July 2010
35 posts published in July 2010.
- Question 211 of 365: What are our impulse buys?Image by Getty Images via @daylife I run a lot of errands to the grocery store. I pick up items like milk for my kids or spices for an upcoming…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 210 of 365: What does a three year old think about the oil spill in the gulf?Image by eschipul via Flickr Today in the car, my daughter wondered what the oil wells in the farmland of Colorado were all about. I said they…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 209 of 365: What is the difference between a leak and a link?Image via Wikipedia The wikileaks papers are exquisite. In their scope and its specificity, they are immense. I don’t fully understand all of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 208 of 365: Are we special customers?Image via CrunchBase There was a local chinese takeout place that my wife and I used to frequent. When we lived in the dorms, we were a stone’s…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 207 of 365: What is the moral of the story?Be supportive and supported at the same time as often as you possibly can.365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Advanced Online Learning Day 2: #synclinkpostI am often amazed at how shallow my knowledge can be if I haven’t taken the time to play. I can get the concept that a given tool or idea is…
- Question 206 of 365: Where is the open book?Image via Wikipedia Every time I put my son down for bed, he sees fit to be totally uninterested without a good amount of singing of songs and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Advance Online Learning Day 1: #synclinkpostEvery online course I have taught has been pre-packaged, with known outcomes. While I have felt as though others needed me to provide that kind of…
- Question 205 of 365: Why don't we clear the board more often?Image by MarkyBon via Flickr I have been to a few emergency rooms, mostly for highly nervous new parent reasons. Near each one is a board with…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 204 of 365: When do we almost die?Image by jef safi via Flickr It strikes me that we almost die far more often than we actually do. Most of the days that I drive to work I think…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 203 of 365: Should writing be harder?Image via Wikipedia Access to information never gets old. I coveted it when all I could access was the universal search on AOL. I still covet it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 202 of 365: What are the limits of a mobile office?Image via CrunchBase I have few requirements left for being connected. It used to be that I needed a single computer, my computer, in order to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 201 of 365: How hard and how fast should we jump on the ice?Image via Wikipedia The Chagrin river never froze over completely. At least, not in my memory anyway. It was always halfway frozen in the winter,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 200 of 365: Are we on a roll, taking roll, role models, rolling the dice or just rolls of toilet paper?Image via Wikipedia We worry about being fathers. We worry about being sons. About being employees and entrepreneurs. We worry about the things…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 199 of 365: When do we stop asking for medicine and band-aids?Image via Wikipedia I had a favorite medicine growing up called Triaminic. It was the wonder cure-all. Pretty much anything that was wrong could…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 198 of 365: When is sleep inappropriate?Image via Wikipedia I observed classrooms for years before I became a teacher. Sometimes I would observe the interaction between students or the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 197 of 365: Do laughs echo?Only if the words are true and the hope of the next joke is within every moment. The funny bounces around the pointed ceiling and whips us up into…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 196 of 365: What happens when you find a pressure point?You push and massage and work that point intil there is nothing left and you fall head first into your bed and fall fast and sure into a dreamless…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 195 of 365: How do we know what we are good for?Image via Wikipedia There is a difference in knowing what you are good at and know what you are good for. I once wrote a poem during a study hall…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Moodle 4 Learning Day 2Telling your learning story makes you a better learner and a teacher. It is my hope that within this course you are not only getting the bare…
- Question 194 of 365: What should we brandish?I could have left the -ish off the question and had it be something completely different. I could have talked about all of the ways in which we…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Moodle For Learning Day 1I have had no formal training in Moodle. Everything that I know has been gathered carefully from all of the amazing questions, projects and…
- Question 193 of 365: Which way is up?Image by Swamibu via Flickr Truth be told: I have no flippin’ clue.365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 192 of 365: Where is the crazy?Image by jah~ off n on via Flickr Crazy people are everywhere. Not just the run of the mill crazy, either. I’m talking about completely out of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 191 of 365: What is the skeptic's option?Image by wburris via Flickr Everyone who asks questions is a skeptic in one way or another, which is to say that everyone is a skeptic. I once…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 190 of 365: Should we be after pure research?Image via Wikipedia I’ve been rereading Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. recently. I always forget how good that book is until I take another…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 189 of 365: How can other's words say what I mean?Image via Wikipedia I found this book, Nothing Feels good by Andy Greenwald. And along with being beautifully written, it describes so well what…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 188 of 365: What did we buy?Image via Wikipedia Credit card companies are stupid. Not for any of the crazy backwards pricing structures or 0% percent nonsense that they send…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- 25 Killer (iPad) AppsImage via Wikipedia I have been putting this post off for a while now, but I am finally compelled to write about all of the apps that I am using…Curated Lists
- Question 187 of 365: What is our equation?Image via Wikipedia I used to believe that everything equaled out in the end. That at some point, everyone would get the same amount of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 186 of 365: How should we submit our work?Image via CrunchBase I think a lot about the submit button. The process of taking something that you own and uploading it to someone else is an…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 185 of 365: What happens when you just watch?Image by andrusdevelopment via Flickr I saw a twinkle of power and awe in my daughter tonight. She held her first sparkler and threw her first…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 184 of 365: When can we have patches?Image via Wikipedia I was in the boy scouts for a total of a few months. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the things that happened there, I’m just not…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 183 of 365: Are we possible?Image via Wikipedia I have plans. Brainstorms and Mind Maps, too. I write out lists and sketch out wireframes. I see folder structures and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 182 of 365: What is the benefit of an extreme position?Image via Wikipedia Carnivals were a common occurrence during my childhood. The Blossom time parade and carnival over memorial day was perhaps the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer