I like technology, and it’s insanely connected with almost everything we do in our lives in 2011. “Church” is something many of us do in our lives, so it is safe to posit that technology will be a part of it somehow. What the “somehow” looks like is hopefully thought through wisely, but definitely not […]
YouTube video description: Technology codes our minds, changes our OS. Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. It shows real life clip of a 1-year old, growing among touch screens and print. And how the latter becomes irrelevant. Medium is message. […]
I still like what Einstein is often credited with saying: “Don’t fill up your brain with information you can easily look up.” I wonder if services like Google and its intended and unintended effects on our memory might just help our society (even humanity) better synthesize the vast amounts of information out there, rather than […]
I currently manage two Facebook “pages” through hwcYouth. They are for our Followers and Middle School Youth programs. I created them for a couple of reasons: As a way to share pictures, videos, and ministry announcements A different way of connecting with people other than email… it’s adding in that connection that is intuitive for many […]
There’s a good conversation going on in the comments in the link below if you are interested. Take a look! via Churchm.ag
I was reading the USA Today and I came across an article entitled, “The 10 Coolest Book Apps for Fall” and the number 1 listing was a book app called: “Glo Bible” (globible.com). Lavishly enhanced with more than 700 images of religious art, 2,300 full-color photos and 500 virtual tours of Biblical sites, 140 interactive […]
If you like imagining possibilities in education… If you enjoy experimenting and taking risks in teaching… If you don’t mind thinking outside the box… …then you’ll probably find Sugata Mitra’s TED Talk @ TED Global 2010 fascinating. I’d be interested in your thoughts… source TED.com
In light of students @ Hayward Middle and High School acquiring MacBooks and iPads this school year (as part of the 1 to 1 initiative) as well as this generation’s burgeoning fascination with technology and its pervasiveness in our lives, I thought this infographic was informational: via OnlineEducation.net HT Mashable
This video pokes fun at engaging life through Facebook or outside activity. Toyota is cleverly advertising an “active” lifestyle of an empty-nested couple (who are “out” with their friends hiking and biking) versus the “inactive” lifestyle of their daughter (who is “in” on her computer commenting). While this is social satire, it is true. I […]
As a parent, I would definitely take issue with the words “spying on your children”. Parental monitoring of your children’s online activity is NOT spying! It is called parenting. I wisely monitor all aspects of my children’s lives–online or offline. It’s my job as a parent. There should be a weaning of sorts as trust […]
Do you have Facebook? Do your kids have Facebook? Did you know that it is against the law for children under the age of 13 to create an online profile that collects their personal information? In the last couple of weeks I have read a number of articles and such regarding this interesting phenomena (I […]
Minutes go by quickly and we rarely think about them. However, if you were to stop time for one minute and gauge what happened in that short 60 seconds on the internet, the above graphic is what occurred (click on the image to make it a little bigger). Interesting… what did we do with our […]
I like how one of the captions in the video said “imagine redrawing the map [USA] based on the way people connect with each other”. Fascinating visual on the connections our communications and “virtual” community create. via Mashable source YouTube
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So tweeting updates @ Kids Camp 2011 was a huge success! The parents loved it! I didn’t tweet a ton like I had wanted to (I ended up only doing about 4-5 tweets a day), but the parents thought that was an incredible way for them to stay connected and “see” them involved and know […]
Okay, so I’m gonna try and experiment. The Twitter. I don’t use Twitter very much because the people in our area (and the teenagers) do not tend to use it. I do have a Twitter account (@jdmavis), but it is mostly filled with my blog posts that some people find helpful to receive through the […]
This is “mechanical artwork”! Great for countdown video background?! via Make: technology on your time source Vimeo
I use Google services, pervasively. Gmail is my email client of choice, along with its built-in contacts database. Google Calendar is what I use for my personal as well as professional calendar. YouTube and Google Maps, most all of us have interacted with. Others include: Google Docs and Google Reader. These “cloud-based” services that Google […]
I’m only a month late on this. HT ChurchMag
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