Paul’s Blog

Want to run a study in a school setting?
Tired of hearing that software can’t be installed, permissions loosened, configuration changed?
Boot into an operating system on USB sticks (about $5.00 each), then store data on the stick, or a server!

Just announced as of today: June 24, 2009
Sugar Labs™, nonprofit provider of the software that runs the [...]

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People are STARVING for some authoritative guaranteed black & white answers. The 15 minute attention span has SHRUNK to the now 15 second elevator spill. Science has created 100 new questions, 10 unanswerable, for each 1 answered this century. The number of sources of warped info, and shady or crazy leaders keeps on growing. Many [...]

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From March 27th to March 29th, 2009 – the education community of Second Life will be hosting a 3 day conference on best practices in education. This conference will promote the best and brightest from the Second Life education community in various fields of practice including everything from demonstrations to hands on theory.
This year’s host [...]

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Create, Upload, Access, Edit, Share, Backup, Protect, Data via “The Cloud”
(Online, Anytime, Anywhere, Just in Time, Free of Charge)
There are (as of Feb. 18th, 2009) currently 4 related free services offered by Microsoft.
I have created a small summary of each below, which may help clarify the differences.
Note that each of these are unique, separate services, [...]

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This episode of the new Science Channel TV series called “Weird Connections” is incredibly important to the field of Cognitive Load Theory.
Check it out:

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I’ve been following the new HCI Paradigm called “Multi-Touch” for some time now (since early 2006). I want to document my thoughts on this shift in computing, to see if my predictions come true, and that it radically impacts the field of computing over the next decade. I’ll start by merely pasting in below, some [...]

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