Archive for the ‘Emerging Technologies’ Category
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
The keynote for Tuesday's session at the Summer Institute was Alan November. This was my first opportunity to hear him, and I was especially interested since so many others had found him thought provoking and inspiring.
After talking a bit about Wikipedia, Flickr, blogs, RSS, and Creative Commons, he turned to ...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
The final session at this year's TNT Conference is a keynote by Craig Nansen, Technology Coordinator for Minot Public Schools. Here's my best attempt to capture his talk. Craig has published much of the materials from his talk today at his homepage.
Learn technology on your own time by personalizing it ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
My colleague Siddhartha Chadda is out at Apple's WWDC this week and has this "man on the street" report:
The gasp of the audience when Steve Jobs said "it's true" with the "e" hanging down to mimic Intel's logo was a seminal event in computing. This is really the third major ...
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Monday, June 6th, 2005
I'm sitting here at the Apple booth at the Technology and Learning Conference in Grand Forks and just got the word that all the rumors are true: Apple is switching to Intel-based processors. It turns out that Apple has secretly been running OS X for Intel hardware for years now. ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
Here's YALLTWLT from the 2005 Open Source Business Conference. Lessig's talk is "Clearing the Air About Open Source" and he doesn't pull any punches. (Download the talk from IT Conversations.) If you're interested in supporting an environment of technological innovation then you need to be aware of the issues that ...
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Monday, May 9th, 2005
It's impossible to keep up with the acronyms that appear on the Web these days. One of the latest to show up on my radar screen is AJAX which stands for "Asynchronous Javascript and XML." In a nutshell, AJAX describes a technique for building web applications that don't necessarily act ...
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
In our morning session at the NCLB Showcase, Apple employee Janet Hill shared her top 10 list of cool things she saw at MacWorld Expo. Here's her list with some links:
iStopMotion and iVeZeen from Boinx Software are used for stop motion animation, time lapse recording, and recording movie clips with ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2005
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has a new report that describes some current statistics on use of iPods and other portable MP3 players. Some results:22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players6 million American adults have listened to podcasts19% of those aged 18-28 have iPods/MP3 playersMore men ...
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2005
Besides introducing me to a very cool new term for today's tech-savvy kids, Ravi Purushotma raises some interesting questions in his "Banning iKids" post at MIT's Technology Review.com.
…at what price point do devices simply not belong in the world of children? What should the role of parents, school administrators and ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2005
Did you know that the computer gaming industry made more money than Hollywood last year? All of us in the education business are surrounded by gamers who have been shaped by their gaming experiences and approach learning differently than most of their teachers. The cultural reach of gaming continues to ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
Saw this today on Jon Udell's weblog. It seems that with enough knowledge of javascripting, Flash, and access to a handheld GPS unit, it's possible to create semi-animated walking or driving tour using the new Google Maps service. Jon, inspired by Matt's work, has created a five-minute guided tour of ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
I saw a mention of mSpace on Slashdot today and it couldn't have come at a more opportune time. My brain has been stewing for several weeks now trying to figure out a way that our Hopkins teachers could share the lesson plans that they've created with the rest of ...
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