Tag: Rant

  • Aren’t storyboards supposed to be cartooned?

    One of the things that I do here is help instructors with video assignments in their classes and one of the components of those assignments is the requisite shot list and storyboard. I have noticed something interesting this term (and in previous terms as well, but this is the first time that I’ve had a…

  • Google can’t find it

    elearnspace pointed this one out to me today. Google’s Blog search has finally come online (previously it seemed to be only on the Blogger pages). elearnspace, in their post mentioned that Technorati wasn’t cutting it for them to search blogs. But I’m thinking that for me, Technorati, and to some extent, Icerocket are doing a…

  • Rock’n Hot Coffee

    When GTASA first came out, I had a feeling that it was going to rock the world in terms of game play and what it would do to those who fear games that extoll violence. I also knew that if I could, I would make sure that if I had any say in it, my…

  • A Simple Complexity Paradox

    As in all other parts of life, what is simple is often seen as being complex (is that really all it takes??) and what is complex is often seen as being simple (you only have to do the root of the integral and the obfuscate the wangenstien…). The great problem is of course knowing when…

  • The real gateway for computers in the classroom

    … soapbox please… Helping my fiancee and my future sister-in-law-to-be clean up their classrooms yesterday, it dawned on me that the priorities of so many schools are really out of whack. There are schools that are sending money on computers (hardware only) without getting software, support or PD time for teachers. This is “bad”, but…