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Reflections on Teaching with a Tablet

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

During my four weeks of teaching in January I’ve been teaching with a tablet: the Asus Transformer Prime. When I teach I almost always have a digital device (beyond the presentation tool) with me to reference my notes and do all the digital teaching elements like recording marks and interacting with students digitally. So far… Continue Reading Reflections on Teaching with a Tablet

2011 at MattClare.ca

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Here’s a word cloud for 2011 at MattClare.ca – mostly my blog (biased towards the end of the year): Here’s my Twitter feed for 2011: I think the insight there is that I use twitter to get a hold of Giulia a lot. As my ThinkUp installation at mattclare.ca/thinkup gains way more data than my… Continue Reading 2011 at MattClare.ca

Correcting Burlington Hydro and PeakSaver

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

I’ve blogged about being a big fan of the PeakSaver program before. mattclare.ca/blog/2010/07/07/peaksaver-heat-wave/ No longer. I recently wrote Burlington Hydro about the about the remarkably poor instructions for logging into the PeakSaver Online Control Centre. The number of issues with the process really does make Burlington Hydro and the PeakSaver program look foolish. The issues… Continue Reading Correcting Burlington Hydro and PeakSaver

White Noise App

Sunday, December 4th, 2011

I wanted to quickly write about the TMSoft White Noise app.  It has to be quick both because there isn’t much to say, other than it’s free or cheap and because our baby may be up from his nap soon. I bought the full iPhone app before there was an iPad and before we had… Continue Reading White Noise App

Tall Pines Rally 2011

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

I had a great time at the 2011 Rally of the Tall Pines in Bancroft Ontario Canada this weekend. Great weather and a good result for Crazy Leo. Thanks to all the volunteers and towns people who make the weekend happen. My Flickr photo set at www.flickr.com/photos/mattclare/sets/72157628184149659/with/6416075347/ the results are posted at rallyscoring.com/results/2011/TallPines/index.htm Tall Pines… Continue Reading Tall Pines Rally 2011