I keep on thinking that because I am learning more and more how to get the most out of my phone, my browser, my email, and my time that others must be doing the same. I mean, how could you not always be on the lookout for ways to do …
Image by McMorr via Flickr This is really my post from yesterday. I was just too tired from the search to post it. My wife and I were looking at homes yesterday, looking for THE home that we want to raise our children in. We had gone out with our …
Image via Wikipedia This is one of my favorite quotes from Harold and Maude, which is one of my favorite movies. It is from the scene where Maude is showing Harold all of the things she has collected. She is explaining to him that for as much stuff as she …
In an effort to have some of the conversations that I engage in regularly on Twitter and in the Edublogosphere within my home School District, I have started having a semi-regular conversation with a few folks in Douglas County about 21st century learning in our district. We have decided to …
As much as I can before educon 2.1, I will be expanding upon the ideas of my topic, The On Button: Instant and Always on Collaboration. While, the full post that outlines the session is coming, I feel like holding off on it until then is a little silly. So, …
I was having a little trouble with getting wordpess to update my twitter account when I post from my phone. I think that things should just work, but apparently even wordpress 2.7 (which nay the only blogging platform I will ever need) doesn’t understand the need for instant twitter acknowledgment …
I really enjoyed reading Clarence Fisher’s recent post on why no one he knows has been fired over advocating connected learning (http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/2009/01/the-death-of-bi.html). He makes some wonderful points about whether or not we are as revolutionary as we claim to be (as Edupunks or otherwise). His most interesting point though is …
The EdTechTalk delicious site has a wealth of relevent tags. It has so many in fact, that it may be THE resource for tags about Educational Technology and learning in general. I love being able to select different tags and find out what other people are categorizing within this rather …
I have to say that up until recently I didn’t see what was so great about spreadsheets. I have been using them for years to analyze student achievement data and present findings to others, but the didn’t seem like the “killer-app” that so many others seem to be thinking about. …
For as useful as they are for aggregating information, rss feeds are not all that easy to put into one’s workflow. You have to make a point of going to a special page and maintaining your reading list. Google reader (http://reader.google.com) makes it pretty easy to do this, but you …