It’s always fun to navigate around checking what the pundits decide to predict in the coming year. This requires being up on trends and having a bit of imagination of how the factors will collide to develop into the momentum needed for new technologies or trends to emerge. So taking a survey of my own [...]

I just got a new inexpensive video camera. I opted for the Flip’s competitor Kodak Zi6, because the codec plays well on a Mac and H.264 is simply a superior format. But, I have to say the design is not as elegant as the Flip’s and I had some issues recording with it, which seemed [...]

As a follow up to my last post, I got this article “Research funds for technophiles” by Mark Bauerlein. He criticizes the tech fanatism (the author takes some stabs at some of my favorite people like Jenkjins and boyd) which fails to address the central question of how digital media is changing learning.