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Archive for December, 2006

22 Dec, 2006

Computer Interaction of the Future!

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google

So today I was reading around and came across this video, which really isn’t that new, but it really blew my mind. 

This is just plain awesome! Think of the possibilities in education across the board. Here are some of the ideas I had just off the top of my head.

Art – Photo [...]

Today I was listening to a lecture on Google Books and Google Scholar given by Ben Bunnell from Google. I highly recommend the lecture if you want a good introduction to Google Scholar and Google Book Search. As I was listening I decided I would try a search for “vandrimmelen” and see what [...]

I received an e-mail from a professor (Dick Langston) on campus today informing me that their department (Germanic Languages) will be totally revamping the current curriculum. Their plan right now is to have all incoming students create a blog that they will update during their time in the department. When they leave they [...]

01 Dec, 2006

Zoho – Online Wordprocessor Goes Offline? WOW!

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Gaming| General

Many of you read my article several weeks about about Google Docs… well this is an update to that. Yesterday Zoho, another online office suite, announced three new features:

Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office
Zoho API’s
Desktopize for Zoho

Microsoft Office Pluging – This is a great feature! Any online word processing challenger to Microsoft Office is [...]


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Jeff - I am an Instructional Technologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.