… and doing it $100 at a time, if those wacky geniuses at MIT and AMD have anything to say about it.The more I read of this article, the more happy I became about it. To make a long story short (Trust me, my story’s shorter. Their story’s 3 pages), A bunch of MIT researchers have decided that it’s possible to design a wireless laptop for $90-$100, provided they get a screen that’s cheap enough. AMD (one of the leading processor manufacturers and Intel’s main…Continue Reading “Bridging the Digital Divide”
Many of us are old enough to remember when VCRs first became popular. Before then if you wanted to watch a movie you had to go to the theater or wait for it to show up on TV. Once VCRs got past the legal problems (The movie industry thought it would COST them money .. HA!) you could see a movie any time you wanted to. If there was a cool show on TV but you still wanted to go out someplace with your friends,…Continue Reading “On Demand Education”
I’ve added quite a few free things to my web sites over the years, including some new ones quite recently. As such, I decided to take the time to plug each of them for you. After all, you might want to use some if them on your own web pages.Thingamablog: This is a nice open-source blogging program. It’s written in java, so practically any OS can use it. There are some good points and bad points to it, but it creates RSS feeds and it’s…Continue Reading “Free Site Features”
I suppose every blog should have at least one rambling post about the global community, so here’s mine. You may or may not have heard the story about Google wanting to create an online library of famous / important books. Good for them, I say, but not everyone agrees. Some people over in France, for example, are concerned that this new universally accessible library may focus too much on the U.S. perspective of world events. The example given was “I don’t want the French Revolution…Continue Reading “Google and the Global Community”
I’m seriously hooked on listening to podcasts, particularly ones geared towards education – Connected Learning, teach42, & Teachnology post such wonderful things. Unfortunately a 64 meg card only holds so much. Sure, I could buy a a new card for my Palm Tungsten E, but I’ve been thinking about getting a new MP3 player for a while.After a little bit of research, I found this little beauty. Not a bad price for the storage space, and get this: It has a built in microphone. Could…Continue Reading “Foreshadowing?”
For those of you that tried using Thingamablog to build a web site and felt intimidated by it’s heavy use of code, you might want to check out the latest version. Don’t worry, it’s still free. Thingamablog’s now been updated to be a lot more WYSIWYG (That’s What You See Is What You Get, for those of you not in the know), so those of you that aren’t html freaks might have an easier time with everything. I think I’ll stick with editing the code…Continue Reading “Thingamablog updated!”
As a teacher, I pride myself in using technology intelligently every day to help with my lessons. I include the word “intelligently” because as cool as computers are, they aren’t always the best solution for every problem encountered. For example, let’s take a look at my typical day. I start off checking my e-mail and my schedule for the day. As I can only teach each class once before I move on to my next building, every day’s schedule has different classes at different times….Continue Reading “A day in the life of a tech addict Art teacher”
There are some who would say that PowerPoint® is a teacher’s best friend. After all, here is this simple little (ok, not so little …) program capable of displaying any media you choose, and all you need to do is drag and drop! If you’re giving a linear presentation, and chances are you are, then this is all you need to know. However, there are other times when a linear presentation just won’t do. Perhaps you need to go to a certain slide during a…Continue Reading “Mastering PowerPoint”
I’ll admit I myself have an aversion to clip art, but then I make my own stuff all the time and not everyone does that. As a result, I present to you several alternatives to making everything from scratch. I assure you that I’ve never seen a principal act in the way portrayed below – I just wrote that to add some humor. Your mission: Replace the school’s old web site with a web site that looks nice. “Looks nice,” so far as your principal…Continue Reading “Oh clip art, where art thou?”
Golly gee whiz, I’ve got more content! When I created this blog I wanted to use it not only to to provide useful information to others, but to also show the blend between art, tech, and education. (Insert venn diagram … here.) As such, I always get a kick when I see other web sites that blend some or all of these things. So when teach42‘s Stephen Dembo podcasted about Edugadget, I was quite pleased indeed. Edugadget (not to be confused with Engadget, another nice…Continue Reading “Edugadget”