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Connecting With and Making Contacts on Social Media: Where is the Dummy’s Guide?!

In many interactions with people, be it in the workplace, coffee shop or at the daycare, the common question sometime during the exchange of ideas, concepts, general discourse, or daily pleasantries tends to be “what is the best way to get in contact with you?”. 20 years ago, that simple question would have been answered [...]

Shock! Awe! & Oh the Possibilities: iBooks Textbooks!

In the endeavour to find ways to incorporate technologically relevant educational tools into our teaching practices it is obvious that the iPad is the new go-to item for teachers and parents in 2012. If you haven’t heard, the most recent launch of iBooks 2 now presents a revolutionary future for textbooks and teaching materials that [...]