One Bright Idea: University of Rochester River Campus Libraries’ Digital Academy Presents. Lots of exposure to lots of different tools.

Despite all the good will towards Google Now, Google did have Google Reader at one time. It was the premier web-based RSS reader and everyone migrated to it after Bloglines hit the wall and shutdown. Now I’m on my 3rd reader: Feedly. I hope this helps with the hard core adherents to Google Apps. But…

Another day and another friend of my wife meet up. This time we went to West side of Tokyo to a little community center. My wife’s friend instructs a class in Fulongon. And I got drafted to participate so I did my best, gambatte. I was surprised to discover I could cross my legs over…

We met with Mariko’s college friend to attend an exhibit of old art. It’s the oldest known example of fanciful artwork of anthropomorphic animals. What’s really odd is it was in the collection of an old Buddhist Temple in Kyoto, Japan. http://www.tnm.jp/modules/r_free_page/index.php?id=1707 It’s notable for art historians and pop culture types who follow manga (the…

I’m traveling in Japan and wanted to take advantage of my WordPress site and document my travel. Here now an essay on how I love NHK Morning shows. They do more international stories than their US counterparts. There was a short segment on India (I think as I’m not Japanese proficient). But I feel I…

In Rochester NY, they would serve it open faced and call it a “Garbage Plate”.

Originally posted on Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take: My colleague, Amy Bruckman, wrote a blog post about the challenges that nonprofits face when trying to develop and maintain software.  She concludes with an interesting argument for computing education that has nothing to do with learning programming that everyone needs.  I think it relates to my question:…