February 2007

Computer trouble never ends

My video card is all wrong and I don't have bluetooth anymore! My computer broke down. I took it to a shop, they tried tons of things and in the end said the motherboard had something wrong. They changed it. I used to have a Thinkpad T41 Series 2373 Model JU9. The board they put in it is a T41 2373 7FS. This whole thing sucks.

If I didn't need my computer so much every day, it would be back at the shop getting the right card. I don't know if they did it on purpose (giving me the wrong board), or they just didn't know better. It us just plain wrong and it has to get fixed.

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Second Life: I CANNOT have a Second Life

I've been trying to get on Second Life for over a week now. I'm really curious about it. Something is wrong with my computer and Second Life. If I manage to run the program without it crashing, it lasts for about 1 minute and then crashes.

I just figured out what is going on. I used to have a ATI Radeon 9000 video card. My mother board died, and now I have a ATI Radeon 7500. It is not supported. It is not supported by Guild Wars either. My new mother board sucks.

Innovación Educativa: el libro

Mobile Learning, otro de los blogs que leo a menudo, pone sobre la mesa este divertido video sobre una vieja innovación.
Yo, al igual que algunos de los imagino existentes (por pereza de buscar algo que me diga quienes han entrado a este URI) lectores de este blog) nos hemos enfrentado a situaciones donde tenemos que mostrarle a algún amigo o familiar cómo hacer algo con el computador o solucionar un problema con él.

A second life

I've been intrigued with Second Life for a while now. I first heard about in some podcast (not sure which now) and then again on Steve Hargadon's EdTechLive. I'm close to finishing the download of the client.
I'm not sure how much I'll actually get hooked and get a "second life" but I'll try it and report back :D.

I confess: delicious

I have to confess I'd never got a delicious account. Or rather, I did get one, but never used it. I finally decided to upload my bookmarks (which I've zealously kept for about 8 years) and let it tag them for me. It used my folders as tags and added some. However, I didn't find a way to make them automatically public. I had to go over them one by one, and it's taking a while. I admit I have deleted a few and decided not to share some others, but I still wish there were some sort of mass edit mode. Did I miss it?

Got it!

I spent about 6 hours today at the American embassy. Mostly waiting to be called for fingerprints and then for the interview. I got a consular officer that didn't seem to nice. She denied the applications of the 4 people in front of me. I wasn't worried, though. I had an invitation from Intel. It all worked out well. I got the visa.

Now it is certain: I'll go to Portland on May 3 and fly to Boston on the 9th. I'll be there until the 17!

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Escribir la red (Web 2.0)

Por lo menos dos de los blogs que leo han tenido entradas acerca este video, CoolCatTeacherBlog y Remote Access. No dicen mucho, en buena medida porque el video en sí mismo dice bastante. El texto ya no es lo mismo. Exageraríamos si digéramos que el texto lineal del libro, el cuaderno, el tablero, van a desaparecer en un futuro cercano.

Innovación Educativa

Una de las tareas más grandes y difíciles (y por lo mismo interesantes) de este año es trabajar en la construcción de una línea de acción en innovación educativa con uso de medios y tecnologías de información en la escuela. Creo que la política es monolítica y retrógrada por naturaleza, y es casi un oxímoron hablar de política de innovación, especialmente para la escuela, que es posiblemente la institución más cercana al siglo XVI que sobrevive en el mundo moderno, junto con algunas monarquías, dictaduras y democracias bolivarianas de países en desarrollo.

Babel

Ayer fui a ver Babel. Esperaba ver una película que me dejara con un mal sabor en la boca, el tipo de mal sabor de pensar que el mundo es horrible, mi vida demasiado fácil... una especie de mal sabor espiritual hasta con ganas de llorar. No fue así. La película tiene un ritmo que no permite que se alcance ese estado de ánimo. Sufrí toda la película. No tanto como mi acompañante, que se tapaba los ojos y tenía cara de "me duele el estómago", pero sufrí por Jusuf y Ahmed, por Brad y Kate Blanchet, por lo mexicanos, por los niños abandonados en el desierto.

Fiona is back!

It cost me a kidney but Fiona, the Thinkpad, is back. They had to replace the motherboard, but it seems to be working well. This is the first post from Fiona in a while. So happy! Me costó un riñón, pero Fiona, el portátil IBM está de vuelta. Le cambiaron el board y parece que está funcionando bien. Esta es la primera entrada escrita desde Fiona en meses. ¡Qué felicidad!

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