Attitude Quote

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

Charles R. Swindoll

Campus Central IT Survey – Win Wii or $200!!

There is a survey out there right now about central IT groups on university campuses.  Here is a little bit of info:

Reason For Survey:
This study will determine which centralized technology organization practices most impact user satisfaction.  It is critical to higher education institutions that their technology organizations succeed since IT organizations facilitate the accomplishments of the institution and its members.

Giveaway:
At the end of the survey, you will be given the opportunity to enter into a drawing for your choice of either a free Nintendo Wii or $200! If you choose to enter the drawing, you will be asked for your email address which will be separated from the survey results before analysis to ensure survey anonymity.

http://uncodum.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_2i6qYO5rgdLGdog&SVID=Prod

Request for Video Collaboration

Hello Dear Readers!

I come with you with a request.  I have been asked to go and present at my son’s elementary school tomorrow (Friday) to a bunch of 2nd grader’s about what I do.  So I am working on putting together some stuff on haptics, and iPhone/iTouch’s and other fun instructional technology stuff. 

It occured to me that one of the great things about instructional technology is the ability to connect people from all around the world.  So… 

Would anyone be interested in doing a short video conference using Skype (or google Chat something easy like that) with some groups of 2nd Grader’s?  Here are the times I am presenting:

Date: Friday, February 27th

Time: (Eastern Standard Time… I’m in North Carolina)

• 9:30-9:50am 
• 10:00-10:20am
• 10:30-10:50am

Now I am not asking for this whole time, but if I could do a couple of minute video that would be great!  

Can anyone help me out?  One or all three would be great!  Let me know and we can do a test conference today or tomorrow morning before I start.

New Blog Host and Design

As some of you may have noticed EduTechie was down the beginning of last week for a couple of days.  There were some problems with my old web host.  In the end I decided it would be best if I didn’t manage the blog anymore, and let someone else take care of that for me. 🙂

The past couple of days I have been migrating to wordpress.com to let them host it for me so I can focus more on content, and less on the technical side of things.  I lost some of the nice plugins I had (like auto posting of google shared items… but who really liked those anyway? 🙂 ).

If you are reading this, then everything was successful.  They have a nice function that allows me to keep my old domain name so everything should be the same for y’all.

As part of the process I had to install a new theme… what do you think?

Interesting Items – February 7, 2009

• Panopto CourseCast pilot explores capture technology

Interesting Items – February 4, 2009

• Standalone Versions of Google Tasks for iPhone and iGoogle

Interesting Items – February 4, 2009

• Standalone Versions of Google Tasks for iPhone and iGoogle