Archive for the ‘Emerging Technologies’ Category
Monday, June 19th, 2006
ESPN has an interested article about how a few major league baseball players have discovered that their video iPods are giving them a competitive advantage. Hitters are using video iPods to analyze their swings and pitchers are studying batters to look for weaknesses. From the article:
The Rockies have downloaded video ...
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
There's a battle royale brewing in the telecom world. Skype just announced that SkypeOut calls to U.S. and Canadian numbers will be free through the end of 2006. If you're unfamiliar with the concept, SkypeOut allows you to call a standard landline number from your computer using the Skype VoIP ...
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
The ed tech blogosphere is buzzing about this so I feel compelled to add my $0.02.
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (R. of PA) has introduced legislation called the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). I saw the news first in an article at News.com entitled Congress targets social network sites. (You'll find the ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
I'm at a meeting of local ed tech people today learning about VBrick. VBrick is a video distribution system that the Edina Public Schools purchased recently to replace their aging system of racks of VCRs. They passed a bond in their community that funded the system, including hundreds of LCD ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
My old mobile phone was acting up so I picked up a new one a few days ago. The Samsung T809 is pretty cool on its own, but I've had the most fun playing with Google SMS. If you haven't ever tried text messaging, find a teenager somewhere and ask ...
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Monday, March 6th, 2006
I'm writing this post from the airplane on the way back from the Administrators Technology Academy in Jackson, TN. (Though I'm posting it from the comfort of my recliner at home.) It's an annual event that draws school administrators from around western Tennessee for a day of learning about educational ...
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
I got to record and produce a podcast interview with Ray Kurzweil this afternoon. One of his main points was that most people don't appreciate the exponential nature of technological advancement. Most change appears linear in the near term, but the linear model breaks down once the timeframe gets out ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
I picked up a shiny new 30-GB video iPod last week. After playing with it for a while I thought I'd share this mini-review with everyone.
The bottom line: it's really good; better than I thought it would be. I'd seen one up close and personal when they first came out, ...
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Friday, November 4th, 2005
Ethan Zuckerman from World Changing had a chance to talk to Nicholas Negroponte recently about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Ethan's report sheds some light on this attempt to build a laptop computer cheaply and ruggedly enough for students in developing nations.
The 1-to-1 project in my own school ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
I was listening to a podcast at IT Conversations recently by Paula Le Dieu, Co-Director of a BBC project to digitize years of archives and make them available under a Creative Commons license. Her talk, Emerging Massive Media, was interesting in no small part because of the overwhelming scope of ...
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
It seems like "the long tail" is popping up everywhere these days so I guess this is a good time for a jargon watch post about it. The long tail literally refers to the general shape of a sloping probability function. Not surprisingly, the interesting part goes beyond the mathematical ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
A recent survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project reveals that most Americans are not familiar with some terms that many of us toss around pretty regularly. Of those surveyed only 13% "have a good idea" what podcasting is. RSS got only 9% and "phishing" was a bit ...
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