{"id":2533,"date":"2013-12-17T12:09:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2013-12-17T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:09:14","slug":"technology-that-gives-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/technology-that-gives-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology That Gives Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this season of gift-giving, I thought it would be a good idea to introduce you to a couple of gadgets that can positively impact people who are in emergency situations such as the recent typhoon in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deciwatt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gravity Light<\/a> (from Deciwatt.org) generates light from gravity.  Using a sandbag for three seconds gives 25 minutes of light and the procedure can be repeated over and over.  Imagine the uses during the nights after a severe storm when one knows electricity will not be available for days or weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Another fun and practical solution is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/unchartedplay\/soccket-the-energy-harnessing-soccer-ball\" target=\"_blank\">SOCCKET<\/a>, a useable soccer ball that is a portable generator.  You build power by playing with the ball and then you use it as a light source.  So kids affected by the typhoon can enjoy a few moments of being a child again while storing up light for the family to see by.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/unchartedplay\/soccket-the-energy-harnessing-soccer-ball\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you know of any other projects of this type, please feel free to share and I wish everyone a very Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  Thanks to lesliefisher.com for the great sessions at LACUE, including one on gadgets.  More to follow.  KNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this season of gift-giving, I thought it would be a good idea to introduce you to a couple of gadgets that can positively impact people who are in emergency situations such as the recent typhoon in the Philippines. Gravity Light (from Deciwatt.org) generates light from gravity. Using a sandbag for three seconds gives 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/technology-that-gives-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Technology That Gives Back\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[310],"class_list":{"0":"post-2533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"tag-technology","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-ER","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15227,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/how-things-have-changed-new-expanded-netiquette-rules-for-video-conferencing\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":0},"title":"How Things Have Changed\u2014New Expanded Netiquette Rules for Video Conferencing","author":"Bart Everson","date":"April 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's guest post is from Karen Nichols, Distance Education Coordinator in Xavier's Center for Continuing Studies & Distance Education In 2015, I gave a presentation in CAT which included Netiquette Rules for faculty to apply in their discussion board posts and email correspondence with their students.\u00a0 The suggestions were fairly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CAT &amp; Mouse: E-Learning&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CAT &amp; Mouse: E-Learning","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/topic\/online\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Karen Nichols","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/karen.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6972,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/ideas-to-keep-your-online-course-interesting\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":1},"title":"Ideas to Keep Your Online Course Interesting","author":"Janice Florent","date":"June 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Janice Florent The underlying theme for last year\u2019s Sloan Consortium International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Online Learning (ET4Online) was on how instructors can refresh their online course to keep it interesting for students. 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