“Why do people go to school? Why? Yeah. Didn’t your mother tell you? She just said everyone went. Well … they go to learn. That’s why. To learn what? About the world. What for? I hesitate. I am remembering what my wife said about being positive. I want to be positive. So they can...
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- Many classrooms and schools are moving (or have already moved) a lot of their services towards cloud based computing. Everything from web based file storage to applications such as google docs have been moved online. This is why I thought people might be interested in this new service called CloudSleuth. Cloudsleuth monitors the...
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I have a MacBook Pro that I use at both home and school. I carry it back and forth between work and home each day. As I arrive in my classroom and set up my computer, I take a few minutes each day to reconfigure this machine to work on my school’s network. It...
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We have more information, but less news. We have more information, but we understand the world less and have less perspective on global events than people in the past. An information age paradox. Alisa Miller in this 4 minute TED Talk explains how this has happened: This is frightening. We live in a world...
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Online, there are communities of all sizes. By the hundreds of thousands, some are huge stopping places that collect tens of thousands of users, while others are small, with only a few people who contribute and are struggling to stay alive. Like real communities, each of these spaces has a culture of its own...
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