Category Archives: edtech

Hopefully you weren’t taken in by the Google Gmail Paper joke today. I don’t think this one is a joke. If you have been in a wirecloset that isn’t managed properly, you will appreciate these pictures.

I wrote about backups and storage a few weeks ago. There were some questions about media and long-term storage. Ad Terras Per Aspera has a nice article that goes through the history of CDs and DVDs and offers suggestions on … Continue reading →

TeacherTube is a free video streaming site that hopefully won’t be filtered by your school’s content filter. There is a limit of ten minutes per video. That should be enough for most student videos but doesn’t match the sixty minutes … Continue reading →

One of the first things I talk to my new students about is online social networking. Almost all of them have posted to one of the popular sites: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo. Some of them have posted things that may not … Continue reading →

I have gotten my share of email spam and phishing messages, but this is a new one for me. Yesterday I had this Skype message pop up. I had to do a double-take to make sure it wasn’t something that … Continue reading →