Archive for April, 2009
Academic Earth: Matt’s Pick of the Week
Posted by Matt in Pick of the week on April 25th, 2009
Academic Earth provides a social wrapper for freely available course videos
Where can you find over 1,500 lectures from some of the top universities in the nation? http://www.academicearth.com.
Podcast Episode 03 – Smart or Dumb Boards?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:36 — 17.1MB)
Show Notes:
- Encarta is dead – http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3715/microsofts-encarta-rendered-obsolete-by-wikipedia-will-shut-down (3:50)
- Google Knowl – http://knol.google.com/ (8:40) Read the rest of this entry »
Google Apps for Education: Chris’s pick of the week
Posted by Chris in Pick of the week on April 16th, 2009
Google Apps for Education is a free software suite provide by Google. When used in an educational institution, Google gives the software away completely free to an unlimited number of users. The Google Apps ecosystem includes several applications in a suite including an online email client (based on the companies very popular gmail); an online word processor which has the ability to create, edit, and share documents/spreadsheets/presentations; online calendar; a website creation tool (this can be used to create internal websites or public websites); instant messaging; and a customizable portal.
The great thing about Google Apps for Education is the power and features that you get in a free package. A school that signs up for a Google Apps account can re-brand the interface to match their logo or mascot and the email system includes more that 7 gigabytes of data for each user (as well as Google’s industry level spam protection). Once you give your users an account through Google Apps, their email address becomes their username and anyone in the organization can share documents, information, and calendars with other people in the organization, or anyone in the world with any Google or Google Apps account. Read the rest of this entry »
Podcast Episode 02 – The tug and pull of technology
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:13 — 17.9MB)
Show Notes:
Jing: Matt’s pick of the week
Posted by Matt in Pick of the week on April 10th, 2009
Jing resides on the top of your screen. Always ready to capture.
Jing is a software application produced by the same company that has brought us the famous Camtesia and Snagit software suit. Techsmith, I believe has produced a killer application for quickly producing tutorials and guides based on computer screenshots or screen video captures. Unlike camtesia and snagit, Jing resides at the top of your screen, ready to be used at a moment’s notice.
Screen captures are as simple as pressing the capture button and then dragging across your screen to select the portion of the screen you want to capture. From there you can select if you want to capture video with audio naration or still images. Once you have captured your images or video you can annotate the images with arrows, text etc.
Finally, Jing allows you to easily share your images and videos by e-mailing, instant messaging, pasting into documents, uploading online or to screencast.com. Screencast.com for free, gives you 2gb of storage as well as 2gb of transfer a month, making it a very easy solution for quick screencast sharing. Video after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Podcast Episode 01
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:10 — 17.6MB)
Click the link to listen to our first podcast.