Creating Significant Learning Environments
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Michael Wesch and his students are planning a new video. Unlike his acclaimed video Visions of Students Today, this video will be from the perspective of the student. Wesch has a call up on Youtube asking for video submissions that he and his students will be able to remix. Looking forward to seeing what he develops. More importantly I am looking forward to seeing our students perspective on learning.
Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine via kwout
It looks like this isn’t just one my pet peeves. Farhad Manjoo of Slate Magazine offers irrefutable proof why you should NEVER EVER use two spaces after a period.
If you don’t have time to read the full article the only reason two spaces became popular is because of mechanical typewriters which weren’t able to deal with uniform spacing. Since the age of the electronic typewriter in the early 70’s there has been no need to add two spaces.
The biggest reason why there are teachers still teach two spaces–because that is what they learned.
Considering our recent cold weather and the large amounts of snow we are getting in the Canada and the Northern US this is a very appropriate cartoon by Randy Bish. Thanks goes out to Dennis for passing on this gem.
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It really only allows you to show and existing Prezi but it is a good start.
Breakthrough device of CES: Motorola Atrix = Phone PC | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com via kwout
I haven’t attended a Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas for almost 10 years now because you can see everything you want to see in more detail over the internet. OK–you loose the social aspect of CES but you save thousands of dollars and almost a weeks worth of time when you consider travel and catching up when you get back. I do however monitor the press releases from CES and one in particular caught my attention.
Jason Hiner the Editor in Chief of TechRepubic in his Tech Sanity Check blog points to a potential breakthrough device of CES. A breakthrough device according to Hiner is;
…the watershed product that we look back on a decade from now as the one that started a revolution in the way we think about and use our computing devices.
The Motorola Atrix is both a Phone and a PC and as demonstrated in the image above it can be docked and connected to a keyboard, monitor and mouse as well as other docking options. For those who have been dreaming about consolidating all their devices into one (phone, laptop, desktop, tablet etc.) this definitely shows that we are starting to get close. The Atrix uses a specialized Webtop UI that offers a optimized Web OS that offers a very satisfactory experience for the user who is already committed to working in the cloud. This OS combined with a dual core NVIDIA Tegra2 CPU mean that there is real computing power available for much more than just browsing. There is enormous potential in what Motorola is offering and even with its apparent limitations like the flimsy case, physical docking and limited carrier options with AT&T this should be the device of the show if not a true breakthrough device.
Whether we look back a couple of years to the release of the iPhone as the pivotal point when the mobile computing started to change the world or to the release of the Motorola Atrix there is no denying that we are seeing the computing world change before our eyes.
