Monday, October 27, 2008

The Tech Teachers Show 87

This week we talk about education and technology topics including caffeine, the new macbooks, menulets, Tidy Up, Gmail Notifier, animasher.com, Google Toolbar, Hollye's observations about high schoolers vs. middle schoolers, and much more.

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Show Notes for Podcast #87:
*Apple MacBook
*Apple MacBook Pro
*Rock Band 2
*Caffeine: keeps your macbook awake in menu bar.
*Ray's video tutorials
*Tidy Up: duplicate file finder that helps you tidy up your drives.
*Plex
*Gmail notifier: Check your gmail messages without opening your browser
*Google Toolbar: for Firefox, drag-and-drop documents into Google Docs.
*Animasher: create your own animations
*Ray's Twitter account: twitter.com/psharkr

Sunday, October 05, 2008

The Tech Teachers Show 86

This week we talk about education and technology topics including ScreenFlow, Onyx, Google Gears, syncing Google Calendar with iCal, Symplify Media, Mailinator, iPhone applications, and much more.

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Show Notes for Podcast #86:
*Ray's Professional Development Links: http://delicious.com/PDresources
*Ray's PD Videos from Vimeo
*ScreenFlow: to create screen recordings on your Mac.
*Google Gears: allows you to interact with web applications, such as Google Docs, offline.
*Sync iCal with Google Calendar
*Simplify Media: stream your audio files from your home computer over the Internet to your current location. (Ray mispoke when he suggested that you could stream your video files. Simplify Media only allows the streaming of audio files.)
*Western Digital Passport Drive
*Mailinator: protect your privacy and avoid spam.
*OnyX: allows you to perform system maintenance in OSX.
*Get iPhone Applications (If you use this link, you will be supporting our show. Thank you.)