Year: 2007
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Ongoing Knights Templar discussion
Blogs are amazing tools for ongoing discussions. If you don’t follow my comments feed you may not realize this, but there have been continuing comments on a post I made over a year ago titled “Knights Templar.” I personally find that era of history fascinating, and it is so cool to see discussions continuing about…
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Playing School or Preparing for Life? by Meg Ormiston
These are my notes from Meg Ormiston’s METC 2007 presentation “Playing School or Preparing for Life?” on 27 Feb 2007. (I recorded this session and will post this later as a podcast.) www.techteachers.com meg [at] techteachers [dot] com Isn’t the goal of school to prepare for life? We have to STOP THIS GAME! – we…
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Science Data Logging with Pasco tools
These are my notes from the METC presentation “The Ultimate Science Data Logger: Xplorer GLX” by Jason Carnes (an education rep for for PASCO Scientific. I’m recording this session for a later podcast.) Sensors have auto-ID, so when you plug in the temperature, pH and ISE Voltage sensor the data logger Data logger holds 100…
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Teaching with Google Earth by Cindy Lane
Teaching with Google Earth by Cindy Lane (MY NOTES FROM THIS SESSION AT METC 2007, 27 FEB 2007. I RECORDED THIS SESSION AND WILL POST LATER AS A PODCAST.) Definitely join the Google Earth community for education-specific resources KML = keyhole markup language When you load KML files into Google Earth, when you quit you…
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Google Apps challenges Microsoft expectation culture
The pervasive “expectation culture” of Microsoft-centric operating system and productivity software is pervasive today in most educational and business environments. By “expectation culture” I mean that most people expect that everyone is using Microsoft products on their computers. That culture is continuing to be challenged by several factors including: The runaway popularity of the iPod,…
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SL as the wild west?
I had an interesting conversation with someone at METC today regarding Second Life. She observed that SL right now is a lot like the wild west. If you do a search for casino, brothel, or similarly themed synonyms in SL you get a LOT of results. That seems to parallel what we read happened in…
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Sub-$100 digital audio recorders come to Wally world
I was delighted to see the following three digital audio recorders available for purchase at a Missouri Wal-Mart somewhere between Oklahoma City and St Louis last night around 8 pm. (There are a lot of sub-$100 digital audio PLAYERS out there, but fewer that are RECORDERS supporting portable voice recording that is ideal for podcasting.)…
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Tools of the 21st century educational road warrior
My backpack seems to have been getting a lot heavier the past few months, and I finally considered why last night. If you click on the image below to view it in Flickr, I added notes to each of these items indicating what they are. This is a lot of STUFF. Items not included in…
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No ties, no problem
I feel like such a goof sometimes when I’m traveling. I remember when I first started camping each month with my scout troop growing up, I’d use a checklist to make sure I had everything I needed for a weekend campout. Maybe I should go back to using a checklist! It seems the faster I…
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WOW2 skype interview Tues, Feb 27th
I’m scheduled to be a guest on the Women of Web 2.0 live skype chat this Tuesday, February 27th at 6 pm US Pacific time. If you can please join in! I’m not sure what all we’ll be discussing, but it will be live and I’m sure it will be fun! 🙂 Feel free to…