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“One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind.” Forty years ago on June 16th, history was made.  I was only 7 months old when the lunar landing was made, but it inspired many many dreams that I had and still have today.  Talk about a time of inspiration.  I remember when I was 7 [...]

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There are some things that you hate to admit… Being wrong… Occassionally being right… That you liked Millie Vanillie or Vanilla Ice… Or if you are and educational technology advocate that you cannot come to an agreement or find a compelling significance to change from the old standards :0|
Today, I had a great time working [...]

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 Continuing Adventures in the Cloud

Well it is a new day, and we have “Sprung Forward” (Day Light Savings Time, US) so I am continuing my adventures in the cloud… I almost feel like I am renewing a new year’s resolution.  Interesting feeling…
Im my press forward to continue my adventures, I recently needed to do a [...]

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Well, it has been an interesting week.  We got back from a three-day weekend, President Obama took office, and Google actually began stepping back from  providing applications… I learned about this from an eWeek article, but then confirmed the information released on January 14, 2009 at the Google Notebook Blog as well.
While I have not [...]

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All, I am going to be messing with my theme for the next few hours trying to get something straightened out. I find myself blogging about three things right now… technology, gadgets, etc., now my iPhone, and then education… I am going to try to move to a theme that will represent all of those [...]

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I just wanted to take a minute and post an embed with President Barak Obama’s Inaugural Address.  This feed comes curtsey of CNN.  I am looking for his swearing in as well.
Embedded video from CNN Video

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For those of you who read here occasionally, or that know me, know that I am NEVER without my phone.  That said, I rarely being my 7.1MP camera along… I often wish I did, however, well… I don’t. That said, I ALWAYS have my phone and my recent acquisition of the iPhone 3G has not [...]

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Sorry for the bad lighting here.  I was walking by my boys room, and I see this.  Joshua (4yoa – left) and Noah (15mos – right) are sitting on Joshua’s bed… both enthralled with what they are watching, and often watching each others’ screen. 
Joshua is using my Gateway E155C Tablet watching Inspector Gadget from [...]

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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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The Illinois Educators Technology Conference (IETC) is coming soon.  I look forward to meeting some of you there.  I will be giving three presentations this year that I hope you will find interesting and attend:

Student Engagement in the Digital Age

Resources to Know and Love

Using Digital Notebooks for Research, Clarity, and Organization

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