Tag: Technology

  • Local Number Portability

    Well it seems that the telcos are going to get some real competition now that Canadian (well most of us at least) can take our number, be it wired or not and move it to any other service (even to technologies that are not available yet) through number portability (GN). I don’t think there is…

  • Tacit Knowledge

    Over the last few weeks packing up in Education, one of the things that I’ve noticed is how much tacit knowledge is in my head. Having been present from when the TechPD unit that I am, at least to the end of the day, involved in, there are many things that I know and do…

  • IT vs IT

    Following along what I was thinking about last night with regards to IT vs IT, I began to see that for many, the line is very blurry. It’s much like the whole hybrid learning environment thing. Sharing acronyms certainly doesn’t help matters any, and when the individuals within the respective fields can often offer at…

  • It’s not the technology!

    This is something that I’ve noticed working in professional development, that technology doesn’t solve problems that it didn’t create and usually creates more problems when it’s put before user experience. I found an interesting site that talks about how Nintendo has thought about the user experience first on the Wii and how (at least in…

  • Immigrant Parents and Native Parents to be

    Ok, this is going to be another SOC posting, so if you can’t handle that, I would advise you to get off this post now and move on to something else (like reloading the page about 50 times to see the pictures ;)). This post is also not meant in any way to discredit the…