VanishingPoint

The point at which all imaginary lines of perspective converge.

Entries from November 2008

Resources to Know and Love Revisited…

November 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I want to thank everyone who attended and stayed for an additional 30 minutes AFTER the conference was actually over to participate in and work with me to get through the way to much information I prepared.  I could have rushed through the six topics, but we got to move through them at a pretty [...]

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Tags: Bookmarking · Conferences · Digital Notebooks · IETC · RSS · learning · socialnetworking · twitter · web 2.0 · zoho

Do you know how to search?

November 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Do you know how much Google knows about how to search?
So, I believe that I am pretty good at Internet based searches… I’d feel confident saying that I am quite good at finding material, information, locations, data, etc. through a web search.  I know to narrow and expand the search, I know to look for [...]

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Tags: Google · Search · Utecht · Wetpaint · edublogs

Day 1 of "The Cloud Experience"

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments

So we are off!  Today was the first day I was going to be interacting with my Office residing in the ether, and actually it was a good day for that as I was in my office the ENTIRE day.  Probably the first time in months… Here were my initial experiences:
We are approaching our [...]

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Tags: Excel · Microsoft · Paradigm Shift · sheet · zoho

Living in the Cloud…

November 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

 
Coming out of the IETC Conference in Springfield, IL. I have been doing some thinking about my personal practices and how I use the Microsoft Office suite.  I have to say that I LOVE Office 2007.  There are some truly amazing things that you can do so easily in 2007 some of which cannot even [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Digital Notebooks · IETC · Paradigm Shift · life · zoho

Student Engagement in the Digital Age

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Wow… I have to say I felt that this was a stunning session :0) (Even if I do say so myself as I was presenting).  I want to thank everyone who attended and participated.  I hope that each f you took something away from the session.  Now that said remember this was a DISCUSSION session, [...]

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Tags: Conferences · IETC · Paradigm Shift · convergence · disruption

Digital Notebooks for Research, Clarity, and Organization

November 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Digital Notebooks for Research, Clarity, and OrganizationFirst off, I would like to thanks everyone who took the time to attend my session… It is always heartening as a presenter when you have folks who arrive for the first session of a conference (especially in late November). Additionally, Iwould like to apologize again for the technical [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Digital Notebooks · IETC · Paradigm Shift