Bookmarks
- Mikogo Skype Extra
- Tour | busuu.com
- Social networking for language learning
- TG Daily - Proxy server trail leads FBI to Palin email hacker
- Proxy server trail leads FBI to Palin email hacker. Turns out he wasn't as anyonymous as he thought.
- Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy | Threat Level from Wired.com
- Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy. Bragging about your misdeeds is never a good idea.
- VP contender Sarah Palin hacked - Wikileaks
- Gov. Palin's Yahoo email account is hacked.
- EFF: We're concerned about Google's Omnibox | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
- EFF: We're concerned about Google's Omnibox
- IMDb | Watch Full-Length Movies, TV Shows, and More -- Free!
- Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ Ads Created On Macs
- Google Audio Indexing
- Presentation Files: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, September 16 - 19, 2008, New York, NY
- Web 2.0 Expo NY Video
- Convert Video To Audio: From Online Videos To MP3 - Sharewood Guide - Robin Good's Latest News
- Starshine
- video about starshine academy on the occassion of peace day
- Bluebeam Software, Inc. - Education Store
- jm: alternative to "acrobat" - reportedly great for tablet pc - education pricing $30 per license
- Seventh-grader shines with solar cell research
- busuu.com | the language learning community
- How to Completely Backup Your Data, Programs, and Operating System Files
- jm: How to back up pc (windows)
- Genie-Soft Backup Solutions - Products - Backup CD/DVD, FTP, LAN, Disaster Recovery, Online Backup
- jm: system and file backup manager (windows)
- How to transfer programs to another hard drive or computer
- jm: make sense? any other solutions?
- 3D Science News
- Need those 3D glasses but this is just fun and an interesting use of an old "technology" (and the news is good also). Gary
- Swype | Text Input for Screens
- Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard, the patented technology enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods—at over 50 words per minute. The application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.
- Slashdot | Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source
- quite the discussion on alternatives to Exchange
- Endless Scholar
- jm: cool blog formerly about tablet pc stuff, now just about lifelong learning stuff
- PDF Annotator - Annotate, Edit and Comment PDF Files. Open any PDF file, add annotations and save all back to PDF in one single step. Tablet PC Support.
- jm: sorry mac folks ... other solutions for you in ett folder for you
- GAO Report: U.S. Companies Still Exporting Toxic E-Waste
- Electronic Arts loosens locks on Spore video game - Los Angeles Times
- Why Sergey Brin May Have Disclosed His Risk for Parkinson’s
- Comcast Submits Plans to Manage Broadband - WSJ.com
- Facebook | Petition Against the "New Facebook"
- TwitterKeys: Enhance your Twitter conversations
- Add symbols to denote things in Twitter - and thereby free up characters to use in other words for you tweet!
- NYPL, Online Exhibitions
- jm: live in NYC? coming for a visit? want to have a virtual visit? Don't forgot to check out online exhibiitions at NYC public library. good virtual overview or introduction to visit.
- The Nature Conservancy - Protecting Nature, Preserving Life
- jm: another footprint calculator
- Conservation International - Home
- jm:
- Carbon Counter - Fight Climate Change
- jm: carbon footprint counter
- Carbon Footprint - Calculate, Reduce and Offset - Welcome to Carbon Footprint
- jm: another global calculator
- Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, Go Green | EarthLab.com
- jm: global calculator
- Lifecycle Climate Footprint Calculator | Berkeley Institute of the Environment
- jm: US Only ... sorry ... others posted, too
- The Paleontology Portal: Home
- Another useful site with much to explore. Gary
- Celestia: Home
- Useful for astronomy studies. Gary
- New bill would tighten rules for DHS border laptop searches
- martijndevisser.com » Blog Archive » FLV Player 2.0 released
- Same flv video player promoted by TeacherTube, but it's the new version. Installation required.
- TeacherTube - FLV Video Player
- That's a pretty cool, lightweight video player, and it doesn't require installation. The current version (which does require install) is here: http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/2007/flv-player-20-released/
- Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
- What is Digital Storytelling, anyway?
- The keywords John McCain and Barack Obama are buying on Google
- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was temporarily shut down earlier this week. - swissinfo
- They're just having a bad week over in the black hole factory.
- Hacker impersonated Palin, stole e-mail password
- Computer Questions? Looking for a Hardware, Software or Applications Expert? Online computer experts offer help & advice with Networking, Mac, PC, Windows, Programming, & Repair Questions. - Just Answer!
- jm: interesting way to monetize help functions
- Tech-Ease: Quick Answers to Real Classroom Technology Questions
- Unigo
- Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations [WorldCat.org]
- jm: book about networking in the connected world
- Ambient Awareness homepage
- jm: further to posts re: ambient awareness ... some research stuff
- PC Pro: News: Asus ships software cracker on recovery DVD
- Asus is accidentally shipping software crackers and confidential documents on the recovery DVDs that come with its laptops.
- vloud
- give it a quiet mp3 and it makes it louder. simple, yet effective
- ICDL - International Children's Digital Library
- U Tech Tips » Blog Archive » Will free open-source texts and online e-books mark the end of printed textbooks?
- Welcome (About Google Sites)
- OpenZine - Create & Contribute
- PollDaddy
- really elegant way to create polls or surveys via the web. Free and paid accounts.
- Get Safe Online :: Home
- Safe Social Networking Tips and Advice
- Google demos Android phone at developer day - Telegraph
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 12 Reasons to Get at Home in Chrome
- Nice review
- Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider - Telegraph
- umm... This could be a problem, no?
- Education Week: Game Enables Users to Guide Evolution on Screen
- There are definitely risks using Spore as an educational tool for teaching evolution. As mentioned in the article, intelligent design springs to mind. Gary
- My Quick Start Tips for New Twitters | Mobile Technology in TAFE
- Twitter intro tweeted by Darren Draper.
- Floating Google - a seafaring solution
- Jog The Web
- Looks like a way to link through a site
- SeeqPod - Playable Search - Find. Discover. Watch. Listen. Share.
- Thanks to Joao Alves for sharing this nifty site via Twitter
- Slideshare >> Microblogging
- Josie Fraser's presentation on Microblogging, Lifestreaming & Presence
- Audacity How To files
- Step-by-step guides to using Audacity (open source sound recording program) from NGfL Wales.
- Never judge a book
- You have to see the photos of the boxes that contained new books for the school!
- Timez Attack
- A multiplication online game.
- - - SpellingCity.com
- Spelling games, etc. using custom lists
- iPhoneModem
- Share your iPhone's internet connection.
- Delicious Bookmarklet for Google Chrome
- Easy to set up and use.
- What Dave is "up to" this week
- Dave's week in review
- Best Video Conferencing Tools That Anyone Can Use
- Gabbly
- # Chat about any content on the web.
# Just add 'gabbly.com/' in front of any URL.
- FormatFactory - File format convert tools (http://www.formatoz.com)
- Atmosphir - Free Video Game / Creation Tool for Mac and PC
- Atmosphir is a free video game / creation tool for Mac
- Artweaver :: the artist way
- Free alternative to Photoshop. Unlike the GIMP, Artweaver has the same layout as Photoshop.
- Movavi Online Video Converter
- Hadron Collider Webcam
- Designers developing virtual-reality 'Cocoon' - CNN.com
- educon21 » Call For Sessions
- Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep
- Mozilla adds privacy mode to Firefox 3.1 plans
- Codebox Software - BitMeter II
- Call for Papers: Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning (ViWo 2009) | Sandra Schaffert
- jm: we're all about the global connections here at Worldbridges :)
- Dr. Bonk's Videostreamed Talks and Podcasts
- jm: more stuff from Bonk
- TravelinEdMan: The Price of an 8 Pack of Learning Theory Lectures? Nothing! Just a Lot of Bonk!
- jm: took this class with Bonk in 2006 ... assuming these are all great overviews of "standard" learning theories. good to have in your toolkit
- Visual Communication And Video Publishing - Selected Tools And Web Services - Sharewood Guide Sep07 08 - Robin Good's Latest News
- jm: good old fashioned video editing and publishing round up from Robin Good's site
- 24 Killer Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive - Download Squad
- jm: via stephen downes - "My flash drive works pretty hard, so I've spent a lot of time gathering a reliable, powerful set of portable tools that allow me to work hard and play hard, even if I can't do it on my own PC. Here are two dozen apps that I always have at the ready.
- Peter Suber, Open Access News
- Bloomsbury Publishing has announced a new OA imprint, Bloomsbury Academic. From today's press release:
jm: Bloomsbury Publishing has announced a new OA imprint, Bloomsbury Academic. From today's press release: ...All books will be made available free of charge online, with free downloads, for non-commercial purposes immediately upon publication, using Creative Commons licences. The works will also be sold as books, using the latest short-run technologies or Print on Demand (POD).
- TechCrunch50 Conference 2008
- jm: the entire 50
- Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50
- jm: techcrunch top 50
- physics.org | Home
- jm: physics.org is an award winning website produced by the Institute of Physics.
It's the place to be if you have a physics question, or if you're just generally interested in the subject.
- CK-12 - Next Generation Textbooks
- jm: another online book project ... where is the annotation!
- The “Flexbook” - Creative Commons
- jm: "The CK-12 Foundation’s solution to the age-old problem of uneven shoulders. The Flexbook is a free and open source textbook platform where one can build and edit collaborative textbooks. This is the textbook of the next generation: “CK-12 allows one to customize and produce content by re-purposing to suit what needs to be taught, using different modules that may suit a learner’s learning style, region, language, or level of skill, while adhering to the local education standards. Flexibility + Textbook = Flexbook.”
- Official Google Blog: Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
- jm: "Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives."
- Google Fight : Make this fight with googleFight \"Jeff Lebow\" VS \"Dave Cormier\"
- jm: using google fight ... useless but "fun"
- Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restores all customer reviews
- When the reviews disappeared late this week, there were 2,216 reviews, of which 2,016 were one-star ratings.
- How-To: Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library
- Microsoft Education: Download free posters for your class
- They say a picture is worth a thousand words. We think they can inspire even more. You can download and print this poster, or if you send us your name, education institution address, and e-mail address we’ll send you a full-size poster—no charge—for your classroom.
- Vinyl Cafe with Stuart McLean - The Official Website
- For Dave: Find the September 9, 2008 Show- Location/Title: VINYL CAFE IN GEORGETOWN, PEI - much about PEI and potatoes Also available as a podcast at iTunes. Gary
- Atta texana leafcutting ant colony project
- Try the tunnel animation. Gary
- power point templates
- I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com
- (per jm) talks about "ambient awareness" ... very cool take on online living
- One-in-Five Employers Use Social Networking Sites to Research Job Candidates, CareerBuilder.com Survey Finds
- Twenty-two percent of hiring managers said they use social networking sites to research job candidates, up from 11 percent in 2006, according to a nationwide survey of more than 3,100 employers from CareerBuilder.com. An additional 9 percent said they don’t currently use social networking sites to screen potential employees, but plan to start.
