Moon thru cell, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. The moon was lovely tonight. Having missed the astronomy party on ND’s north quad–can’t do everything–I pulled out the 8″ dobsonian with my daughter, and we tried our hands at capturing the moon through cell phone cameras. Pretty fun stuff. Jupiter and its moons were visible, but those …
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Sep 24
Subscribing to NDeRC blogs
The obvious purpose of blogging is to share your experiences with others. You can wait until others wander into your blog, but a more efficient system is to get others to subscribe to your blog. Since turnabout is fair play, you ought to consider subscribing to their blogs, as well. You can subscribe to NDeRC …
Sep 24
Social Learning
From Boulos and Wheeler: The emphasis on social learning stands in sharp contrast to the traditional Cartesian view of knowledge and learning—a view that has largely dominated the way education has been structured for over one hundred years. The Cartesian perspective assumes that knowledge is a kind of substance and that pedagogy concerns the best …
Sep 24
Changes brewing in education
(Just click on the image to go to the full article.) This comment, linked to the eSchool News web page featuring a story on a new report from the National Governor’s Association (NGA) on what should be done in US education–this time, adopt national STEM standards based on the best international practice–is a nice indication …
Sep 24
The Education Project
I’m heading to this conference on the gap in quality of global education this October. Should be a great opportunity to learn what others are doing and how we can learn from one another internationally. STEM community is international, global, and STEM culture should reflect that reality. But as we learn from our friends in …
Sep 14
Making your voice heard…
Always on the hunt for new ways to communicate, I’m a sucker for a new widget. This one enables you to add your voice (and, the makers claim, easy updates to it, though I’ve yet to test this) to your web site. It bears watching (and listening:)
Sep 08
Astrogeology
Reading NDeRC Fellow Kate Rueff’s latest blog, I was reminded of how big a role the study of rocks and minerals played in the development of my own love of science. From the kits I worked with as a grade school student to my freshman year Earth Science class, the beauty of rocks and minerals …
Sep 02
Posting audio comments directly from a cell phone via dial2do
This is a test on audio blog from my cellphone using dial2do. Powered by . Mp3 This test worked: both the audio file, and the transcription (the first line, above) were posted correctly, just by touching a speed dial number and giving a single audio command to dial2do. Next in line is to figure out …
Sep 01
Posting pics and text directly from a cell phone via Flickr
FWD:, originally uploaded by NDeRC2. This is to test blogging directly from cell phone to this blog by email through Flicker 🙂 The test worked. What is new here is that no intervening steps are required (once the system is set up) to blog here directly from a cell phone, including pictures and text. This …
Aug 25
the new web
Casual observations + cell phone (camera +picture messaging) + photo editing software (picnik from flickr) + blog = an extraordinary age of exploration and sharing. This guy lives (at least for now) on my front porch, but now also in your imagination. The first three images are highly processed (but easily, in minutes) using the …