The start of school ushered in the second year of our 1:1 Tablet PC initiative, and consequently I am once again teaching 7th grade “Digital Literacy”.  Last fall, this eight session course included a variety of topics related to contemporary literacy: OneNote: An Electronic Notebook Website Evaluation: Be a Critical Consumer Delicious: Social Bookmarking Effective [...]

This month’s Wired Magazine features Robert Capps’ article, The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple is Just Fine.  Capps’ piece, citing luminaries such as Flip Video inventors Jonathan Kaplan and Ariel Braunstein, and New York University new-media studies professor Clay Shirky, illustrates how low-end,  “good enough” technologies such as mp3 encoding, Kindle books, Skype [...]

After two years of peer pressure (and no small measure of envy), this weekend I finally broke down, laid my trusty Motorola Razor to rest, and bought a 3GS iPhone.  Although I’ve only been on the bandwagon a few days, at this point I can’t understand why I waited so long!  Being able to manage [...]