Tag: Computers

19 Results

| June 22, 2014

laptops of the Borg

What, yet another Borg-Complex argument for laptops in the classroom? Yeah. Another one. Laptops are not a “new,...

| October 16, 2013

coping with OS frustration

Alex Payne recently did what I do, in a less thorough way, from time to time: he re-evaluated his commitment to the...

| May 18, 2011

down memory lane

A conversation on Twitter the other day reminded me of my earliest experiences with online life. It was in 1992 that I...

| May 4, 2011

backup strategies

Here’s an odd post by Gina Barreca about a student of hers whose completely un-backed-up computer died....

| February 23, 2011

I want to believe

Returning to the subject of today’s earlier post: The authors of that study write this in summation: Statistical...

| October 6, 2010

learning Greek

Sure, people think it’s a good idea to learn Greek. But of course they would when you put the question that way....

| June 2, 2010

confusion reigns

Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen see user-interaction chaos in new gestural devices: In Apple Mail, to delete an unread...