WEEKLY ROUNDUP: OCTOBER 26 – NOVEMBER 1

by Layne Heiny

Technology Questions published 11 stories this week, ranging from topics about vBulletin to the Apple Tablet nomenclature. Apple Tablet versus Apple Tablet PC WordPress for iPhone 2 5 Life-Improving Technologies Join the Windows 7… Full Details

Glossary – Learning with Tablet PCs 2.0

by Robert W. Heiny

This glossary gives priority to terms that describe behavior of people as they learn, including with Tablet and other mobile PCs. It updates earlier glossary notes. It increases the number of terms and refines definitions, expecially those related… Full Details

WordPress for iPhone 2

by Layne Heiny

I can think of nothing more sad than sitting alone in a room and blogging as if the friends on your social network were coming over soon and ready to party. But this appears to be the case for some antisocial bloggers who are looking for… Full Details

5 Life-Improving Technologies

by Layne Heiny

Quick. Name 5 technologies you’ve purchased over the past 5 years that improved your life. Yeah, I struggled, too. I purchase tons of technology every year but adding the condition that my life was improved – well – now the list narrows. Here… Full Details

Join the Windows 7 support request for Dell XT Tablet PC

by Loren Heiny

It’s only been a year and a half and the Dell XT is already considered “legacy.” @RobBushway has created a petition over on Dell’s IdeaStorm website to stop this nonsense. Related posts:Dell Tablet PC rumorsDell study on… Full Details

aLEAP and Monetized Learning

by Robert W. Heiny

State minimum academic performance standards provide a useful step toward monetizing learning. Teachers have opposed these two indices of public school learning. I have opposed them also, partly because they limit convenient instructional… Full Details

vBulletin’s visceral price structure angers clients

by Layne Heiny

For years vBulletin has been a growing community because the forum software was inexpensive, easy to install, focused on creating great forum experiences for members right after the installation, and because a community of developers added to the… Full Details

HP Pavilion dv3 with multi-touch

by Loren Heiny

Engadget has taken an HP Pavilion dv3 with Windows 7 multi-touch for a spin. Check it out here. Related posts:Albatron to release multi-touch monitorMulti-touch display technology on display at ComputexA couple more things to ponder about… Full Details

Patrick Carman Advises Novice Writers

by Robert W. Heiny

“Read a thousand books to find your voice. Tell stories. Carry a journal. Use it “not as a place to go to work, but as a place to have a good time.” This was advice from best-selling author Patrick Carman when he talked with TFK (Time for Kids) Kid… Full Details

Maine First with Personal Access to Learning Technology

by Robert W. Heiny

The Maine Learning Technology Initiative made Maine the first state (in 2002) to use technology to transform teaching and learning in classrooms statewide; first with a plan to equip all students and teachers in grades 7 to 12 with personal learning… Full Details

Moodle: Helping Students Succeed

by Layne Heiny

I love Moodle. Every teacher trying to provide an out of the classroom experience for students should look into the product. But the truth is that I didn’t love Moodle two weeks ago. This is because I had forgotten about it; I didn’t love it. I… Full Details

Apple Tablet versus Apple Tablet PC

by Layne Heiny

I love words. Words help us understand. Words allow us to express our views. Words let us describe our intentions. Words, though, can also mislead. And misleading consumers is what some people in the industry must avoid. Years ago, I was a… Full Details

Weekly Roundup: October 19 – October 25

by Layne Heiny

Here are some of the stories published on Technology Questions since making the move over to WordPress. Apple multi-touch hits the spot B&N Nook looking good A Test of School Leadership Raindrop: Open Source to the Rescue Tablet PCs:… Full Details

Raindrop: Open Source to the Rescue

by Layne Heiny

Scott from Webmonkey provides a nice overview of Raindrop and so there is no reason for me to repeat what he has so eloquently stated. However, I wanted to pass along this video and emphasize that you should watch this carefully. You’ll find… Full Details

Michael Gartenberg on Windows 7 Touch

by Loren Heiny

What does research analyst Michael Gartenberg think of Windows 7’s touch? In Engadget yesterday he says: “First, you need a touch-enabled PC, which you probably don’t have. Even then, the native touch features just aren’t… Full Details

