This installment of our @matec newsletter article ”Education Challenges in the 21st Century”, inspired by Cathleen Barton’s presentation at the HI-TEC 2009 event, focuses on Grand Challenges as identified by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE Committee on Engineering’s Grand Challenges has identified 14 areas awaiting engineering solutions in the 21st century. This critical grouping […]
The Google Operating System blog claims that, “Now you can send bigger attachments in Gmail, as Google increased the maximum attachment size to 25 MB.” This is from 10 MB. And can be referenced HERE.
If you don’t have a gmail account, I’d recommend getting one.
Shay
I grew up during the 1950’s and graduated from high school in 1971, just to set the timeframe of this discussion. I know this era was a golden time with few wars, an economy that was flourishing, and technology develops were so many it was hard to keep up. But during this time as a […]
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I thought you might like to review this article I found on PLD Design Line eMagazine. It is an idea of using an FPGA and a few other interface systems to develop an electronics system that simulates the Guitar Hero game for the Wii. This link now has the complete story of the project and […]
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It has been some time since posting a blog topic here at Techspectives but thought this string conversation I had recently with Celeste Baine on a short video clip she posted on her blog might start some interesting convesations. So what started this conversation? See the video at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54iAkkjsfrA
How do we engage our […]
Maggieh added this really good resource to our digital library the other day, entitled: Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students. This article was written by Ruth Reynard and published in Campus Technology.
Maggieh’s desrciption is as follows:
Ruth Reynard’s article in Campus Technology provides helpful guidelines for properly directing the […]
In the Cost of Solar, I mentioned how expensive it was to buy solar panels and the long term return of investment. There had to be a better way, and there is. Buying a solar system costs a lot. The better way is that my family will be leasing solar panels from Solarcity.
This is […]
Monday, June 9, 2008, was just like any other day. Apple opened up their big conference… emails to open… blogs to write… But, it was not like any other day. Our good friend and colleague, Vance Williams passed away suddenly from an unexpected and unknown illness.
Vance was Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center’s (MATEC) Network and […]
For some reason, when a new year comes around, the psychics come out and make their predictions. People love predictions, but many times they forget to look back and see what came true. With that in mind, I will take the plunge and make some predictions:
1. Google will win the 700mhz frequency […]
Within our high tech societies today, we have become increasingly reliant on our electronic gadgets such as; Internet ready cell phones, iPods, MP3 players, laptops, and global positioning systems (GPS). All of these electronic aides provide us services that are in most cases taken as “matters of facts” and completely trusted by the human user.
In […]
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