Posted on : 19-08-2010 | By : dan | In : Edtech
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I’ve always enjoyed reading Instructify’s blogs, so when I was asked to contribute to their wealth of “useful, free technology to utilize in the classroom. And it’s a fun place to spend your planning period.” One of the things that has always grabbed my attention is their wonder use of the English language. When asked to write, I realized I needed to step it up a notch. The articles are designed to grab your attention and get to the point. I like to think of it at getting down and dirty with educational technology.
Today, I am proud to say, my first entry was published. Focusing on the K 12 Online Conference, organized by Wes
Fryer and others, I took the opportunity to show educators the value of this FREE ongoing conference. When you have a chance, take the time to read EdTech conferences persist without funding: The K-12 Online Conference.
Posted on : 02-08-2010 | By : dan | In : Location, mobile
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Even though everyone in the tech world has been checking in with Foursquare and Gowalla for what seems like forever, does anyone outside of our bubble know what our darling location applications are, and what they do?
via Reality Check – Nearly No One Knows What A “Foursquare” Is.
After reading this article at thenextweb.com, I started thinking about conversations I’ve had with teachers this past summer. I feel safe saying that educators represent a middle ground of tech know how and nearly all that I spoke to about location based services gave me that deer in the headlights 
look. Similar to reactions over Twitter (I don’t get it!), I dive further into the social aspects of the service and get a mild, “That’s cool!” reaction. Then I move into the data mining aspect of it and discuss how these companies can provide immense amount of data for a geographic region based on user generated input (Repeat the deer in headlights look).
So what can we do about this? I suppose not much more than keep using it and keep sharing interest mash-ups that come from people interested in location services. One of my favorites allows Foursquare data to be visualized in Google Earth. I’ve been working some possible ways to present Foursquare to others in meaningful ways that will impact our society. But I have to admit, I have not used any other services (aside from Buzz). So which services should I compare and why?
Posted on : 27-07-2010 | By : dan | In : Edtech
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Just working with some fine folks at NCAE for the Foundation for Public School Children website (to be announced later). Any ideas on good hosts? I’m looking at GoDaddy, Globat, Bluehost, and SquareSpace.
Posted on : 15-04-2010 | By : dan | In : Edtech, mobile
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Now that I have killed all traffic to my website from a 16 month hiatus, I am attempting to develop my personal learning network to include blogging along with Twitter, Delicious, and Skype. I’m working on this blog post from WordPress for the iPad. So far so good. I do wish I could add links from within the editor, but I’ll have to look into that later. For now I’ll just post this single entry and add a photo of the WP dash.
Posted on : 25-01-2009 | By : dan | In : Random
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Just thought I’d share a tweet posted earlier today…just an example why all GPS devices must remind users to have a good dose of common sense when blindly taking turn by turn directions.
This isn’t the only ‘oops’ found on Google Maps Streetview, so share if you have any. In fact, until recently, you could request directions from New York City to Paris. The directions were very accurate -with one major issue….A short swim across the pond, also know as the Atlantic Ocean. Here are a few other interesting finds on Google Maps: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-maps-shows-funny-directions.html
Posted on : 20-01-2009 | By : dan | In : politics
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I forgot to include the latest Current mashup in my last post. Check it out:
Twitter / Current Mashup
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