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MythTV
I have been wanting to buy a TiVo for many months now, but have not had luck getting approval for this from my better half. The Humax TiVo with built in DVD recorder is what I have really wanted, or the Toshiba version that comes with a lifetime basic TiVo subscription, but somehow we have…
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Understanding the Puerto Rican Blackout: Bank Regulation, Bureaucratic Inefficiency and Leadership
This afternoon I watched the outstanding PBS Frontline documentary, “Blackout in Puerto Rico.” The program unwraps the story of why it took 7 months to restore electrical power to most of the island of Puerto Rico, following the devastation wrought by hurricane Maria in September 2017, and the complicated reasons why the infrastructure of the island had…
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Recording and Sharing Your iPad with In-Person and Remote Learning Students
Update 8/24/2020: I’ve created a step-by-step tutorial for these steps, using either Google Meet or Zoom. This is linked from our “Lesson Cast” support page on our school instructional support website. Today is our 3rd day back with students for the 2020-21 academic year, and it’s both good and challenging. Most of our students have…
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Restrict Plex Shared Movie Library to Include Just G, PG, PG-13 Films
Do you know about Plex? My short definition of Plex is “a robust platform for digitally sharing movies you convert from DVD, download or purchase with others on a variety of screens.” The English WikiPedia article for Plex (software) explains it is composed of two parts: the “Plex Media Server” and “Plex Apps.” As home media software goes, it’s…
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Inspired by Bernie Sanders and Democratic Socialism
Like many U.S. voters today, I’ve been largely unimpressed and uninspired by most of the news I’ve read and heard about our 2016 Presidential candidates. One exception to this was the short-lived candidacy of Larry Lessig. This evening, however, I took an hour to watch the November 19, 2015, address by Bernie Sanders at Georgetown…
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10 Things I Learned Teaching A Full Day iPad Workshop
Last Thursday I led a full-day workshop on iPad apps and technology integration strategies with iPads for about 175 educators at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. I’ve led numerous workshops and presented lots of keynotes,conference breakouts in the past 10+ years, but this was the largest group of of educators I’ve taught simultaneously in…
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Snow Day in OKC: An iMovie Trailer and iMovie Theater Adventure
We don’t get snow very often in Oklahoma City. The last two winters we haven’t received enough to go sledding, so yesterday and last night when we received about five inches it sparked a lot of excitement at our house. Today Rachel and I enjoyed our “snow day” off from school by going sledding with…
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iPhone 5, Steve Jobs Reflections, & Amazing (free) Science Videos
This evening my mind was blown several times, and video content on our Apple TV was the source. First of all, I watched the full two hour Apple iPhone 5 event video from yesterday. It’s a free video podcast on “Apple Keynotes” in iTunes, and I’ve watched the past several events directly on our home…
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iPad Tutorial: Use a Free Amazon Wish List as an Information Trap for Books
(cross-posted from iPadWithWes.com) Montana educator Jason Neiffer uses the metaphor of “creating information traps” to describe strategies for digitally capturing and archiving information for later use. In this three minute screencast, Wesley Fryer demonstrates how you can use a free “wish list” (included with every Amazon.com account) as an “information trap” for books on an…