* “Welcome 2 the Real World” was a music video inspired by the 80s jane child song by the same name. Students wrote a paragraph about what the word “Real World” mean to their parents and I recorded them reading their essays and added that to footage I’d shot in Downtown Long Beach. Welcome to [...]
No Time for Good-Byes
May 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A friend I was supposed to see this weekend just cancelled. I hadn’t heard from her and that naturally led me to anticipate some complication. I hate being right. I mean, in “normal times” my friends and I rarely have the time just to visit. Truth be told, it’s usually some conference that brings us [...]
You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Loose Wheel
May 29, 2008 By 1 Comment
I don’t know what the hell is going on. About two-weeks ago, just after I decided to not tow my cute burnt-copper-colored Scion behind a U-haul and instead drive the beastie all the way to Florida, it developed a difficult to diagnose slow leak in the rear-passenger-side tire. I had a full-load of Snapples and [...]
Just Came in the Mail…
May 22, 2008 By 1 Comment
OLPC 2.0 Goes “Touch”
May 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
This morning OLPC founder, Nicholas Negroponte, unveiled the XO version 2.0 according to Engadget and LaptopMag and it is all about the touch. With a schedule 2010 release date the OX will be a hinged dual touch-screen device almost half the size and volume as the original OX. Not too surprisingly, pundits* who didn’t “get” [...]
Network Admin w/o Admin Rights: My district’s remote management program is broke
May 13, 2008 By 1 Comment
For the past three years I’ve been running a small 40-station mac lab and the other morning I was met by a little error message that I’ve seen several times before but have previously ignored: “Your startup disk is almost full. You need to make more space available on your startup disk by deleting files.” [...]
Not On the Test
April 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I love the smell of fear in the morning, not from the kids, who are only marginally annoyed by the change in schedule but for the most part don’t give a shit, but from the administrators, as we enter this year’s … TESTING SEASON. According to legend the Jesuits are purported to have said, “Give [...]
Post Open House – Kids R Mean
April 9, 2008 By 1 Comment
We Few Tech-Pioneers
March 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Tech-buddy, Greg text-messaged me today complaining that our favorite podcast empire, TWIT, is all about the toys and business of tech but has nothing in the education space. I offered my usual snotty response: “Well, ED tends to act like a walled garden, I’m probably the only one I know to twitter DURING class.” To [...]
First Week of February… getting the last 16 pages done…
February 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