- DrPic.com Free Web Picture Editor and Image Host - Crop, Resize, Text
- Quick easy as good as picnic
- Rwanda launches OLPC computer distribution - Network World
- Considering 1994, this may be a good story from this country. Gary
- Wooji Juice: Stage Manager
- Works with 'Stage Hand' (in the iPhone App. Store) to allow you to control Keynote presentations wirelessly!
- LearningTown!
- jm; ning for "learning professionals"
- Actvities for your iPod
- From Pete MacKay's Teacher List: Ideas for use of iPod as a teaching tool. Gary
- Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction by Daniel Shiffman
- a book on how to learn processing. Could be good to use with students
- Google Launches Mapping Satellite -- InformationWeek
- big brother is watching you
- Contributed by EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
- WOW... lots of good stuff here...
- Google Fight
- Compare sites visually
- Jumpcut - Be good to your video
- jm yahoo movie editing and upload service
- List of Connectivism Articles and Blog Posts, CCK08 « Onlinesapiens Blog
- List of Resources for the CCK08 Connectivism Course « Onlinesapiens Blog
- Edward Willett's Featured Science Column
- If you are a science teacher, subscribing to Edward's column is worth it. Gary
- Twitter Handbook — How good people make BIG things happen - FAST!
- Polycom.com -Support - PVX Version 8.0.4
- vista version of polycom
- formulatepro - Google Code
- Write on PDF
- Skim | Home
- Annotate PDf files
- Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks | Video on TED.com
- $50 whiteboard
- Wydea
- videos on computers related topics are outstanding. simpler than common craft
- Art In Your Heart: Children and Our Changing World
- 2.5 to 3 min in gets very interesting...Same with about 5 minutes in
- The Hoboken Italian Festival
- jm: in case you hear noise from Jen's house ...
- MICHAEL HANLON: Are we all going to die next Wednesday? | Mail Online
- It's the end of the world as we know it.
- Finding New Ubiquity Commands with the Herd
- Connectivism & Connective Knowledge
- jm: "official" blog of CCK08
- Terry Freedman's thougths on NotKk12OnlineConference.org
- Google Chrome Comic Book
- School of Everything
- Begging states to try to enforce ridiculous assertion that the law is copyrighted
- By the people, for the people, of the people, but copyrighted by the government! How can this even be an issue? Laws that are owned by the government?
- Speed test: Google Chrome beats Firefox, IE, Safari
- Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games |
- TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world
- kidthing ™
- YouTube - Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld - Shoe Circus Commercial
- Google once reviled computer superpowers but domination is just what it is achieving
- others believe there was a very different motivation. In the test version of Internet Explorer 8, there appeared to be a feature that might block Google's targeted advertising. Given that 99 per cent of the company's annual revenue is made from advertising, this could hold the key to the company's sudden interest in expanding into the browser market.
- Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, Ustream.TV: Streaming channel for Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. Education
- jm: ustream channel for CCK08
- Elluminate.com - online, synchronous, live online collaboration environment
- jm: ellulminate for CCK08
- iLeonardo
- jm: iLeonardo is a Social Utility for connecting to people and their collections of relevant information on the web. People use iLeonardo to build digital notebooks of anything from the Internet. In return the utility displays similar notebooks that other people have created and made public.
- Downes Show: Ustream.TV Show, Chat Room, LIVE Streaming Video. Webcam Chat, Webcast, News Events. Online Video Cam Community and Social Network.
- jm: Stephen Downes' Ustream Channel for CCK08
- Course: Connectivism and Connective Knowledge
- jm: the moodle for CCK08
- And the OCWC Conference tag is… ocwc_logan08 at OCW Blog
- jm: if you want to follow the OpenCourseWare Conference in Logan, search for ocwc_logan08 (yes, it is a "mouthful"
- News Releases: CUNY to Form Open Source Solutions Lab
- jm: The City University of New York today announced a partnership with two high-tech giants to form the New York City Open Source Solutions Lab at the CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development. The facility will be a state-of-the-art center in which New York-based government IT professionals can test open source software solutions based on Intel architecture"
- Learning and Teaching at BCIT: Journal of Distance Education Archives Online
- jm (via Gavin Baker) All of the back issues of the Journal of Distance Education are now available online. This marks the culmination of a two year project to convert the JDE to a fully online, open access journal.
- FKFT 2008 Proceedings | Free Knowledge, Free Technology 2008
- jm: Presentations from Free Knowledge, Free Technology (Barcelona, July 15-17, 2008) are now online.
- Un-book conversation wrap-up — Informal Learning Blog
- jm: unbook ... hmm .. have to have a listen
- Welcome
- jm:Kete.net.nz is the home of the Kete software community; for those that are using Kete, thinking about using it, or just interested in knowing more. Kete was developed by Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications Ltd. to build a digital library of Horowhenua material: Kete Horowhenua.
- Doctoral Theses Digitisation
- jm: A doctoral theses digitisation project began in March 2008 and was estimated to be complete by November 2008. The phases (some overlapping) of the project were: contract settlement; database development; batch processing (itemisation and transportation); letter generation (permissions); and item processing (receipt of digital files). The planning, implementation, business and technical details of the thesis digitisation project are described in this report.
- Google Maps Connectivism Course
- jm: Google map for CCK08
- The Clever Sheep: CCK08 is Truly Global
- jm: How to get yourself on the connectivism map
- CCK08 Cohort in Second Life - Connectivism and Connective Knowledge | Google Groups
- CCK08 in Second Life
- Connectivism | Twine
- jm: twine for CCK08 connectivism class
- Connectivism and Connective Knowledge | Google Groups
- jm: the CCK08 Google Group
- Twitter / cck08
- jm: link to keep up with connectivism class via twitter
- Connectivism Outline - LTCWiki
- jm: wiki for class
- Drape's Takes: Controlling Mobile Phone Use in Schools
- lastpass.com - The Last Password You'll Have To Remember
- Might be useful for a teachers sharing computers with students. Gary
- Qipit - Copy and share documents
- Scoop || Collaborative Media for the Masses
- CIA, FBI push 'Facebook for spies'
- Google Chrome Tips
- The Best of Educational Technology
- A Google Custom Search engine put together by Lucy Gray
- Compendium
- an argument development tool
- Home of CELLS alive!
- Great for biology teachers and students. Gary
- Top News - Virtual environment boosts reading skills
- Quest Atlantis virtual environment. See YouTube video on second page. Gary
- Quest Atlantis
- Quest Atlantis site. Gary
- Dynamic 3 Column Layout Generator - pagecolumn.com
- dynamic page layout generator with some easy to use customisation options
- flowchart2.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024x773 pixels) - Scaled (62%)
- The real Web 2.0 Gary
- The Straight Dope - Fighting Ignorance Since 1973
- This is probably an old one for most. Signing up for the mailing list is worth it. Every now and then you find something that is useful for the classroom (in some weird way). Gary
- The Canary Project
- Visualization of climate change. Gary
- Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
- Good reference if you are teaching freshwater biology. Good use of interactive map. Gary
- BBC NEWS | Technology | One Laptop signs up with Amazon
- G!G! again but only to US. Gary
- Kitzu - Find, Learn, Create
- EduBlog Insights » Blog Archive » Rationale for educational blogging
- Some great bullet points for when people question the point of getting students to blog.
- The ChemCollective
- The Chemistry Collective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, and concepts tests which can be incorporated into a variety of teaching approaches as pre-labs, alternatives to textbook homework, and in-class activities for individuals or teams. It is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon University for college and high school teachers who are interested in using, assessing, and/or creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.
- Firefox: Enable Chrome's Best Features in Firefox
- Apart from a few specific issues (namely process management), many of Chrome's best features are already available in Firefox 3, proving yet again the power of extensibility.
- Blind Planet | The best blind community on the net!
- Developers and Webmasters : Java - Google Chrome Help Center
- jm: java for Chrome
- How to Change the World: Winners of World's Best Presentation Contest
- These are the winners of the Slideshare World's Best Presentation Contest. Notice the use of pictures and graphics, big fonts, and minimal text. Check them out!
- Commentary: Obama's high-tech edge in presidential politics - CNN.com
- It's tech, if not ed. But if campaigns can embrace new technology to reach people n new ways, why not education?
- Edmodo
- Microblogging for educators (Teachers & Students)
- World's Best Presentation Contest 2008 - SlideShare
- The Teacher List
- This has probably been discussed before. Every teacher should subscribe. Pete does a great job. Gary
- Pricing | Mollom
- jm: limits and pricing between free and plus accounts for Mollom
- Scroll keys belong to Microsoft, in part
- I like the "most recommended" comment. Gary
- Anatomy Arcade
- Developed by a teacher. Even can be followed on Twitter. Gary
- Seth's Blog: Learning from a summer intern program
- Read to the end - has some definite tie-ins to Students 2.0, ongong discussions on how people learn, and ed tech.
- Web 2.0 Tools for the K-2 Crowd - Classroom 2.0
- Just a list of urls, really. But maybe something interesting in there worth talking about...
- Google 'starting from scratch' with own browser
- Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Flowgram
- Time to listen
- Grant Robinson : Guess-the-google
- KS3/4 ICT - Online Safety | Teachers TV
- a 30 min video and a variety of resources
- Top News - McCain, Obama put out tech agendas
- We've Looked at Clouds From Both Sides Now - washingtonpost.com
- Phase 1 Pilot Activity
- dave white's video review of the first phase of the openhabitat project
- Radiant CMS
- open source cms built on ruby
- 21st Century Learning Intelligences
- 21st Century Information Fluency
- Women of Web 2.0 Show 86 with Sharon Peters and Teachers without Borders | EdTechTalk
- We had a wonderful conversation with WOW 2.0 webcaster Sharon Peters as
she shared her amazing experience of working with the "Teachers
Without Borders" group in Africa this past summer.
- What's The Harm?
- This might be a good reference site for science and other teachers who are confronted by questions related to pseudoscience. It goes a step further by pointing out the harm that can result when actual science is not considered - there may be serious results. A related site may also be of interest - it looks at the tools used by the "What the Harm?" site. See: http://skeptools.wordpress.com/ Gary
- Summative vs. Formative Evaluation
- Sarah Palin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Comparison of Palin's page before and after "YoungTrigg" edited.
- Gigablast
- On plurk I read something about a familyfriendly filter - can anyone confirm?
- Goodnight Skypecasts - Skype Blogs
- jm skypecasts obit
- obama’s dnc speech as a word cloud | D'Arcy Norman dot net
- jm: nothing to do with edtech, I guess ... but cool
- Home (OpenSocial)
- jm: what IU collaborative research network build upon
- Indiana U researchers launch social networking and research management tool for scientists
- jm: Indiana University researchers have introduced Laboratree, a web-based solution to the complex problems of scientific collaboration.
- iPhone 3G - already with pictures ! (aka "iPhone Girl") - Mac Forums
- OER Handbook Zotero References « Open Education News
- jm: my post on zotero references from OER handbook
- Veoh decision setback for Viacom, but Google not off hook
- More tidbits on the new Comcast cap
- OER Handbook: OER Handbook Zotero Collection
- jm: download lists of works in the OER Handbook
- Open Educational Resources Handbook for Educators Version 1.0 by Seth Gurell (Book) in Education & Language
- jm: created from wiki of multiple authors
- Educational Research Journals: European Science Foundation
- jm: Pedagogical and Educational research - attempt to "rank" them ... take it for what it is without getting too pissy :)
- Spitefuls: [Disaster Dioramas!!]
