Doug Peterson

Welcome to Google Apps for the iPad! - Doug Peterson

Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age “a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling” - Doug Peterson

New research provides the first mathematical understanding of the shape of a ponytail and could have implications for the textile industry, computer animation and personal care products. - Doug Peterson

TuneIn Radio allows you to listen live to over 50,000 stations around the world, pause and rewind your favorite shows, share stations and songs on social networks, and a whole lot more. Here’s how to get started. - Doug Peterson

Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.” - Doug Peterson

Twenty-seven minutes before mainstream media broke the news of Whitney Houston’s death on Saturday night, the story was on Twitter, reported by a man who tweeted the news out to his 14 followers. - Doug Peterson

Bing is a capable, mature search engine. It serves me nearly every result that I desire on the first try. Just like with Google, you have to learn its quirks, but once you get the hang of finding, and revisiting what you need, it’s perfectly good. Bing is just that: perfectly good. I’ll argue that Google has a slight edge over it in terms of polish, but Bing as a project has truly come into its own. - Doug Peterson

ReactOS, the Windows XP Alternative While we wait for the Windows 8 beta to be released at the end of the month questions are looming over what will happen with legacy software support and how we’ll run our older, but still useful and trustworthy, software in the future. - Doug Peterson

Website devoted to teach students the news. - Doug Peterson

Lendmeyourliteracy.org is a unique online resource base for teachers and students of Literacy. A one stop website for examples of good pieces of literacy work written by children and not just models written in a text book. - Doug Peterson

Top 10 Apps for Digital Storytelling A while back I did a post on top sites for Digital Storytelling.  This has been a skill that is being taught in school districts all around the world, and is a key for developing technology literacy.  With the recent wave of mobile devices and technologies, a giant step has been taken in how students develop these skills (via touch screen) in a brand new way . - Doug Peterson

During a couple breakout sessions at a Rhode Island conference on Innovation Powered by Technology (#iptrideconf) I spent time with teachers and principals thinking about next steps as they prepare for the shift to personal digital learning.  We discussed 10 next steps: - Doug Peterson