Shuchi Grover's Blog – April 2008 Archive (3)

I came across this really cool tool for making snazzy videos in a matter of minutes, and just had to share it here!



It's called Animoto, and all it requires is for the user to upload a bunch of pictures, select a piece of music (from their vast selection) and VOILA! out comes a short video (the only kind allowed in the free version of Animoto) thanks to this really cool "web application that automatically generates professionally… Continue

(Cross-posted on Education Musings)



Or I should say "Randy Pausch will live on in Alice".



55 minutes or so into his now famous "last lecture" (more on that lecture later), Randy Pausch (47-year old terminally ill star professor of Virtual Reality at Carnegie Mellon) states



"To the extent that someone can live on in something, I… Continue

(Cross-posted on Education Musings)



Looks like HP is the latest entrant in the "classroom laptop" market. With the "Mini-Note", HP joins Intel (Classmate PC), the OLPC (XO Laptop), and Asustek (Eee PC) to bring lightweight, functional computers in the hands (laps?) of children in classrooms around… Continue