- Target to pay $6 million to settle site accessibility suit
- Target has settled a class action lawsuit with the National Federation of the Blind over accessibility complaints with Target.com. Despite the law being unclear as to whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to websites, the company will pay a substantial fee and update its web site to make it accessible to the blind.
- Open source group sues Quebec over no-bid Microsoft contracts
- A nonprofit open source advocacy group in Quebec is taking the provincial government to court over its software procurement policies. The group, which is called FACIL, contends that the government has failed to comply with contract regulations by consistently adopting foreign proprietary software without first evaluating open source alternatives.
- The 5 Best Free File Hosting Services To Store Your Files! - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers
- Some file hosting sites are really handy and make sharing data even simpler than sending a file via email while other services spam you with countless pop ups and forced membership options to simply download a file.
- DailyLit: Read books online by daily email and RSS feed
- Reading books via e-mail - like the science fiction section. 663 days to read "War and Peace" Gary
- 50th Anniversary of NASA
- Great site to explore and entertaining. Gary
- Mechanics with animations and film clips: Physclips.
- Good teaching tool for physics - videos and visuals are great. Gary
- E-textbooks may not be cheaper than printed ones, report says - Los Angeles Times
- Interesting points of view. Gary
- Jog the Web - Animations (step 1)
- This is one "track" from "Jog the Web" about animations. Tracks show favorite websites.
- Ubiquity for Firefox on Vimeo
- Accelerate and mashup your todo activites
- NECC 2009 Proposals
- NECC Proposal window opens September 2, 2008. The firm deadline for proposal submissions is October 8, 2008. Necc 2009 is June 28-July 1 in Washington, DC
- think:lab: Before I Go
- jm: an edublogger is moving on ...
- A comprehensive review of iPhone e-book options | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
- jm: follow up to Alvin's comments on using iPhone as ebook reader
- TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
- jm; blog devoted to following ebooks and readers
- Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs's Obituary, As Run By Bloomberg
- jm: funny if it weren't so creepy
- Google Moves to Mainstream RSS With A Simple Name Change - ReadWriteWeb
- jm: how widespread is RSS aggregation do you think?
- Extinguish the Rumors: No New Amazon Kindle This Year - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
- jm: follow up on Kindle update ... so how again are we to read our digital textbooks and pdfs?
- Clive on Learning: Learning styles don't exist
- Digital Media and Learning Competition
- jm: it is baaaack
- E-textbooks may not be cheaper than printed ones, report says - Los Angeles Times
- jm: all about the follow up ... continuing discussion about digital textbooks
- Georgetown University - FORA.tv
- jm: example from Georgetown
- Georgetown U To Broadcast Video via FORA.tv
- jm: interesting idea to open up discussions on traditional campuses
- Microsoft lets people surf without leaving a trace - CNN.com
- 100+ Ways to Score Freebies For Your Classroom | Smart Teaching
- Some great ideas to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure for teachers
- Opentape
- A bit like muxtape, but you host the software on your own serve and it's Open Source!
- Find, Follow and Share Comments — BackType
- A 'Twitter for comments' - finds comments from all over the Internet, puts them into a stream and makes them searchable
- Quebec government sued for buying Microsoft software
- Hmm ..... consider all the Microsoft products purchased each year by schools. This case, if successful, could start a trend. Gary
- Give Me 20
- Basic personal finance for high school and university students. Beginning teachers may also find it useful. Gary
- Ask The Readers: Best Places to Find Deals on Textbooks?
- Capzles
- BubbleShare - Easy Photo Sharing - Create a Slideshow and add to your profile or blog
- Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
- Maps according to topic. eg religion and population.
- NASA Discovers Computer Virus Aboard the International Space Station
- Wi-Fi: Get Free Airport Wi-Fi with a Simple URL Hack
- Cool hack + interesting moral discussion
- I've Had Enough of "Live" at Conferences
- Let's get back to why we go to conferences... the networking and the education. If you can't be there for some reason, watch the sessions later on. Just because it's cutsie and hip to go live all the time, doesn't mean we need to.
- Related Posts: Students Motivation to Learn « Onlinesapiens Blog
- Objections To Using Learning 2.0 and Social Learning « Onlinesapiens Blog
- WhatTheFont : MyFonts
- Discovers the font a logo uses by uploading an image.
- cooltoolsforschools » home
- A wiki with Web 2.0 for education organised by category.
- The Associated Press: Texas truant students to be tracked by GPS anklets
- Not sure this fits under the educational use of technology but ..... interesting, if not disturbing, use of technology though. Gary
- The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn: Scientific American
- What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?
- THIS is worth the read - fun, fun, funny! FOund via tweet from Alec Couros.
- mental_floss Blog » 12 Sports Cut From The Olympics
- slide:ology » Book Content
- excellent book on presentations
- Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider 'Fair Use' Before Sending Takedown Notice | Threat Level from Wired.com
- Become an Efficient Researcher: Top Twenty Firefox Add-ons that Make Firefox the Researcher's Browser of Choice | Res Ipsa Blog
- TinEye Image Search
- Home | Mahara
- A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash - NYTimes.com
- Biology/Science teachers may find this article interesting. Although I taught biology for many years (in Canada) I have never "feared" to discuss evolution in class. This is eye-opening and suggests that all should diligent about the issue in our own school jurisdictions. Gary
- Make the Future! 30 Second Forecasts
- Flickr audio set
- Open Access - RSP Blog Directory
- jm: via Stephen Downes list of Open Access blogs
- mollom just got punted - D'Arcy Norman dot net
- jm: more for jeff, dave, and john ...
- Pixelpipe - Free your media, upload and share anywhere
- jm: post media in multiple places
- Most Popular Websites For Kids - ReadWriteWeb
- jm: what the whippersnappers are up to these days
- AppleInsider | Steve Jobs vows iPhone app crash fix for September
- jm: for what it is worth ...
- Help Us Speak at SXSW | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
- jm: At the moment, the public is voting on what speaking panels should be accepted for the event. When the voting finishes (August 29, 2008) the SXSW staff will consider the results of the voting when deciding what panels will be picked.
I say all this because I hope you'll vote for our panel. :)
- Top 10 Online Note Taking Applications
- jm: tried any of these?
- U Tech Tips » Blog Archive » Oh oh, there go my podasts
- WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On the Go
- Welcome to WebAnywhere
- US Presidential Campaign Videos - 56 years of TV Spots
- Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle
- For Those Who Think They're Password Protected
- 42% log in to others accounts
- Judge: Copyright owners must consider 'fair use' | News - Digital Media - CNET News
- Bonk's Participatory Course announcement
- jm: oodles of links in Bonk's syllabus
- AddThis - Social Bookmarking Sharing Button - Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Widget
- Mathway: Step-by-Step Math Problem Solver
- Mathway is a free website that solves your math problems and provides step-by-step work with explanations.
- Welcome to Graphsy
- Graphsy is a new graph drawing application for the Web with a focus on usability. It allows you to access graph projects oniline
- iTWire - Microsoft granted Page Up Page Down patent
- If patenting the obvious is considered something of an art form in the world of IT, then Microsoft is undoubtedly an old master. The Page Up Page Down patent it has been granted would seem to confirm this...
- Microsoft Office Discount for Students - The Ultimate Steal
- Woman Attempts To Kidnap Ex-Virtual Boyfriend
- Blip.fm | Global Music Radar | Page 1 of 926
- Digital Promise
- Federation of American Scientists :: The National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies
- national center
- "Cite this page" on Wikipedia
- Yearbook Yourself
- How I Stole Someone's Identity: Scientific American
- PBS Teachers | learning.now . Coming Soon: A National Center for Edtech Research | PBS
- Myplick - share PowerPoint and Google presentations online, slideshows, slide show
- BBC NEWS | Technology | One laptop for every Niuean child
- A whole country! Gary
- Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system - Yahoo! News
- Connectivism Research - LTCWiki
- jm: research discussions surrounding MOOC
- liveusb-creator: Install Live Operating Systems on a USB Flash Drive | OgasaWalrus.com
- Photosynth
- Row erupts over schools open-source project - ZDNet.co.uk
- AlphaPlus consultancy given contract to look into Open Source software project for Becta. Ian Usher and myself involved so far...
- Creating Passionate Users
- delizzy - del.icio.us Bookmarks Search Engine
- del.izzy is a free service that lets you search through your del.icio.us bookmarks.
- Remember: The Music is not in the Piano… « Dan Gross
- Great reminder that technology is but a tool in the learning process.
- Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California - Los Angeles Times
- A Blog Around The Clock : What kind of personality predisposes one to start blogging?
- No school like home: Jessica Shepherd meets the children who don't go to school | Education | The Guardian
- An article about home schooling with reference to new book that says it's a viable option up to 14.
- Use Del.icio.us to Create Your Eportfolio « Onlinesapiens Blog
- updated!
- Essay - At School, Technology Starts to Turn a Corner - NYTimes.com
- Maybe of some interest. Gary
- 30% of children can't learn from their mistakes. It's genetic.
- Dwa-552/Dir-655 Cannot get Wireless N to work - dslreports.com
- Welcome to Debatepedia! - Debatepedia
- EdTechTalk Show Backups
- SaveTube - Save YouTube Videos
- http://www.youconvertit.com/convertfiles.aspx
- Slashdot | Internet Radio's "Last Stand"
- XM Satellite Radio will pay "about 1.6 cents per hour per listener when the new rates are fully adapted in 2010. By contrast, Web radio outlets will pay 2.91 cents per hour per listener." That's 70% of projected revenue for Pandora; smaller players estimate the hit at 100% to 300% of revenue.
- Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music
- How did I not know about this? Give them an artist you like, and they'll play music that's similar. Too bad they're going to get buried by licensing fees next year
- Blog Action Day 2008 - Get Ready
- Dell, Intel give users what they want: to turn Windows off
- Dell, Intel and their partners announced this week new technologies that represent major leaps forward for mobility. The companies seem to have discovered the secret to making such bold leaps: Cut Microsoft out of the deal.
- AllAboutElearning.lu
- Step-by-step processes to setup elearning training activities.
- Listing of education widgets
- Links to lots of useful learning tools.
- WikiTaxi [Delphi Inspiration]
- WikiTaxi enables you to read, search, and browse Wikipedia offline. No Internet connection is needed, all pages are stored in a WikiTaxi database. Because Wikipedia is constantly growing, WikiTaxi uses compression to make sure that the database stays reasonably small. The huge English Wikipedia easily fits on a 8 GB memory stick.
