Welcome to Edutechie.com! If you’re new here, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]
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 [...]
15 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Mobile| Student Tools| Teacher Tools
I have obviously always been a fan of Google, but the work they are doing in the mobile device arena is just awesome, particularly with the iPhone. This morning they announced a new interface that includes interfaces for the calendar, gmail, reader, docs, photo’s, news, and notebook.
I also have all of these features on [...]
09 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Mobile| Student Tools| linux
I have been a fan of the gOs for a while, but the most recent announcement of this super small laptop for $399 is just awesome (coming January 20th in Walmart). I have always wanted a smaller Sony Vaio notebook, but the price tag (usually at lest $1500) was more than I could swallow. This [...]
Okay, I saw this article this morning and although this technology is probably a long way off for us poor educators, the technology is pretty awesome.
Japanese manufacturer Matsushita (Panasonic) has signed a deal with Google that will see the company launch flat panel television sets that allow users to access YouTube and other Google services [...]
14 Nov, 2007
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Gaming| Google| Mobile| Second Life| Student Tools
So the release of Google’s new mobile Android platform is a couple of days old now, but I just finally found some time to read up about it and see a demo. Let’s start with that. (Note, you can skip the first minute and just go onto the demo…)
Well… I’m sad there is no [...]
25 Oct, 2007
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: EDUCAUSE2007| Mobile
I have always been very interested in mobile computing. I think it stems from my early years of Franklin Covey daytimers… then the old black and white PDA, then the PocketPC and now my blackberry. I use my blackberry for everything… including watching some movies in the airplane on my way out… so… [...]