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What can we expect from students and what can they expect from us? This is a broad question that I would like to narrow down to technology. What they (can) expect. When I started teaching at the college level, email was still somewhat new, and many people had mobile phones, but texting was not an . . . → Read More: Expectations of Technology Access in Education photo credit kirk lau http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirklau/ The internet is off at home, due to nonpayment, but I keep instinctively trying to click on Tweetdeck or Firefox to look something up. It reminds me of how much I rely on the internet for information, for soothing escape from loneliness, to waste time. It’s lonely here in . . . → Read More: Internet Down Remember back when gmail was new and they were talking about targeting ads to people based on the contents of their email, and some people were freaking out? Not me. I didn’t really care. I’m all for privacy and find most web ads distasteful, but this didn’t bother me too much. I’ll tell you what . . . → Read More: Google is creeping me out This recent article in mocoNewsnet points to some of the problems and tensions surrounding mobile computing, which are also metaphors for other forms of governance in a networked world. The article basically rehashes some of the gripes developers have had with Apple’s approach to the iPhone App Store — basically, that they are too tight-fisted, . . . → Read More: mocoNewsnet: Android’s Scare With Malware Makes Apple’s Tough Love Policy On iPhone More Reasonable | mocoNews.net This is of probably interest only to my personal techy friends, so I apologize to the rest of you for clogging your RSS readers. Remember back when I was griping about my tech problems in June? Well, the PC issue has been solved it seems, and it wasn’t the motherboard. I replaced my mobo (an . . . → Read More: Good personal tech news A few months ago, my PC died. Bad motherboard. I haven’t had the money or time to fix it, plus I use my iBook for most everything these days anyway. Two weeks ago I dropped the Treo into a pint of Guinness, rendering it pretty much useless. I have finally borrowed an old flip phone, . . . → Read More: Broken Tech |
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