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Welcome to Edutechie.com! If you’re new here, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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.”

AcademHack has a great article on the use of twitter in schools… check it out!
Ideas from the article:

Class Chatter
Classroom Community
Get a Sense of the World
Track a Word
Track a Conference
Instant Feedback
Follow a Professional
Follow a Famous Person
Grammar
Rule Based Writing
Maximizing the Teachable Moment
Public NotePad
Writing Assignments

Another thing which may be of interest… 7 Things you should know [...]

GoogleTutor posted a nice reminder tutorial online today about the power of real-time collaboration with Google Docs and Spreadsheets.  This past semester a class I was taking wrote a nice paper as a whole class and used Google Docs for gathering everything together between us all.  Nice.