- My name is Katrin Becker. This is my blog. It is about Digital Games, Educational Technology, Computer Science, Academia, and sometimes Rural Life and other notions. Comments are welcome but will be edited as necessary to maintain relevance.
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Look out SMART Technologies – the writing may be on the wall, and it isn’t yours.
In Today’s MIT Tech Review: A Better, Cheaper Multitouch Interface A new pressure-sensitive pad could improve large and small touch screens. I’ve thought for some time that the SMART Technologies’ White Board which is marketed so vigorously to Alberta schools … Continue reading
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job where you can be wrong or change your mind THIS often?
Compare: (these are all taken from the Environment Canada Weather Site) The day before there had been a severe winter storm warning. Nothing happened.
Posted in General, Global Warming, Living with Nature
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In Class Laptop Use Shown to Lower Test Scores…
Intellagirl posted a note about this article today and I was curious, so I read it too… She suggested that the article had entirely missed the point, and she is absolutely right! The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 16, 2009 … Continue reading
New Puppy
We are getting a new puppy this week. In the spring of 1997 we got our first Livestock Guardian Dog (LGD). A Great Pyrenees. Scanner. She changed my life. My birds were safe from local predators – all day long … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Life, Living with Nature
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