Off Topic: What is your PowerSong?

Just testing to see if anyone out there is reading. If you are, post a comment with the title and artist of a song that really gets you revved up and motivated. Nike was on campus yesterday promoting the new partnership between Nike and iPods (click on link above) and yeah, I am just such a sucker for this particular marketing campaign, a total geek for all the measuring one can do on one's run. My powersong this week is Walkie Talkie Man by Steriogram. What's yours?

Brave New World for School Security

Schools in 19 states are now using the Raptor security system, which screens the driver's license of a school visitor against a national database of sex offenders. If a match results and the school confirms that the offender's arrest photo matches the picture on the license, Raptor sends an e-mail or text message to the police.

Tech, VAIOs and Videotape - Fall 2006

Read my Fall 2006 Tech Newsletter by clicking on the link above.

I will be posting copies of all of my official email announcements here. The first 10 people (from the STEP community) who post a comment on an entry will win a free coffee from me! That's for reading my email message all the way through and for paying attention! :)

Lost Laptop is a traumatic ordeal

Every year, someone in STEP loses all of the work to theft, loss or harddrive crash. Please backup your work and keep the backup separate from your computer!

Best Education email Newsletter - ASCD SmartBrief

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Google launches literacy site

At the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday, Google unveiled a Web site that helps literacy organizations contact each other, provides links to reading resources and features video segments from around the world on successful reading approaches. The project aims to help people share information about and solutions to illiteracy, says one top Google executive. The Boston Globe

Speaking of Computers

This e-newsletter highlights the latest news in computing and technology activities and services on campus. In the fall issue you'll find articles covering such topics as the new Stanford Desktop Tools (that will gradually replace PC- and MacLeland), Stanford course syllabi via the Web, a new Academic Technology podcast series,a reminder about the quick, easy-to-use IT Help Web site, new electronic resources and much more.

The Blogvangelist

"What’s needed now is 'liquid learning. We are awash in so much information that we have to learn how to manage as it keeps expanding.'”