Saturday, May 27, 2006

WOW

Just home from Ireland, thanks to the conference organizers of the the Irish Learning Technology Association, and saw this at an airport bookshop. Not necessarily "shoestring" (though only about $10 more than a new hardback book), it may be the coolest new tech-thing I've seen in a long while. Check out Playaway self-playing audiobooks. The company website offers suggestions for how to reuse/share the product, too. Though it may not look like much to hard-core iPoders, it's a perfect airport product, and may provide a gentle nudge for some technology resisters. And it would have been just perfect back when my elderly father, losing his vision, found books on tape too cumbersome to manage.

Friday, May 19, 2006

Location, location, location

Am on the road a good deal the next few months so please do look me up if I'm in your neighborhood: Irish Educational Technology Users' Conference, Sligo, Ireland, May 26; Training Directors' Forum, Palm Springs, CA, June 11-13; NASPE, San Antonio, TX, Aug 13; Training Solutions, Denver, Oct 23-25.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

FREE file transfer

E-mail attachments getting blocked? Check out YouSendIt for file transfer. Upload your file to the web, send an email to the intended recipient, they go and get it. Very cool. Love getting around those IT dragons...