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Handheld Technology in Remote Areas of the Developing World
I am one of those people who enjoy food and travel shows like Globe Trekker and hosts such as Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmerman. I happened to catch a few minutes of one of Zimmerman’s Bizarre Foods episodes the other day. He was visiting a floating village of fisherman who lived literally on a river [...]
mLearning
I am feeling a bit guilty right now. Today was supposed to be a day for working on my class, but I got caught up in configuring some of my devices for mLearning, aka mobile learning. I really wanted to set some time aside to explore some of the possibilities and today turned out to [...]
A Concept Map for a Cognitive Approach to Multimedia Learning
Here is a concept map I created a while back for a cognitive approach to multimedia learning. I thought it broke the concept down nicely and would be worth sharing here.
The Google Reader Next Button
I have been using Google Reader to follow blogs for a long time. For me, it is an indispensable tool that allows me to quickly scan information in the blogs I subscribe to. But once in a while, when I have time, I enjoy reading the blogs in the context of their original sites. That’s [...]
Intel AppUp
Intel has launched a new service that delivers applications for Netbooks in a way similar to Apple’s store for iPhone and iPad apps. I don’t know how successful this service, known as AppUp will be. It’s offerings seem limited and overpriced, but a generic service targeted at NetBooks could take off eventually. Maybe using a [...]
Ben Stein on Hatred in America
Ben Stein stated his Declaration of Conscience on CBS Sunday Morning today in response to the plague of hate that seems to be growing and increasingly accepted in our nation. I thought it was fitting. “This is a big country. It is a great country, filled with opportunities. It is the magnet for those all [...]
TV-Fox
One of the many great things about the Firefox browser is the ability to add new features and utilities as extensions. It turns Firefox into so much more than just a browser. Firefox is free and open source to begin with, and there are literally thousands of free and usually open source applications that can [...]
Adobe eLearning Suite 2
Adobe reports that eLearning Suite 2 will be available for shipping in June. A major development is that Captivate 5 will now be available for the Mac. I am looking forward to trying out the new roundtripping feature between Captivate and Soundbooth, Flash, and Photoshop, which should make Captivate even more powerful. Captivate 5 assumes [...]