Posted on August 29, 2008 by Kimberly McCollum
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Last week, I posted the following on Twitter:
trying to decide if I like Flock 10:00 AM August 21, 2008from web
And got this reply:
Flocker:
@kamccollum: You don’t sound totally convinced. What could we do to make it a definitive “I like Flock”? 12:41 PM August 22, 2008from web [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2008 by Kimberly McCollum
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I was hoping to get my hands on a copy of The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Second Edition because I wanted to read his perspective on presentations before designing a lesson on teaching with presentations. When I discovered that the copy at my local library was in the [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2008 by Kimberly McCollum
I am annoyed. I am really really annoyed, and my university is at fault. Brigham Young University has a system called Route Y that is basically a portal to everything that I need to access as a student or an instructor. Through Route Y, I can (in theory) pay my tuition, register for classes, check [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2008 by Kimberly McCollum
When I was traveling to and from Asia, I had a lot of time on planes and trains and I used most of that time to read. I’ve already posted reviews of some of the other books that I read and I decided to give Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell, [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2008 by Kimberly McCollum
Jon Mott recently asked readers to consider what a learning software application would look like if it were developed with the learner in mind. Jon was contrasting this ideal with current course management software, like Blackboard, which is often focused on institutional needs. I’ve spent most of my week building the framework for a wiki [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2008 by Kimberly McCollum
I really wanted an iPhone. When the first generation iPhone was released, I lamented that I had time left on my phone contract and patiently waited for the time to be up. I consoled myself with the knowledge that the future versions of the iPhone would probably cost less and offer more than the ones [...]
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