- TweetDeck
- TeeBeeDee - Where Grown-ups meet
- Social Network for us 40+ folks
- NOVA | Lord of the Ants | Man of Ideas | PBS
- If you teach biology / evolution / natural history or are a student this is a useful reference. Also looks at the controversy surrounding this famous secular-humanist. Gary
- Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The "model" for scientific thinking written by a spiritualist. Good reference - especially for those of us who are fans. Gary
- nsf.gov - NSF and the Birth of the Internet - Special Report
- Useful? Also interesting. Gary
- getmooh.com - Escape a Date, Escape from a Meeting, Escape People
- » Lime Survey — another way to Poll Tech Thoughts By Jen:
- eSnips.com
- 5GB of free space to upload and share your files, photos, videos and music
- SuperGenPass: A Free Bookmarklet Password Generator
- spreeder.com - online speed reading application
- Apple the new king of Silicon Valley as market value overtakes Google
- The U.S. Government Printing Office has issued an RFP for Mass Digitization. Proposals are due September 19, 2008. (Thanks to Free Government Information.)
- jm: cool!
- kstoolkit » KSTools
- Knowledge Sharing Tools
- Human » Moodle tutorials (2 Minute Moodles)
- A series of 2-minute video clips explaining Moodle basics.
- Human » Blog Archive » How can Moodle change a school
- Tech integration specialist Tomaz Lasic explains in two video clips how Moodle transformed teaching and learning in his school.
- For Edubloggers: How to Build a Better Blog « Onlinesapiens Blog
- Online student-teacher friendships can be tricky - CNN.com
- state legislator Jane Cunningham is sponsoring a bill in the Missouri House of Representatives that would ban elementary school teachers from having social-networking friendships with their students.
- Court: violating copyleft = copyright infringement
- A federal appeals court has overruled a lower court ruling that, if sustained, would have severely hampered the enforceability of free software licenses. The lower court had found that redistributing software in violation of the terms of a free software license could constitute a breach of contract, but was not copyright infringement.
- Open Source Copyrights Legally Enforceable, Appeals Court Rules -- Open Source -- InformationWeek
- Wired Campus: Rice U. Acquires Rights to Popular Textbook to Offer It Free Online - Chronicle.com
- huge and important news: free licenses upheld (Lessig Blog)
- Digital Domain - Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense. - NYTimes.com
- Text to speech software with Natural Voices-- Free NaturalReader
- Text to speech free speech software
- The MaintainIT Project
- The MaintainIT Project is a three-year project. We gather stories from public libraries on how they support public computers and publish their tips and techniques in Cookbooks and articles, available for FREE on the project web site.
- About Us | The MaintainIT Project, a project of TechSoup
- The MaintainIT Project is a three-year project. We gather stories from public libraries on how they support public computers and publish their tips and techniques in Cookbooks and articles, available for FREE on the project web site.
- Prof tweets about course, ends up moving whole class online
- Can you imagine? These students aren't even going to class. How could they possibly learn anything?
- 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers
- Online student-teacher friendships can be tricky - CNN.com
- Online student-teacher friendships can be tricky
- Drape's Takes: First Impressions
- gsiemens's madison08 Bookmarks on Delicious
- jm: tags from George's talk
- elearnspace: Presentation: Madison
- jm: george's talk from Madison last week
- CleanWriter, magnetic drawing board
- "Like a giant Magna-Doodle. It would make a perfect replacement for chalkboards or erasable marker boards."
- The Miniature Earth
- A fantastic web moive that shows the make up of the Eart as 100 people
- Teen Texting Expert Insists on Being Letter-Perfect - washingtonpost.com
- Apparently you don't have to use all those abbreviations! LOL :) Gary
- 2008 Metaverse Tour Video: The Social Virtual World’s A Stage
- Math-Kitecture - Using Architecture to Do Math...Draft a Floor Plan with Software
- HearWho
- Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator
- Age photos instantly
- Taste of Tech » Blog Archive » No One to Call
- Bouillon project » Blog Archive » Is Wikipedia saturated? Yep! Last year.
- Moodle and Social Constructionism: Looking for the Individual in the Community | Academic Commons
- What Social Media Does Best | chrisbrogan.com
- Giz Explains: An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need
- PC World - Apple Displaces Microsoft in Patch Reports
- pdtogo.com : Professional Development For Busy Educators : lessons, files, podcasts
- Whiteboard Challenge
- Top 100 Interactive Educational Games
- 42explore: Thematic Pathfinders for All Ages
- eduScapes: A Site for Life-long Learners
- 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games | NBC Olympics
- NBC/ Microsoft's Live Olympic video using Silverlight.
- Slipstream - Olympics Online, With a Hook - NYTimes.com
- The Math Forum @ Drexel University
- Table of Contents - Math Open Reference
- ‘Fakeproof’ e-passport is cloned in minutes
- Accredited Online University - American Public University (APUS) - Online Learning University, Distance Education, Online University Degree Programs
- jm: accredited online education for military and others
- Yobler-Your Learning Tube
- YouTube - Aint Gonna Hold Us Back D-I-G-I-T-A-L
- This is the great video about how girls should learn technology "stuff". From the 1st grade class!
- How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
- jm: free online version with podcast
- Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Training, Desktop Sharing, Web Meeting, Free Web conferencing, eLearning, Presentation Software, Web x collaboration, Collaboration software
- jm: new version now includes recording
- Beyond Google & Yahoo: Search Engine Alternatives
- jm: some alteratives for search ... see other blogs by Ray
- TheBrain.com - PersonalBrain, Download
- jm: george s. showed during conf.
- GNG | global nomads group
- jm: Established in 1998, the Global Nomads Group (GNG) is an international NGO that creates interactive educational programs for students about global issues. GNG’s educational programs include (1) four types of videoconferences — The PULSE, Currents, Innovations and Rapid Response — where students learn about and discuss subjects with their peers from around the world in live, facilitated sessions; and (2) videos and learning content on a variety of international issues relevant to teachers and students.
- Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word
- jm: talked about before ... now available take notes while recording audio
- flump - onairbustour - Google Code - Simple Flickr image downloader
- flump is a simple application that allows your to download all of the public photos for a specific Flickr account.
- Easy as ABC: Web apps for students | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
- This is a start. Gary
- Google Docs Templates
- Templates for Google Docs. Includes ones specifically for education-related stuff. :-)
- Lexical FreeNet
- Rejaw
- Twitter-like micro social networking site, with conversations, API, etc.
- The New York Public Library, The Branch Libraries
- Instead of the Book Mobile, the Digital Bookmobile via NYPL.
- e-Government National Awards
- How People Learn: brain, mind, experience, and school
- jm: mentioned during the distance learning conf. as good overview of research in learning prior to 2000
- kwippy - signup
- Learning at the back door : reflections on non-traditional learning in the lifespan [WorldCat.org]
- jm: again ... lest we keep thinking we are "inventing" this stuff ...
- 12 Tools That Will Soon Go the Way of Fax and CDs
- A flickr CC search toy
- This is a wee test search for creative commons flick photos, click on the thumbnail to see a small image and get the code to embed the photo with attribution on your blog. When you see the code you can toggle left/ right alignment and small/medium size. If you are allowed to you can edit a large size in picnik, you will need to handle the attribution for this yourself.
- Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops
- - Animoto For Education -
- Case studies (including mine!) of using Animoto in an educational environment. Animoto is free for educators.
- 7 Essential Guidelines For Functional Design | How-To | Smashing Magazine
- Very useful guide for anyone who designs anything for other people to use. Also useful for people who train other people on stuff.
- Where The Hell Is Matt?
- Dissecting the Backchannel « Barry Dahl dot com
- jm: interesting peek into a recent conf. backchannel
- Start your own free groups and site with OnlineGroups.Net
- jm: integrate listserv with website
- Facilitating online communities - WikiEducator
- jm: more formal / informal open education to join!
- Bullying, freedom of speech collide - The Boston Globe
- Glad I am a school administrator. Gary
- In Maine, a laptop for every middle-schooler - Back to School- msnbc.com
- It always seems to come back to some standardized test. Gary
- Why You Should Have Your Next Business Meeting in Second Life | Fast Company
- Less than 10 percent of the people who sign up are sticking around and participating in the virtual world.
- Griffith - Home
- Top News - Gas prices fuel rise in virtual field trips
- Not sure if this has been posted to EdTechTalk before but it is interesting (and somewhat sad - I loved real field trips). Gary
- KenBrashear.com - Ken's Virtual Drumkit
- 50 of the Best Websites for Writers | Educhoices.org
- There are tons of reference sites on the web that can help you land a job or write that poem, essay or story. Here is a list of the best 50 websites for writers.
- HDMI Cable, Home Theater Accessories, HDMI Products, Cables, Adapters, Video/Audio Switch, Networking, USB, Firewire, Printer Toner, and more!
- Mikogo: Free Online Meetings
- GoAnimate - Watch Most Watched Animations
- Animation webware
- 2008 Olympics: The digital games
- Classroom 2.0
- "Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education"
- Jimdo - Pages to the People. - free website
- Free web/blog hosting with some fancy plugin options.
- Morning With 8th Graders on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- Alan Levine's photo at Flickr after a morning spent with Lee and Paul's 8th grade students. Just another example of how many people and places that Lee touched in her teaching and edtech endeavors.
- Horizon Information Portal
- download mp3 and pdf versions of books
- College funding bill passed with anti-P2P provisions intact
- Top News - Copyright fight looms over college textbooks
- CANOE -- CNEWS - Weird News: This time, Flat Stanley's going to court
- MakeMusic
- EA : BOOMBLOX : Language Select Page
- Blow Up
- full screen flickr viewer
- Viewzi — What are you looking for?
- Flickr viewer
- JL's video comment for Carlos at Webcastacademy
- One of the most effective uses of technology I've seen to confirm and seek clarification in an educational setting.
- EdTech Action Network
- Interesting...
- Special events mark B.C. 150th anniversary on B.C. Day holiday - Yahoo ...
- Renfrew, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Renfrew, Ontario
- Civic Holiday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The first Monday in August is a holiday in most of Canada. Where you live depends on what it's called....
- Wix.com Create a free website
- Glogster - Poster Yourself
- Easy to use web page builder
- In Memoriam Sites & Services
- Linux desktop imitating OSX | Lauri Taimila
- 'New car smell' becoming less toxic, report says
- Scrabulous Returns By Another Name, Will 'Wordscraper' Evade Hasbro?
- Google: No such thing as complete privacy | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com
- Vara Software : ScreenFlow - Professional Screencasting Studio
- Fueling Online Learning
- jm: sort of makes my want to toss my cookies ... does it really take high gas prices to make online learning a viable option?
- Windows "Mojave" advertisements appear in the wild
- A rose by any other name...
- Yahoo relents, gives coupons, refunds to music DRM captives
- Yahoo music update -- they'll give coupons for repurchases on Rhapsody.
