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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Record and Transcribe Meetings With SaveMeeting

Ok, so how many parent conferences, meetings, or lessons would you like to go back to and see exactly what was said?  SaveMeeting, an Android app, might be able to help.  It acts as a recorder, then it will transcribe the recording afterward. When you sit down to use it, as you record you can [...]

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Museum of Obsolete Objects

Yes, a museum, but no, you or your students will not get bored upon entering.  In this video museum, you will get to see old pieces of hardware and devices and can compare them to current devices.  Of course, as quick as things change, your current device may already be in the museum, especially if [...]

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Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Enjoy Kwanzaa, and Use Open Source!

We hope you enjoy this wonderful season. Prepare to ramp up Open Source education in 2012!   – Image used under Creative Commons License by Christmas Stock Images.com

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Google Wallet

So once again an OEM is getting in the way, or trying to, of new innovation.  This time we pit Verizon and Google.  Google, the maker of Android, which Verizon profits from quite supremely. For the back story, we visit Google’s attempts to develop a payment app that ties into their struggling Google Checkout for [...]

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Free eTextbooks

With all the devices out there, Fires, nooks, Galaxies, etc, etc, in order to use them in the classroom, you need content.  We reviewed, many a time, where to get said content.  Places like search-ebooks.eu (http://www.k12opensourceclassroom.org/?p=1547), Project Gutenberg and Google Books (http://www.k12opensourceclassroom.org/?p=969), and audiobooks on LibriVox (http://www.k12opensourceclassroom.org/?p=273). What about textbooks though?  We recently came across [...]

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