I broke down this past weekend and bought a cheap MP3 player ($70 Canadian for 128MB flash based player which doubles as a USB drive), mainly to listen to all the podcasts I’ve been listening to. This has made me a much more productive person, since I can now walk around the house while listening [...]
Archive for October, 2004
Using MP3 players in the classroom
2004/10/27Weblog failure woes
2004/10/26**Argggghhhh** was a vague approximation of the thought going through my brain earlier today. We had some problems on the server where MovableType serves as the CMS that runs the web sites for the classes I teach. When I tried to add a new post for an assignment, it just gave me a series of [...]
Drool
2004/10/26Apple has just unveiled its newest iPod, the iPod Photo. Santa, if you are reading this blog, forget everything else on my list (except for the new flat-screen iMac!) UPDATE – I just saw that Darcy Norman is also lusting in his heart for the photo iPod, but he also has a link leading to [...]
Writing HTML presentation
2004/10/13I am just putting the finishing touches on my Writing HTML presentation that I will be using in a workshop this evening with some Canada World Youth volunteers who are in North Battleford for a couple of months. I am using Eric Meyer’s brilliant S5 presentation system. I am impressed not only by its power [...]
Slashdot down?
2004/10/13Perhaps you first came to know of this by sense a disturbance in the force. I’m not sure what is happening, but slashdot appears to be down (Server Error 503 – Service Not Available). This leads to the dilemma of where one should post the news, since normally this sort of outage is newsworthy on [...]
A Better Mousetrap
2004/10/10Wow! Eric Meyer has created a new way of putting together slide presentations. Or maybe I should say that he has put together a way of putting together presentations using the well established technologies of XHTML, CSS and Javascript. This is timely news as I am putting together a slide show to introduce a workshop [...]
iPodder up and running
2004/10/09I have been reading quite a few blogs talking about podcasting in the past 2 weeks. Maybe its just the meme-of-the-month, but I enjoy listening to bloggers even more than reading them — the social presence is just so much greater when I can hear someone. Besides, now that blogging is apparently getting mainstream attention [...]
David Wiley on technology in schools
2004/10/06In his recent article/posting entitled How Technology Will Destroy Schools, David Wiley discusses the obselence of schools in an age of instant access to any information. Admittedly, we aren’t there yet, but I think that we are getting closer. In some parts of the world, for some people, and for the right kind of information, [...]
Abbot and Costello at the Computer Store
2004/10/05Abbot and Costello at the Computer Store :: Ha – this one gave me a good morning chuckle when I dearly needed it.