- The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science
- Maybe useful on-line course. Gary
- Europa Film Treasures
- Maybe useful for history teachers? Fun watching also. Gary
- Loci: Resources | Derivative Matching Game
- Math site - not for those that are math-phobics. Gary
- Texas State Tech To Deliver Digital Media Program via Second Life
- Picture This: Using Photography to Teach Science, Math, and Writing | Edutopia
- 15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever | The Best Article Every day
- Jen Wagner tagged this and I thought it was interesting - ESPECIALLY #12 and #14! ~Dschinker
- LeeBaberIntro.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
- Teachers Teaching Teachers #58 - 06.20.07 - Finding passion in and out of the classroom | EdTechTalk
- Go to minute 15 to listen to Lee describe banjo playing, horse riding, and teaching.
- Teachers Teaching Teachers #94 - Music in the Classroom - 03.05.08 | EdTechTalk
- At minute 15, an amazing piece of audio where Lee describes her career before teaching.
- SMART - Lesson Activity Toolkit Overview
- Allows teachers to create word games, quizzes, crosswords, etc.
- Edublogs.tv
- EdTech in Virtual Worlds Grad Course
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Intel and Portugal in school deal
- Not OLPC but picture of Nigerian class! Gary
- edHelper.com - Math, Reading Comprehension, Themes, Lesson Plans, and Worksheets
- Vance Steven's Engaging Collaborative Writing through Social Networking
- WorldCALL 2008 - WorldCALL 2008
- "Exceptional Software Explained: Embrace Error"
- Robert Lefkowitz Keynote at OSCON
- Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Google's Assault on Wikipedia
- OLPC News: OLPC Nigeria One Year Later: Hard Lessons Learned
- SearchCloud.net
- Welcome (The Ed Tech Elevator Pitch)
- Wikigate: A Secret Sect With Controls Beyond Words
- Cuil
- Open Web Foundation
- Innovations in e-Learning - George Mason University
- We Are Media » Strategy Track Module 1
- We Are Media » Strategy Track Module 3
- We Are Media » Strategy Track Module 2
- Do you know where your password is?
- Goodbye and Good Luck from Arthus
- YouTube - Jimmy Wales on Google's Knol
- Complaining Bloggers Have a Cable Company’s Ear - NYTimes.com
- If you have a problem, ask everyone - International Herald Tribune
- Internet Evolution - Mary E. Shacklett - Scientists Plan Interplanetary Internet Protocol
- Open Education News
- As additional projects, foundations, universities, and other participants join the movement, the need increases for a single source to gather, sort, analyze, synthesize, and disseminate news related to open education.
- When worlds collide: Microsoft funds Apache | Latest Microsoft News - CNET News - CNET News.com
- SlideBoom - Share Live PowerPoint Presentations Online
- What Makes Slideboom Different?
With Slideboom, your original presentation keeps its features after conversion. This includes:
* content style
* animation effects
* transitions
* embedded audio
* embedded video
- Athletes to blog Olympic Games - vnunet.com
- The Electric Sheep Company: Products: WebFlock
- for those with a spare $100,000
- Open Source Living
- OSS Watch - Academic end-users
- jm: more open source stuff for academic end-users
- SocialTech: Open Source Social Software
- jm:
- Giveaway | Thomas L. Friedman
- Gapminder - Home
- from Kelly O - Diigo --- a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
- Home | 12seconds.tv (alpha)
- Knol: Google Takes on Wikipedia - ReadWriteWeb
- Knol: a unit of knowledge
- DropCard :: Share contact info easily
- cool service that lets you send a quick text message, and it forwards all your business or personal (you choose) information to the person's e-mail address. super useful
- Veodia : agile streaming video that puts your work in motion
- feedmysearch -Turn google searches into usefull rss feeds
- Future politicians will have to face the ghosts of their Facebook pasts - The Takeaway
- Open Training Platform: Creating Learning Materials for Open and Distance Learning: A Handbook for Authors and Instructional Designers
- jm: great resource!
- Copyright: so complex, here's a slide rule to decode it
- The reality is that US copyright is a humped and horned animal with two heads, pebbly skin, and a ravenous stomach that gorges itself on the grain called "Complexity."
- OATS — oats
- OATSoft is dedicated to improving Assistive Technology and computer accessibility through the power of Open Source development techniques. OATSoft makes the best Open Source Assistive Technology Software (OATS) easy to find. Users and developers meet at
- Linux.com :: Nifty tools for your Asus Eee PC
- For those who like to customize, a few tools for the eee, including "Pimp my eee".
- Global Composite Weather Satellite Infrared Pictures from NASA GHCC
- Global composite of geostationary satellite see clouds moving in real time
weather images. You may interactively zoom and animate the pictures.
- EDGE - Dialogue on "Is Google Making Us Stupid"
- jm: via brian lamb Fine range of responses so far...
- Marshall Kirkpatrick » 5 Minute Intro to Yahoo Pipes
- jm: via Brian Lamb re: pipes
- Dumbest Generation Home
- jm: via Brian Lamb hmmm ...
- iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » The “Wiley Wiki Design”
- jm: breaking down open course creation
- RezEd
- Sorry, We’re Open at bavatuesdays - Blackboard & Sakai
- Stepping into Virtual Worlds Conference Series
- Process and content: education needs both « innovating education
- jm: interesting walk through history in the video and links
- Grupthink
- Grūpthink is a new way to ask and explore open-ended topics with the rest of the world. Anyone can post a topic or open-ended question at Grūpthink. Anyone can add new responses to questions and topics, and those answers can be voted on by everyone else
- Stixy: For Flexible Online Creation Collaboration and Sharing
- Easy collaboration and sharing with moveable notes, photos, etc.
- mapanno
- mapanno mashup is a web based service providing a set of online authoring tools to create visual content by 'mashing up' your images from flickr or 23 into content that you can download and publish to your own website or blog.
- AirRadar - Advanced Wireless Network Scanner
- An improvement on the standard Airport application for OSX./
- SMS Poll
- Free SMS Voting.
- Nice introduction to yahoo pipes
- Transforming Teaching Empowering Teachers to Transform their Teaching with 21st Century Technology Tools
- Today @ PC World Court Approves Airport Laptop Searches - No Probable Cause Needed
- Hyperwords (for Firefox 3.0) :: Firefox Add-ons
- References, Searches, Conversions, Translations, Email, Blogging & more.
- MSI Notebook Website - Product
- jm: eeepc "killer" cnet says "not"
- Dell said to be planning launch of low-cost notebook in August
- jm: more competition for the eeepc
- PowerTalk - automatic speech for PowerPoint presentations
- Favthumbs / jefflebow / legal
- Funky Ways to Express Yourself - BeFunky
- Mediasite Games Learning and Society presentations
- jm: recorded webcasts from games learning and society conf.
- GLS Conference 4.0 2008
- jm: looks very cool - see other link to archived media, too.
- On GLS 4.0, friends, technology & learning | Welcome to NCS-Tech!
- jm: kevin jarret's review of the games learning and society confernece in Madison WISCONSIN!!
- Three Very Important Plurk Statistics
- jm: is plurk ker-plurked?
- Welcome to Open Education News! « Open Education News
- jm: shameless self-promotion by jen ... but contact david wiley if you want to join, too :)
- USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future
- jm: center for digital -- prior year reports for free, current NOT free
- Royal Pingdom » Women more frustrated by the Web?
- Study Finds Firefox Users Safest, IE Users Unsafe
- Let's End Teacher's Long Nightmare -- Courant.com
- Boooo Norwich Police!!!
- Grou.ps Pulls In $1.1 Million, Opens Up Code To Take On Ning
- GROU.PS :: connects obsessively!
- a platform for social groups to get together. Use it for any purpose.
And get your group web site without waiting. No branding, it’s free! Plus it's integrated with 3rd party services such as Flickr and YouTube
- Freebase: an open, shared database of the world's knowledge
- Drawing from large open data sets like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, and the SEC archives, it contains structured information on many popular topics, including movies, music, people and locations – all reconciled and freely available via an open API.
- Privnote - send notes that will self-destruct after being read
- Cellphone use potentially risky for kids, teens: health agency
- Science fluff? Long-term studies take time - maybe we will have an answer 30 years from now? Gary
- The Educators Network: Where Teachers Come First
- AuslogicsDisk Defrag
- Speeds up defragmentation on Windows and tells you how much faster your PC is as a result.
- "Better" Firefox Extension Updates Now Available
- Lifehacker's series of 'better...' Firefox extensions updated.
- Tree Style Tab :: Firefox Add-ons
- Show tabs like a tree - aids productivity
- Picnik :: Firefox Add-ons
- Add a menu options and a toolbar icon to make importing images into Picnik easier.
- Video DownloadHelper :: Firefox Add-ons
- The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries.
- bit.ly, a simple url shortener
- Shorter URLs than TinyURL and traffic tracking features.
- Cyberbullying should be criminal offence: teachers
- Canadian Teachers' Federation resolution. The comments are interesting. Gary
- Searchme Visual Search - Beta - rev. 2.0.1
- Your Office Suite
- Another option but not for Mac? Gary
- www.schome.ac.uk - Home
- Create Free Online Surveys
- Wisdomap
- With Wisdomap we have focussed on bringing our mind maps back to basics – colourful, clean, simple and visually appealing – to maximise the gains from visual and spatial memory.
- Utilium: The best way to organize and share learning materials with today's students.
- A Utilium is an integrated collection of learning resources drawn from a range of trusted online sources including timely articles, videos, podcasts, and exercises that fit the learning styles and preferences of today’s students.
- Dojo Learning - Online training, untangled
- Browse and register for public lessons. Make your own lessons and share them with friends. Join the new online learning community
- High gas prices fuel boom in online classes - Boston.com
- A sign of the times?
- Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Prism
- A Site-Specific Browser solution from Mozilla.
- Multicolr Search Lab - Idée Inc.
- Collect images by colour
- Complexity and Education
- This may be of some interest to those interested in complexity science and education. Maybe some application to those "rhizomes". Gary
- Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counteratta
- Games at Sploder - Flash Game Creator, Games for MySpace,
- Apple just gave out my Apple ID pas
- With the incipient launch of MobileMe, how can this kind of blunder happen?
- "Microsoft Acquires Powerset": Why a Semantic Web Will Be Smarter,
- Interesting article about Web 3.0 (“semantic Web”). Has many implications for education. Gary
- CORRECTED - Technology Reshapes America'
- Interesting statistics and predictions:
"Our projections show that 50 percent of high school courses will be taught online by 2019."
Outsourced (this should open a hornet's nest):
"Online tutoring is also expanding rapidly. Bangalore-bas
- EdTech Action Network
- Free Assessment | SimpleAssessment
- Will at Work Learning: All Media Forced to be Sold for Cheap
- jm: interesting take on the future of content
- New Study Released By The Center For The Digital Future and AARP Shows Internet Users 50+ Are Rapidly Closing the Digital Divide with Booming Online Activity
- jm: take that netgens
- Open Source Cross-Browser WYSIWYG Editor
- Peoples-Uni.org
- jm: Help to build Public Health capacity in low- to middle-income countries, using open education resources freely available on the Internet
- OER Africa
- jm: OER Africa is a project, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, under the auspices of the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE). OER Africa has been established to play a leading role in driving the development and use of Open Educational R
- Welcome to Produsage.org | Produsage.org
- jm: research into user-led content creation
- Profile Cards: design your own Profile Card at Zazzle
- jm: like moo via flickr - also like cafe press, too.
