I came across a new "game" -- chat roulette. Just what it sounds like, you click NEXT, and somebody comes up on your screen to chat with. Find it here: chatroulette.com There's another website that shows 24 funny chat roulette screen shots. It looks like these people are really socially
Read Full StoryWe're implementing an online version of our English placement exam using a test produced by teest.biz. There are a lot of advantages: it draws the questions randomly from a large test bank, so each test is different; since it's online, the score is given immediately upon completion; it's more the
Read Full StoryOkay, so I want to give equal opportunity to Microsoft, because last term I discovered OneNote. It's a really easy way to organize a bunch of stuff - anything digital - in a scrapbook kind of format. I organized my notes and assignments for a course, using a section for each week and accumulat
Read Full StoryHave you seen the videos and the reviews of Apple's new iPad? I think it could be a terrific learning device - think of the kinds of animations, collaboration, research and testing it could support for a course, in addition to being the textbook itself. And, not just one textbook, but the books
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A team of students from Kasetsart University won the Software Design category in Microsoft's global Imagine Cup competition for high school and university students. This is a really big deal - it's a huge contest with about 325,000 students participating this year. Congratulations, Team Skeek! Rea
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Mobile micropayments are something I've yearned for. Briefly, PayPal had a mobile payment feature that worked great - when I needed to reimburse a friend who paid the lunch bill, I could just SMS the money to her. I don't know where that service went, but it doesn't work in Thailand. Now, t
04.24.2010 | Gadgets & Gizmos | Dolly
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I came across a new "game" -- chat roulette. Just what it sounds like, you click NEXT, and somebody comes up on your screen to chat with. Find it here: chatroulette.com There's another website that shows 24 funny chat roulette screen shots. It looks like these people are really socially
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[caption id="attachment_66" align="alignleft" width="226" caption="Ada Lovelace, the World's First Programmer"][/caption] Who was Ada Lovelace? read here, from findingada.com: Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers a
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I was listening to the TWIT podcast on my way to school this morning (TWIT is This Week in Tech, twit.tv), and they were talking about a wi-fi enabled bathroom scale. Not only is it wi-fi enabled, it automatically tweets your weight when you step on it. Is that inspiring or daunting if you're tr
03.24.2010 | Gadgets & Gizmos | Dolly
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I was recently reading an article entitled "Electronic Paper's Next Chapter" in the November 2009 edition of Communications of the ACM. It describes advances in making flexible sheets that display text and other images in full color, still something that is difficulty and expensive. One of the r
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The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) is one of the premier professional computing associations worldwide. They have member chapters all over the world, but none in Thailand. I've joined chapters in the U.S. and enjoyed the camaraderie and activities. Why not Thailand? There are plenty
03.11.2010 | Computing | Dolly
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We're implementing an online version of our English placement exam using a test produced by teest.biz. There are a lot of advantages: it draws the questions randomly from a large test bank, so each test is different; since it's online, the score is given immediately upon completion; it's more the
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I recently spent nine days in India, mostly in small (well, small for India) cities in Rajasthan. I have a windows mobile phone, and my travelling companion had a Blackberry. We both used DTAC roaming, and had the same service provider wherever we roamed. Guess who had better connectivity? The
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[caption id="attachment_33" align="alignright" width="300" caption="My Sample Survey"][/caption] I've been using GoogleDocs for several years now (used writely before that). There's a cool new feature they've added, and that is the survey. It is soooo easy to create a survey, email it to resp
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