It takes approximately three minutes to go into a gas station and pay for gas. The same transaction at the pump takes only ten seconds. If you fill the tank just once a week, paying at the pump will save you almost two and a half hours of time each year. More importantly, it will save you time standing in a gas station (not the best place to pass your time away).
With the price of gas going through the roof, you may need the extra time working a second job.
TSPY=2.45
Alan November has a good post on one-to-one laptop program lashback. Here is a quote:
First of all we should never call any program a “Laptop Program”. We certainly do not have pencil and paper programs. As soon as a school or district places the focus on the technology I believe it is doomed to fail.
The research is all over the place on this topic. Most say there is no difference in student learning with laptops or without laptops. The larger problem is number of variables in the equation. Giving each student a laptop will not make a difference if the teacher uses the same instructional techniques as in a laptop-less class. The assignments must be different. Students must be involved in determining how the learning process materializes. The role of the teacher is dramatically different. November defines the teacher as someone who builds learning communities.
The article gives a list of institutional changes that should take place before a laptop program is initiated. Training teachers to use technology is one small step toward revamping the educational processes involved when instituting a project as complex as a laptop program. In fact, the technical training is probably the easiest step to complete.
If you are a Blackboard user, here is a del.icio.us/Scuttle social bookmarking service that plugs right into the learning management system. It’s called Scholar. You must have Blackboard to add bookmarks to the system. Without a Blackboard server you can search through the links made public by Blackboard users. Browsing isn’t too bad because all the links are connected to courses with academic content. There aren’t as many links in the database, but a search will have a higher probability of a valuable hit.
Having social bookmarking built into the LMS solves a lot of the problems inherent in larger sites like del.icio.us. All the bookmarks in Scholar can be grouped by course. A student or an instructor can have generic bookmarks or bookmarks associated with specific courses.
Now we need someone to integrate Scuttle into Moodle.
The next time you need help in any program (Word, DreamWeaver, Firefox, anything) press the F1 key.
I get a lot of calls from people that need help with an assortment of applications. I’m a computer guy, so I am suppose to know how everything works. The truth is I just have a really big F1 key. I can’t count the number of times I have read the “solution” to someone right from the help file after I pressed F1.
If you aren’t running a program and press F1, you will get Windows help.
TSPY=2.75 and a little on your phone bill
Let Disney explain copyright.
