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I’ve been answering some emails and marking some assignments for my online Computer Science classes this morning, and I’ve noticed that I tend to insert smileys in my emails to students and the corrected assignments I return to them. One of the things I miss in my online classes [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Smileys in online courses
2009/05/22The origins of BSOS – Bright Shiny Object Syndrome
2009/05/21I listened earlier (and am now re-listening) to Bud Hunt’s podcast “Why Technology?” as a response to Ben Grey’s article “Why Technology?” at Tech and Learning. Bud makes a really good point about a tendency in some various educators – educational technologists, teachers and administrators – to get caught up in something I’ve referred to [...]
Be cautious when using Google Docs
2009/05/12I have been known to be exuberant about the use of Google Docs, having presented about Google Docs at conferences and worked with classes for getting set up to use Google Docs. I’m not going to give up my love for Google but it is tempered when I read articles like this – Google Docs [...]
Goodbye Firefox, Hello Safari 4 Beta
2009/05/09The MacBook had been running kind of slow lately. Checking system stats I saw that Firefox was using a fricking ridiculous 1 GB of RAM. I remembered that Safari 4 Beta had some issues (notably with WordPress as I recall, but this post is proof that is no longer an issue) but I was willing [...]
Nuking Google Reader subscriptions
2009/05/08I realized about a week ago that I hadn’t actually taken a look at Google Reader for about 2 or 3 weeks, and I hadn’t really missed it. For the most part I had been either finding interesting blog posts or other things to read via twitter, or I went to check out the [...]
Mix tapes, play lists and artistic vision
2009/05/01See you in the operating place!
Originally uploaded by massdistraction
I’ve been distractedly finding songs that I remember from some of my mix tapes I made so many years ago. That got me thinking (and tweeting) about the linearity of mix tapes.
It’s sad to think that my kids will never know what a mix tape is. Playlists [...]
