Read 2 articles on engadget.com
For each article, answer the question in 100 words or more: Who will this affect and how?
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
iPad articles
Google is big:
http://gizmodo.com/5517041/googles-insane-number-of-servers-visualized
99 iPad apps reviewed by the good folks at Gizmodo. This is research for our new iPad we ordered.
http://gizmodo.com/5516217/99-ipad-apps-reviewed?skyline=true&s=i
cat plays with the iPad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NP-AeKX40&feature=player_embedded
http://gizmodo.com/5517041/googles-insane-number-of-servers-visualized
99 iPad apps reviewed by the good folks at Gizmodo. This is research for our new iPad we ordered.
http://gizmodo.com/5516217/99-ipad-apps-reviewed?skyline=true&s=i
cat plays with the iPad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NP-AeKX40&feature=player_embedded
Monday, April 12, 2010
Going International
The 8th grade students today learned what it means to connect across the world. I told them they were going to talk in a foreign language to a restaurant in any foreign country about something on their menu, all today. They doubted.
They:
- used Google Maps to find a restaurant and Phone # (gMaps because it lists restaurants in a nice organized format with websites)
- Used Google Translate to read about the menu choices. Also gTranslate to learn how to ask a simple question like "What is the cost of _____?" The translation can then be played by a computer voice out loud so the students can memorize their sentences and correct pronunciation.
- Used my extra Skype credits (I bought $10 worth for calling home from England while metal detecting last year) to dial the phone number
- Before the first students called to Frankfurt, Germany I had $9.48 in Skype. After the call I had $9.42. Now that's cheap international calling rates.
- We'll let each group (3 students) make a call during this week. This demonstrates the way technology flattens the Earth, and shrinks it, allowing almost anyone to communicate as if they are calling a neighbor.
They:
- used Google Maps to find a restaurant and Phone # (gMaps because it lists restaurants in a nice organized format with websites)
- Used Google Translate to read about the menu choices. Also gTranslate to learn how to ask a simple question like "What is the cost of _____?" The translation can then be played by a computer voice out loud so the students can memorize their sentences and correct pronunciation.
- Used my extra Skype credits (I bought $10 worth for calling home from England while metal detecting last year) to dial the phone number
- Before the first students called to Frankfurt, Germany I had $9.48 in Skype. After the call I had $9.42. Now that's cheap international calling rates.
- We'll let each group (3 students) make a call during this week. This demonstrates the way technology flattens the Earth, and shrinks it, allowing almost anyone to communicate as if they are calling a neighbor.
Friday, April 9, 2010
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