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Monthly Archives February 2006

Contribute Some of Your Behavior

When I do repetitive tasks, I am able to listen to audio books. It is my purposeful way of expanding the breadth of topics I think about. The latest effort of this type has involved John Battelle’s book on “Search”. After listening to this book, I have decided to purposefully contribute my behavior to the [...]

Posted 28 February 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

ACMSIGGRAPH

It’s Saturday morning and you don’t feel like watching cartoons. What to do? How about watching a few of the presentations from ACM SigGraph. More than 250 hours of content (including the George Lucas keynote) are available. You will first be required to download special software (I am guessing because someone wants to show off [...]

Posted 25 February 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Online with the LOC

Cindy is in the dissemination phase of her history grant. The idea is to extend the training first conducted with history teachers in Grand Forks to other teachers within the region. Today, the program involved an online experience with professionals from the Library of Congress. No matter how extensive my background with technology, I continue [...]

Posted 21 February 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (1) °

A Mac Virus?

The buzz is that virus creators have found a way to pick on Mac users (Washington Post article). As I understand the approach, Mac users must be tricked into downloading a file purported to be a picture but that is actually a program. When opened, the program attempts to send itself to anyone on the [...]

Posted 17 February 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Be accountable for your words

An issue Cindy addresses in her preprofessional technology for teachers class is the longevity and visibility of what we say on the Internet. Her point to future teachers is that the behaviors you describe online (.e.g., myspace) may be available for consideration by future employers (or parents if that thought is scarier). An eSchool News [...]

Posted 17 February 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Wheels grind way too slowly

What is that expression – The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine? It was the slow part of this expression that came to mind. I am preparing for my instructional design class and I want to talk about what research tells us about instructional software. Reading research articles and reviews of [...]

Posted 15 February 2006 † grabe § Rants § Research ‡ Comments (0) °

Technology and Addictions

Somewhere in my Intro Psych notes (I teach the course from time to time), I must have some lecture material on “addictions.” What is an addiction? Are there good addictions? etc. The concept of a technology “addiction” surfaces from time to time in a negative way. The “message” in such concerns might be that – [...]

Posted 15 February 2006 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °