I originally signed on to Facebook a couple of years back because a friend told me I could find an old high school buddy through the site.  Fair enough.  Since then, I’ve reconnected with a couple of old friends, but not in any meaningful kind of way – just a few chats now and then.  [...]

My impression of Canada Post’s online tracking system:
Day 1: Your package has been electronically submitted.
Day 2: Your package has been processed in Mississauga.
Day 3: Your package has been processed in Mississauga.
Day 4: Your package has been processed in Mississauga.
Day 5: Your package has been processed in Mississauga.
Day 6: Your package has been processed in Mississauga.
*package [...]

A couple of months after I wrote the review on the Logitech Freepulse headphones, the power button stopped working, so I had to find a new pair of headphones.
For a while, I made do with a pair of wired headphones, but they’re clearly not geeky enough, so I was looking for a new pair of [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, I volunteered my summer to go up to our local church camp and film the events of the week.  I’ve put up some of the videos on YouTube, so for those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter, here’s what I’ve got so far:
Rules video – all [...]

No, that’s not a come-on for a new “enhancement product,” it’s the biggest difference between my new netbook and my previous one.  The screen on my new Asus EeePC 900HA is 8.9″ corner to corner vs. my old 701‘s seven diagonal inches.  You wouldn’t think that 2 extra inches would make that much difference, but [...]

So I had this idea, and I’m not sure if it’s crazy, or “so crazy it just might  work”.  Anyways.  I know a couple other teachers who will have sections of CPT (Communications Production Technology) in the fall, and we’d briefly mentioned trying to pull together some kind of collaborative project that all our students [...]

May has long contained Career Day at our high school.  In the past, that meant having a number of local organisations come in to do hallway booth set ups that disinterested students would pass by without a second glance.  This year, the guidance office decided to run it slightly differently.  Every teacher in the building [...]

Mandi and I had a good laugh recently on the subject of hobbies – she’s recently taken up running, and not in an “I occasionally break into a jog while I walk the dog” running, but in an “I’ve spent over $350 on running clothes and shoes, and I just bought a bike for when [...]

I’m no expert when it comes to educational technology.  I’ll be first in line to admit that.  However, I do have an interest in technology (evident to anyone who’s ever talked to me for more than 7.5 minutes), and that naturally spills over into wanting to use it more completely in my workplace.  There are [...]

I don’t have a Flickr account.  I haven’t had a Blogger account in 4 years.  I just got onto Diigo, Google Reader and Twitter this year.  And yet, I blog, I have an online gallery of photos, I had a personal repository of bookmarks.  In the past I’ve hosted forums, statistics databases and other [...]

My grandmother was a consummate collector, so much so that, when she and my grandfather moved out of the house they’d lived in for 40+ years, a company had to be hired to go through their effects to determine what was valuable enough to sell and what should be tossed.  They brought a big Loras [...]

I don’t have a huge PLN – I’m not an edtech, and I don’t go to all the conferences.  But I know that some of the people I read and respond to are and do.  It’s those people to whom I reach out today.  My school is, instead of doing a career festival, inviting speakers [...]