Not So Distant Future

Today is the first official day of Spring Break for most Texas schools, and thankfully, the weather will actually be spring-like also! Most of us are long overdue for a mental break!  I’m looking forward to time to read, reflect, and mainly just rejuvenate.   It’s enjoyable just to be in Austin for the break–SXSW [...]

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   I’ve noticed more students using Cha-Cha lately, which is a search engine with a twist. You can search yourself, or search “with a guide.”  When you search with a guide, a chat window comes up and the guide immediately starts completing the search.  As they find results they post them on the screen, and you [...]

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      Welcome to our second “Friday blogging” day on our campus, where we ask our staff or outside contributers to rush on down and spend a few minutes reading and commenting! Feel free to join in…. Note:  (If you are visiting the blog from elsewhere, the Chipotle blogging is a campus joke, by the way, [...]

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   Join us for Friday “Drop everything and blog!”  My kitten finds it relaxing!

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Karl Fisch at Fischbowl, created a video called Did You Know? earlier this school year, and shared it with his staff at Arapahoe High School in Denver, as well as posting it on his blog.   Scott Mcleod of Dangerously Irrelevant, a professor at University of Minnesota, modified it slightly (with Karl’s permission). The video was [...]

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[youtube]eRjVeRbhtRU[/youtube] Thanks to Susan at What Counts for sharing this.  I wonder what technology item today will seem mystifyingly easy one hundred years from now?

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