Technology in Education

Here is an interesting article a friend sent to me, about the advancement of technology, particularly as it affect the development of education.

Click here for the article

My First Book!

Well, maybe not my first book, but my first digital book! This is the story of two teddy bears that belong to my mom. They like to travel, and get into mischief. The story itself has been under development for a while...this is just the beginning. Enjoy!

Click here to see the book!

Click here if you want to download it!

Forget text-to-speech...how about THOUGHT to speech?!?!

Wonders never cease. Check out this article about a new device for translating THOUGHTS into speech! Maybe we'll eventually see a decrease in the number of people who appear to be talking to themselves while walking down the street...

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13449-nervetapping-neckband-allows-telepathic-chat.html

Super Cool Instructional Video

I'll teach you in less than 4 minutes how to make homemade bread, without a bread machine!

I used my digital camera to take pictures of the process.
I used Adobe Photoshop to add text to the photos and to create the slides.
I used Audacity to record and edit the sound.
I used Final Cut Pro to sync the images and sound.

Too many blogs to keep track of?

For those who find keeping up with the 60+ blogs of your T560 classmates overwhelming, check out www.bloglines.com . Once you register at this site, you can add 'feeds' from blogger, or any other site that uses feeds (other blogging tools, news feeds, etc.). Then, you log in to bloglines and can view all of the posts by any (or all) of your feeds updated since the last time you logged in, or in a specific time period (last 6 hours, last week, all...). This is nice because you don't waste time clicking through a bunch of pages that haven't been updated. You can also search all of your feeds, and/or the rest of the web for key words, so if you want to see who else in the class has posted about neural nets, you search for 'neural nets' and it will list all the entries containing those keywords, reguardless of when the post was made. I used this search feature when I wanted to find a video one of you had posted, but I didn't remember who it was! If you want to view the actual blog site, or post a comment, the blog entry is hyperlinked to the actual site, so you can get there in one click. You can also mark entries to keep in your display, so you can see them as 'new' the next time you log in. It's a pretty helpful little gadget, in my humble opinion! And saves me a lot of frustration over tedium!