Next week I will be attending my 15th (I think) Ohio eTech Technology Conference (OETC). Over the years I’ve learned a few things. Ignore the vendor presentations, flip through the vendor hall quickly for free swag, talk to the students that are presenting, attend teacher presentations, network and discuss with others. My goal is to learn one new thing, and… Read more →
❂ Andre Cassagnes, Creator Of The Etch A Sketch, Dead At 86
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Thursday 3 for Jan. 31, 2013 – Educon 2.5
EduCon 2.5 took place this past weekend in Philadelphia. I was extremely lucky and grateful for a chance to attend last year, and attend isn’t quite the right word to use. A better word would be experience. What is EduCon? EduCon is both a conversation and a conference. It is an innovation conference where we can come together, both in… Read more →
Thirty years of tech, where are we now?
This January marks the 30 year anniversary of the Apple //e and the Apple Lisa. While the Apple //e had profound effects on the computer world throughout the 80s, I am in awe of how much the Apple Lisa foretold of the computing world. No matter what your thoughts are of Steve Jobs, the man had a knack for going… Read more →
Thursday 3s for Jan. 24, 2013: Student tech skills, tablets vs. IWBs, and menu calendar
5 technology skills every student needs before they leave high school Jeremy Kaiser writes about 5 technology skills every student needs before they leave high school. Technology moves fast, but even this article which is almost 2 years old holds relevance today. What is missing is the mobile component, which in 2011 wouldn’t be as obvious as it is today.… Read more →
Your inbox is not an organizational tool
Email is the technology that everyone loves to hate. They use it daily, and most hate every minute of it. I believe part of the problem is the difficulty in coming up with a workflow that allows you to efficiently use email. And by efficiently use email, I mean that whether you are on your computer, a tablet, or smartphone,… Read more →
Use a GMail filter to organize emails from students
GMail has a somewhat powerful filtering mechanism that you can apply to incoming email. Unfortunately, I say somewhat since there really isn’t an easy way to select student email and take it out of your inbox. It won’t match on part of an address, so you can’t just search for an email address that starts with a number. What I’ve… Read more →
Has Apple lost it?
Apple announced the iPhone 5 today and updates to the iPod line. Most of the announcements were lackluster at best, but the event laid the groundwork for the rumored iPad mini event in October, which could be even more disastrous than the iPhone 5 event today. The iPhone 5 is a nice upgrade, thinner and lighter, but at the same… Read more →
Impressions of the Nexus 7 Tablet
For those that know me, ordering a Google Nexus 7 Tablet when it was released isn’t much of a surprise. I did wait a day though. 🙂 The Nexus 7 Tablet joins the stable of portable devices at home, which include a couple of iPad 1s, and iPad 3, a couple of cheap Android tablets imported from China, an iPhone,… Read more →
Something about iPads
[![][]][] I’ve been thinking a lot lately about iPads, Chromebooks, Android Tablets, and Linux laptops. In planning the next 5 years of technology in my school district, I know it will be mobile, but what device should I be thinking about? And then I noticed something very curious about the iPad and how people interact with it. In the past,… Read more →