January 2012
2 posts
“If a typical textbook costs $100 and has a five-year replacement cycle, now...”
– Learning, Freedom and the Web
“I knew the son she once sent away never came home per se, instead I did, a shell...”
– Iraq: What I remember | PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
November 2011
4 posts
“Yes, you can look things up, but if you don’t have an INTRINSIC store of...”
– TeachPaperless: The Wikipedia Dilemma
“… the only things being rethought here are the delivery models of a...”
– http://willrichardson.com/post/12686013800/my-teacher-is-an-app
Finding Vegan | Vegan food photos - Vegan Recipes... →
Great ressource for vegans, recipes and products presented with nice photos.
October 2011
1 post
“One revolution I’m sure is coming is the remaking of the print publishing...”
– Mobile Opportunity: Amazon vs. Apple? No, it’s Amazon and Apple vs. Everyone Else
September 2011
4 posts
“Steve has always pointed out that the biggest difference between Apple and all...”
– The Top Ten Lessons Steve Jobs Can Teach Us - If We’ll Listen - Forbes
I wholly agree here. To that marriage of art and science has always been what makes Apple devices appealing to me. They simply feel different.
In search of Nirvana →
It’s ten years since Kurt Cobain suicide which ended Nirvana, the band that changed so much.
TALL blog » Blog Archive » Not ‘Natives’ &... →
Didn’t know that this way to differentiate between users of new technologies was that old. This post is from 2008.
August 2011
4 posts
London’s Rioters Are Thatcher’s Grandchildren:... →
Interesting analysis of what really lead to the London riots.
WatchMaking the Connection (by ENVIRONMENT FILMS)
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
3 posts
Sine, music I like
<a href=”http://sineband.bandcamp.com/album/endoscopia” _mce_href=”http://sineband.bandcamp.com/album/endoscopia”>Endoscopia by Sine</a>
1 tag
May 2011
5 posts
Royal Kebabhaus →
A vegan kebab house in Munich. Would love to try their kebab. They even offer assistance to those who would like to replicate their idea and open a vegan (and vegetarian) kebab house too.
An Extreme Case: iPhone 4 Rugged Protection... →
If your iPhone 4 needs extra rugged protection here’s the review for you to read. Daring Fireball compares three extreme cases from Otterbox, Griffin and Ballistic.
Pizza Formula. - PrincipalsPage's Posterous →
An easy way to memorize the formula needed to calculate the volume of a cylinder.
April 2011
1 post
“ #colereTILT Invisible Learning slides View more presentations from John...”
– #colereTILT Invisible Learning slides
March 2011
14 posts
“The Internet offers unprecedented opportunities for the realisation of human...”
– Internet Rights & Principles Coalition Charter
“Over the last ten plus years ‘consumer technology’, and by that I mean the...”
– Development - The worst thing about educational technology is educational technology | Delta Publishing - English Language Teaching
WatchSir Ken Robinson, March 2011, Learning Without Frontiers (by newlearning)
“in school, children will one day use personal technologies in a similar way to...”
– Learning with ‘e’s: 2020 learning technologies
“Packrati.us now supports Historious, Instapaper, Pinboard.in, and Diigo...”
– Packrati.us = Twitter Delicious
Packrati.us bookmarking Twitter links made easy
How JavaScript & HTML5 Are Remaking the Web →
How JavaScript & HTML5 Are Remaking the Web
Good to see those new standards are finally taking a hold on the web. Will allow for much more elaborate web design. I’ve been waiting for years literally so I can use CSS 3 to have text flow in three columns on a web page.
Glossary Generator →
Free online tool to create an HTML web glossary.
“Learning experience designers have an opportunity to use game mechanics -...”
– The Future of Games for Learning | OpenSesame
“If you can motivate a student to want to learn, that’s so much more...”
– Woz to educators: “be brave, use the new technology”
“Teachers are on the frontline of education every day. There are many teachers...”
– Innovation in Education - Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
February 2011
7 posts
Motorola: all our high-end smartphones will have... →
Motorola is on to something here. They might cause a major paradime shift by merging mobile/ smart phones, mobile computing and desktop computing. I really like the idea behind it.
DROPitTOme - Securely receive files from anyone to... →
Useful tool to allow others to upload files to your dropbox. They go to your unique DROPitTOme address, enter the password you set and can then upload files up to 75 MB in size. Very convenient.
“As every generation becomes more tech-savvy, making the switch to digital...”
– Silver Chips Online : From note-pads to iPads, teaching goes high-tech
Talking Tech with Robin: VozMe - proof listening... →
I love this idea. Students often don’t like proof reading, and when they do they often fail to see their own mistakes. They read what they think they’ve written by reading over mistakes.
What better way is there than have their text read to them. By hearing they are presented with their text on another channel which changes the perspective on the text.
You only need text to speech...
Tracing the Dynabook →
Alan Kay’s vision has been driving development of computers for a long time.
(via Cyberspace)
January 2011
6 posts
Canyons - My Rescue (Dr. Dunks Disco Extension) →
Motorola Atrix 4G, HD multimedia dock, and laptop... →
With the Atrix 4G Motorola takes the old idea of docking a netbook to a larger screen and keyboard a step further.
“In Paradise man was vegetarian. There were animals but they weren’t eaten;...”
– Fleischkonsum: «Wer Fleisch essen will, soll selber schlachten» - Beobachter