Novint has been previewing their new Pistol Grip at the Gamers Conference this past week for the Novint Falcon. The cost has gone down even further for the Falcon. $189 for the device. and $20 for the extra gun handgrip. Now, I openly admit that the new Pistol Grip has no real educational value… [...]
It’s Friday, so I am going to jump out on the edge a bit and write about something fun and out there… You may have seen the e-mail going around as of late about “AMAZING TECHNOLOGY FROM JAPAN” about a pen that projects a keyboard and a screen. It includes this image.
It then goes [...]
29 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Student Tools| Teacher Tools| Video
So there have been live online streaming services for a while now, but none of them have seemed to take off.
Today TechCrunch linked to a video that said YouTube was going to have offer live video streaming services sometime later this year.
Aside from being a huge Google fan, this could potentially be important [...]
28 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Mobile| Student Tools| Teacher Tools
So couple of days ago I posted about a new Google Chat client that I have embedded on my blog. First off, it has been great fun to interact with all sorts of people that I normally wouldn’t get the chance to chat with! A lot of you just entered to see if worked, but [...]
Just read about a new Google Chat option that I think is pretty sweet. You can now embed a widget on a blog that will allow ANYONE, even those without Google accounts to chat with you. I have embedded one on my blog, so feel free to chat with me.
Uses in education? [...]
20 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Student Tools
As we more more and more toward a completely paperless society we really need to address digital reading. There are some great new device’s coming out (like Amazon’s Kindle), but most people, especially us educators, can’t afford a dedicated reading device, especially a $400 one.
So, what do you do? Use your laptop! [...]
20 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Second Life| Student Tools
Last year when Google announced their Android platform they demo’d a device with a virtual environment. This morning I read an article about a hack that allowed someone to access Second Life on an iPhone, and a new company that is going to make Second Life accessible on 3G Handsets… Sweet!
Now your second life can [...]
19 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Student Tools
I have been very impressed with Google Translate for a while. The ability to translate chat’s, and pretty much anything is changing the way we do research. Well, here is another little tool to help in the process.
I read about a new Firefox extension today called gTranslate. It allows you to select text on [...]
19 Feb, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Microsoft| Student Tools
Just read an article this morning that tomorrow Bill Gates is going to annouce that microsoft is going to make their development software free to college and university students! That is great!
“Covered software includes Visual Studio Professional Edition, XNA Game
Studio, Expression Studio, SQL Server and Windows Server.”
Great article today published on our main tech webpage. The director of the repair center was asked where he saw the future of computer repair going. He said:
“The whole business model is going to change with the coming of the
solid state hard drives,” said Futrelle. “Hard drives are the most
likely component to fail. The solid [...]