Kevin Gaugler | January 31, 2010
The other day Wesley Fryer had some wonderful comments on his blog about my thoughts on the iPad. I figured I would repost his ideas here along with my response. How do you feel about Apple’s gated model of distribution? Will it ultimately imped access to information and consequently teaching and learning? Wesley Fryer: I [...]
Kevin Gaugler | January 27, 2010
Before Apple’s big announcement today, I made a prediction that Apple’s device would disrupt the textbook industry and consequently education, particularly language education, as we know it. Apple has built its iPad on the same popular platform that runs both the iPod Touch and the iPhone and has added a bookstore to its iTunes application [...]
Kevin Gaugler | November 23, 2009
At the ACTFL09 conference I gave a talk entitled “The Technology of Classroom 007: Mobile Computing and Language Instruction”. In it I described a classroom at Marist College, room 007, where I occasionally teach. The irony of its number lies in the fact that it is a basement room, underground with no windows. I therefore [...]
Kevin Gaugler | June 13, 2009
I just finished watching the 1 hour and 20 minute demo of Google’s new product, WAVE, to be released to the general public later this year. What might speak volumes about the product is that the video held my attention for that long. The Google team that developed this application set out to move organizational communication beyond [...]
Kevin Gaugler | April 3, 2009
In a previous post post I wrote about how GrandCentral had much of the functionality of a $100,000 audio-lingual laboratory for about $100,000 less, making the audio-lingual method sexy again. Well, GrandCentral is now officially the super-sexy Google Voice. and after having the chance to play with the service for a few weeks, I’d like to [...]