New Tablet PC
Like many students and teachers at Emma Willard, I’m going to be spending a fair amount of time computing on a Tablet PC.
During the last 2 or 3 years, I’ve spent about 90% of my computing time on one of two Macs. My home computer is an iBook. I’ve been taking it [...]
In The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell talks about people who act as connectors. Connectors are people who, first and foremost, know a lot of people. Gladwell talks about the key role that connectors play in helping something new (a fashion, an idea) catch on.
From an article titled "Leadership Philadelphia about to connect with ‘connectors’" in [...]
Tracks is lightweight, web-based project management software. It is open source software that can be installed on any webserver.
I’m test-driving it at http://tracks.brightpool.com.
8:30: Thinking Outside the Box by Dan Hudkins, Stewart Crais, and odd duck Barry Leibson.
This was a discussion about why to do a laptop program. I’ll blog about this later, since I didn’t take any notes.
10:15: Sally Bowes (computers) and Cheryl Douglas (biologist) from Bishops Diosecan College, an all-boys school in [...]
Emma Willard, like nearly every school, has been talking about the impact of and dangers inherent to MySpace.com.
Here’s a funny bit from Saturday Night Live.
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8:45: Keynote by Pamela Livingston, The Peck School, Morristown, NJ
Pamela wrote a book, 1-to-1 Learning, about laptop programs in schools, based on research and her own experience leading a laptop program for 7th and 8th graders.
Multitaskers vs. Unitaskers: is the distinction real? Yes, in the sense that we more comfortable, less anxious, in [...]
At some point during David Warlick’s keynote earlier today, he mentioned “the long tail”, an idea introduced by Chris Anderson in a 2004 Wired article and further developed in his 2006 book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. The Long Tail describes the long, trailing, just [...]
Monday, July 17th, 2006
8:45: Keynote by David Warlick of the The Landmark Project
Raleigh, NC
A very good keynote by somebody who has thought a lot about the impact of new technology and other trends. His main point is that educators should stop working on technology integration (in the classroom) and start working [...]
From Rachel Cooke’s "Is weight the new race?":
The first person I heard make a direct comparison between fat and race was Malcolm Gladwell, author of the best-selling The Tipping Point and Blink. At an event in London, a member of the audience asked him what subjects he thought were hot. Gladwell, off the top of [...]
While there were times, especially when we seemed to be touring the Toronto airport by bus shuttle, that the laptop was a heavy and fragile burden, I’m very happy I took it along.
The logistics were easy. The iBook, along with many other laptops, easily deals with the voltage difference (electricity runs hotter in Europe). [...]
