Geek!Ed! is a frequently-weekly netcast produced by five geeks (and occasional guests) from Pinckney Community Schools, MI. We're geeks in education who are geeked about the impact of technology on education.
Email us at edu.geek@gmail.com
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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…
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 [...]
- 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 [...]
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 [...]
* 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 [...]
