Screencast-O-Matic

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Here is the quick demo video, which demonstrate the features of the tool and how to use it:



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College students import text messaging habits into academic writing

if you are a professor or an instructor, how do you react when you receive your students' email like this: 'wut up ya I cnt make it 2 clss lol' or when you read similar shorthand terms in students' papers. Read this interesting article about this seemingly serious issue.

Apple's new creation: iPad

Apple's new device iPad will hit stores in April. Here is the iPad ad, Steve Jobs' keynote and product introduction. It is good at web browsing, email, reading e-books, watching movies, sharing photos etc. according to the information. It is not a general purpose computer. It is not a replacement of anything, it is something between, with "affordable" price of $499. Read here for device hardware specifications.

10 music technology trends next decade

Matt Rosoff's article "10 music-tech trends that will shape the next decade" reminds people of the power of technology on music-both production and consumption. It is fresh and makes you THINK though you may not agree with all the trends listed in the article. Here are the ten trends the author summarized: songs instead of albums; streams instead of downloads; in the cloud rather than on hard drives; fidelity rather than file size (quality over file size); production rather than consumption (In another 10 years, everybody will be a musician--or at least a recording artist?); suggestions rather than searches (personalized services become more important than search); spectacle rather than personality (entertaining over singing and playing); festivals rather than big concerts; and so on