Wednesday, February 15, 2012

I think I'm going to leave my iPhone in the car tonight....

via CNET...


Siri as a horror film star? Just watch this new video. Read this blog post by David Carnoy on Crave.

"Experiences cause expectations" - Jason Griffey


Jason Griffey writes about the Apple tools he uses to create his presentations. The video of his presentation is worth a watch too....

How I Presented at VALA2012. I had a handful of people at VALA 2012 ask me not about the content of the talk (although I got a ton of those) but about how it was I put together and ran the presentatio...

Therapy dogs


Some days I could use a therapy dog at work too!

When it comes to learning, libraries around the country are steadily discovering that a dog can teach patrons, young and old, a few tricks. The Oshkosh Public Library in Wisconsin is offering a “Read ...


Unusual application of Google PageRank.



Google is well known for its collegiate roots, hatched as it was by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University back in the late 1990s. So it's only fitting that PageRank, the de...

Who failed whom?


I'm listening to a student (Rhitwika Sensharma) discuss her experiences with blogging at #ELI2012. She talked about a blog post where she discussed her feelings about failure in school. It really resonated with me. She saw herself as a failure when she didn't get good grades. I see a brilliant young mind who was failed by a broken educational system. When she talked about learning how to succeed in the system to get good grades, I saw yet another student forced to conform to a rigid environment. We're the ones who are failing the students.

There's an app for that?

There's an app for that?
Coffee app finds caffeine's safe zone
PENN STATE (US) — A new software app can tell when a cup of coffee will give you a mental boost and when it will keep you awake. Caffeine Zone software takes information on caffeine use and integrates ...
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Coming out of hibernation....

I'm going to try to link this to Google+ and resume posting...  wish me luck!