My day in Photos

May 05

My day in Photos

24 hours of Flickr inspired me to recreate a previous post I did over 2 years ago. That post featured a photo every hour on the hour. Here are just some samples of my day…I have till May 21st to submit one photo to be considered for the 24 hours of Flickr book. Which one would you submit? The List Cleaning Gutters Washing Windows Help from Martha Mowing the...

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Podcast 27 Demystifying RSS

May 03

This is my presentation from the TLT/IT Summit 2007 in Saskatoon. It was a great treat to meet Kelly and John whom I’ve conversed with online but was glad to meet in person. Here are the slides. (Embedding was not working) [tags]rss,tltsummit2007,shareski[/tags] Listen Now  Listen...

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Who needs OLPC?

May 03

Who needs OLPC?

At the risk of sounding blasphemous, I wonder about the future of the OLPC. I realize and support its intention and likely don’t understand the political, equity and pervasive nuances of the concept but with the cost of the project reaching $175 and deals like the following, is this going to be necessary? Take your choice: We’ve already people taking...

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Keyboarding vs. Texting

May 02

Keyboarding vs. Texting

Ian Jukes in his presentation yesterday, talked about the need for students to be able to keyboard to the point of transparency. (This video features this idea) He also talks about using a word processor as the format. He also talked about this in terms of the ability to write. Something is missing. This story (via Lorne Henklemen) suggests texting might be...

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Twitter…still stupid but effective

May 01

Yes I twitter and yes it’s stupid and yes I still do it. I’ll try anything once, as evidenced by the countless vacant activity in dozens of social networking sites.  But after reading Darren’s revelation and pointing me to Alan’s portion of the Open, Connected movie, it made more sense.  I could certainly point to several resources,...

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