World History
- Internet Access For All Students?!
Each year I teach two AP classes, 2 standard ones and one online. So of my roughly 150 students, about 5-6 start the year without a laptop and all are in my two standard classes. What is different this year is that all but one has some Internet...
- Google Drive For Your Digital Educational Backpack
Call me crazy, but I now have everything digital item (and I no longer own paper) in my Google Drive site. Not only is it as dynamic as I need, but I can get it on my smartphone, tablet or computer. I can also share items (including entire...
- Chrome On The Cloud
This weekend when I took my daughter to her gymnastic meet (where she qualified for the state meet!) I used a Google Map direction and then pushed "Chrome to Phone" on my browser which I then opened on my phone and it directed me (with a voice) successfully...
- New Google Changes
Google has been making a lot of changes recently to streamline all of its offerings into one area (part of CEO Larry Page's design) and in turn get people to join Google+. I've read that it is up to 100 million, but my sense (and it is...
- Relocating Your Lost Smartphone
Okay so two weeks ago my cell phone died and I went from a simple device that could only call someone (yes this is surprising for many who know me) to one who can now text (to my wife's relief) and get on the cloud from my phone. Bucking most...
World History
Smartphone As Your Computer
Sorry to be on such a smartphone kick, but I am trying to get used to my new phone quickly. As most of you know you can edit your Google Docs items from any mobile device. My students who have tried it get a kick out of working on their phone (and I've lost count of how many have done it on days their Internet have gone down at home or who just plain like doing it) and seeing the changes simultaneously on their laptops. So the video above shows a person actually working on a GDocs item from their smartphone. I found this video on Google Operating System and ones like this that allow you use the smartphone as the guts of the computer when docked in a screen/re-charging device. But what gets me excited is this product from Ubuntu which connects your smartphone to a screen or this one which is essentially an empty laptop for which the smartphone serves as the guts. It is one way that soon schools will be able to provide cheaper access to the Internet for their students (not to mention already inexpensive devices such as the Chromebook). In other words a cloud based classroom for all our students is getting very close (since schools will hopefully be able to provide laptops to the students without smartphones). Here is the Android app for Google Docs and here is the iPhone one.
- Internet Access For All Students?!
Each year I teach two AP classes, 2 standard ones and one online. So of my roughly 150 students, about 5-6 start the year without a laptop and all are in my two standard classes. What is different this year is that all but one has some Internet...
- Google Drive For Your Digital Educational Backpack
Call me crazy, but I now have everything digital item (and I no longer own paper) in my Google Drive site. Not only is it as dynamic as I need, but I can get it on my smartphone, tablet or computer. I can also share items (including entire...
- Chrome On The Cloud
This weekend when I took my daughter to her gymnastic meet (where she qualified for the state meet!) I used a Google Map direction and then pushed "Chrome to Phone" on my browser which I then opened on my phone and it directed me (with a voice) successfully...
- New Google Changes
Google has been making a lot of changes recently to streamline all of its offerings into one area (part of CEO Larry Page's design) and in turn get people to join Google+. I've read that it is up to 100 million, but my sense (and it is...
- Relocating Your Lost Smartphone
Okay so two weeks ago my cell phone died and I went from a simple device that could only call someone (yes this is surprising for many who know me) to one who can now text (to my wife's relief) and get on the cloud from my phone. Bucking most...