Life In The Fast Lane

Steve Sokoloski’s soapbox on tech, education and life (in the fast lane).

Entries from November 26, 2006

First 1,000 XO Laptops Roll Off the Assembly Line in Shanghai

November 26, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Here is the links to the news story posted on OLPC website: First 1,000 XO Laptops Roll Off the Assembly Line in Shanghai

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Playing With Google Tools

November 19, 2006 · No Comments · educational technology, Google Tools

I have been playing more and more with the suite of Google tools. I basically converted our family calendar(s) into Google. I am liking that I can have several calendars for different parts of my life, keep them separate, share them with other people in my family, and overlap them as needed. For example, I [...]

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Some new links

November 18, 2006 · No Comments · educational technology

Two new links that I am exploring: http://jumpcut.com – make movies in your browser http://www.runningmap.com/ And Reach for the Stars – if you can’t go listen w/Hitchhikr The 20th Annual New England 2006 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference “I Touch the Future, I Teach” Sheraton Nashua Hotel ~ Nashua, New Hampshire November 28-30, 2006

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Post EASTCONN

November 16, 2006 · No Comments · educational technology

Thanks for all the kind comments about my talk. Here are a couple of more links of interest that we did not get to talk about. Hitchhikr – This a David Warlick project. Basically, if people are going to a conference and decide to blog about it, you can read what people are blogging about. [...]

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Resources for Making Podcasts – EASTCONN Tech Council

November 15, 2006 · 3 Comments · educational technology

These are resources referenced in my talk at EASTCONN Thursday Nov. 16, 2006 Bloglines http://bloglines.com Feed For All – RSS Creator (Free 30 Day Trial) http://www.feedforall.com/ Audacity Audio Recorder – A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. *Don’t forget to download the LAME [...]

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One more personal cheer for Open Source….

November 12, 2006 · No Comments · educational technology

Over the summer one of my main home workstations blew up. Working fine before we went away for a week in August and upon our return, nothin, nadda, kaput. I have been playing with it off and on since then. It had to be either power or mother board and Windows was blown on the [...]

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New Things to Look At….

November 5, 2006 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I was catching up on some downloaded podcasts this weekend. I was listening to Podcasts for Teachers and they talked about new Google Tools for Educators which debuted last month. It looks like Google is trying to build a comprehensive suite of programs for schools and teachers. It is worth looking at.  I like the [...]

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Thinking, and thinking and thinking…..

November 4, 2006 · No Comments · educational technology

I was able to go back to the CECA podcasts to listen to the podcast of a session w/ David Warlick that I missed. I am thinking that in the concrete sequential world of most teachers the rush of techniques and concepts that is being called Web 2.o is too scattered and non-compartmentalized to grasp. [...]

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