Google Revenue Up But AdSense Publisher Revenues Are Down

by Layne Heiny

After many years of placing Google AdSense ads on the Tux Reports Network, there have been many times that I’ve botched up ads, not updated sites, or simply ruined good sites. However, I’ve noticed a terrible trend over the past few weeks – and I’m… Full Details

Thesis: Adding an ad into the header

by Layne Heiny

I switched Technology Questions over to WordPress last week. This week, I started to work on cleaning up the theme. During my research, I ran across several people asking how to add an ad to a Thesis header and a tutorial. After trying several… Full Details

Windows 7 launch event full of touching

by Loren Heiny

Lots of touch yesterday at the Windows 7 launch event, including the Kindle Reader for Windows: and the Acer Tablet 1420p: Here’s the full video from C-Net: Related posts:Multi-touch Kindle app for Windows 7Windows Server 2003 Launch… Full Details

Windows 7 multi-touch lifeless

by Loren Heiny

Live demos are always a tricky thing–especially kringe worthy are live multi-touch demos. After all it’s a relatively new technology. MacDailyNews has a video of Japanese broadcasters trying to demonstrate touch with Windows 7 and you… Full Details

Multi-touch Kindle app for Windows 7

by Loren Heiny

Microsoft has posted a video demo of the forthcoming Kindle reader that’s to ship “sometime next month.” Kindle for PC Demo on Windows 7 WhisperSync is used in the app to help sync bookmarks, open pages, and the like across various… Full Details

Tablet PCs: Students Sound Off

by Layne Heiny

Thanks to a grant from HP, two class periods of high school chemistry students started to use Tablet PCs about two weeks ago. Students’ attitudes ranged from computer confident to computer phobic and their abilities ranged from computer ignorant… Full Details

WPtouch: The Required Plugin for WordPress Installations

by Layne Heiny

This headline may fool you. You might be thinking that no single plugin for WordPress is required. You’d be wrong, though. There are really important plugins, such as, Akismet or Apture. There are nice plugins for controlling excerpts or… Full Details

B&N Nook looking good

by Loren Heiny

Today Barnes & Noble announced the Nook e-Reader. It’s claim to fame is a dual screen: one a traditional e-Reader style black & white display and a second smaller, touch-enabled color display below it. Engadget has more here,… Full Details

Apple multi-touch hits the spot

by Loren Heiny

Michael Gartenberg has some hands on time with today’s just announced Apple products, including a refreshed all-in-one iMac and its Bluetooth Magic Mouse. He talks about his experiences here. What gets me are some of his… Full Details

Drupal to WordPress 2.8.4 Conversion

by Layne Heiny

I spent a few hours converting Technology Questions to WordPress 2.8.4. The instructions may be found on the Social CMS Buzz website. A new database was created for the WordPress installation and six tables from the drupal install were imported… Full Details

A Test of School Leadership

by Robert W. Heiny

WE BELIEVE TECHNOLOGY is at the core of education reform, so we are giving you money and flexibility, but it is up to you to make it happen and then tell us what works.That was the clear message I took from recent forays to Washington, DC, where I… Full Details

Blogger Writes Building a Professional Learning Community

by Robert W. Heiny

Bill Ferriter offers a quick summary of his and coauthor Parry Graham’s new book “Building a Professional Learning Community at Work: A Guide to the First Year.” Congratulations, Authors, for a noble effort!What you’ll see if you decide to pick… Full Details

7K+ Years to Count Teachers’ Salaries and Benefits Value

by Robert W. Heiny

At the rate of counting one dollar per second, it would take more than 7,000 years to count the $225 billion of salaries and benefits paid by local, state, and Federal funds to U.S. public school teachers in a year. It would take more than 24,000… Full Details

Five myths about paying good teachers more

by Robert W. Heiny

Thomas Tock, Executive Director, Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, identifies antidotes to myths about performance pay for teachers who consume an estimated $220 billion a year in local, state, and Federal funds for salaries… Full Details

A “TEACHER’S DASHBOARD” FOR A HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA CLASS

by Robert W. Heiny

“Networked Tablet PCs have great potential in classroom settings, including use in small group in-class problem-solving activities. It is possible to obtain substantial amounts of data about student activity during a lesson: what they referred to,… Full Details

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