Announcing the Kindle Fire Amazon announced a few new Kindles today, the most important, in my mind, is the Kindle Fire. It is a 7″ tablet running a specialized version of Android. The shocker was the price, \$199. With todays announcement, every school district that is looking at mobile devices will need to take a pause and examine what the… Read more →
Formatting for the printed page is dead
The PrintShop In the mid 80’s it seemed like the second most used program for the Apple II was Broderbund’s The PrintShop, right after that pirated copy of AppleWorks. For the first time, users could create posters, cards, etc. all with fancy fonts and clip arts. As word processors and page layout tools became more and more commonplace, the final… Read more →
I’ve been hacked and you can learn from my mistakes. :-)
Hacked! Yes, I let my WordPress installation rot. And it’s entirely my fault. Wordpress makes it so easy to keep it up to date now that there is no excuse, so I do accept full responsibility! I’m lucky in the fact that all the hacker did was rewrite my .htaccess file to redirect visitors to a malware hosted site. After… Read more →
Personal computers are extinct, bring on mobile technologies – #OHECC11
Here’s my presentation from the OHECC 2011 conference and the handout is available by clicking here: Read more →
Put a countdown timer on a presentation slide
[][] This past week as I was working on a presentation, I had a slide where I asked the participants to discuss among themselves. I wanted to set a time limit, but I didn’t want to have to switch out of Keynote, I wanted it on the slide. It took me a couple of minutes, but I finally came up… Read more →
A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #neotech2011
Here are the slides with notes: Handout from my presentation. For those following along with Twitter here are the results of the poll: [][] I really enjoyed the conference, and want to thank everyone that was involved at putting it on. It was very well run (although I didn’t win the MacBook Air door prize… :-). Read more →
A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #oetc11
The slides are available on Google Docs. Read more →
21st Century Learning – Return of the Jedi #oetc11
The slides are available on Google Docs, and I’ve started to put my links under http://www.delicious.com/mr.rcollins/partvi. Have you succumbed to the dark side? Do you use technology for good or evil? Read more →
Interview with Kent State journalism students at #oetc11
I was interviewed by Amanda Murrow at the Ohio eTech Technology Conference: Star Wars for Teaching from David Smeltzer on Vimeo. Read more →
My presentations for the eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conference 2011 #oetc11
I’ll be presenting twice at the conference this year. On Monday, I’ll be presenting “21st Century Schools: Part VI, Return of the Jedi” from 3:45 – 4:30 pm in Room: D230 – 232. This session will be on motivating students and teachers, while trying not to stray to the “dark side” of technology. The twitter hastag will be #rcpartvi. My… Read more →