So I’m slowly re-adding feeds to the newly blank aggregator (I always picture a very aggravated alligator when I see that word- too many Crocodile Hunter shows with my son). See what I’m reading below maybe you’ll find something interesting (maybe not) but I’m looking to expand so drop your top sites (educational or non) […]
Staying Uncomfortable
I listened to a great conversation today between the president of UR (Ed Ayers– former Professor of the Year and major player in the creation of the Valley of the Shadow project) and a UR Business School professor and VA Professor of the Year (Joe Hoyle). So some high power professors and great teachers. It […]
Welcome to Nonprogramistan
nonprogramistan Originally uploaded by bionicteaching Thought some of you might get a kick out of this graphic that’ll be part of a presentation Jim Groom and I are working on. The premise is that a variety of recent technologies allow the creation of mashups and other interesting web based options without the need for programming […]
More Limited Communication Purity
Apparently, I really like the idea cutting down communication to it’s purest form. (that’s really pompous sounding)- I like short writing. I like the idea that you have to pack as much as possible in just a few words. Boing Boing has come through again by finding a book dealing with 6 word memoirs by […]
Google Forms to Exhibit Example (POC)
So, I’ve managed to create two quick websites for work that are driven by Google’s new form option for getting data into spreadsheets. I’ve put a quick example of a log here. Feel free to enter data etc. It’s up there to play around with and hopefully is simple enough to help people figure out […]
Just in time tech . . .
Google spreadsheets now lets you share editing by sending out a custom form. This is a huge deal. No, really. Huge. It solves so many problems I see happening all the time in schools. This is such a great way to get large amounts of information from all sorts of people of varying technical skill […]
The Terror of Concentric Circles!
Breaking News: Series Of Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot A great Onion news story. There’s enough vocabulary in it for a whole lesson and throw in a solid sample of parody as well. […]
Teachers, can you spare a dime?
Let’s all get behind this worthy charity that will clearly benefit all educators… Happy Friday, Y’all! via Neatorama […]
Rome Built in a Day (Serious Fun)
The Machine Project, a gallery in LA, hosted the “24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project” last month. The group had a ton of cardboard and “building supplies”, did some research to figure out the layout of the city and pulled together all the images they could for modeling the buildings, put together a building schedule, and […]
Of Chimeras, Tweets and Twittering
Jim Groom is now working with me at the University of Richmond. It’s his second day and we’ve already dreamed up enough projects to keep us in work for several years. It is great fun, incredibly geeky fun, but fun nevertheless. Anyway . . . we were talking about the differences between various web publishing […]