Happy Thanksgiving!

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s groundbreaking 1968 Demo – also known as “The Mother of All Demos.” It was there at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference that Doug and his team at SRI first presented their seminal work in personal and collaborative computing to the world – this was…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]HILE using an RSS reader is a pretty easy process, setting it up isn’t. There are a couple of hoops to jump through, but once you set it up you can read your RSS feeds like a boss. For an introduction into why you would want to us RSS, check out my article from last…
Connecting globally is really powerful, but how do we use this medium in a way to enhance professional learning and empower the voice of teachers in our own building. Sometimes seeing the impact of using Twitter on a global level brings ideas back into our classrooms, but perhaps using Twitter locally could push people to connect others…
Provide visual proofreading advice on pieces of writing in Google Docs and export Google Doc comments into an organized table. Source: Revision Assistant – Google Docs add-on Once installed, Revision Assistant supercharges the basic edits/suggestions that is in Google Docs. With Revision Assistant, a teacher can mark up the document, offering ways to improve the…
Fotor.com is online photo editor that is pretty powerful for what you can use for free. The site can be used without registration, and offers three modes: Edit, Collage, and Design. For each mode, not all of the features are available for free, but those features are identified with a little diamond flag. This is…
A student showed me this video this week in their presentation over the Intel 8088. I had now idea IBM had a portable computer like this available in 1977. Storage consisted of 204KB tapes. Amazing how far we’ve come in 40 years.