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A few years ago, my wife and I were attending a church in TN. The pastor, Landon Meadow, gave a speech on the idea of the urgent vs. the important. It is one of the few sermons from that time period that really stuck with me from that year. The gist is . . . → Read More: The Urgent and the Important
About a year ago, I started the website http://socialsigfor.me. I built a website to create an attractive email signature and blog widget that can visually display someone’s social networks. This was something that I did not see as readily available. This resonated with a fair amount of people, but not enough to . . . → Read More: Social Sig: an End and a Beginning
Recently, Google sent me a Logitech Revue Google TV as part of developer program. I want to explore Google TV’s potential for education and possibly develop an app for it. The Logitech Revue is one of a handful of devices that run Google TV, an operating system related to Android and developed . . . → Read More: Google TV: Unrealized Potential
Without much fanfare, Amazon has started to allow lending of Kindle books. As someone published in the Kindle store, I was notified by email this morning. Amazon had the opportunity to do something innovative but they chose to cripple this new feature in the same was that Barnes & Noble did with . . . → Read More: Kindle’s New Lending Feature: A Major Disappointment
At Educon 2.3 at the end of January, I will be leading a conversation called “Promoting Reflection.” In that vein (especially since my house is surrounded by 3 feet of snow), I thought it would be appropriate to see what posts most connected with my readers,
How to Authenticate Users From Moodle . . . → Read More: Top Posts of 2010 Recently, Google launched pilot program of ChromeOS on the Google CR-48 laptop. I was one of those lucky enough to be chosen. I received the laptop at the beginning of the week and wanted to use it exclusively for the better part of a week to really be thorough in my evaluation.
. . . → Read More: Review: Google ChromeOS I am happy to announce the debut of a new service here at JTB Consulting. In addition to traditional consulting services, professional development, and custom lesson plans, I now offer eBook conversion. Here are the details:
eBook Conversion I am happy to offer eBook conversion for any text or book that you would . . . → Read More: New Services I am really thankful for some great Christmas presents I got from Google.
On Monday, the Logitech Revue Google TV ($300) value came in. Today, I was surprised to have a CR-48 laptop waiting on my front doorstep. This is the only laptop built specifically to run Google’s new Chrome OS. By . . . → Read More: Early Christmas Presents From Google I just finished reading my first full-length e-book last night. As a former librarian, that may be surprising. Unfortunately, my proposal to pilot an e-book program while I was a librarian was turned down. Not having had a Kindle, Nook, iPad, Sony Reader, or other reader, I really had not had . . . → Read More: E-Books: How Should Schools Embrace the New Technology? My oldest daughter is just a month over 2 years old. She has always loved playing with my and my wife’s phones. In fact, she started to think every screen was a touch screen and did not really know what an old landline phone was when she saw it, as we . . . → Read More: Cell Phones for Learning – With a 2 Year Old |
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