Amazon’s Kindle 2 has begun arriving in happy gadget freak’s homes this week. Announced on February 9th by Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, the Kindle 2 is reported to have cleaned up some of the style-points that version one suffered from with a thinner, lighter device and boosted internal memory from 512 MB to 2 GB. …
When Internet Anthropologist, Michael Wesch, popularized the notion that YouTube was essentially about people teaching other people “stuff” he probably didn’t have the following video tutorials in mind:
It was Valentine’s weekend for some. For me it was just another weekend spent grading student blogs. But after reading an article in the UK’s Telegraph online newspaper titled, “Valentine’s Day: Technology is killing romance,” one of my students wrote a blog entry weighing the article’s premise that, because of technology, people don’t write love …
The ideal of love is it’s unconditional nature. The closest we usually come to that kind of love is the love between a parent and her child. But even that love has it’s limits, it’s conditions. I know that I’ve come up against my own limitations with a love that I thought was permanent and …
I’m so happy that my friend, Neva, has finished her CD, One of these Days, and now my other friends can enjoy a little taste of what I’ve been enjoying from NevaMusic! I say a little taste because the CD’s six tracks are closer to being an EP than full length CD. I guess the …
Sometimes the reflections on the Zander book, The Art of Possibility, are much more… “ground level.” One student commented: I loved Benjamin Zander’s analogy of the conductor and orchestra. Too often educators forget that we are not there to fill there little brains with information all day long. This is where the NCLB act has …
I just got back from a screening of the updated “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” I know that it was universally panned by critics and friends, but I wanted to see it anyway (and it was showing at the local $2.50 theater, I could have seen it for a buck had I waited until …
My students continue their reflections on the Zander book, The Art of Possibility. This time the musing is about the possible ramifications of the realization that “Reality” is not what we thought it was: I try not to allow Zander’s conceptualism bother me–it goads me like a poker when he says “language is replete with …
It’s long past the election season and things have moved on from battling video days between the two warring campaigns. After I’d forwarded a get-out-the-vote/Obama video a friend sent the following video to me: “One Vote” – ValueVotersUSA.com (official) Beautiful video with a somewhat overly dramatic soundtrack, then I started paying attention to words floating …
Students in my course are assigned to read Ben & Roz Zander’s The Art of Possibility and over this past week I’ve been reading and grading their reflections on the book in their blogs. The book, which espouses the notion that we will find more success in life if we recognize that we live in …