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

Michael Wesch posted notes from a presentation he just did about why we should use YouTube in the classroom that I found very useful.  Topics he covers:

Legality of using YouTube video’s
Why we use them
Tips for finding good video’s
Ways to Download them locally
Tools for Remixing them
Ways to incorporate them into our teaching

Michael Wesch of Kansas State University just published two more AWESOME video’s that definetly deserve your time to take a look at.  The first is about Students of Today.  It is a startling look into what students are really using technology for… where students are really spending their time.

The second is about information and [...]

A couple of days ago my boss, Marc Tillett, recommended I watch this lecture by Randy Pausch. It is about an hour and half long so it took me a while to find the time, but I just finished it and must say I recommend it to EVERYONE! It was one of the [...]

As technology and teaching becomes more and more important, so does the need to teach others to use that technology. For a while the standard in the industry has been Camtasia. Don’t get me wrong, the program is great, but it costs around $300. Not always feasible for educators like me.
A couple [...]

Here are a couple of video’s I just ran across that just confirm why changing the way we educate our students in important. Enjoy.
The Connected Classroom

When I Grow Up…

Almost all of the students in classrooms K-12, and a large percentage of students in colleges are ‘digital natives,’ or students who grew up with ubiquitous access to digital media. These are those who can’t remember a time without e-mail and the internet. Because these students are intimately familiar with computers, the web, [...]

On the back end of Haptic devices and Multi-touch displays I ran across this article and video this morning that demonstrates another possible way to manipulate computers with your hands. 

As more and more possibilities present themselves for physically manipulating data on a computer, the more and more it will become mainstream.  I really like [...]

Do you ever feel like either of these guys?

This video speaks to me on two levels, both as a tech guy, and as a guy trying to learn new things from technology… 
May be all be a little nicer to our tech guys today… and perhaps a little nicer to the people we support.  We [...]

Digital Ethnography, the people that brought us the edublogger smash-hit “The Machine is Using Us,” has put out a new video entitled “The Internet has a Face.” From their post introducing the video:
“Before, we were reliant upon what the user has expressed through words, however, when one can read beyond words through visuals, the [...]