AS THE 2011 Spring semester comes to a close, I want to mention three pieces of my personal technology collection that I share the most. The first is my Mifi dongle, seen snuggling next to my coffee cup. Either its open wifi service is shared on campus or the dongle itself goes walking to support assignments. This hard usage never costs me more than €20 a month. The second piece of shareable technology is a 2GB memory USB card. It is as small as my toenail. It could fit under a tongue. It's small and versatile enough to support the transfer of unfinished video segments between students' laptops. There's a tie for third place when considering things in my bag that I share most. It's between the contents of my mic bag (Beyerdynamic mic, XLR-to-3.5mm cable or Sony ICD MX-20)and my portable terabyte drive. Both get shared to creative desktops several times a week. Based on my usage of these components, I plan to introduce each of them in short "Tech Tips" segments on all of the modules I teach to first year creative multimedia students in Tipperary Institute.
Sent mail2blog using O2 Typepad serivce from my Nokia E7 phone while driving through Poulamucka, County Tipperary, Ireland.