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geek!ed! – episode 0074

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Wah, Wah, Wah…
iGoogle is cool.
Postcards from the Kern-men.
Whining about funding.
Geek of the Week:
(OS X) Safari’s Activity window – download videos etc…
Microsoft has a new interface.
OLED’s.
iPhones – will you buy?
zune – over a million sold…
iPod – over 100 million sold…

 
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geek!ed! – episode 0073

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Skype message from Dean leads to looking at Skype search features.
People still download episode 1; podcasts stick around.
We talked about a survey from the Department of Ed.
Survey can be found at http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/roundtable-form.htm
Technology has been getting some bad play in the press; sometimes, tech is implemented poorly which doesn’t help.
We try to discuss the survey.
Key [...]

 
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geek!ed! – episode 0072

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

- The “Geek of the Week” show.
- Email:

Russ – sends his thanks for the Art Rage information.
Kern and Keith – are stalking us? (JOKING!)
Kevin – sends a cool website to us about flying. (See the Weaks of the Geek)
Teacher K – tells us about more concept mapping tools that are [...]

 
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geek!ed! – episode 0071

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Tom feels the need to talk … about CMAP. (see the Geek of the Week section)
More open source software discussion.
Will open source operating systems ever become as polished and usable as open source applications? Will Ubuntu be the first?
Some New York schools have decided to no longer provide laptops for students anymore. Read [...]

 
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geek!ed! – episode 0070

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

* Warning – the audio is crappy on this episode…
I always say it is hard being stupid. This week I made the mistake of not switching my input device to the snowball mic, so the show is a lot of me, and quiet others. I kept moving the mic farther away from me [...]

 
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