Archive for October 2008
M$ $urface + $econdLight
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 31, 2008
MS Surface + SecondLight = amazing educational potential!
M$ plays catch up
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 29, 2008
Microsoft (M$) is playing catch up. Ars Technica reports that Microsoft is following Google’s (long, long) lead in putting part of their Office Suite online. This is all part of the trend of cloud computing.
Here’s another trend: Computers embedded with a second operating system like Splashtop that allows users to use critical tools (like a [...]
DOS attacks blog providers
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 28, 2008
First it was WordPress blogs and then LiveJournal blogs. Yahoo! Tech reported that both were hit with denial of service (DOS) attacks over the weekend.
I did not experience any problems, but that is likely because 1) I avoid blogging on weekends, and 2) WordPress has always been relatively slow for me!
M$ $urface
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 25, 2008
Gizmodo reports that MS Surface will cost more than expected.
All the more reason for educational institutions to develop their own!
[Image from Gizmodo. The female model mentions being a gladiator because she was the eventual winner of the American Gladiators 2008 series.]
Collaboration vs cooperation
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 24, 2008
I left a concept dangling in mid-air during the course. I mentioned that my trainees might emerge from the course knowing what the difference was between cooperation and collabortation.
I engaged them in two wiki-based writing activities (one which exhibited characteristic of cooperation and the other collaboration). I also embedded this video in the wiki to [...]
Multitouch multi-news!
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 23, 2008
There seems to be a flurry of multitouch technologies in the tech news world! The latest is called the SMART Table.
What I love about this video is that it shows how more than one child can use it together! The bad thing is that it will cost about US$7000-8000 to get [...]
More from Dawson’s blog
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 23, 2008
After reading one of Christopher Dawson’s blog entries, I decided to read a few more. I liked how he shot off the hip but managed to hit his targets. I read his entries on near ubiquitous wireless Internet access with Wimax-like access and about learned helplessness.
His first article made me think about what we will [...]
QED522 finale
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 22, 2008
UPDATE: This post will be a “sticky” (at the top of this blog) until a new batch of classes begins next semester.
Today marked the end of my last QED522 class for this semester. My trainees did their second and final round of walkabout-style presentations. I outlined my rationale for walkbouts over traditional presentations last week.
Here [...]
Dirty word or essential skill?
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 22, 2008
You just know that a blog entry with content like “plenty of educators, especially administrators, wouldn’t know a blog from their elbow, let alone have a clue how they might use Twitter or Ning in their districts” is fishing for something.
The author of that blog had a few points to make: 1) many educators don’t [...]
