doug — off the record

Day: August 7, 2012

  • What Does Facebook for PD Mean?

    This topic may be a little more difficult to sell. First, not all boards are like the Waterloo board and have Facebook unblocked for access at school.  That’s a shame because this is a powerful learning environment. Secondly, for all its power, the social media news is full of stories of things gone wrong.  But,…

  • OTR Links 08/07/2012

    embedded – What is the Mars Curiosity Rover’s software built in? – Programmers “The Mars Curiosity rover has landed successfully, and one of the promo videos “7 minutes of terror” brags about there being 500,000 lines of code. It’s a complicated problem, no doubt. But that is a lot of code, surely there was a…