I’m not a frequent commenter on blog posts. I read a lot of blogs, but I don’t normally comment. I know bloggers get frustrated at the lack of comments when they know that hundreds (or thousands) of people are reading their posts, but if I don’t have something to say, I don’t. If I have […]
45% of kids say they feel more comfortable online than offline. The reason? “It’s easier to be who you want to be, because nobody knows you and if you don’t like the situation, you can just exit and it’s over.” Children’s Ministry Magazine May/June 2011 pg. 20 Group Publishing
Funny. I don’t think we are quite in danger of losing books, yet. However, the more our children interact with “screens” rather than “paper”, I wonder if this will be more applicable in the coming future? In Hayward, WI, each middle and high school student is getting either an iPad or a MacBook laptop computer […]
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Back in December 2010, I got an education in the value of website domains. Up to this point I had purchased 2 domain names: hwcyouth.org and jeremymavis.com. Both of these domains cost $15 a year to own. I had came across an article that encouraged people to purchase their last name as a domain name […]
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I just recently acquired an updated smartphone which has a whole lot more features than my old one: meaning, I can now use “apps”. Additionally it has the ability to check and do many things on the go: facebook, email, text messages, and lots of multimedia stuff. In light of my recent acquisition, I thought […]
I found this video fascinating for a couple of reasons: I’m used to reading statistics in black and white numbers and percentages. Sometimes they are given in a graph or a chart. But never like this! We live in an interesting time where population growth is unprecedented (meaning: the world has never had this many […]
I’ve been thinking about these kinds of things a lot lately: I just read this article about a mom who decided that she and her 3 teenagers were going to take a 6 month break from technology. ”My concern,” she says, “was that we had ceased to function as a family. We were just a […]
This is cool! This picture was taken by an “extremely” high speed x-ray camera (it captures 10 million frames per second… normally video cameras capture 30 frames or pictures per second). The researchers actually made the lightning bolt come to them at this location. Fascinating! Read more…
What a creative use of technology! The worship band @ North Point Community Church in Atlanta, GA used iPads to play Christmas music in their service. source YouTube
I recently came across some interesting statistics. Sometimes you need to be careful with statistics because they can always be skewed to show what you want versus what a different side wants, but these are rather interesting… feel free to interpret them as you wish. I’m pulling these statistics from “Shaping the Story: Helping Students […]
The television. Also known as: the TV. Love it or hate it, the TV has been an influential force in the last hundred years. From its early, crude transmitted silhouette images, to black and white with no sound, and then eventually sound, and later into color and recently high definition sets that hang on the […]
What a neat video and a great song! source YouTube
I really like this web app. This week’s Wordle cloud.
I came across this website called Wordle. With Wordle you can insert any number of words and text that you wish and it will generate a conglomeration of those words in any color, size, a few fonts, and arrangement you wish. I inserted my blog URL into the Wordle app and it generated the graphic […]
I am always amazed at the “vastness” and implicit impact the internet (and its subsidiaries) are having on humanity and our behavior. Check out this “infographic” below: HT Imago
This wasn’t on purpose. I love my cellphone. It’s a smartphone that’s capable of fetching emails as well as simple internet searches and reading, in addition to calendaring, unlimited contacts and other “media-related” stuff. Along with my wallet and keys, this phone is always in my pocket. Not the last 3 days. I was trying […]
Back in December, Amanda and I decided to turn our TV satellite service off. It saved us some money each month and it prevented me from watching it too much! And because we live in a fairly remote area of the country, unless we have a rooftop antenna, we are not able to get even […]