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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Video on Android
So it appears Android turned the corner on video. With all these great phones and tablets, you really want to take advantage of video calling, and now you finally can with Android 2.3, Gingerbread and also with Fring. The built-in video through Google Chat is the huge one and may spell the end of Skype [...]
Posted in hardware, open source, OSS Applications
Tagged android, apple, education, evo, linux, media, open source, schools, tablet, video
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Ubuntu 11.04 Starts
So the next update with Ubuntu dropped yesterday. Usually I will wait a week or two before I begin updating my machines. You hear of terrible waits, days + in upgrading. This time, though, shortly after the upgrade was posted, I began to upgrade. I figured I would start with the Dell Vostro 1320. I [...]
Posted in open source, OSS Applications
Tagged android, dell, education, firefox, libre office, linux, microsoft, Open Office, open source, schools, ubuntu, UNR, windows
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Where’s My Droid?
A question you may ask at times with your phones, tablets, and other web devices. Especially when districts begin to look at providing them to students to take home. So I came across the free app Where’s My Droid (http://sites.google.com/site/alienmanfc6/wheresmyandroid). What you do is download the app, go through some settings, and then when you [...]
Posted in OSS Applications, Productivity
Tagged android, education, evo, google, internet, safety, schools, security, tablet
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Make Your Own Atlas
So Google Maps pretty much ended the need for paper maps. With the computer, laptops, tablets, phones, and then GPS devices, who carries a map book any longer? When I taught fourth grade social studies, though, I made it a point to order transportation maps. If students could not learn the basics of map reading, [...]
Posted in open source, OSS Applications, Productivity, Professional Development
Tagged browser, education, gimp, google, internet, libre office, maps, schools
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Airport Mania for Android
When in the fourth grade classroom, students in my class received the privilege to play Roller Coaster Tycoon at times. In my opinion, and in opinions of others, I felt that game taught many things such as long and short range planning, creative thinking, and higher ordered thinking. So in a review of Airport Mania, [...]