Entries from June 2008

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Happy Solstice & Tech Task 6

Happy Solstice Everyone.
I’m feeling much better today having spent it out in the part at the National Aboriginal Day festivities. There was a good turn out of people and some large size circles formed during the Round Dances.
Just wanted to continue playing catch-up by posting my Tech Task #6. I created a feature piece, on [...]

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Tech Task 7: Google Make Me Stupid!?

My ECMP prof, Alec Couros wrote a blog last week highlighting the article by Nicholas Carr entitled, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
The article explores how the advent of google-aided internet surfing, hyperlinking, and social networking is decreasing our mind’s attention span.
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has [...]

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

I heart Miro (Feat. No Comment News)

In one of our classes last week, Alec had mentioned using the Miro application to download videos onto your computer and as I am a big fan of Miro, I thought I’d take this time to share with you some of it’s potential uses in education. Miro is essentially an internet TV application that allows [...]