- Google News Archive Search
- 70 Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube | Open Culture
- The Best Collaboration Tools
- Lively - Google's Virtual Spacd
- InternetNews Realtime IT News - DNS at Risk From Multivendor Cache Poisoning
- Linden Labs and IBM Break the Metaverse Barrier, Teleport Across Virtual Worlds
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video --
- NECC 2008 Webcasts
- Google Safe Browsing API - Google Code
- Kevin Carmony's Blog: Xandros Acquires Linspire Assets in Secret Backroom Deal
- Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
- Netvibes : Public activity
- Official Google Blog: Google learns to crawl Flash
- Guinness bestows download record on Firefox
- Commonwealth of Learning - Education for a Digital World
- Proven strategies for effective online teaching.
by dajbelshaw
- Dylan's Couch
- kschroed
- Campus copyright battle moves to textbook torrents
- pretty clear that there's significant expertise with filesharing on college campuses, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that this expertise has been put to use with other copyrighted materials.
by jschinker .
- Swurl
- Brings all your web content together into a blog format. Swurl supports your existing blog, pictures, links, videos, and more.
by kschroed
- Songbird Media Player
- durff
- Globaloria: Social Networks for Global Learning
- kschroed
- MaMaMedia.com - THE place for Kids on the Net
- kschroed
- Broadband Internet? No thanks - CNN.com
- dschinker
- State Agencies Bring K-12 Education Content to iTunes U : July 2008 : THE Journal
- "K-12 now has its own home within iTunes U"
by cephalopodcast
- Top News - ISTE unveils new tech standards for teachers
- rundagj
- Optical illusion helps create fake speed bumps - CNN.com
- These could be put in school hallways - keep those student from running! Gary
by Praxis6942
- The missing 'links': Looking towards an augmented reality - CNN.com
- Soon you will not be able to escape - hyperlinks everywhere. Can see some uses for education but ... not sure,,,? Gary
by Praxis6942
- SIGRESOURCES
- kschacher
- Top News - Software to students: 'I feel your pain'
- "New technology could help educators know when their students are feeling frustrated, confused ..." Good educators often known that in any cases but ..... Gary
by Praxis6942
- Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
- reducing dependencies within Windows. And that’s what MinWin, the slimmed-down Windows core that Microsoft’s Core team has built (which supposedly won’t be at the heart of Windows 7) is all
by jschinker
- AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer: Blue Web'n Homepage
- kschacher
- ISTE unveils new tech standards for teachers
- ISTE Classroom Observation Tool
- Empowering the 21st Century Superintendent
- ZoomIt
- in gouldsboro fireworks - Google Search
- Start your Drupal Powered Website Now! | DrupalCafe
- Michael Wesch and the Future of Education
- Online Collaboration Tools - New Technologies And Web Services
- tipjoy | leave tips for stuff you love
- Study Finds Men More Than Women Share Creative Work Online
- Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northwestern.edu%2Fnewscenter%2Fstories%2F2008%2F06%2Fhargittaistudy.html
- FreshBrain
- A safe space for high school age students to explore, learn and create.
- posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us.
- Looks to be a bit like Tumblr but you email things to it and it displays them in a smart way.
- News3Online is your breaking news center
- Jeff Lebow for president? From JenW, among others
- UK students outsource IT coursework to India
- 21st century 'collaboration' skills?
- Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore
- Opensim/Drupal Integration for Education ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
- jm: la di da ... more about dave
- Disruptive, Online Education to go Main Stream | Virtual Canuck
- jm: it is sunday ... so a link from Terry Anderson (via Stephen Downes) :)
- Mathemagenic » Reasons for using weblog to keep information bits
- jm: from SD ... blog about blogging
- U.S. Copyright Office - Search Copyright Records
- .confusion: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
- Finding and Adding Creative Commons Images To Your Blog Posts | The Edublogger
- jm: This post explains how to find and add creative commons Flickr images to blog posts.
- Chat | MeGlobe™
- Delicious Library 2
- jm: seems a lot like library thing, but for more of your "stuff" - sorry mac only
- iSpring Converts PowerPoint Presentations to Flash Video [Featured Windows Download]
- Dajbelshaw Lifehacker on a plugin to make PPT to interactive Flash videos. Useful!
- edubloggercon » Pearson Video Project
- Wings 3d
- kristianstill
- Audio Network Production Music Library
- kristianstill
- ScreenSteps: Rapid Documentation Tool
- builds documentation in the background giving you a template for capturing parts of a screen labeling and highlighting it, etc
by vancestevens
- Soungle.com
- From DebS: Searched for "bird" and got lots of specific species. Sure there are LOTS of other neat uses, too.
From DebS: Searched for "bird" and got lots of specific species. Sure there are LOTS of other neat uses, too.
- Password Manager + Automatic Form Filler for Mac OS X
- Only for Mac but very useful. Have been using this for quite awhile. Gary
by Praxis6942
- Remember everything. | Evernote Corporation
- Maybe this one has been mentioned before? "Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere."
- Tools for Teaching and Learning - Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
- Not sure how useful this might be but worth a look. Gary
by Praxis6942
- TinyPaste
- from courosa and rundagj: Use this if you need to go over 140 characters in Twitter. Once it is sent out, others can add to it. Kinda neat.
- Lost Souls | MetaFilter
- "According to a new report, children in Sweden are becoming increasingly concerned by their parents' internet habits."
by cephalopodcast
- Study: women more shy about sharing creative works online
- cephalopodcast
- Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Search Tool
- bthat: Graphic Interface for searching. Could be very useful for teaching young people how to search using operators. Drag puzzle pieces and operators to create a search.
- Marratech video collaboration, e-meeting and web conferencing on the Internet
- krossbow: Marratech is a leading web conferencing provider... Universities, colleges and education bodies around the world are turning to Marratech Desktop Video Conferencing (DVC) to manage collaborative international research projects, broadening their
- humyo.com - Free Online File Storage & Backup Space
- lhancock
- The Dialectizer
- In case you have any long, boring educational technology texts to read, this will make them more fun! ~From DebS
by dschinker
- Continuum of Technology Use | The Model Intelligent Classroom
- lhancock
- Educational Technology Clearinghouse
- ElenaW
- Educator Library - TechHelp
- From DebS: Looks Interesting
- Samsung's Hope for Education
- From DebS: Students write a 100 word essay on EdTech, can win $200K for your school!
by dschinker
- N.M. School Tries to Reach Students Via Podcast - washingtonpost.com
- Interesting use of a Zune - I suppose it is one way of getting some use out of them since they have not been a great competitor to the iPod. Gary
by Praxis6942
- Rich Chart Live
- KristianStill
- TweetStats :: Graphin' Your Stats
- cephalopodcast
- Activity Theory for Web-Based Learning and Teaching
- Pretty cool article on a theory that I didn't know much about.
by bhwilkoff
- Chirrup, a comment system for Twitter by Angry amoeba.
- dajbelshaw: Allows people to comment on your blog via Twitter.
- iPresentee - Keynote Objects
- rundagj
- IE7Pro - The Ultimate Add-On for Internet Explorer
- If you *have* to use IE, then probably best going for this one.
by dajbelshaw
- Only2Clicks - speed dial to favorite web site and make it your start page
- Creates a page wehre several snapshots of other sites are all put together. Kind of like a more visual rss reader, minus the rss part. I was wrong, I thought it took screenshots and automatically updated them. Not nearly as cool as I thought it was.
by
- MySource Matrix Open Source CMS
- Open Source Enterprise Content Management System (CMS)
by dajbelshaw
- Some printable paper rulers
- Who needs long wooden sticks with lines on them?
by mrkimmi
- Timetoast timelines - About timetoast
- Timetoast allows people to create interactive timelines, which they can share anywhere on the web. Anyone can join Timetoast and start creating and sharing their own timelines, all they need is a valid email address. It's completely free!
by cyndidanne
- k12learning20 » 23Things
- lhancock
- Awards video - Conference 2008 - Events - About us - NCSL
- Conference videos - 21st Century Learning Alliance awards
by KristianStill
- ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW OER = FREE!
- webwriter: A really excellent blog to read about learning. This post collects a huge list of open courseware and open educational resources in one place with explanations of each.
- Global Voices Online
- Demo Girl
- Demogirl's Plurk screenast
- Hackers Hijack Sites of Internet Organizations
- Visual Understanding Environment
- edstreamtv » NECC Streaming wiki
- Education Week: Since NCLB Law, Test Scores on Rise
- kid takes dad to court. wins back myspace.
- Minnesota Virtual High School Graduates First Online Class : June 2008 : THE Journal
- jm: virtual school is now "old skool" for this kids
- University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
- jm: whoah! mego OER roundup
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Firefox claims download success
- jm: one of many articles on Firefox download day
- Zoomii.com - The "Real" Online Bookstore
- jm: cool way to "browse" the amazon book store ... just like being there
- The New RSS Feed Reader Wars! | MakeUseOf.com
- jm: feed aggregator extravaganza
- Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High - TIME
- jm: oh, my ...
- Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
- jm: wonder what (if anything) this means for Flickr?
- Half an Hour: OLDaily Production
- jm: Stephen reviews how he creates OLDaily ... cool
- Timetoast Timelines | Create timelines, share them on the web.
- Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered
- WatchKnow.org
- from bud hunt in twitter
- FeedBooks: Make PDF's out of RSS feeds
- quikmaps.com :: maps for the masses
- Who Is the Greatest Modern-Day Thinker? - New York Times Blog
- Dartmouth's 'Hostile' Environment - WSJ.com
- "My students were very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful," she told Tyler Brace of the Dartmouth Review. "They'd argue with your ideas." This caused "subversiveness," a principle English professors usually favor.
- Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000 - Waxy.org
- Vuzit Online Document Viewer
- ScrnShots: Share your inspiration
- 'Red Paperclip' Guy Is Ready to Trade His House | The Underwire from Wired.com
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Vulnerability
- University of Minnesota study uncovers the educational benefits of social networking sites
- UCF Study Finds Video Games Increase Student Achievement
- 30 Things a Canadian can do over the Canadian DMCA
- Installing Windows XP On a Dell Means $50 Downgrade Surcharge
- RSA - Clay Shirky
- Clay Shirky (of 'Here Comes Everybody' fame) talking to the RSA about social media, etc.
by dajbelshaw
- mozdev.org - deepest sender
- Deepest Sender is a blogging client that runs inside Firefox, SeaMonkey, and XULRunner. What does this mean? Well, it means that instead of having to go to the Update page on LiveJournal/WordPress/Blogger/ by cephalopodcast
- What’s the point of Second Life? - Teach42
- Intersting article on SL edtech apps found courtesy of a tweet from Doug Symington. DebS
by dschinker
- Creative Commons salon in Brisbane
- JL
- FreePoverty - Knowing Helps
- donnabragg
- F1 for Kids
- rundagj
- U study praises educational value of MySpace, Facebook
- rwbeach
- Professor: Web 2.0 an awkward fit for the academic world
- YouTube may make a lousy place to hold a class, but that doesn't mean that the YouTube experience isn't shaping the expectations of students, especially those engaged in online learning.
by cephalopodcast
- LEGO Digital Designer : Virtual Building Software
- KristianStill
- Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner | Edutopia
- I think the Student 2.0 group would agree!
by dschinker
- Audiria.com - a listening-based learning
- (durff)
- Winter Solstice | CMIS Evaluation Technology Focus
- lhancock
- HotChalk Learning Environment | Welcome & Login
- mrkimmi
- 640 WHLO-AM Akron/Canton's News and Talk Station
- From DebS: Be careful about grounding your kids for online activities, at least in Canada...
by dschinker
- moourl.com
- Hee hee! More fun that TinyURL (-: (From DebS)
by dschinker
- Lookybook | Home
- From DebS as found through the Tech Chick Tips blog: For folks with younger ones around... by dschinker
- NECC 2008 Podcasters beware! New ISTE policy on new media conference coverage » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
- Full video/audio capture of NECC sessions and activities is strictly prohibited without express written permission from BOTH: 1.) the session presenter/s, and 2.) ISTE.
by jschinker
- NineHub | Free, Easy, Reliable and Secure Moodle Hosting
- Get a free Moodle website with various forms of authentication, user signup and modules installed! by dajbelshaw
- feedly: a more social and magazine-like start page
- Start page that integrates Twitter, RSS, etc.
by dajbelshaw
- Google Earth Education Community
- rickscheibner
- Edupunk or Educational Leader? | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
- From DebS: More Edupunk discussion - but this one is discussion worthy, methinks!
by dschinker
- Seth's Blog: Random thoughts about the Kindle
- From DebS: Potential future application in schools to replace textbooks. Perhaps we will forget about 1:1 laptops and focus on 1:1 Kindles. (NOT saying this is necessarily a good idea, just a possible one...)
by dschinker ...
- My Top 10 Google Search Shortcut Tips | Duct Tape Marketing Blog
- DebS: Interesting tricks
- MR Tech Toolkit
- The primary goal of this extension is to provide the tools needed to install and manage extensions and themes locally. Special note - This allows you make extensions that are not yet compatible with FFX 3 work. Results can vary greatly and may crash but
- Seth's Blog: Superheroes
- From DebS: Goes well with ddraper's Students 2.0 post...
by dschinker
- Drape's Takes: Revisiting Students 2.0
- From DebS: Read the comments - juicy. Preaching to the choir or making a real difference? Jen W and I had this discussion just tonight, and I know it's been bouncing around in EdTech land for a while now.
by dschinker
- Connectivism Blog
- From DebS: I'm sure Dave's already read this, but I stumbled upon it after installing and playing with Feedly... by dschinker
- Aging boomers fuel 'brain fitness' explosion - CNN.com
- This needs a great deal more science behind it. Not much yet - will be interesting to seek how this is promoted. Gary
by Praxis6942
- SocialTech: Young People and Social Networking Services
- DebS
- Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
- From DebS: Did you get your certificate? YOU didn't, JohnS, you slow adopter, you!
- The Hype Worked: Firefox 3 Downloaded 8.3 Million Times In First 24 Hours
- DebS
- Innovate-Live 2008_13
- Dave's presentation about.. rhizomatics.
- Welcome to Zon! | Enter Zon
- Free web-based game to learn about the language and culture of China. Gary
by Praxis6942
- Remote Access: Are You One of the 16%?
- Great questions for teachers and admins. by dschinker
- edtechpost » PLE Diagrams
- Collection of Personal Learning Environment diagrams by dajbelshaw
- injenuity » Down In Front
- Jennifer D. Jones' inspired post about what gets in the way of learning (should be a poster!)
by dajbelshaw
- Online Stopwatch
- mrkimmi
- Math For Kids - By KidsNumbers.com
- mrkimmi
- BBC - OneMusic - Sample Bank
- Over 1,000 free music samples for you to use
by cephalopodcast
- Presentations ETC Homepage
- Free presentation resources for students & teachers! by cephalopodcast
- Can't Pop Popcorn with a Cell Phone
- oops. Can't pop popcorn with cell phones after all. by jschinker
- Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » Teaching with Twitter
- How to teach with Twitter
by dajbelshaw
- Connectivism - LTCWiki
- "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge is a twelve week course that will explore the concepts of connectivism and connective knowledge and explore their application as a framework for theories of teaching and learning." G. Siemens and S.Downes, by skom
- TannerVision: ASUS EeePC pilot project update
- A teacher's discussion on how his school is using Asus Eee PCs (note: not using home directories anymore - just Internet storage) by dajbelshaw
- Multiplication.com - Interactive Games
- Lots of games by mrkimmi
- Internet addiction is a 'clinical disorder'
- AFI ScreenNation
- an online video posting-and-sharing community from the AFI Screen Education Center, targeted at middle- and high-school students (mailed to edtech@)
- John Locker: The Smartest Free Documentaries Online
- International Edubloggers Directory: Events Calendar
- The New Screencast.com - Screencast.com Blog
- Kaltura - Open Source Video Platform
- nomadology
- EdTechTalk
- The Open Habitat Project | Openhabitat v. 0.2.2
- Wiki - The Science of Spectroscopy
- Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Rhizomatic learning, ubiquitous computing, mobile devices and Personal Learning Environments
- The Internet is Rhizomatic
- rhizomatic
- Hockey Equipment | Living Archives development site.
- Why giving poor kids computers doesn't improve scholastic performance. - By Ray Fisman - Slate Magazine
- jason
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Blogger arrests hit record high
- kristian Still
- Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab
- kristian still
- SpaceTime TV
- rundagj
- Wordle - Declaration
- doug: The US Declaration of Independence as wordle'd by JS.
- The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs - NYTimes.com
- dschinker: Good thing this article wasn't on the AP...
- YouTube - Film making (Brian Smith)
- dajbelshaw: Video on digital literacy and why we need to teach more than text in schools.
- 831 wiki... maybe a repost, but excellent resource
- In the trenches online learning to small towns
- Free Online Radio - Internet Radio | BlogTalkRadio
- jm: from durff in skype chat ... like ett but for all topics ...
- Innovate: Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum
- js: Dave spam
- Thinkfinity for Educators
- jhancock
- Mutapic_01.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
- jhancock
- Learning 2.0 : 23 things you can do to become web 2.0 savvy
- jhancock
- NetFamilyNews
- jhancock:
- List of Communities, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networks for Youth, Boomers, Retired, and Beyond
- 50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do
- PodiPodi - The magical box - Enhance your website with PodiPodi box for your visitors!
- The Machine That Changed the World: Great Brains - Waxy.org
- iBreadCrumbs
- Wordle - EdTechTalk Delicious #2
- Wordle - ETT Delicious #1
- Printable Paper
- OpenOffice tutorials - Online OpenOffice training
- EdTechTalk Mobile Edition
- TotSpot - A place for kids
- a place for parents to publish a page about their kids and share with family and friends. It's part online babybook, parent journal, and social network.
- Let the SPIT wars begin
- Update: Google, Yahoo strike ad deal
- Field Guide to Firefox 3
- Buzz Lightyear in Orbit
- Math, science games, concepts about gravity and more. Gary
- FILMCLUB
- kristian stil
- Neeetz.com - Create. Share. Socialize
- kristian still Social Networking similar to NING
- bomomo
- kristian still: Creative Art Work Abstract
- Joomla, - Google Search
- pgoaener: Joomla! - Content Management System and Web Application Framework.
- firefly
- jm: chat with others on any firefly chat enabled site
- ISS EarthKAM Registration
- ihancock
- Moodstream™ by Getty Images
- krossbow
- 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home
- ihancock
- Adobe ConnectNow web conferencing from Acrobat.com
- durff
- Freeverse: Apps: BumperCar 2.0- Web Browser for Kids
- cephalopodcast
- Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada - My Privacy, My Choice, My Life
- kristianstill: ICT Online awareness
- Afterworld - Channel4
- KristianStill: Is there a piece of fictional writing in there?
- www.timschmitz.co.uk
- skomadina: Scienticic calculator for IWB, resourceses for promethean whiteboards
- Multiply - Secure, Family-Friendly Media Sharing
- durff
- BBC - KS2 Bitesize -Games - Questionaut
- kristianstill: Journey through strange worlds and test your knowledge of English, Maths and Science on this magical mission to recover your friend’s h
- Traveler IQ Challenge
- Geography tester great intro activity -- KristianStill
- Small Worlds
- pellerman: a browser based Virtual World
- Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
- The description tells it all. Gary
- The Big Contest ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
- Connectivism - LTCWiki
- We Are Together
- KristianStill: Filmed over three years, 'We Are Together' is an award winning documentary which tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who use music to overcome hardship and loss.
- BBC - Learning Zone Clips Library
- kristianstill:
- J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine
- kschroed:
- Taft in the South
- mjmonty: An 8th grade middle school social studies teacher from Wisconsin is currently traveling throughout the deep south, learning about the many important events in US history that took place there in the 19th and 20th centuries with audio podcasts,
- Microsoft UK Schools News Blog : Digital Literacy Curriculum: Now Available as SCORM Objects
- Kristian Still: SCORM Microsoft Learning Resources
- eTOK
- webwriter: eTraining Operating Kit is an extension to OpenOffice that uses templates and javascript to author e-learning courses. Download from OpenOffice site ro eTOK.de. Includes interactive quiz templates.
- Twiddict
- rundagj:
- Top News - Animal-rights groups push for virtual dissection
- Taught biology for many years - this is an interesting debate. I can see why frogs might not be the first choice of many biology teachers but using virtual dissection for a pig embryo seems to be a step backwards. Gary
- dnScoop
- dajbelshaw: Domain Name Value, History, Stats Tool and Forums
- Teen drivers ignore cell phone restrictions - Wireless- msnbc.com
- Can't wait until they get an iPhone? Gary
- Learning Activity Patterns - Graffletopia
- Jason: If you have a Mac and you have OmniGraffle and you want to model Learning Activity Patterns in e-learning 2.0 environment, this might be useful.
- N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com
- JS: Time Warner Cable will cease to offer customers access to any Usenet newsgroups, a decision that will affect customers nationwide. Sprint said it would no longer offer any of the tens of thousands of alt.* Usenet newsgroups. Verizon's plan is to e
- Advanced Online Collaboration for Creative Professionals | Octopz
- durf
- Pageflakes - Teacher's Edition
- ulrich: Pageflake is a site that allows you to build your own Homepage in a iGoogle style using flakes (widgets). It could be used as an organizer or a personal learning environment for professional development. You can customize this page by adding and d
- Cisco On-Stage TelePresence Holographic Video Conferencing
- kschroed: World's first live holographic video feed from California USA to Bangalore, India via Cisco On-Stage Telepresence.
- Rainlendar
- jhancock
- Nielsen: Teens Biggest Users of Online Video
- praxis: any big surprise? - gary
- TeacherLED — Interactive Whiteboard Resources For Teachers
- jhancock:
- Moodstream™ by Getty Images
- alice: TOTALLY cool images paired with audio based on mood.
