At last week’s EASTCONN Regional Tech Council meeting colleague Marji Roy of the Ashford Public Schools passed on a wonderful app for iPod Touch and iPhone. The folks from Nuance who make the PC speech to type program, Dragon Naturally Speaking, have a free app for the iPod Touch/iPhone, Dragon Dictation. The app launches and [...]
The month of February brought news of two developments in the social media marketplace. One, an ill-fated debut of Google’s service called Buzz, a second almost under the radar announcement by Microsoft, about social media plug-ins for Outlook. If you are a person who has not chosen to clutter your life with the streams of [...]
When you use your Google tools, have you turned on Google Labs? Google Labs is the place within the Google-verse where experimental features for Google products are put out for trial by users. Google Labs provides a centralized location where you can looks at dozens and dozens of new ideas that Google engineers are playing [...]
Some folks via Twitter passed along a link to an open source multi-platform math tool called GeoGebra that could serve as a free alternative to Geometer Sketchpad. GeGebra is supported by an active wiki based user community that offers support and sharing of educational materials from an international pool of educators using the program.
Are you a Pandora user? I am an early adopter of this Internet music service and even as they have gone through their growing pains, royalty fights, and now their drop in ads and 40 hours per month free / premium model, I continue to be a big fan. If you are not familiar, [...]
Some of the largest expenses for any school district are the energy costs for electricity, fuel oil or gas for heating, water usage, etc. A group called The Alliance to Save Energy has a program called Green Schools Program which seeks to reduce energy costs in order to free up more funds for education programs [...]
PBS’s Frontline premiers “Digtal Nation” tomorrow night on its broadcast stations. The program and some great additional resources are available on the companion website. It promises to be a provocative look at our always on, always wired world. Check it out on air, or online! Many thanks to the wonderful Nancy Hovorka for forwarding the [...]
Have you made the move to the cloud? Is your email up on Google? Are your pictures up on Flickr? Are your most important thoughts on Blogger or Word Press? Have you ever considered what would happen to that data if the service you were using went under, gets gobbled up by a competitor, has [...]
Three items that crashed like waves on my virtual shore and just made me go, hmmm…. Laredo, Texas Becomes a City of 250,00 With No Bookstore Vicar Gives Blessing to Electronic Gadgets and OMG! Des Moines Teen is US Texting Queen, Heads to World Championship
From the Google Earth Blog (via dougpete on Twitter) – “Google has been working with GeoEye over the last 24 hours to get fresh imagery from Haiti to help aid relief efforts. They’ve just released a KML file for it, which you’re encouraged to download. The file is actually a network link, so Google can [...]
Just before the holidays I wrote a post here about the upcoming Google Teacher Academy for Administrators, and the conversations that had broken out on Twitter and blogs about the offering. I would be remiss if I did not post a link to Mark Wagner’s thoughtful response in his Educational Technology and Life blog which [...]
Discovery Channel’s MythBusters are offering a special presentation, Monday December 28, 2009 at 9PM EST called Mini Myth Mayhem. During the episode, Mythbuster Grant Imahara will be on Twitter (follow @MythBusters) answering viewer question submitted with the tag #grantchat during the broadcast. You can find out more about Grant here: GRANT IMAHARA
This morning’s Twitter stream had several people re-tweeting this link – The Digital Decade – 20 Things That Changed Childhood Forever from Common Sense Media. Common Sense Media says that they are “dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families”. If you are like me, I can take or leave most [...]
Last evening in an Eluminate session hosted by Classroom 2.0′s Steve Hargadon and Sue Waters of Edublogs the 2009 winners of the Edublog Awards – the “Eddies” were announced. Now in it’s sixth year the Edublog awards this time around featured some old favorites and many new entrants. One winner had been blogging for [...]
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