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

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

Interesting Items – January 28, 2009

• Amazon Announcing Something (Read: Kindle 2) Next Monday

– Oooh… Kindle version 2… I will keep my eye out for taht one!

• Talking to a Wiimote in Ubuntu 8.10

– I haven’t talked about haptics and the Wii in a while, but here is a link for those using Ubuntu to get it talking with one another. 🙂

• The Pope on YouTube

– Wow… now the Pope is even using viral media to get the word out! Awesome

• More Signs of a Google Webdrive

– Another technology Google is working on that has a lot of potential… GDrive… of course there is already SkyDrive and a plethora of other tools for backing up your data online.

Interesting Items – January 27, 2009

• GrandCentral 2.0, Almost Ready to Be Released

– This certainly has the potential to impact all of us! It is an IP service that makes it easier to keep the same number, and use multiple devices.

Interesting Items – January 24, 2009

• LDS Church News – Authorized News Web site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

– The Church News has a FREE site now!! AWESOME!! Check it out! I don’t see a RSS feed yet, but that would be great!

Interesting Items – January 23, 2009

• Txtr: A E-Book Reader Without a Pryr
• 9 Ways Twitter Can Help in the Real World
• Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit: Scientific American
• 10 Online Learning Tools for Students | MakeUseOf.com
• Ebooks: The Calm Before The Storm
• Apple Answers Questions About Low-end iPhone and Mac Netbooks
• Pay Attention
• Read the January/February 2009 EDUCAUSE Review Online