper documents, media, letters, and other sorts of information these days. For me it is all about streamlining my life, and having piles of papers on my desk is a problem that I may have solved (at least for myself…).
Intelligence, Creativity, Motivation…which is important?
July 16, 2010
The last several posts have been brought about by the recent news reports detailing some notion s that our children are getting smarter but less creative. This last sentence should, more accurately, be read as: our students are being measured as more intelligent but less creative. I say this because all of this rests upon [...]
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