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09 May, 2008

Automatically post shared Google Items on Blog

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Blogging

So with the recent announcement by the increasingly awesome Google Reader team of a note taking ability for Shared Google Reader items, I have figured out a way to automatically add my comments to posts I read and post it on my wordpress blog.  For those like me that struggle with finding time to blog, [...]

06 May, 2008

Automatically Back up your Mac

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Teacher Tools

I am a techie for most of the day, and I can tell you first hand the REAL pain that I have seen when people lose their data. There have long been some PC backup options out there, but today online backup startup Mozy released an automated backup solution for the Mac! Mac [...]

06 May, 2008

Google Teacher Academy – Happy National Teacher Day

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Teacher Tools

I received this e-mail today on a listserv I am part of. Google is accepting applications for their next Google Teacher Academy that starts June 25th of this year in Mountain View California… talk about awesome professional development! You should apply!
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Hello and Happy National Teacher Day,
In 1953, Eleanor Roosevelt persuaded the 81st Congress [...]

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06 May, 2008

Second Life in Pharmacy Education

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Second Life| Teacher Tools

Here is a great real life example of educational uses of Second Life on our campus. Check it out!


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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.