Moving To Google Apps for Education
Google Apps was a topic that came up in several sessions at the NJEDge conference I attended recently. Actually, the talk was about Google Apps for Education which is different from non-academic users who have a Gmail account or use other Google cloud computing tools.I wasn't in Denver for

Black Friday and the Social Net
The Internet has gotten more and more commercial since it's very early days, but social networks have also gotten more and more commercial letely. (Another reason why academia distrusts them?)I am creating a social media course to teach next summer, so I am more tuned in than before to its use, especially on the business side. A new guy on the Facebook block is Toys”R”Us which has become the fastest growing brand on Facebook by growing between 40,000 and 95,000 fans a day over the past week. They released their “Big Book” catalog of toys on the page and a custom Black Friday Preview application which lets Facebook

Serendipity35 Talks Turkey, Not Tech
Two days off for Thanksgiving, but my blogging continues elsewhere, so you might want to visit my blog that barely ever mentions technology for two turkey-related posts including Ben Franklin's take on turkeys.And what does "talking turkey" actually mean?

Disability As Ability
Six years ago, Thorkil Sonne's youngest son was diagnosed with the mysterious developmental disorder. It turned out to be autism. In Sonne's native Denmark, autistics are typically considered unemployable. (Unfortunately, not a view limited to Denmark.) Sonne worked in IT and his sense was that people with autism and related conditions like Asperger's syndrome generally have excellent memory, a strong attention to detail, persistence and are good at following structures and routines. From his viewpoint, they are born software engineers.In 2004, he quit his job to found Specialisterne ("Specialists" in Danish). It is an IT consultancy firm that hires mostly

Listening
I discovered, a bit late, that the National Day of Listening is this Friday, November 27, 2009. Not a great day to choose for teachers (who are likely to be off from school digesting turkey) or for most Americans who might be shopping on this "Black Friday."StoryCorps launched the first annual National Day of Listening last year. The idea is to encourage people across the country to record and share conversations with loved ones and neighbors using our Do-It-Yourself materials. (I suppose that's the Thanksgiving connection - family gatherings.)Their target audience i