Shifting Paradigms – Moving away from Pair-a-Dimes

Interested in Pairadimes.com, Pairadimes.net, and/or Pairadimes.org? All 3 domains available. Contact @datruss on most socials. TLDR: I’m not publishing any more posts on my Pair-a-Dimes blog… But I write a short daily blog (1-3 minute reads) here: Daily-Ink. If you are a Pair-a-Dimes email subscriber, I’d be honoured if you subscribed to Daily Ink. To […]

The Rant, I Can’t, The Elephant and the Ant- On SlideShare

“I can do that without technology” -Actually no you can’t! Here is the Slideshare. The Rant, I Can’t, the Elephant, and the Ant View more presentations from David Truss. This was the presentation I first created for BLC08, and I wrote about it here. I’ve finally edited it for the web… a tedious task as […]

Do not go quietly into your classroom

I spent Friday morning with 22 student teachers and a couple teachers from my school. My goal was to introduce them to the world of web2.0, wikis, and del.icio.us. Well 2 out of 3 ain’t bad- I didn’t really get into delicious beyond an introduction. That aside, I think this group of future teachers really […]

What did I do B.G. – Before Google?

The first time I saw the term ‘B.G.’ referring to ‘Before Google’ was in Karl Fisch’s ‘Did You Know’ presentation. Tonight that term came to life for me. Here is an eye-opening statistic I discovered about myself today: Total Google searches: 3633 (Since April 30th, 2006, and only counting when I have been signed into […]