June 2010
35 posts published in June 2010.
- Question 181 of 365: What is a vendor? #iste10Image by Getty Images via @daylife A company becomes a vendor when they have clients. Or when they provide services to a specific subset or field.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 179 of 365: Who is the big cheese?John Richards Posted via email from The Throughput The first rule of the Royal Fondue Society is that you don’t talk about the Royal Fondue Society.365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 180 of 365: Are we selfish?I have never liked cavorting. I find the nimble act of careless frolicking to be unnerving. Done within the snow is even more scary. You have to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Notes from the edu-cloud consortium #iste10Download now or preview on posterous educloudconsortium.pdf (2055 KB) PDF notes: Posted via email from The Throughput
- Design with forever in mind: Capturing Learning #iste10 presentationHere is the presentation: Design with forever_in_mind 2 View more presentations from bhwilkoff. Here is the reflection from my participants (not…
- Question 178 of 365: Are we backwards compatible?Image via Wikipedia I am on an old computer today. It doesn’t work with all of my newfangled iPads, Keynote files, or the standard version of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 177 of 365: What is plan b?Image via Wikipedia Preparation is something I had to learn. While I have always planned, true preparation has always eluded me. I mean to say…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 176 of 365: When is networking just drinking with friends?Image by willfree via Flickr The largest technology and education conference has come to Denver. Is the one time of the year when people from all…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Notes from #lbc10 roundtablesDownload now or preview on posterous idea.pdf (186 KB) Ben Wilkoff Collaborate now: http://bit.ly/WilkoffDoc Posted via email from The Throughput
- Further notes from #lbc10Download now or preview on posterous lbc10.pdf (2429 KB) Notes from iPad. Posted via email from The Throughput
- Question 175 of 365: Where does arrogance come from?Image via Wikipedia It is impossible to know everything, or to even know all of the things that there are to know in one particular area. We all…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 174 of 365: What is our coallition?Image via Wikipedia My name is Ben Wilkoff. I claim it as my own. Here are the other things that I claim: I claim a space that allows people to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 173 of 365: What should an interview be?Image via Wikipedia I am on a panel to help choose the next Director of Online Learning at the Colorado Department of Education. The panel itself…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 172 of 365: Who is our fairy godmother?I have been reading a lot of children’s stories, as might be expected with a soon to be two and four year old in the house. Many of these stories…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 171 of 365: When is the old stuff just as good as the new stuff?Image by ibookpaul via Flickr I owned one of the first hard-drive based mp3 players, the Archos Jukebox 6000. It has a full 6 gigabyte hard drive…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 170 of 365: What is the benefit of rubber handled safety scissors?Image via Wikipedia The inconsequential saved my daughter a lot of pain today. It probably saved us a trip to the hospital. It definitely saved us…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 169 of 365: What should we do in the hour before?Image via Wikipedia In the middle of the sixth grade, I realized that I didn’t care much for doing my math homework. Instead of waking up early to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 168 of 365: When are we ready to fulfill our promises?Image via Wikipedia Making promises is one of the easiest things that I have ever done. They just roll off my tongue after a while. In fact, so…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 167 of 365: When does the game change?Image via CrunchBase I wrestled for 2 years when I was in elementary school. I was never all that good at it, but I did manage to win a few…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 166 of 365: How can we scrape better?Image via Wikipedia I guess I might as well go on the record for stating that the future of networks is in scraping. I know that some people are…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 165 of 365: What do we squander?Money, time and opportunity. That is the short answer. The slightly longer answer is that we squander pretty much anything that we can get our…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 164 of 365: What is the power of undo?I think that the single greatest innovation in the history of creative work was the undo button. The ability to go back to what was before and not…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 163 of 365: Which conversations matter?I once spoke with my best friend’s mother at a choir concert when I was 12. We had just listened to Barbara Ann and then we talked about the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 162 of 365: When does a voice hold us close?Image via Wikipedia Kurt Vonnegut is the first author that I ever truly loved. It started with Hocus Pocus and Slaughter House Five, but it really…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 161 of 365: How important is bearing a resemblence?My son looks just like me, or at least so I am told. He has bigger eyes and a rounder nose, but other than that, there is a striking resemblence…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 160 of 365: When is something both good and true?Image by Getty Images via @daylife We have been warned all of our lives that things that seem too good to be true, probably are. This healthy…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 159 of 365: Who are the undead?Everyone who is touched by death but cannot make it better on their own. Anyone who understands the grieving process but can’t see any movement…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 158 of 365: What is the percent complete?I was told by a coworker the other day that computers don’t know how to tell time. Specifically, they have no idea when something will finish…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 157 of 365: Why won't they sleep?My wife has a friend that she has known since the fourth grade. This friend, Mandy, also married a Ben. She also has two kids. She also…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 156 of 365: What is the farthest we will travel?I don’t believe in absolutes. I don’t believe in martyrdom. And, I don’t believe in regretting what we have chosen. I chose to get on an airplane…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 155 fo 365: Who do we root for?Cover of Spellbound Along with the finals for the NBA and NHL going on this weekend, there was also another kind of competition that garners far…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 154 of 365: What are fences good for?Nearly all of the houses in my neighborhood have fences, many of which are in severe need of repair. They are coming down because they were all…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 153 of 365: What is bad?I have pretty consistently told others that nothing bad ever happens to me. I say this becuase of my generally positive outlook on the events that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 152 of 365: What do we do with uninvited guests (or, the CC effect)?There is a disturbing trend in sharing. We share with others (as we should), giving them the ability to edit and observe. This allows them to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 151 of 365: How do we predict the future?Image by louisvolant via Flickr Everyone is trying to devine the next big thing. Reading the tea leaves on Twitter or letting the alerts drift in…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer