My mother in law received a Huntsman Award for Excellence in Education this evening – a well deserved honor befitting her work as an educator over the past 16 years. Out of the 21,000 teachers in the state of Utah, 2 elementary school teacher, 2 junior high teachers and 2 high school teachers along with…
Category: Education
Note to Facebook, Myspace and Other Social Silos: DIE
I wrote three Facebook apps and I have ideas for several more. The most successful was the House Plans application I did for ThePlanCollection.com, but in the Facebook world you can’t count a couple thousand users as especially successful. When Open Social started up I felt like I needed to go sign up for a…
Sustaining Open Content
The Instructional Technology conference has been great thus far. I usually measure great based on the food. We at at Hamilton’s last night. Great food. Great conference. There is still more to come so I am sure things will get better. Sustainability – how do we keep paying for this stuff – is a reaccuring…
study what you like cause it will come back to haunt you.
One frequent conversation amongst engineers entails the bragging of how hard their undergrad education was. This is usually measured by two factors: How poorly the class performed overall How late one stayed in the computer labs. My dad always told me that your educational experience would reflect the job environment in the real world. It’s…
Learn this, no this, no this
I have been a programmer for a few years. During that time I went from “Bill Gates is the antiChrist” to Microsoft isn’t so bad to I just don’t care give me money. Programmers are prostitutes. Give us money and we do what you want. I love python, but I admit to be a closet…