thinking about education
If you know me or have read this blog at all, you probably know that I find the term “21st century skills” a little annoying especially since they include things like creativity and problem solving. As though we have some corner on the market of those things because we live in a time in [...]
There’s been an interesting back and forth in Twitter about 21st century literacy. Tomorrow, it will spill over into an Elluminate session that I am sorry I will have to miss. I’ve written about 21st century skills in the past, equating them with leadership skills and suggesting that Ben Franklin possessed most of the skills [...]
TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Is it bye bye Microsoft or just au revoir?
My colleague Chris O’Neal forwarded this…I’ve been talking about doing it on my Mac for the past two months, ever since I bought a desktop Mac Pro. I bought the desktop to do digital video and find that I still use [...]
Normally, my location is probably of no interest to anyone reading this blog. But, this post is all about location. I am sitting on my dock, which reaches out into Morris Creek, a fresh water tidal creek along which my husband and I own a piece of property. I want to record my [...]
I am learning technical skills even while I am interfacing with documentary films on DVD.
I learned how to rip a DVD to my iPod using Handbrake. Learning how to use Handbrake was pretty easy although I think I only got one of the movies on the DVD. But I thought of all the learning [...]