This afternoon I had the opportunity to connect up with a whole bunch of schools for a video conference from all around North Carolina put on the by the North Carolina Connectivity Council. It was really cool. We could see all of them and they could see us. There should be an archive [...]
This afternoon a group we have here on campus, the Carolina Technology Consultants (CTC) sponsored a talk from Paul Jones here on campus. He is a professor in the SILS department here on campus and really one of the most forward thinkers here on UNC’s campus in regard to technology.
He titled his presentation “Exploring [...]
I ran across a great website called StudyBlue.com. I have long been a fan of these types of websites and there are more than a few of them, but what makes this one really stick out in my mind is the ability for students to earn money. I was one of those students that took [...]
A couple of days ago I wrote about a new twitter-like service designed especially for educators, called Edmodo. They posted a little screencast today. Looks promising:
Edmodo Screencast Teaser from Jeff O’Hara on Vimeo.
Last week I linked to a great article about using Twitter in the classroom. Today I saw a new service that is in Beta right now that is a twitter-like web app specifically designed for the Classroom… Edmodo. I was not able to get in, but you can see some screenshots here.
It promises to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]