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For Your Next Plasma Screen Enabled Event

I am in danger of become a twitter centric fool. While others have identified it as having jumping the tuna, my own volume of twitter contact notices (must admit, I don’t add them all) has spiked significantly. Here in Arizona, I’d say Twitter has Jumped the Gila Monster. Another cool tool… TwitterCamp is a free […]

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Wired. Tired. Expired.

Expired Passively sitting in the glow of an overhead projector watching a presenter read words from a yellowed transparency. Tired Passively sitting in the glow of an LCD projector watching a presenter read words from a PowerPoint word slide. Wired Actively twittering in the glow of a laptop listening to a presenter read words in […]

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You Spammed Me At Hello

In the “Blog Spammers Are Getting Trickier” departments, a comments snared today: Hi, What an Idea! Thank you for sharing this posted article for me or for every one, you made a great job for your Blog.Keep it up the good work.. Again thank you very much.. Cheers Regards, Cheska Smith <a href=”http://www.XXXXdeletedSpamSitexxx.com/”>Dog Training Device</a> […]

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SPLJ 2.0

Yesterday I co-presented as part of four amigos for MacLearning Environments on (Many, Too Many?) Small Technologies Loosely Joined: Open, Connected, and Social. This was carried out via Elluminate hosted at the University of Calgary. The players were D'Arcy Norman, Brian Lamb, myself, and Jim Groom and we had a nice peppy crowd show up […]

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involver?

This month’s issue of Wired had a small blurb in the PLaylist section on YASS (Yet Another Social Service): involver.com Sure, Twitter’s fine if you must know what your friends are doing right now. But what are they doing next week? Try involver.com, which lets you list events you plan to attend and tag them […]

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Google Reader Offline Bonus

Bet yer Bloglines cannot do this! One of the features I treasured in my desktop RSS reader (back when I used NetNewsWire) was that it would periodically download the lastest feeds and store the content on my computer. This meant then if I was offline (e.g. on a plane), I could still browse and read […]

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To Quote a Spammer

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The Flat Classroom Horizon Project

Doh! Sound of blog remorse! In writing about the CNI Horizon Project presentation, I was remiss in leaving out one of the coolest discoveries — that Vicki Davis (coolcatteacher in georgia) and 4 other secondary school teachers in Austria, Bangladesh, China, and Australia are doing another fabulous Flat Classroom project — and this one they […]