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 Search Strategies: Keywords are [...]
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 [...]
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