Over the past three years my attendance at Macworld Expo has been completely automatic but with Apple pulling out of the conference and then having the conference moved to February I’m not sure that attending the 2010 conference will be the best use of my increasingly diminished conference funds. I recognize that the Macworld isn’t …
While every mac-fan podcaster I know continues to pine away for Apple to introduce a low-cost small-sized notebook, commonly referred to as a netbook, I heard the most amazing podcast from Victor Cajiao, the Typical Mac User Podcast, where he loaded the Mac operating system on to an Asus Eee PC (one of the more …
Around this time last year I was very excited to receive my OLPC (One Laptop per Child), called the XO-1. Having drunk the Negroponte gatorade I was endlessly frustrated with Dvorak and other tech journalists who kept their criticism of the XO-1 focused on either Negroponte’s eccentricities or the fact that the creators made it …
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 …
First part queuing up to “sing” Happy Bosses Day to our leader & chief, Holly. Happy place to work… compare our singing to the “Office Space” happy birthday, we’re happy and there’s no Melvin among us… well, kind’a
Another Second Life presentation, a different set of problems. This time it really wasn’t Second Life itself, but because the room’s Internet access was flaky, my Avatar was stuck floating in the air and couldn’t be moved at all to the venue where the virtual presentation was taking place. Many others in the room never …
At the KLCS hosted “Day of Discovery,” Hall Davidson keynote this morning questioned how students today are different from precious generations. Number one was whether there differences. According to Davidson the Ravin scores have been climbing substantially while written comprehension have remained relatively flat. This means that they are rapid problem solvers who are use …
New Sim City Demo:
I don’t know how I stumbled onto this video but it seem apropos considering that I just finished teaching my students about PowerPoint. More comments after the video. Enjoy… So this guy has a horrible nightmare about everything that could possibly go wrong with a PowerPoint presentation. Actually most of what goes wrong would take …
I love being able to write anywhere at any time and with a free wifi Internet connection throughout the San Diego convention center I was hoping for lots of opportunities to observe and then write. Interestingly, in the one place where one might see the most new cool stuff to write about, the expo hall/vendors’ …