Archive for May 24th, 2008

Broadband in rural Pennsylvania

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

A report was released this week by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania about the state broadband access in Pennsylvania's less populated areas. With data collected in 2005 and 2006, the project looks at how healthcare, local government, education and business in rural Pennsylvania are using high-speed Internet. Some quotes from the ...

In depth look at a mobile device in the classroom

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

The teachermate is a handheld computer, like a Nintendo Gameboy or a Sony PSP, and they have been in use in Chicago public school classrooms for the past school year. The Teachers' Podcast did a review of the device last month. A couple weeks ago I got the opportunity to see ...

Got e-learning? How about m-learning?

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

I wrote a month ago about a school district in North Carolina that is using smart phones in class as a platform for learning. Mobile devices could be a great way to integrate technology into the classroom. They are inexpensive, ubiquitous, and are designed for communication. A lot of kids have ...

Not everybody has the latest Macbook Pro

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

In response to the recent Parks Associates study that said that around one fifth of American heads-of-households had never used email, the Next Web Blog put up a post with some comments from Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels. Amazon focuses on keeping prices low, and so naturally attracts lower income individuals. Vogels ...