For linguaphiles, I submit this illuminating and tasteful video, recently rolled out by TEDTalks, in which James Geary clears the smoke to reveal the extent to which we wield metaphorical thought and language in the course of our daily lives. (Question: How many figurative expressions are there in the preceding sentence?) The presentation could be [...]
Mashable today published results of a Google survey asking Wave users (of which I am one), “What do you like and dislike about Google Wave?” I have to agree with the consensus that while I love the concept, I cannot currently do anything with it because there are not enough of my friends connected. My guess [...]
The more I read, the more convinced I am that the best tool for our school’s communication and collaboration is Google Apps, and the FREE package is getting better all the time. Right now, my school is using webmail hosted by the same company as our website. Apart from that, admin and teachers are collaborating [...]
Informative TEDTalk here about how current communication technologies are not driving us apart; rather they’re bringing us together. I can relate to this personally. Since June, the powers that be in China have been blocking Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, YouTube and a host of other social networking sites. As a result, I was connecting much less [...]
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