At the most recent F8 Facebook conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new initiatives for expanding internet access across the world saying
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#15 Virtual Reality and the Educational Experience
The story of educational technology can be told through the history of various technological “tipping points” — times when a conceptual technology becomes real due to the development of new hardware. These are points in time when science fiction turns into reality. Scott and I believe that virtual reality’s “tipping point” is near. In this episode of URTechSavvy, we explore the new hardware and discuss their potential as an effective educational tool.
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A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la lune – 1902
Hardware
Elders in VR
Grandma on the roller coaster:
Mother in Dinosaur museum: “How’d you get a museum in this?”
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
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#14 The Future of the Living Room
Most are familiar with the term “cord-cutter”. For those unfamiliar, it refers to households that stop paying for their cable box. Is that term even relevant today? The idea of cable is foreign to many college students and we are entering into a new post-cord cutter era. For this podcast, Scott and I talk about this new era and the devices that are driving online viewing. Hope you enjoy!
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#13 A Baker’s Dozen Recap
For the last 12 episodes Scott and I have talked about a specific technology, today we talk about them all. Technology changes so fast we felt the need to do an recap issue of the UR Tech Savvy podcast. Exciting news on technologies we’ve talked about in the past seems to happen every day so we decided to discuss them this week. Hope you enjoy!
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#12 Wonderful WordPress!
There is a lot of exciting blogging happening at the University of Richmond these days. With the addition of Ryan Brazell (a WordPress WIZ), the CTLT is becoming a hub for thoughtful, educational approaches to blogging. We have helped over 19 classes this semester add a blogging component and are looking to add even more next semester. Check out the current semester blogs at blog.richmond.edu and get in touch with your liaison if you are interested in blogging in the future.
In this week’s podcast we are joined by Ryan and the three of us talk all things WordPress – hope you enjoy!
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#11 Back to School Applications
Today there are so many great apps out there it can be difficult to distinguish the good from the great. Scott and I got together a few weeks ago, during the back to school rush, to discuss some of our favorite educational, productivity, health, storytelling apps…. basically all of our favorite apps! Hope you find some of our tips helpful!
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#10 News: what it is? how do you get it? why should we care?
How do you get informed? The way we receive “the news” has evolved over the last century, and technology has played a large roll in that evolution. Just 30 years ago, most people were informed by newspapers and the broadcast news. Today, we have a seemingly endless supply of sources to deliver us news: Facebook, Google, Twitter, Podcasts, Radio, TV… the list goes on and on. In our latest show, Scott and I talk about this evolution and specifically how technology alters our experience. Hope you enjoy!
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#9 Box: Cloud Storage – A new way to think about your digital stuff.
The University of Richmond is retiring a traditional NAS/SAN storage solution and introducing Box: a hosted cloud storage (and collaboration) solution. In this episode of UR Tech Savvy, Scott and I talk about all things Box. We begin with a history of the company with some background into Box’s business model and structure. We finish talking about how we see faculty and staff using Box here on campus. Hope you enjoy listening!
To learn more about University of Richmond Box accounts click here.
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#8 Who’s behind the wheel? Are driverless cars coming?
This week Scott and I discuss the future of transportation. Some argue the greatest technological disruption in the near future will occur in the transportation sector. How will we get from point A to point B? Will computers take over driving responsibilities? What will the culture, social, and ethical repercussions be? How will this drastically altered transportation model effect the education system. We cover all these awesome questions PLUS introduce our new colleague in the CTLT, Ryan Brazell. I gotta be honest, this is a great podcast. Hope you enjoy!
Additional Information
Medium.com Self Driving Trucks
telegraph.co.uk Ten ways that driverless cars will change the world
Gizmodo.com Self driving taxis cut greenhouse emissions?
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#7 Music – How streaming services are changing the game
Music is something that Scott and I love. It’s also an interesting topic because it touches on so many of the issues we love to talk about here in the CTLT: technology, culture, and innovation. The way that society has consumed music has drastically shifted in the last century, particularly in the last 25 years. We have gone from buying physical tapes/CDs to renting access to online streaming music. We are in the midst of a new shift in the culture and technology surrounding music. Streaming music, having (legal) access to tens of millions of song at the push of a button, is changing the way we interact and even think about music. In light of the recently released Apple Music, Scott and I talk about these shifts and how they impact us and the education technology landscape. Hope you enjoy the episode!
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The New Yorker: The anxious ease of apple music
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