…another post from my work blog: Mashable.com (a great source for recent social media news) reports that Google just added a “Near Me” button to their mobile homepage on Android and iPhone (and I assume also the Nexus One). Clicking on the “Near Me” button brings up search results associated with your location. Surely, it [...]
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…another post from my work blog: ommwriter: De-clutter your writing space Need an uncluttered space to concentrate on writing? Omm-mg, have I got something for you! http://www.ommwriter.com/ It’s a very basic Word Processor that takes up your entire screen with one of a number of empty scenes. Not tool bars. No menus (well, they come [...]
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…another post from my work blog: Pop Quiz! — what’s the hottest emerging technology? Hint: It’s already being used by more than half the global population. Hint: It’s the most intimately-connected piece of technology you and your students use. It’s the mobile phone. You knew that, right? And you knew that its descendent, the SmartPhone [...]
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…another post from my work blog: Change happens This article, The Internet Isn’t Just for Computers Anymore, highlights the pace of change in technology. It notes that most of the websites that we take for granted and use daily (or many times a day, in some cases), did not exist 10 years ago. But it [...]
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January is looking for questions that he answered.—says grad school has turned him into an F. Uh-oh.—is back to being an EN*T*P — none of that Feeling (F) stuff for me. Just had an incomplete diagnosis.—is not procrastinating. No he’s not.—is at an ARIS game jam—is dogsitting—is is really going to do a lot today. [...]
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My mother dutifully informed me the other day that I’ve not posted any updates here lately. She’d been wondering how my latest trip to New York was, and if I had any pictures. I do. I uploaded them to Facebook. But she’s not on Facebook (and with dialup service, that’s probably a smart thing). But [...]
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Rapid Prototyping “Rapid Prototyping” may not be the best subtitle for this post, but it’s clever, so let me try to justify it. In Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle, if one steps into it at “having a concrete experience” then the third step in the cycle is to “re-iterate experience” — essentially, this whole cycle is [...]
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Playing on the Edge Here I discuss a structured learning activity, in the broader curriculum of canoeing, that allows for a range of skill levels to engage in, and be challenged by. At Flying Moose Lodge, after campers have had some experience and instruction on how to do the basic C- and J- strokes, and [...]
I’m back from another fabulous summer in Maine at Flying Moose Lodge, where it’s sunny everyday (except most of this summer — but even then, a rainy day in paradise ain’t a bad day). So far, I’m up to my eyeballs in playing catchup. I’ve got a job to find, 23 papers to review for [...]
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