Getting WiFi on an old subway.
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Google Maps
Google breaks ground on maps for the web.
1. At the top of the window type in “art school milwaukee wi”
2. Click the search button
3. Click on the text link “milwaukee institute of art & design”
Google hilights the location in a pop up balloon
Adds the contact information
telephone
US Postal and WWW addresses
Directions to and from
4. Click “To here” in the Directions listing
5. Type in your address of a location outside the state (I grew up in NW Ohio) and watch how Google maps out directions.
Observe how fast the refresh rates are for clicking on the sliding scale in the upper right hand corner….and the zoom in/out feature.
Goodbye Mapquest.
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Podcasting gets CNN article
Another article about the growing numbers of Podcasters.
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iPod in the classroom #2
Wired has a follow-up article on another professor bringing iPod into the classroom for shared experiences.
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iPod in the classroom
Wired online has this article about faculty bringing the iPod into the classroom as a resource for students. This follows the success of the Duke University iPod initiative that gave an unit to each incoming freshman this past fall semester.
As a result Duke faculty began delivering audio resources via a “podcast” enabling students to listen to lectures and presentations after the fact, at their leisure.
As podcasting continues to grow the implications for education are two fold: embrace it and begin your own podcasts (where you can control your content) or students will continue recording lectures without your knowledge and podcast them anyway.
I have listened to podcasts of students who record lectures and place them on-line.
The ability to share resources is just a part of today’s student profile along with IM and cellphone text messaging. When I was in school students would audiotape lectures as well — nothing new — other than the digital tools and the internet to share lectures on-line.
Duke’s own faculty have provided select lectures on the Apple iTunes music store (for free) and this can only help share educational resources around the globe to further education.