Media Monday: New Toys!

Posted by admin on May 17, 2010 under 1. Media Monday | Be the First to Comment

Welcome to Media Monday!

Today we have (another) super cool gadget from Google featured recently in The Chronicle of Higher Education - Google Voice. When you sign up for the service, you will be able to get your voice mail sent to your email, send free text messages, and read voicemail transcriptions, rather than listening to messages (especially handy while in meetings)! Currently the service is only available (for free!) to students and those with a .edu email! To sign up, submit your email address and a Google Voice invite will arrive in your inbox within 24 hours.You can even check out their video on the service at youtube.com/googlevoice.

According to the Google blog, this new feature “is currently only available by invite, a lot of students are still listening to voicemail and sending text messages the old-fashioned way. As a recent college graduate, I can’t think of anything more painful! So starting today, we’ll be giving priority Google Voice invites to students. To get an invite, just visit google.com/voice/students and enter an email address that that ends in .edu.

Those without can try here where I heard they can also be secured https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/ !

Kathleen A. Byrnes is an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.