The iPhone 2.0 software is available now on Apple’s servers, but evidently the volume of requests is overwhelming and iTunes is not automatically updating the iPhone software for some folks. I updated my iTunes to version 7.7 this afternoon but still couldn’t get my iPhone software to update. I used the direct software link posted on MacWorld’s article from yesterday, “iPhone software 2.0 on Apple’s servers” to download the software to my MacBook, but then couldn’t figure out what to do with the downloaded and unzipped file to update my iPhone.
What to do? Reach out to someone in my personal learning network, of course!
My cousin, Devin Henley , provided me with some live, just-in-time phone support (literally) and now I’m up and running with iPhone 2.0 software! Here’s what he had me do on my Macbook running Mac OS X 10.5.4:
Backup your iPhone data and settings first. I did this by holding down the CONTROL ke...
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No videoconference to Williamsburg - I’m sadFrom: speedofcreativity.org
Post Date: 2008-05-20 22:10:42
My 2nd grade daughter, Sarah, spent last week in Washington DC touring and learning with her grandparents, and this week is in Colonial Williamsburg . Williamsburg is celebrating it’s 400 year anniversary right now, and it has been fantastic for Sarah and her grandparents to experience the exciting activities there in person this week. This is a copy of an email I sent to Sarah’s 2nd grade teacher this evening, following discussions and communications last week and this week with h...
more links for 2008-05-20From: speedofcreativity.org
Post Date: 2008-05-20 01:35:10
One To One Institute - Home
Commercially sponsored website by HP and Intel focused on 1:1 learning (laptop learning initiatives)
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Stephen Heppell’s homepage
learning • ingenuity • research • policy • design • technology • delight • (and sailing!)
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Archived presentations from the 2008 Educause meetin...
more K12Online08 theme and keynote selection criteriaFrom: speedofcreativity.org
Post Date: 2008-05-19 22:46:47
If you have not already, be sure to mark your fall (northern hemisphere) or spring (southern hemisphere) calendar for the 2008 K-12 Online Conference . The 2008 conference theme is “Amplifying Possibilities.” This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog for participants to download and view. Live Ev...
more Looking beyond coercion, tests and seat timeFrom: speedofcreativity.org
Post Date: 2008-05-19 15:05:54
One of the paradoxical results of our politically-imposed focus on high stakes accountability and test scores in U.S. K-12 public schools is that many teachers and students have their eyes on minimum standards rather than exceptionally high expectations for each student’s learning and growth. Arnold Toynbee’s quotation of the day from my iGoogle portal resonates with me in this context:
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely ...
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