VanishingPoint

Ok, I am really think that I should be asking what did you learn this week… but my brain is having time issues right now.  Let me give you a bit of background.  About 3 months ago, a colleague of my and I decided to offer a summer in-district course on Web 2.0… after [...]

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Well, here I am at a crossroads. While on one hand I want to start podcasting, on the other I would like for my efforts to have some semblance of quality… I think that I achieve a podcast here. I apologize in advance for the audio quality as I am providing this caveat: [...]

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Greg Noack just posted his first blog post and he relates a great story of efficiency and the utilization and experimentation of new tools specifically Google Docs and Zoho Writer. 
I left a long comment and it got me thinking about my use of Zoho’s myriad of applications and how they might be better [...]

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I am ill today so my creativity and mental capacities are being quite challenged just continuing to breath and stay awake, so I am using Robin’s post format to provide some structure to my ramblings. [bowing to Robin Ellis]
I saw Robin Ellis’ blog post and was moved to continue to build this “Passion [...]

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In this post I will be expanding on the category of RSS I started in this post. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a tremendous way to simplify your processes in searching and gathering information. I know that I could hunt for words to describe an RSS Aggregator but Lee Lefever from Common Craft really sums [...]

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While I was off on a different tangent a few weeks back, I had a chance to spend a couple of minutes talking with David Jakes about a couple of different subjects, but one thing that he said that really resonated with me was that teachers needed time to internalize technology before they begin [...]

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This post comes on the heels of reading Will’s post, From Access to Information to Access to People… aw, dang…
[side not commentary here.  This is NOT what this post was intended to be about... well it's happened.  Will Richardson is so popular (he has reached 1000 people following him on twitter) he has been [...]

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I recently read a NewsGator Daily article written by Leland Rucker on how the internet has the possibilities of making reading more fun. In the article “Using the Web to Make Reading more Fun” Rucker relates how he had used Google Earth and Google Images to go to all of the places referenced in [...]

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Ok, so many of us are not starting to look into the educational potential of uStream as well as incorporating other conversationan methods that we have been using like Skype.  Ryan Gordon figured out a way to do it in the MAC environment, and I will show you how to be able to get Skype [...]

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With little fanfare Zoho has launched its newest application, Zoho Notebook.  At first glance, I was visualy very impressed.  It is clean, bright, and packed with features. Click on the thumbnail to the left and you can see some of its capabilities highlighted.  It is easy to embed video from TeacherTube, Google, Yahoo (I struggled with [...]

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