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- Why do I only get flamed when I support Microsoft?
- A recent post in Information Week asked a similar question: Why Doesn't Microsoft Have a Cult Religion? It appeared on Digg and Ars with an even catchier tagline: "A good question: Where ARE the Microsoft fanboys?" A whole lot of us use it, many even with a great...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Automatix - an essential add-on that further mainstreams Ubuntu
- As I grow increasingly fond of my Kubuntu install, Im looking for any avenues that might make it even easier for the average ed tech guy or girl to deploy on the average PC in our environment. While the setup is largely straightforward, there are a few niggles that...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Text messaging and the death of the English language
- Or Gaelic, I guess. CNN.com reported Thursday on an Irish study demonstrating that text messaging has a negative impact on written language skills in teens. While a true causal link was not established by the study, researchers did find a significant correlation between increased usage of SMS and instant...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Your Ed Tech Toolbox
- My last post, "What did we ever do before laptops?," got me thinking about a variety of tools upon which Ive come to rely. More importantly, these are tools upon which my users have come to rely on me having. These are the items I have in my...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Save some money this year
- Everyone loves saving money, and probably us Ed Techers more than most. Ive stumbled across a few spiffy money savers in the last month or so that I wanted to toss out for consideration and would welcome Talkbacks from anyone who has some more (or who utterly disagrees with...
- Tags: thin client, computer, OEM, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Will your students be using Linux in 2007?
- Im writing this post using Fedora Core 6 on my new laptop. Ive been running some flavor of Linux for a while now and I think Ive finally settled on Fedora Core since its doing such a nice job with both multimedia and office productivity tasks. Overall, it...
- Tags: Instant messaging, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, IM, Linux, 64-bit, Fedora Project
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Techno idiots, huh? Then we have our work cut out for us.
- Kids these days...What with their newfangled "Myspace" and "Instant Messaging", always "texting" each other. Why, back in my day, we just talked on the phone.OK, so Im only 30 and Ive sent my share of text messages. However, in computer years, Im still old enough to remember a...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-29
- Why ed tech is like Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving is almost upon us. This has always been my favorite holiday, even after I became a vegetarian a while back (Tofurkey anyone?). The sheer volume of food and drink appeals to my most Bacchanalian instincts and even the hustle and bustle of preparing a giant feast gets...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- Recruiters, forget the catalog, just send an instant message
- Could college-bound seniors get wined and dined by college recruiters via MySpace? If the findings of a new survey by a higher education consulting firm are right, more prospective students just might get an IM from a recruiter based on their profile, reports Campus Technology. The study by higher...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- So about those thin clients...
- Im writing this post from my new and now somewhat infamous laptop. More importantly, Im connected to my LAN wirelessly under Linux. Whoo Hoo! After lots of fussing with ndiswrapper and SUSE this weekend, I pretty well hosed the networking portion of my SUSE install. I have...
- Tags: Terminal services, Microsoft Windows, Thin clients, Operating systems, Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Edubuntu, Ubuntu, Linux, Linux Terminal Server Project
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- Generation IM
- Although sociologists have dubbed the generation born between 1980 and 2000 the "M" for millennial generation, perhaps the "G" generation would be more appropriate. "G" for guinea pigs because being available 24/7 and having most of your hundreds of friends be of the virtual kind is one grand experiment. What...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
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- It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)
- Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...
- Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Students sue over "sexting" case
- Students sue over "sexting" caseAmster, Amster, d@m-d@m-d@mCould it be that puritanical American society is becoming closer to European society? Every new generation seems to be less conservative and more willing to explore/experiment. The "free love" of the 1960's is a good example of this behavior.Kids today are realizing just how...
- Tags: pornography law, R@PE, nudity
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- How do you convince teachers that Twitter isn't a waste of time?
- How do you convince teachers that Twitter isn't a waste of time?for extended discussions, not answersit might be abused for direct messaging, but for a generalized discussion, it's a useful tool.But going to phpbb.com and setting up a bulletin board for the school woudl be another useful tool as well...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2009-03-24
- 90ò0of Americans 18-28-year-old own a PC
- 90ò0of Americans 18-28-year-old own a PCid sayyoure about 7% low based on this;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_YGeneration Y and technologyIn their recent book, Connecting to the Net.Generation: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know About Today's Students, Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa[15] found that in a survey of 7,705 college students in the US:...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Instant messaging, Blogging, music, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Year-round school
- Year-round schoolyes short breaks are acceptablewell i do agreee that short breaks are better option well i'm a tech too who implement CAE Computer Aided Educationin schools, wat i realize that after installing & implementing the sw the teachers come up with many suggestion and correction so they wouldn't wait...
- Tags: OK Here, school year, Year-Round, Year-round school
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- "Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?
- "Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?Well...Producing texts is "fun" and all that, however you've got a hurdle or two to overcome. Nothing unsurmountable, but they're there.The prime issue is that publishers have an awful lot of material locked down under copyright, particularly in terms of graphics....
- Tags: E-books, LaTeX, textbook, e-book
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Indian techies snubbing US jobs to stay home
- Indian techies snubbing US jobs to stay homeThat's What Locusts Do.They destroy one place and move on to the next one. Indians destroyed the job market in America and they are moving on to the next place to gut out and leave to die.RE: Indian techies snubbing US jobs...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, family network, Indian techy, job
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- HD DVD vs. Blu-ray ad nauseum
- HD DVD vs. Blu-ray ad nauseumThey could always......develop a common standard or someone else could do it for them. That is what ended the 56K modem wars and is probably in the interests of both factions. When we start seeing vendors sell "dual-mode" players, I think reason will...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Network technology, LG Electronics Inc., HD-DVD, ethernet port, Sony PlayStation 3, Ethernet, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- Do we have a policy on laptops in the classroom?
- Do we have a policy on laptops in the classroom?I suppose......laptops can always be used for taking notes, but that's probably better done the old fashioned way.Laptops, policy, and protectionI was just discussing a similar idea last night with a friend who is a part time youth worker. His other...
- Tags: Notebooks, Learning, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
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