Last night, my son sent me this link. It’s a great story that involves a friend of his, ducks, and mobile applications. What a combination! I’m just posting it to share and to have a record of it for future…
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Choosing Names Wisely
I will absolutely blame Rockmelt for taking me on a tangent today. I read this story from my Rockmelt feed. 71 names so awful New Zealand had to ban them. That took me off on a reading spree. Some of…
Sharing and Demonstration Space
There are a number of iPad applications designed for students to document and share their knowledge. I won’t name them all but I my first experience was with ScreenChomp and I shared my thoughts about it here. If you read…
Posted in Just Rambling
Rockmelt for Web
I have been a Rockmelt fan for a long time. When the browser first came out, I grabbed it and made it the default browser on my computers. It was based on Chromium and had all of the hooks to…
Tagged with: Chromium, ipad, RockMelt
Posted in Computers, Education, Just Rambling, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in Computers, Education, Just Rambling, Read/Write Web, software
Must Watch Television
At least for our family. At 10pm tonight EST on the Discovery Channel, my son’s (affectionately known as “The Boy”) latest efforts have their world premiere. The television show is called “Last Car Standing“. Some of the pre-premiere news: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/21/last-car-standing-a-trip-down-memory-lane…
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Just Like Me
Yesterday, I went out for a coffee with a friend two towns over. As I got to the designated Tim Horton’s, I received a text message indicating that he was stuck at a train tracks but would be there shortly.…
Tagged with: Doug Peterson, Google, Search
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Just Rambling, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in application, Computers, Education, Just Rambling, Read/Write Web, software
There is Hope
I don’t know about you but I’m sick of winter. I don’t know why this winter was so particularly annoying but it was. We didn’t have a great deal of snow but the cold and the wind just continually would…
Tagged with: Atlantic, facebook, Groundhog Day, ontario, Weather, Wiarton Ontario, Wiarton Willie
Posted in Computers, Just Rambling
Posted in Computers, Just Rambling
Third From The Top
This was an idea from "The Daily Prompt" that WordPress sends out to inspire blogging. I was curious. The instructions were to go to the WordPress Reader, choose the third blog from the top and then choose the third sentence…
Positively Tweeting
A while back, Visual.ly had an infographic generator that claimed to analyse your Twitter patterns. The resulting image gave some facts and I could, of course, save it. I did and it’s on my About Me page on this blog.…
Tagged with: Education, Online Communities, social media, Social network
Posted in Computers, Education, Just Rambling
Posted in Computers, Education, Just Rambling
Symbaloo – Before and After
It was just a week ago that I blogged about Symbaloo and webmixes. I have Symbaloo set as the start page for my computers. I have tried a number of like utilities in the past and, with the retirement of…
Tagged with: Education, iGoogle, ipad, Symbaloo, Web browser
Posted in Computers, Education, Just Rambling, Read/Write Web, software
Posted in Computers, Education, Just Rambling, Read/Write Web, software
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