education
Online
Free Open Technology Courses That Will Save You Money
7:20AM Sean Fallon | I get annoyed when I think about all of the money I spent on tertiary education only to find that the internet is riddled with free technology courses from prestigious schools like MIT. More »
Online
1:00PM Nick Broughall | Melbourne-based La Trobe University today joined a whole heap of other Australian unis by adding their content to iTunes U. I still find it mind blowing that I’m still paying off my 3 years at uni – an education I probably could have gotten for free online if I’d only waited a few years for iTunes U to launch… More »
La Trobe Uni Joins iTunes U
1:00PM Nick Broughall | Melbourne-based La Trobe University today joined a whole heap of other Australian unis by adding their content to iTunes U. I still find it mind blowing that I’m still paying off my 3 years at uni – an education I probably could have gotten for free online if I’d only waited a few years for iTunes U to launch… More »
Robots
Concert Hands Teaches Piano With Wrist Straps And Electrical Zaps
4:20AM Danny Allen | What looks kinda creepy actually sounds quite cool. The Concert Hands system teaches you piano (or keyboard) using a 10-finger feedback system that gently pulses when you should play, coupled with an automated wrist pilot that guides you across octaves. More »
Gadgets
University Tech Gadgets: Then And Now
5:20AM Danny Allen | From 35mm SLRs in the 50s to electronic-typewriters of the 80s, PC World has a timeline of gadgets that most changed campus life. For me, it was a giant CRT (which doubled as my room heater). What about you? More »
Software
11:35AM Nick Broughall | I have no idea whether or not the sign guy at Arthur Philip High School in Parramatta is right in saying that they are the first school in the world to have Windows 7, but if they are – kudos! All other schools now bow before your new Windows OS-owning greatness.
[Thanks Ben!]
Aussie School Claiming First To Windows 7
11:35AM Nick Broughall | I have no idea whether or not the sign guy at Arthur Philip High School in Parramatta is right in saying that they are the first school in the world to have Windows 7, but if they are – kudos! All other schools now bow before your new Windows OS-owning greatness.
[Thanks Ben!]
Phones
Study Finds IPhone Users Genetically Superior To Everyone Else
7:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Well, they may not have gone quite that far, but an independent study conducted by Forrester Research found that iPhone owners are better educated, younger, more affluent, and even more productive than their non-iPhone-using counterparts. More »
Computers
11:24AM Nick Broughall | Sure, for gadget nuts like you and me, the XO OLPC may not quite have the grunt to be usable, but for the poor, indigenous communities out in the middle of the Northern Territory, it’s fantastic. And a couple of days ago, the first OLPCs were officially handed out to Aboriginal primary school children at Shepherdson College on Elcho Island, Northern Territory. More »
OLPC Hits Indigenous Australia
11:24AM Nick Broughall | Sure, for gadget nuts like you and me, the XO OLPC may not quite have the grunt to be usable, but for the poor, indigenous communities out in the middle of the Northern Territory, it’s fantastic. And a couple of days ago, the first OLPCs were officially handed out to Aboriginal primary school children at Shepherdson College on Elcho Island, Northern Territory. More »
Computers
Dell Latitude 2100 Netbook for the Childrens Is Crayola Rugged
2:01PM Matt Buchanan | I liked everything about Dell’s Latitude 2100 netbook—I think it’s designed pretty smartly for its target K-12 audience—except for the price. It’s $US370, which is a bit high for an education netbook, no? More »
Games
School Shows Students Dangers of Texting While Driving Using Mario Kart
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Vail Christian High School is taking this texting-while-driving thing seriously. So seriously, in fact, that they’ve brought in one of the most realistic driving simulators ever conceived to teach kids the dangers of this practice.
Computers
