My latest video might just give you some last-minute gift ideas for anyone with a desk (or pockets, or a place they work…) This was a fun little video I put together on the weekend and thought I’d release just before the last days of holiday shopping. It’s toys that I have on (or in)…
The new Mac Mini with an M1 chip is incredibly powerful and versatile. I’ve been a fan of these small systems for quite some time and have used them for building different labs to learn and use Virtual Machines. Unfortunately, at the time of this post, the VMWare Fusion software doesn’t seem to work with…
Spaced repetition – revisiting old material you’ve studied over time, often has some interesting results. As the year closes, I was revisiting some older videos on education that I had in my OneNote Notebook. I came across this interesting video that I’d put aside some time ago after watching it and the title drew me…
Back in the early days of the Internet (yeah..I was there), we used to speak about the promise of how the Internet would revolutionize education, learning, and bring out the best in people. It’s hard not to be a little cynical about the years since those dreamer days, but the Internet has made learning, teaching,…
The promise of VR and AR in education has been a long-time coming. Besides the obvious technical barriers and cost of acquisition for devices, the real issue I’ve always considered limiting is the availability of content and the ability to create content. Well – there is good news all-around. The Oculus headsets are, relatively speaking,…
Here are a couple of resources around Azure Data Factory and Azure Cloud Analytics. We are absolutely moving to a Cloud-only world with less and less on-premise. At this point, we can still benefit from some on-premise material to teach concepts, but I would like to know how many people are still using those tools…
Over the holidays, I’ve decided to create a hands-on lab that builds out a case-study on using an IoT device to collect data and automate behaviour in Azure Cloud. The idea is to build an end-to-end walk-though from needs identification to decision-support. The intent being to have students build an actual solution that let’s them…
This is a book I mentioned in class – it’s a good introduction. https://amzn.to/3HUzIt9
Several years back, I attended a conference on trends in education for engagement and reach. There was some preliminary exploration of using avatar spaces as a way to interact socially at distance – specifically, I remember attending some sessions on the use of Second Life in education. These sessions didn’t do much for me. While…
Building new business directly in the cloud is a great example of how even a small company can access multi-million (billion?) dollar infrastructure and use the elasticity of the cloud to grow on an as-needed basis. This book by the Chairman and CEO of Salesforce is one I’m excited to read. Link to Amazon: https://amzn.to/2ZjqdSP
