Entries from June 2007

links for 2007-06-27

Date June 27, 2007

Building the School of the Future
Mary Cullinane, Technology Architect spke at NECC panel on future of ed
(tags: education Microsoft school research learning web2.0 Technology design)

STREB
Awesome choreographer from NY, spoke at panel on future of ed at NECC, killer stuff
(tags: dance art performance streb body classes gravity Fun health)

Z + Partners - Home I
Andrew Zolli’s firm, [...]

Other NECC thoughts

Date June 27, 2007

Vendors
There are a lot. Check it out.

Apples, Apples, Apples
I know the numbers for Apple in ed has been dismal for the past few years but I saw a lot of Macs in the hands of a lot of teachers. While it may not have been even with the PC crowd, I would guess at a [...]

Atlanta Centennial Park water show

Date June 26, 2007

behold the beauty of water squirting in sync to classical music. oh joy!!
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Technorati Tags: Atlanta, Centennial Park, NECC2007, Olympic

NECC: the next day

Date June 26, 2007

Well I missed a few scheduled sessions yesterday. The first was the morning one. Hard to move that fast in the morning but I wasn’t all that hot on it. Since I was running late I hit the flashing lights and sweet talking of the vendor booths.
Vendor Booths
They are more aggressive than I have ever [...]

links for 2007-06-26

Date June 26, 2007

Top 10 Uses For Used Coffee Grounds » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: coffee, how-to, cleaning, alternative_uses
We hit the coffe daily, gonna dump a few on the new roses
(tags: coffee tips lifehacks diy household howto interesting lifehacker)

NECC 2007

Date June 25, 2007

National Educational Computing Conference 2007

Well, Atlanta is hot but I am spending it in the AC geeking it out with a bunch of teachers. We are already a nerdy bunch but now we take it up to the next level by obsessing over computers for a week.
Last night’s keynote was given by Andrew Zolli of [...]

Overheard

Date June 19, 2007

Kids These Days, I Tell Ya…
Kid #1: Paper beats rock. BAM! Your rock is blowed up!Kid #2: “Bam” doesn’t blow up, “bam” makes it spicy. Now I got a SPICY ROCK! You can’t defeat that!–6 Train
via Overheard in New York, Nov 6, 2004

Summer reading list

Date June 18, 2007

I get through at least two books a summer. I know some people pound through them but I also spend summer time doing all the house maintenance that I have ignored for the other ten months. This summer I have stepped it up and put myself out there with three books. It is a bit [...]

links for 2007-06-17

Date June 17, 2007

Bad News Hughes
the insanely funny misadventures of person written in incredibly caustic, witty way makes for great reading. latest bloglines subscribe
(tags: blog humor Blogs funny personal humour daily art culture people social writing)

links for 2007-06-15

Date June 15, 2007

Linuxinside.org statr for Flickr: Home
niftiness to track how many views your fotos are getting. add to the statistics crack or what some call site analytics.
(tags: flickr photos tools stats statistics Photography metrics analytics)