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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Google I/O Conference Video
Lots of great things coming out of Google in the next year. We saw Google Music. We know about Honeycomb and more about Ice Cream Sandwich. Watch the entire video from the I/O Conference to hear about them and more:
Posted in hardware, open source, OSS Applications, Productivity
Tagged android, browser, chrome, education, evo, google, internet, linux, media, open source, schools, tablet
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Apparatus App–Simple Machines
So we all know tablets possess the ‘wow factor’ for students. You definitely earn their interest and engagement with using them. But the argument goes on–are tablets (and iPads) for content consumption or content creation? If the former, then I really do not see the need to spend lots of money buying a bunch of [...]
Posted in open source, OSS Applications
Tagged android, apple, education, evo, google, schools, tablet
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Majesty
So Amazon’s free app o’ the day recently was Majesty, a fantasy kingdom simulation game. Similar to The Sims, the popular simulation game and similar to the Battle of Wesnoth, a Linux fantasy sim game, Majesty is definitely worth a look for a classroom. Years ago, while in the classroom, I regularly allowed groups of [...]
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Tagged android, education, evo, gaming, google, linux, open source, schools, tablet
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Google Music
So Google finally decided to release it’s own cloud-music service. Unfortunately at this time most people can only download the music playing app, without access to their beta. So, with services like Amazon’s Cloud Player, why even need Google Music? Just some different sounding functions like: caching recently played music on your devices when offline–I [...]
Posted in open source, Productivity
Tagged android, browser, education, evo, google, internet, linux, media, open source, schools, tablet
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Build Your Own Apps With AppsBar
So you use phones/tablets all the time and possess a great idea for an app for school use or personal use, but just cannot figure out how to make it. What to do? Well, you can use the Android App Inventor (appinventor.googlelabs.com/), a great, Creative Commons playground for Android apps. Let’s say, for some reason, [...]
Posted in hardware, open source, OSS Applications, Productivity
Tagged android, apple, education, evo, internet, media, open source, schools, tablet
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