Steve Job's legacy

Technology editor from The Guardian Charles Arthur looks back at the career of the driving force behind Apple, Steve Jobs.

Jobs was the single-minded visionary who revolutionised three industries: computers, film and music. He simplified complicated things by making the customer's needs paramount, bringing cutting edge technology into globally popular consumer products.

You can find a video embedded here, but by clicking on the link above you will gain access to eight more Jobs-related videos.



H/T to Janet Abruzzo.

History of the Internet

Have a look at this The Guardian slideshow, which throws some light on the way the Internet started and how it developed to its present day state.

The slideshow is very comprehensive and detailed, and it allows us to choose the year we want to focus on, starting in 1969 until 2009.

There is a short comment in each of the entries, and some of them come together with videos with interviews and lots of links to delve deeply into the topic.

The Internet cheating game

Read this lengthy The Independent article about the dangers of using the Internet for everything connected to knowledge and finding out.

Awesome Blog

Bestselling author and blogger, Neil Pasricha, shares three things that helped him turn his blog into a bestselling book and helped him "grow himself." He calls them the three A's -- Attitude, Awareness and Authenticity.

This TED talk is worth a watch, if you can spare 17 and a half minutes. Pasricha, author of the wildly popular Awesome Blog, gets us thinking about these three A's and how we might apply them back to anything in life.

Should you google at dinner?

Read The New York Times article about the more and more widespread influence of the new technology, so much so that it is becoming a kind of addiction for some people.

Obsessed with the Internet?

Are we obsessed with the Internet? Very few people will go as far as acknowledging it, which doesn't mean the internet doesn't take pride of place in today's life.

Watch this The New York Times video and judge by yourself.

Growing up digital

Superb work by The New York Times, where we have a look at the dependence of today's youth on everything digital.

First of all, read this online article to gain some background information about the topic.

Now, listen to a group of youths expressing their views on how important everything digital is for them.

Finally, listen to the teachers' views:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/21/technology/20101121-brain-teachers.html

Video Games

Presentation by John Chatfiedl in TED Talks about the value and influence of video games in today's world. Remember you can activate the English subtitles if you wish to do so.

Class blogs

Class blogs seem to be getting fashionable in the teaching world, as this blog itself shows. But to what extent are they beneficial? This article from The Guardian sheds some light on the issue.