A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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I smiled a lot more today. There were kids, and most of them were smiling, too. The little bit of sleep I got over the weekend was punctuated with nightmares. I kept dreaming that all of my servers shut down on the first day of school. It has happened before, so there was reason to … Read More “First Day of School” »
Thursday we held our Technology Boot Camp for teachers that are new to our district. Each year I’m ambivalent about this workshop – I wonder about it’s effectiveness, but afterwards I often get thanks from the participants for having offered it. This year was certainly no different. I got a couple of very complimentary comments … Read More “Enabling versus Controlling” »
I was reorganizing all the various gadgets I have in my car – GPS, XM, phone charger, etc. All of these require power from the cigarette lighter, which got me thinking about probably the first device that used the lighter as a power outlet – the CB Radio. In pre-Internet days, the CB was the … Read More “Whither CB?” »
A couple of days ago I mentioned about my problem with Flickr geotagging. The Flickr user in question didn’t limit her geotagging to just her residence, but seems to have polluted the entire area with pictures of herself in lingerie (or less.) Despite my earlier comments, none of them are family-friendly, and almost all of … Read More “Geotagging Dilemma” »
At NECC I ran into one of my counterparts in another district, and he asked me a distressing question. He asked if our district blocked blogs on our filtering system. I’m hoping I didn’t sound too incredulous when I answered him. No. We don’t block blogs. Apparently his district does block blogs. According to him, … Read More “Blocking Blogs” »
While I was in Atlanta at NECC, I fired up iTunes at my hotel. I was quite surpirsed to see that someone had shared their iPod library. I was even more suprised that I could access all 12.5 GB of his music. I could listen to it, but couldn’t copy or do anything else. This … Read More “Unexpected Sharing” »
The last day of NECC, and Homer and I really wanted to catch a couple more sessions on open source software for classrooms. Our previous session on iPods was jam-packed, and ran a bit long. Subsequently, we were later than we might have liked in getting to the session on Wikis. It was already just … Read More “NECC 2007 Aftermath” »
The process of checking out of the hotel and getting the car loaded caused us to miss our first session this morning. Homer and I had been getting several requests for information about podcasts, so we decided to attend a session about iPods. First, I’ve got mixed feelings about podcasts. I think they have the … Read More “NECC Day Four – iPods in the Classroom” »
Tonight we were invited to join several of our colleagues and one of our vendors at Pittypat’s Porch for a meal. Richard Darrell from Synrevoice likes to select a restaurant that typifies the cuisine of the host city for his client dinners. Since we are in Atlanta, his research led us to Pittypat’s as the … Read More “Pittypat’s Porch” »
At conferences like NECC it’s always a dilemma to select activities. There is always SO much going on, and often what I want to see happens simultaneously with other sessions I want to attend. Fortunately, many of the sessions are being podcast, so I may try to download a few of those that I missed … Read More “Encounters with the Familiar” »