A great article in Dear Otto today titled “Do Students Still Need to Learn Keyboarding” had me doing a little thinking about it. Learning to keyboard was one of the best things that I ever did for myself. In fact,…
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About Keyboarding
Tagged with: Dvorak, Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, Keyboard layout, QWERTY, Typing
Posted in application, Computers, Education, learning, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in application, Computers, Education, learning, Read/Write Web, software
GeoGuessr
@nobleknits2 owes me a few hours of my life back! She introduced me to GeoGuessr and it’s been an obsession ever since. It’s a geographic game and the “Guessr” part of the name is unfortunate. If you enjoy geography and…
Tagged with: Australia, Game, Geography, GeoGuessr, Google, Google Street View, New Zealand
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google, learning, Read/Write Web
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google, learning, Read/Write Web
An Essential Web Tool
Tagging on to my thoughts yesterday about life in a browser, there still is a nasty gotcha when working with files. You’ve got this great file and you’re going to do something with it but it’s the wrong size or…
Tagged with: Data Formats, File format, File Management, Google Drive, Graphics Interchange Format, Image file formats, JPEG, Web browser
Posted in application, Computers, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in application, Computers, Read/Write Web, software
Technology Integration Matrix
The Technology Integration Matrix is an interesting resource. For the experienced teacher who is using technology well, it offers a confirmation that things are done well. For the teacher struggling to engage students through the use of technology in lessons,…
Tagged with: Education, Educators, Instructional technology, K through 12, Teacher, technology, Technology integration
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Teaching
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Teaching
Checking Out the Big Social World
Now, before you read on, a disclaimer. This is in no way an encouragement for you to do all of this. Remember that you have a life, a dog to walk, a family to hang with, a job that needs…
Tagged with: Brand, facebook, Namechk, social media, Social network, Twitter
Posted in application, Computers, Read/Write Web
Posted in application, Computers, Read/Write Web
Similarities
For a while, I was a big user of the Google Chrome Similar Site utility. It served me well; I would do a search for something and then use the Similar Site utlity to find sites like the one that I…
Tagged with: Google, OLDaily, Search Engines, Stephen Downes
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Google
Hopscotch for iPad
I will admit to a certain level of geekyness. I’m not apologetic about it either. Sometimes, I just like to sit down and write a program for the fun of it. It’ll never go anywhere and I don’t share it…
Tagged with: Drag-and-drop, Hopscotch, ipad, Lego, programming, Scratch
Posted in application, Computers, Education, iPad, learning, software, Teaching
Posted in application, Computers, Education, iPad, learning, software, Teaching
A Couple of Days with Ubuntu 13.04
I had a friend try to grind my gears over the weekend. If you’re such a fan of Ubuntu, why are you carrying around a Macintosh computer? It’s a valid observation but the reality is that I have both a…
Tagged with: Dash, LibreOffice, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Personal computer, Ubuntu, Vaio
Posted in application, Computers, Education, learning, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in application, Computers, Education, learning, Read/Write Web, software
Memories of Social Media
At the Ontario Social Media Symposium yesterday, it was a day for the social books. It was such a wonderful opportunity to meet some people face to face after having “met” them online. It’s a shame that it was only…
A Puzzle to Drive You Nuts
I’ve always enjoyed a good puzzle. The more it makes me thing the better. I love logic and a good mathematics puzzle is hard to beat. On a cold and rainy day, I decided to go looking for one. And,…
Tagged with: Games, ipad, Mathematical puzzle, Mathematics, puzzle
Posted in application, Computers, Education, iPad, learning, software
Posted in application, Computers, Education, iPad, learning, software
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