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Wake Up, springtime is here

I have to admit that I first heard Arcade Fire, the great indie band from Montreal, through their quirky elevator video, Neon Bible in 2008. But “Wake Up” from Funeral, recorded in 2005, is what put them on the map, and is clearly the song that has earned them a huge and loving following. It […]

Flash fiction

Sorry, folks, I’m using this blog to think through some stuff today. I’m Moodling again, at least theoretically, to prepare for an upcoming workshop. Can’t show off old user content anymore since I deleted all former users and their work as an antivirus precaution, and don’t want to do what I did before because I’ve […]

Webinar

I took part in my very first ever “webinar” today  at http://live.classroom20.com, and just the experience of working with the conferencing interface brought home to me how very different a remote live online session is. Granted, it was great to hear and read what the other participants were saying. My mind, my eyes and my […]

Ask Auntie Web

At MELTA, the Munich English Language Teachers’ Association that I’m a part of, there are many teachers who are very frustrated about new media. There it is, they can see it, they can smell it, they can taste it, but they just can’t get their hands on it. There are techie blogs out there, sure, […]

How to kill a blog?

Take it off Google. The stream of accidental visitors has stopped completely. If you’re here, it’s probably because you know me personally. Or is twitter your router? Thanks for dropping by. 🙂

The sixth sense

MIT’s Pattie Maes presents Pranav Mistry’s Sixth Sense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. The geniuses at MIT have turned your hand into a computer interface. Do I want to read the tags from someone’s blog projected onto that person? Well, no, not really. Like […]