Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Today's the day
Sleep last night came and went, and thankfully our little boy slept through the night. Now if he'll just stay asleep while we ge ready to go into the hospital. We have to check into the labor and delivery wing at 7:30, so it's a really early morning, much earlier than normal for us.
I'm praying rat everything goes smoothly. Becky's been up since 4, unable to sleep. We're not in labor. We'll get around here and stop somewhere for mecto get a cup of coffee, Becky isn't allowed to have anything.
Today is the day the Lord has made, and Becky and I are both very excited to 'go and meet' her for the first time. I've heard from many friends that having one child is easy, two on the other hand...
I'm praying rat everything goes smoothly. Becky's been up since 4, unable to sleep. We're not in labor. We'll get around here and stop somewhere for mecto get a cup of coffee, Becky isn't allowed to have anything.
Today is the day the Lord has made, and Becky and I are both very excited to 'go and meet' her for the first time. I've heard from many friends that having one child is easy, two on the other hand...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com
Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff – TechLearning.com
So I really like what Nielsen has to say. Having been in the world of K12 before, and being aware that these types of tools exist - has been frustrating and I resonate with her quotes. The adoption of pencils and chalk didn't seem to be as difficult - and while the technologies we have today are faster than those, they're slower to be adopted. Yet that adoption is probably due in part to the fact that they're far more complex tools. Think of the pencil - a great and grand tool. Wireless, needs no batteries or peripheral attachments, and yet students could write anything they wanted to with it - appropriate and inappropriate content. Same with chalk. Now I am really blowing this out of proportion, but I think it does go back to the age old - "what are you using it for" type of premise. The technology itself is not bad, but rather it's how you use it that determines it's good or poor use in education.
Reflecting on the rest of Nielson's article, I really like the 6 steps she outlined. I could almost incorporate it into my Introduction to Educational Technology course - as a means of progress throughout the course. And in some ways, she even outlined the time-frame in which those things should happen. I really like her questions at the end, on which I could construct a rubric of sorts:
So I really like what Nielsen has to say. Having been in the world of K12 before, and being aware that these types of tools exist - has been frustrating and I resonate with her quotes. The adoption of pencils and chalk didn't seem to be as difficult - and while the technologies we have today are faster than those, they're slower to be adopted. Yet that adoption is probably due in part to the fact that they're far more complex tools. Think of the pencil - a great and grand tool. Wireless, needs no batteries or peripheral attachments, and yet students could write anything they wanted to with it - appropriate and inappropriate content. Same with chalk. Now I am really blowing this out of proportion, but I think it does go back to the age old - "what are you using it for" type of premise. The technology itself is not bad, but rather it's how you use it that determines it's good or poor use in education.
Reflecting on the rest of Nielson's article, I really like the 6 steps she outlined. I could almost incorporate it into my Introduction to Educational Technology course - as a means of progress throughout the course. And in some ways, she even outlined the time-frame in which those things should happen. I really like her questions at the end, on which I could construct a rubric of sorts:
- Are you adding to the conversation?
- Are you helping open up the minds of others about technology integration?
- Are you learning new things yourself?
Thursday, October 21, 2010
There goes the circular restore medium - for now.
Apple Killed The CD Today
It's rather interesting to me - thinking through the various forms of mediums that have been around, round and not round. I think of the vinyl that I listened to off my Dad's old stereo, and in the same stereo, we had an 8-track player, and then we skipped forward to cassette tapes, then laser disks, which were followed by compact disks, and now flash storage. So let's see, that's circle, rectangle, rectangle, circle, circle, rectangle.. ...which means that the next storage medium will also be rectangle - if the pattern holds any water.
I'm not surprised too much about this, but I didn't think that it would come this soon. What I believe this means for other OEMs, is 'follow the leader'. It also points in a direction that indicates a greater reliance on cloud services.. storage. Network storage and the Air were one of the major reasons Apple came up with the Air - if you store all your 'stuff' on a network (or in your .Mac account), why would you need a old clunky storage device on your laptop. Insure a great internet connection and cloud storage and 'voila' the perfect laptop.
It'll be interesting to see how this goes - I don't think the new Air will outsell the iPad, but then again you can't really compare those Apples to them Apples, since they come in at completely different price-points. I did have a colleague ask if I thought the whole OS was on the USB stick or if it simply kicked off a restore partition somewhere else in the internal flash storage. I'm sure someone over at Gizmodo or CNet will have one of them torn apart within the week or worse yet, and let us know how the new Air handles consumer pressure.
When you get your MacBook Air and you open the box, you will find exactly zero optical discs inside. Normally, Apple includes at least one back-up DVD to reinstall OS X and other software if your computer fails. But now, that has been replaced with a super-slim USB stick. This stick, packed in with your manual, is all you need to reinstall your system now.
It'll be interesting to see how this goes - I don't think the new Air will outsell the iPad, but then again you can't really compare those Apples to them Apples, since they come in at completely different price-points. I did have a colleague ask if I thought the whole OS was on the USB stick or if it simply kicked off a restore partition somewhere else in the internal flash storage. I'm sure someone over at Gizmodo or CNet will have one of them torn apart within the week or worse yet, and let us know how the new Air handles consumer pressure.
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