Tonight I will be delivering a seminar I call “Danger on Your Desktop – Educating and Empowering Parents Towards Internet Safety”. This free seminar will be held at Alliston Christian School on October 18, 2007 at 7:00pm.

Watch for the Power Point and Audio files coming soon!

Jim Walton is a Geek – I don’t think he would mind me saying that – Geek these days is a term used for people who excel with technology. Geek is Chic! Jim is also a Christian – I am positive he doesn’t mind me saying that!

When Geeky guys (gender inclusive) go to church they tend to get involoved in the church technology – web sites – projection – audio/visual/sound – I have been for years.

Jim writes a blog called Church Tech Matters - it is right up my alley! He writes about different types of technology used in a church setting and how to make it better. Recently Jim started a wiki (what?) called the Church Tech Matters Wiki. The content has been started based around church projection – something close to my heart and pretty important technology for the modern church.

So if you have any interest in technology – the church and how the two relate – check out Jim’s blog and the wiki. You have to love it – using technology to talk about technology… Geek is Chic!

I saw this video today and started to think it looked all too familiar – then I realized I was in it – I didn’t plan on it – I just was in it – it looks like an announcement taken to the max – enjoy it and look for my head at 6:33

I am more-or-less testing using video on the blog here – just grabbed a You Tube video of the Tyndale Talons basketball team taking a nice 3point shot!

Lately there has been a great surge in Tyndale faculty requesting a web site. This is awesome! We have developed a easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for them to use. This makes creating the data for their web pages really easy. Here are some examples of faculty sites.

The other day I also had a faculty (Richard Davis) come by my office for some advice on a newsletter. He was in the process of creating a newsletter for his department – the purpose of this newsletter was promotion. Not promotion of himself but of Tyndale and the Philosophy program that he is part of. He was convinced that putting out this newsletter would draw the attention of more prospective students.

I like Richard’s thinking – I know that he is not the only one thinking this way either – especially on the University College side of the faculty. Newsletters, blogs, web sites, wiki’s and so on are all great tools to deliver information within the educational context – but these are also great promotional tools!

Are you a faculty member? Do you have some great ideas of ways to use technology either in the classroom or for promotional purposes? Do you need our help to do it? We have this down to an art now and would love to help! Give us a call…

Last night I spent the evening with my kids walking the streets in the dark – some call this trick-or-treating! I was amazed by some of the great designs carved into the pumpkins left in front of the door steps. I am both a developer and a designer and tend to look at the things around me from a design perspective. When I look at the sky I often wonder how I could replicate that gradient in a graphics application – some things are better left to God I guess.

Now my family pumpkin was no designer piece – it was a nice clean design – very typical as you can see – but nothing special (from a design perspective that is). My daughter Rachael and I had a great time carving it and even signed the back once we were done – it is a piece of art!

Many of the ones we saw as we walked from house to house were quite amazing – design is everywhere

Starting as of August 30th Google has made available
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Whether you want a copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet or a futurist from 1881′s 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century it is all there for the downloading.

Visit the download classics blog page for more information