Month: February 2011

Did you get an invite?

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No not to the upcoming royal wedding!  But to Yammer! From Yammer’s website  https://www.yammer.com/about/product#what-is-yammer ,  “Yammer is a simple real-time communication tool for organizations.  Yammer was created by people who wanted a better way to connect and share with people at work.  . . . it becomes more powerful the more people that join.” There are various Yammer … Read more

I pad for beginners

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So you got an iPad for Christmas and want to know a few tips?  Here are a few that you may want to try out: How to delete apps: Tap and hold down the icon of the application you want to delete.  The icon will start to wiggle and an X will be next to … Read more

tick, tick, tick . . .

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Was the essence of the commercial I watched last night. iPhone 4 is now available online through the Verizon network today (Verizon is a member of Pirate Perks).  This blog has not explored mobile devices and their impact yet so today we will begin with “phones”! So have you been wanting to get the I … Read more

Dangers of one- dimensional education

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Hi.  I’m Bob.  I’ll be sitting in for Jean this week in the blog.  Many years ago, in another life, I earned my living for awhile teaching people how to fly.  There was an inside joke among flight instructors that went something like this: “You can’t really teach people to fly.  You just keep the airplane from crashing while the students teach themselves to fly.”

Flash forward forty years now and read this article: http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/01/19/The-Myth-of-eLearning.aspx?Page=1

So what do my little joke and this article have to do with one another?  And what do they each have to do with our efforts here?  In my opinion, we all have a strong tendency to

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