How Much Longer Must We Wait

Verizon is bound to get this beautiful phone....at some point in time.

So, I’m sure you have heard the rumors, but honestly, enough already!!!! I can’t take it anymore. I want to know who is going to become the iPhones next big carrier. Verizon or T-Mobile?

I was hanging out with the fam this weekend for Christmas and started talking about how badly we each wanted a new phone. Someone brought up the notion that iPhone was indeed, coming to Verizon in January.

This got me all excited even when I knew it would lead to this blog, then lead to a sobbing fit. Not really, that would be pretty pathetic, actually not pretty at all.  I am of course still hoping for a miracle. In case you haven’t heard the gossip, here’s the saga.

Awhile ago it was said that Verizon would be the next likely service provider for the iPhone, but then it was said that Verizon passed — Said Nah, We love V-cast! Blah. Blah. Blah. I barely use it, do you? I surely could do without.

iPhone vs. Blackberry Users and their Dating Habits

The results are so amusing I found myself lol-ing in my car by myself...

While I was driving to work this morning, I was listening to 99.5 Chicago Country Radio hoping to hear an Alan Jackson favorite or Chris Young’s new song. Though I didn’t hear much music, Rambin Ray and Lisa Dent amused my drive when talking about a study performed by Retrevo called a “Gadgetology study“.

This particular “Gagdetology study” surveyed 450 iPhone users and Blackberry users to determine their dating habits. The results are so amusing I found myself lol-ing in my car by myself mostly because I have been considering the switch from my BB to an iPhone. Hmmm…is it worth my marriage?

The survey found:

Use of New Media Tools in the Classroom

How many of you have had or know of a child that served detention or were forced to do humiliating acts for punishment like sing “Push It” by Salt n’ Pepa in front of English 101 class to save her ass from a zero for the day because her cell phone rang during class? Perhaps it’s happened to you?

This little recap has forced me to push it real good into the discussion “how social media and cell phones can and should be used in the classroom.”

I don’t know what the statistics are on this, but hundreds or maybe even thousands of students have been reprimanded for the presence of a cell phone ringing in a locker or perhaps a sneaked visit to YouTube while in the computer lab. While these are both personal uses of the technology, why not use this opportunity to get the students learning through the inevitable…communication.