James Friend has ported Hampa Hug’s PCE Emulator to Javascript, which means you can run it in a browser. He has a Mac Plus running System 7.0.1 and an emulated 186 IBM PC compatible running Windows 3.0. While those two things are very cool, it’s in his post Why port emulators to the browser? that I find very interesting: I… Read more →
The Internet Archive has added the Historical Software Archive
Historical Software Collection This collection contains selected historically important software packages from the Internet Archive’s software archives. Through the use of in-browser emulators, it is possible to try out these items and experiment with using them, without the additional burdens of installing emulator software or tracking down the programs. Many of these software products were the first of their kind,… Read more →
iPads for all
A School’s iPad Initiative Brings Optimism And Skepticism One of California’s poorest school districts, the Coachella Valley Unified southeast of Los Angeles, is currently rolling out iPads to every student, pre-kindergarten through high school. It’s an ambitious effort that administrators and parents hope will transform how kids learn, boost achievement and narrow the digital divide with wealthier districts. But, as… Read more →
Tweetbot 3 is one step forward, two steps back
Tapbots this week released Tweetbot 3, their iOS 7 update to Tweetbot. Unfortunately, they changed one of the best features of Tweetbot. Lists were treated as a first class citizen. You could replace your Timeline with any of your lists with two taps. Now they have moved lists to one of the tabs at the bottom of the screen and… Read more →
How I fixed my Chrome momentary freezing problem
For the past couple of months, my main Chrome profile has been frustrating me with its “freezing” everytime the Chrome window was activated. What I mean by this, is that when I clicked on the Chrome window with the troublesome profile, Chrome would freeze/pause for 5-10 seconds. This behavior persisted no matter what platform I used with Chrome. Investigating my… Read more →
Apple just killed the hackintosh
Apple announced yesterday at their event that the newest version of OS X, version 10.9 (Mavericks), will be free to all Macintosh computers that can run it. This is pretty amazing, we can finally keep all of our Macs on the same OS instead of us currently supporting three different versions. But for hackintosh users, it means that there is… Read more →
#OhioITSCO Leadership Symposium – Teach Like a Hacker
Why hack? Teach like a hacker is the epitome of “work smarter, not harder”. Figure out clever solutions to tough problems. Coding Using functions in spreadsheets (Managing your class list in a spreadsheet) Codecademy (Check out the courses on Ruby and Python) Scratch – Imagine, Program, Share Interactive fiction inkle » inklewriter Home : Inform Examples in the classroom Math… Read more →
Follow and backchannel the Apple event today
I’ve set up an IRC bot to feed MacRumorsLive Twitter account into the #eduk8me IRC channel on Freenode. You can use the web client or any IRC client to connect to the #eduk8me channel on Freenode. (I’m at the Ohio ITSCO Leadership Symposium, so I don’t know how much time I’ll have to join. 🙁 ) Read more →
Quantum computing and Minecraft
Google Releases qCraft Mod For Minecraft So Kids Can Explore Quantum Computing Google recognizes the potential here well, and wanted to add quantum physics into the mix. Thus, the ‘qCraft’ mod was born, one that adds new blocks that add an entirely new mechanic to the game, such as quantum entanglement, superposition, and observer dependency. The company admits that this… Read more →
From the, well duh department
Technology Will Not Replace Teachers As much innovation as the iPad may bring to the classroom, it’s not going to replace a teacher anytime soon. In fact, the influx of technology like iPads means there is a greater need for teachers. We need teachers who are part early adopter, part integrator, and part mad scientist. The modern teacher must be… Read more →