9 hours ago by dougpete

A while back, I stumbled upon a new musical duo who were just getting started in the business. The group is British and is called Georgia Wonder. “They describe their music as The Carpenters driving Tom Petty to an R.E.M. gig but getting crushed under the wheels of Pink Floyd’s tour bus while arguin ...

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1 day ago by dougpete

I tossed this out to my friends yesterday and got a number of different results. The question was “What does an online textbook look like?” I know that when I taught Computer Science that the perfect textbook didn’t exist. I was always supplementing, or in some courses, completely creating the mater ...

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2 days ago by dougpete

Yesterday, I commented on the list provided by CNN of the top 10 technical events of the past decade. Their list is pretty good but I have an additional 10 moments that defined things for me. The iPod – For me, it was the iPod and not the iPhone that was the big change agent. It was the next logical ...

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3 days ago by dougpete

and what impact did they have on you? CNN has released a list of the Top 10 Internet moments of the decade. Lists like this are kind of nice to have because you don’t have to think too deeply and you can more or less go down the list and check off the impact that they’ve had on you. http://www.cnn.c ...

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4 days ago by dougpete

My computer just got faster! Overnight, Seesmic, the developers of Seesmic Desktop and Seesmic Web released Seesmic for Windows. This is yet another Twitter client – the type of application that just hums away in the background pulling down updates from Twitter, perform searches on the public timeli ...

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5 days ago by dougpete

We’ve all seen the “Did You Know” series of movies and messages. They are very powerful messages for those of us who are a little older and can put things together into perspective. But, for the younger? How do we get the message across? Check out the following. It’s great for all ages! I haven’t be ...

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6 days ago by Christy Tucker

I’ve gotten a bunch of comments from students in the Masters of Instructional Design program at Walden in the last week—enough that I suspect that there’s an assignment that requires commenting on a blog. I’m not complaining; I’m enjoying the discussions and hope they continue. However, I’d like to ...

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6 days ago by dougpete

Recently, there has been a breakout of spamming coming from Twitter accounts. It appears that passwords have been compromised and the bad folks are using this to send out direct messages (DM) to people. The direct messages are designed to lure you to a website where you could have your credentials c ...

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7 days ago by dougpete

I had a number of comments thrown my way at the ECOO Conference about my blogging routine. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll notice that I try to get a couple of posts every day. Inevitably, the question becomes one of “where do you get time to do this?” It’s a really good question, to be honest. I ...

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9 days ago by dougpete

The most closely guarded secret in the city of Toronto yesterday had to be: “Where is twECOO?” It started as a concept about a week in advance of the ECOO Conference. At the OTF event, @brendasherry, @peterskillin, and I just happened to, in conversation, wonder if we could arrange to have a little ...

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