EduGeek Journal

Mash-ups (websites and applications that mix two existing ideas or applications) are the new big deal in Web2.0. For the most part, they are all excellent ideas (or at least really cool ideas, even if they end up not having a real purpose). SlideShare – the online PowerPoint hosting site (think YouTube for PowerPoints) – [...]

Our first podcast is ready for your listening pleasure! You can click on the Podcast tab on the front page, or listen to it below: EduGeekJournal Podcast ep001 A friend and co-worker of the EduGeeks, Qin, was recently lucky enough to get an iPhone. So we just had to check it out. After enjoying a [...]

Beautiful things can happen when people actually start to use social networking tools. For example the first annual (or monthly, or bi-monthly, or whatever it becomes) EduGeek Gathering. It all started with this comment on Katrina’s Jaiku: “I just touched an iPhone!” The jealously that poured forth from those of us that haven’t seen one [...]

Camtasia is awesome. It allows you to record audio and video from your computer screen and upload it to a server for others to view …but you need a server. Now Techsmith has taken a cue from YouTube and Flicker and has come up with a beta that includes hosting (you can save the files [...]

I’ll keep this brief and simple, so as not to confuse anyone. Especially CEOs. Patenting online educational ideas is bad for the educational community. At best, you will sound foolish like Blackboard, and try to patent ideas that were already in existence years before you claim to have come up with them. Worst case scenario: [...]

Although I am a big fan of Second Life, I will readily admit that some of the features aren’t very usable yet. The Search feature is almost useless, and since Landmarks are both private and inaccessible outside Second Life, it’s hard to share interesting places you’ve found with your friends. Frustrated by the unwieldy Search [...]

Education futurist Elliot Masie examines the role of iPhone-like media devices might play in mobile learning. (Thanks Patti!) Tweet This Post

If you are like me, a good chunk of the Spam that goes through your Spam box says something about a faster Internet service. And the other half is a long lost relative from Kenya trying to get you to launder money into the United States for him. How many long lost relatives can I [...]

Well, I just downloaded RealPlayer BETA. It is most cool. Now you can save any streamed video to your hard drive. Technically speaking, this is great, but one of the key advantages of using streaming technology is the degree of control maintained over material (i.e. it couldn’t be downloaded). I wonder what effect this will [...]

This pic has been making the rounds in email recently, but I thought it was a great reminder of how far we have come: More popular and funny pictures at Popular-Pics.com What is it? A 5 MB Hard Drive from 1956. This pic shows the one ton drive for the IBM 305 RAMAC. I have [...]