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A NY Times review of OnLive's cloud based virtualized Windows 7 PC with MS Office for which you pay a puny $5 a month and use from your iPad. Coming "soon" to smart phones, and, of most interest to churches and schools, to your local Mac or Windows PC. Faster than any physical desktop and using an ultra high speed internet connection, the OnLive PC will almost entirely eliminate the worst time and software costs of operating a Windows PC. Read David Pogue's NT Times review to learn about the benefits and draw backs of OnLive's implementation.

Looks very interesting Randy. Thanks for sharing. this looks very promising. Have you tried it? I just downloaded the iPad app and created an account so I'm going to give it a try.

General information, but kind of interesting.

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Interesting use for personal users of Mac/iOS; potential for school use as well?  Cards to shut-ins, etc.

Courtesy of Lifehacker, thought Sallie and her boys might be interested in this one.  Could probably find some "educational" games to play on here as well... maybe not :).

Guess what Ben's Forensics demo speech is on?? RPi, of course. Gotta spread the love. :-D

Interesting.  Works with Chromebooks and could be a handy tool for students.

Interesting resource - possibly used in schools?

Kelley Randall was so kind as to post her notes from this morning's (4/9/16) Intersection's presentation by Steve Zambo. I thought they would interest you. Also check out her links, especially to a video, the first in a series that St. John has begun.

Interesting episode with a former teacher, now presenter for other teachers on teaching the "gifted and talented" student. The episode isn't so much about the education end, as much as the technology behind Ian's work. Website looks very useful for teachers. http://www.byrdseed.com/

An interesting take on the topic. Not really 11, many are about how hard it is to sing with the displays. I have noticed that in some congregations we visit. I post this not to endorse the 11, but so that those of us that may be advocating for such technology understand the level of despise that may come with the displays from some members.

Interesting blog, have not listened to it but they also have a podcast

We're using a GoogleDoc Spreadsheet to plan our singing/ensemble schedule for 2012-13. If you're interested in customizing it for yourself, just open the doc, go to File > Make a copy, and name your copy.

Thanks Ryan Rosenthal for sharing this article - Ryan says ... Interesting article talking about a small study that was done in Canada. I liked how they said that most tech instruction in the schools they looked at was focused on how to use the tech not on higher order thinking. It also mentions that the teachers on the forefront of tech teaching are not the new teachers but the ones with experience under their belt. Those teachers know how to handle the classroom and are therefore more comfortable taking the challenge of managing the students as they use tech. 

Phraseology (iPad only) and Terminology (iPhone, iPad) are two low cost, high quality integrated writing tools useful for any writing task on the go from tweets to instructions, multipage reports, sermons, etc. Terminology (iPhone & iPad), in addition to its built in dictionary and thesaurus, allows you to chose which online word tools to check and integrate into your lookups/research. Phraseology (iPad only) is a friendly editing environment which is especially useful breaking down your word/phrase usage and frequency. Pay attention to the Flesch Kincaid Reading and Grade level scores along with other readability statistics, including root word frequency, and you can improve the comprehension of your written or oral presentation. Most pastors and teachers who either compose or copy-paste-revise content taking into account Phraseology's feedback should be able to greatly improve their audience's comprehension. Interested in tired old phrase remediation or reductions in redundancies and passive platitudes? Anyone?

Interesting list to look at. Makes one feel old...

$5 a month gets you Windows 7 from your iPad!? I wonder if Microsoft has actually signed off on this very interesting service.

Interesting product (and one I haven't heard of!). Looks like it has a really neat iOS app and perhaps a cloud solution that is worth checking out!

Interesting discussion topic....

Church web-based management software- has some interesting process cues to help track visitors and tasks to keep them connected as well as other management info

I have to give credit to NBC morning news. They featured this app and I thought the education folks on WelsTech would be interested in this.