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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 [...]

I 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

The 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

See 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.