Month: May 2012
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Google Play eBooks, Copyright, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
This afternoon our family made the 6 hour trek on I-27 and I-40 back to Oklahoma City from Lubbock, Texas, and my eight year old ran out of chapter books to read about halfway home. In this post, I’ll describe how we discovered a developmentally-appropriate, free eBook to download on an iPad and some of…
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Reflections on Graduation Rituals, Celebrations, College Debts and a Ph.D.
This weekend has been a great blessing. It’s been (and continues to be) a time to celebrate a long academic journey with my family and friends which has resulted in, among other things, the following document and new initials to follow my name in professional academic contexts. In this post, I’d like to share a…
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Rise Up Oklahoma City: Support Our Public Schools!
The eight minute YouTube video, “Rise Up Oklahoma City,” is a stirring call from youth as well as adults in Oklahoma City to come together and support BY ALL MEANS AVAILABLE our Oklahoma City Public Schools. As the speakers highlight, community schools of which we are all proud and are willing to SEND OUR OWN…
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Follow a National Geographic Expedition to Everest: Live
The latest National Geographic magazine in the NG iPad app provides a realtime opportunity to track a current/live expedition to climb Mount Everest. You can see in the updated image of the mountain route the current position of the climbers at the base of the mountain. National Geographic is definitely pushing the boundaries of what…
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Professional Digital Publications Archive Project
This week has already included two major life milestones for me, and one more is coming on Friday: Texas Tech University officially approved the final, corrected version of my dissertation (“Impact Analysis of Phonecasted Lecture Summaries“) for publication in the Texas Digital Library. Today’s notification email indicated I should be ready to wait up to…
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Recent College Grads Wanted More Tech Classes
If you are a college administrator, please take note. The survey result below means (among other things) you should consider hiring more profs with 21st century digital literacy skills so they can share those skills with students. (Yes, this is also a shameless, self-promotional plug!) …more than half of all students (56 percent) said they…
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Advice for a College Graduate
I shared the following thoughts in response to Kevin Corbett‘s post last week, “Your Advice To A New College Graduate?” Remember the plans you have today are unlikely to unfold in exactly the ways you’re anticipating now. Remember networking and personal connections are VITALLY important and they will open up doors for you that you…
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Block Text Messages / SMS Spam and Phone Calls on Your iPhone
This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. My teenage daughter recently started receiving annoying text messages on her iPhone from another student at her school. This isn’t a case of bullying: Apparently this particular student likes to send “group SMS messages” like some folks send spam email. In this post I’ll describe how…
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Thank a Teacher [VIDEO]
This video made my day. Check it out and pass it on. I serendipitously found this video using the free ShowYou app for iPad this afternoon at the conclusion of my “iPad Apps for Business Productivity” workshop. I really like how the app highlights videos shared by people you follow on Twitter and Facebook. It…