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Sometimes What’s Broke in Education Can’t Be Fixed by Tech, says Michael Wesch

March 1, 2012 By jbb 1 Comment

Recently The Chronicle of Higher Education said it more emphatically with the headline: “A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working.” According to the Chronicle, it seems that Internet superstar/Youtube ethnographer, Professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University is rethinking his anti-chalk-and-talk tech-infused simulation-styled classroom. It would seem that many are following [...]

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When Files & Folders Are Better Than Photostreams

February 7, 2012 By jbb Leave a Comment

When I was working on my Macworld talk a couple weeks ago I was a bit frustrated because I had my main iPhoto library on my MacBook Air and I was doing most of the work on my iMac and photostream didn’t seem to be syncing the photos on both computers. I love that I [...]

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Video Fridays: Three Political Reminders: The Quality of Life versus Words

January 20, 2012 By jbb Leave a Comment

It’s political season folks, so while we get a deluge of political ads with pretty pictures meant to feed on our fears and divide us over nostalgic values that never seems to reach the level of observable constructive behaviors, here are three political videos, one meant to make us remember that there’s something more important [...]

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Why Is Wikipedia Broke Today? SOPA-Protest

January 18, 2012 By jbb Leave a Comment

Here’s a great video that explains the problems with PIPA and SOPA (besides being dumb acronyms): PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and [...]

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email: confusing a misused tool for a measure of getting things done

January 16, 2012 By jbb 2 Comments

Some jobs, it’s near impossible to know whether one is doing well because the flood of work never stops. This is the dilemma if you’re the local unofficial computer guy on campus when everyone comes to you for any little thing that can go wrong with technology in the classroom. The online equivalent is the [...]

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Video Fridays: Three John Lennon videos: I Met the Walrus, Imagine & Happy Xmas (War is Over)

January 13, 2012 By jbb Leave a Comment

The first video was created when illustrator, James Braithwaite, took a 1969 audio interview of John Lennon by 14-year-old Jerry Levitan. Uploaded by imetthewalrus on Jun 17, 2008 In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, [...]

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How I Spent My Winter Break & Why Godaddy Isn’t My Blog Host

January 4, 2012 By jbb 1 Comment

And no this has nothing to do with SOPA… yet. We’ve been on the run since Friday… Woe, that was two weeks ago. Man, time flies… Christmas eve-eve I was busy working on Tricia’s video, using my blog-woes as a cover story. Alas, the blog woes was more than a convenient cover-story (see below). Friday, last [...]

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Why Does C/NET Hate Apple?

January 2, 2012 By jbb 2 Comments

I don’t remember what cable channel it was on, but I was so happy to find a future-tech-oriented TV show one day many, many years ago and soon came to appreciate and look for the giant red C/NET logo. That was before Tech-TV, which has come and gone, and before podcasting. These days, I continue [...]

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Microsoft’s TellMe vs. Apple’s Siri

December 12, 2011 By jbb Leave a Comment

Uploaded by techaudottv on Nov 24, 2011 Video comparison between Microsoftt’s Tellme and Apple’s Siri. The results speak for themselves. More than 1 Million views!! more than 2,000 comments. You guys are certainly opinonated. I wonder how many of you read the post wrapped around this video? http://www.techau.tv/blog/microsoft-tellme-is-not-the-same-as-siri-video/

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Mentoring Nightmare: The Missing Hippie Preacher

November 14, 2011 By jbb Leave a Comment

I used to think that part of my disfunction as a Christian leader was because I never really had a constructive mentoring relationship with my pastor(s). When working on my Master’s degree at Pepperdine I wrote an essay positing that I never had that kind of relationship with my dad and he’d never had a [...]