The Technological - Gathering In Light (Page 3)

Putting Ads on Blogs: And Why I Can’t Do It Anymore

I’ve debated over the topic of whether I should have advertisements on ol’ gathering in light since I starting using wordpress back in February. Some of you have noticed the on and off frequency of this site having ads, this was because I was trying to see if I

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Chris and Amy over at Shooting The Kids wrote on Photos For Your Childs Safety. I wanted to give props to them for pointing out Brian’s great flickr site that seeks to help find missing children. They have a great short interview with him that let’s you

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Blog Party With Friends

Our third ever “blog party” to happen at our house saw a radical boost in attendance! For the first two gatherings, JR and I were the only ones to come. However, this time we had 5 bloggers present. My wife, Emily, decided to join us this time around and although

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Left Behind Eternal Forces – Violence for Christians

Today in the Los Angeles Times, there is an article about a new Christian” video game: Left Behind: Eternal Forces. The game aims to make a broadly appealing video game, similar to Grand Theft Auto; it is a real-time” strategy game that features plenty of biblical smiting, albeit with high-tech

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A Plug for Fuller’s Newspaper – The Semi

Mike Work and I both got our start in the world of publishing today (he may have written before though I don't remember), both of us have articles on technology and the church. See Fuller's Newspaper for a Download of the article.

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Hey Man Slow Down: The Art of Friendship Behind The Screen IV

I need to finish this series of four articles on Technology and how its affecting our lives in positive and negative ways before it gets away from me. When I first sat down to write about all of this it was because of a couple of prompts; my reading the

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Hey Man Slow Down: Silence and Noise – Sharing Space with Technology III

I've been carrying on for the past week about slowing down in an age of technology; whether this is something we really need to do, why and how we might go about doing it are all questions I am looking at. In the last article I talked about

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Hey Man Slow Down: Multitasking and Issues in Simplicity II

Two weeks back we received our weekly issue of Time Magazine; the cover instantly caught my eyes. It's a picture I almost wanted to find myself wrapped up in. The title of the article asks a pertinent question for today's technologically immersed generation, “Are Kids Too

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My Very Own WordPress Favicon!

So I've been meaning to for sometime figure out this whole favicon thing – and today I had a little bit of time and had a breakthrough (a more meaningful thing to breakthrough would have been better but I'll take what I can get). After looking for

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Using Rojo For RSS Feeds and Educational Use

I switched over from bloglines to rojo about 3 months ago to handle all of my blog feeds. I did this mainly because it has a simple and easy to view user-interface and because of its tagging capilities. Since I first came over the rojo team has continued to develop

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Some Web 2.0 for Educational Technology

I’ve been continuing to try and learn (and keep up with) new technologies I think will be useful in the classroom, as I do I post them on my resource page for such items. There are a few I wanted to point to for use in the technologically aware

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Mac Attack – Ibook Battery Replacement

I needed to buy a new battery for my ibook a few weeks back, because the one that came with the laptop has dwindled down to only holding a charge for about 20 minuets. A 20 min. life for a laptop battery pretty much sucks so I went to the

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Free Web 2.0 Music Software

Heck Yeah. Webjay – Playlist Community Also See Last.FM and Pandora.com These are all great ways to listen to music free. I prefer Last.fm to the others but Pandora is really nice as well.

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taking the classroom outside

This past quarter I had the great privilege to work with Ryan Bolger on his class “transforming contemporary cultures” at Fuller Seminary. In this class we used the internet as a basis for much of the learning that took place during the quarter. We made use of both individual and

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home for christmas

Emily and I are staying in LA for Christmas this year, mainly because we couldn’t purchase tickets for before Christmas due to Emily’s work schedule and the price of tickets going out of LA the night before the sleigh touches down. At first glance this could be a

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christmas a couple days early

Emily bought for me Ecto today – a web-blog publishing platform fully equipped to keep me busy working on posts, and glued to the blue screen of my ibook. Currently I am trying to figure out the whole badge process – which typically I would be opposed to, I am not much

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testing new ways

I’ve been toying around with new blog templates, haloscan and ecto so forgive the multiple changes updates lately I am trying to get this right. Technorati Tags: test

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one more moment of tech stuff

Okay – I confess that I’ve been a little distracted by all the tech stuff as of late and sorry for the less thoughtful thoughts instead, about “haloscan” and other strange things. But I’ve been looking around alot for new social software, and other freeware types of things that

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a ton of really cool stuff

The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 (web2.wsj2.com)this website has links to some really cool software I didn’t know anything about.the writely is the best thing on the list I’ve checked out so far. technorati tags: technology, free_software Technorati Tags: free_software,