The Thanksgiving holiday is a family thing. In years past, with one notable exception I’ve never suffered from a lack of having family to spend the afternoon/evening with. I’ve been fortunate that way. Having a “significant other” has been an entirely different story. Given that I’m now a several hundred miles from family and the …
I love these people. Before heading out to our various Thanksgiving holiday destinations Beth (month 1) pulled out a composition book with the title “Things I Never Thought I Would Hear at Work.” Once we were seated around her like attentive pre-schoolers, she read to us a collection of quotations and our job was to …
A little over a month ago I received a cute series of illustrations expressing the frustrations of teaching. Someone obviously has too much time on there hands, this past week I received a link to a video version (thanks Carrie). Enjoy. jbb music: Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra from their “All over …
On GeekBrief.TV a gestural user-interface called g-speak was demoed. After watching the video all I could say is that I still haven’t acclimated to using a WACOM tablet because the tablet picks up the pen motion even when the pen is not in contact with the tablet. Gesturing in the air seems just that much …
I love this stuff. I wanted to put a streaming viewer of the ongoing Endeavor mission on my blog and remembered that a video podcaster was doing this via Ustream. I’d used this source last Spring when I watched the landing of the Mars Phoenix lander. Funny that there was nothing available directly from NASA …
I was thinking about writing something about my ongoing experiences with e-Harmony. Then I saw the following Onion video. It pretty much sums it up (though I hope that my conversations have more depth than this poor soul’s)…
Wow, that happened way 2 fast. Leaving the parking area is going 2 take much longer than Endeavor’s 1st orbit. Video 2 follow. 08:20 PM November 14, 2008 from Twinkle
Some folks watch a NASA documentary and fall asleep with five-seconds of the first acronym. My buddy Dan is one of those guys. We’d just started the Astronaut Hall of Fame tour and as much as he wanted to be there for the launch the first video we watched made him groan. I had no …
One of the first things that I knew that I wanted to do when I decided to move to Florida was to attend the launch of a space shuttle. I really should have gotten my feet wet in this area back during the summer before my course started but it just didn’t happen. Then I …
Most of my fellow course directors sit within earshot of my desk and on more than a few occasions we’ve pulled our chairs together and talked about things that seem to work in online learning and things that don’t. For starters, students who have the biggest trouble with online learning are the ones who thought …