Rob the Geek

Tag: Education

  • This is water

    A bit of a deviation from my standard fare of techy news and opinion, but I’m bundling this under “Community & Social” – I think it fits well. This video gave me pause for thought… It’s a well produced, visually engaging excerpt from an address to graduates in 2005 by novelist David Foster Wallace. Sadly, […]

  • Authenticating Users – The Struggle to Raise the Bar

    Interesting quote from an article that I was reading this morning: “When creating a patient portal that provides access to electronic health records, healthcare organizations must educate patients about the need for authenticating their identities, says Sharp HealthCare CIO Bill Spooner. […] Spooner notes that some patients have complained that the authentication method for its […]

  • Chrysalis Cam – Using Open Source to Open Minds

    The kids in Room 3 had a problem, all of the caterpillars that went into the pupa stage of their metamorphosis were emerging when the students were out of the classroom. The solution was to setup a laptop with a web camera programmed to take a snapshot of a waiting chrysalis once every minute. These […]

  • Notes from Barcamp Auckland 2010

    Barcamp Auckland is an annual gathering of developers, designers, start-ups and social-media types. It’s a full day event held in an ‘unconference’ like style, where the attendee (see my attendee & interested folks list on Twitter) set the schedule – and people turn up to discuss topics which interest them. The following are the session […]

  • Education and the Future of Learning

    As I gear up for this weekends unconference, I’ve been looking through my Delicious bookmarks, specifically on things around Education, which is one of the sessions I’d like to run, if nothing else – to get a different perspective from that discussed at this years BaaCamp where I was part of a similar session. I […]

  • Day Two of Foo

    This is part two of my three part coverage of FooCamp 2009. You can also read part one and part three for more. Again, this entry is written under the constraints of FrieNDA and will summarise only those observations which are non-attributable to anyone but myself. After the big brain squeeze yesterday, I kicked off […]

  • FooCamp 2009, Warkworth, New Zealand

    This is part one of my three part coverage of FooCamp 2009. You can also read part two and part three for more. Well – here I am at the 2009 FooCamp New Zealand it’s 11:30 as I start writing this piece and I’d say that things were winding down for the night but I’d […]

  • World Wide Telescope – I want to be a kid again…

    I read Scobles post when it appeared on TechMeme yesterday about Microsoft Research and their Worldwide Telescope project and the praise for the concept is again reflected on TED (love TED). Anyway,  enthused by what I’ve seen thus far (the project still not being open), I told my son Max about it and, watching his […]