- Torrent Relay - Download torrents without a client
- courosa: Download torrents without software.
- ZAC Browser - Zone for Autistic Children
- courosa and dabelshaw: A browser for autistic children. Too bad it's Windows only.
- Judge unknowingly posts sexually explicit matter on his website public
- injenuity » Trapped in a Ning
- jm: good discussion post from jen?
- PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives
- jm: from sharon via twitter ... cool
- Foxit Software
- jm: pdf view with annotation (highlighting, etc) features. Free, but with embedded copyright unless by $39 version. seems a bit "invasive" from setup, but ...?
- Main Page - GNUpdf
- jm: GNU PDF project ... don't get to excited "Juggler" not even started ... :(
- Tracker Software Products Ltd - Homepage - Products for End-Users - PDF-XChange
- jm: pdf viewer allows annotation - sorry windows only?
- A.nnotate.com - Upload - Annotate - Share. Online document review and collaboration - PDF, Word and HTML
- jm: this is a great tool as a way to annotate files when reading or to collaborate with others.
- tutpup - play, compete, learn
- Spray Your Updates Everwhere with Ping.fm » CogDogBlog
- Revoluminary | The Global Learning Community
- Camera not working properly in video message
- Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oovoo.com%2Foovoohelp%2F1.6%2Fen%2Fcontent%2FCamera_not_working_properly_in_video_message.htm
- info about installing gimp on vista
- Obama vs McCain Website Smackdown - ReadWriteWeb
- Say Goodbye to Adobe Creative Suite | MakeUseOf.com
- Adobe Acrobat.com
- jm: adobe suite of online collaboration tools ... limited but promising
- Protecting Kids Online
- Kids get to find out when they should die. environmentally speaking
- This has left me kinda speachless. Overread from one teacher in OZ "justifiable"
- Official Google Blog: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
- jm: news you can't use
- Unleashing The Tribe: small passionate communities
- Assuming Too Much About The Web We See | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
- jm: commoncraft in the echochamber ...
- WikiAudio - WikiAudio
- jm: The purpose of Wikiaudio is to be an easily accessible user created database of information pertaining to the art and science of anything audio or sound related.
- annotation tools for YouTube
- jm: YouTube annotation features
- Free Online Radio Streaming Platform - iRadeo
- jm: iRadeo is a free online radio platform that allows anyone to stream their MP3 / WAV files. Once installed, iRadeo will automatically detect and stream any supported file format that has been uploaded to the specified directory.
- Net Gen Nonsense
- jm: netgen? real or imagined? Cast your opinion
- Say Goodbye to Adobe Creative Suite
- jm: opensource alternatives of the products in the creative suite
- EdTechBrainstorm.2008-06-05
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETT!!
- Obama vs McCain Website Smackdown
- jm: politics2.0 - check out the updated campaign sites for web2.0 "goodness", really?
- Freeport VM - Our Product
- kristianstill
- Wikia Search launches the hackable search engine
- Rod's Pulse Podcast
- This podcast is for anyone interested in learning how to use and create podcasts, and other e-learning tools. - Rodney B. Murray, Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University
- Gmail: What's been keeping the Gmail team busy
- School AUP 2.0 | Main / HomePage browse
- 'Hockey Night In Canada' Is Over, Thanks to Licensing Spat
- Looking for a new hockey song, eh?
- Your life, on the line - Plurk.com
- jm: geeks seem to be liking plurk as a twitter alternative
- Totlol - Video for Toddlers, Infants, Preschoolers and Parents
- community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.
- Chatterous | Chat
- combines IM, sms, and email into a chat service
- goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.
- Welcome to Similarr - Meet People with Similar Interests
- Lost cameras phone home to catch thieves
- PDF Writer and Reader
- jm: INVESTIGATE before downloading, but shows promise as a pdf writer with ANNOTATION features only found in acrobat ... hmmm?
- SlideRocket - The Best Online Presentation Software.
- SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
by dajbelshaw
- Welcome - SoundCloud
- SoundCloud is an online audio platform for music professionals. We got fed up with the crappy tools available for sending and receiving music and felt we’d do things a little different. This is our version of how things should be.
by dajbelshaw
- World-News: Popcorn with the cell phone - Popcorn mit dem Handy
- krossbow: Popcorn popping using cellphones
- WebHome < FMPlan < Future Melbourne Wiki
- rubyfire: Welcome to the Future Melbourne wiki, where you can edit the plan for the future of our city!
- Mind Tools - Helping you to live an excellent life!
- durff
- Renting Twitter: Path to Profitability?
- JL:
- Living | Yearbook "oops": spell-check lessons | Seattle Times Newspaper
- Spell-checking run amuck. Gary
- Read at Work
- Read books at work by making them look like powepoint presentations. High marks for interesting interface. Not too many books to read yet.
- Welcome to chartAll.com
- Got data to visualise? Import it or paste it here to create graphs and charts.
by amiddlet50
- SensibleUnits.com
- krossbow: Why doesn't it convert units of volume/energy/velocity...? SensibleUnits.com currently converts all major (and some obscure) units of length, area and mass. Other dimensions will be added in the near future.
- List of Educational Web 2.0 Apps to Jumpstart Your Productivity
- krossbow: There are a lot of great web 2.0 apps aimed at students. Here is a list of 25 apps that will jumpstart your productivity and help you become a better student today.
- Microsoft Extends XP Deadline for Low-Cost PCs - NYTimes.com
- krossbow
- Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
- Mock-ups of iPhone, etc. to use on websites and blogs quickly and easily
by dajbelshaw
- Shades | Software | Charcoal Design
- dajbelshaw: Shades is a FREE utility for controlling the brightness of your screen. It runs in the background providing always-available fine-grained control over the brightness of your display via a slick Mac-like interface
- FILMCLUB
- dajbelshaw: WHAT IS FILMCLUB? The answer is simple: FILMCLUB is a new service run by movie-lovers to introduce kids to the wonder of films. How? By helping teachers and pupils form clubs in schools to show fantastic movies from every era and every corner
- Wikio - Monthly rankings for the most influential blogs in the UK blogosphere
- dajbelshaw
- Twenty Minutes for Tech
- krossbow: This site supports the podcast. Listen to the Twenty for Tech podcast - a group of K12 Instructional Technology educators who are out in the trenches supporting teachers, administrators and staff in the quest for exquisite tech integration in th
- Urban Dictionary, June 2: Chuck a Spaz
- ulrich: Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary worth your definitions.
- AUP 2.0 at dougbelshaw.com
- Doug Belshaw's take on Acceptable Use Policies in a Web 2.0 world
- ETTatNECC » home
- Perceptual Experiment
- Pownce Wedding Proposal: Note From Stellaire
- Speaker Sneak Peeks! | Drupal Camp Alberta 2008
- jm: la di da for Dave (he is becoming my link source these days)
- AT
- Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fus.mg1.mail.yahoo.com%2Fdc%2Flaunch%3F.rand%3D55vkq89cp77ct
- Ed Tech Crew
- Archive-It.org
- EdTechRoundUp
- ….conversations about using technology in education
- Edupunk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Scout Report - May 22th, 2008
- jm: annual roundup of favorite links from the Scout Report from where ... oh, yeah! Wisconsin
- Responding to potential subversiveness
- jm: hmmm ... would such a common sense approach actually work?
- LaterLoop: Read Webpages Later on Your Phone or Anywhere
- jm: sounds kind of cool, but don't want to give my google password?
- Are you an ‘Edupunk’? I’m not. at dougbelshaw.com
- jm: edupunk
- Call for Papers — COSL
- jm: Open Ed Conf. Call for proposal
- Insoshi Portal
- jm: new open source social networking platform
- The Stump Thunk The Punk Stunk
- jm: more edupunk junk
- Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media: An Opinionated Digest by George Siemens - June 1 08 - Robin Good's Latest News
- jm: I missed the George Siemens is writing for Robin Good?
- Thinkfinity for Educators
- the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.
- SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards - Just the Winners
- Repositories of Primary Sources
- copyrightfriendly » home
- World's strangest looking animals - Sharenator.com
- Music Rules 2: Top 60 Music Websites That Deliver the Greatest Free Music
- B. Brainy / Latest Links
- All Things D: The FCC's Chairman and Verizon Wireless's CEO On Broadband Speeds and Net Neutrality
- Tag Galaxy
- sroseman: Tag Galaxy is another in a long line of Flickr API visualizations. While I've seen several tag based visualizations for Flickr this one is particularly playful. You can move the globe, click on an image, and see more information about the photo.
- Is Clifford Stoll Autistic? | Gilroy Was Here Be sure to go back to home page!!!
- "This site is my personal experiment in Internet Marketing and Social Media. On one hand, my main goal is to market the Internet itself as a useful tool for people. I feel the Internet gets a bad rep at times."
by sroseman
- The Real Fight Over Fake News - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
- js: Until recently, few of the main made-for-cable programs have been available to watch in full over the Internet, even as broadcast networks have started streaming full episodes of most of their shows. The reason is that cable and satellite systems pay
- AdSense for RSS Feeds Set to Launch Next Week
- Google-owned FeedBurner is set to launch AdSense for RSS next week according to a post on the company’s blog. Much like the AdSense for Web sites, AdSense for RSS will show contextual text advertising in publisher’s RSS feeds. In other words, if you
- Educational Technology and Life » Dissertation: MMORPGs in Education
- Mark Wagner's dissertation on Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games in Education.
by dajbelshaw
- About Add-Art | Add-Art
- Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators.
by krossbow
- UCTV--University of California Television
- Podcasts and Vidcasts for teachers and students
by dajbelshaw
- Aniboom
- Create animations quickly and easily using built-in webcams.
by dajbelshaw
- Oxfam - Mapping Our World
- Mapping our World is a whiteboard teaching product for 8 to 14 year olds. It explores the relationship between maps and globes, and how different projections influence our perception of the world.
by dajbelshaw
- Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner - Marc Prensky | Educational Origami
- Observations on learning in the 21st century.
by dajbelshaw
- Immune Attack » Home
- The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) presents Immune Attack™, an educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students.
by dajbelshaw
- Athabasca University Press - The Theory and Practice of Online Learning
- jm: Terry Anderson (ed) Second Edition up on Theory and Practice of Online Learning
- Taking a measure of ICT integration. | Educational Origami
- Useful way of measuing ICT integration in an organization
by dajbelshaw
- Image reflection generator - create reflections with Reflection Maker
- bhwilkoff
- School of Everything
- Can sign up as either teacher or student and share stuff with the world.
by dajbelshaw
- bloxtr.com-Online Operating System
- durff
- TinySong | Type in a song and make a free music link to share music with friends
- krossbow: After 10 minutes this along with Grooveshark became one of my favorites for playing streaming music. To share a song just search for an artist or song title. Here's one that is appropriate for around this time of year. http://tinysong.com/aFf
- Flickr: Brooklyn Museum's Photostream
- Following the Library of Congress more museums and collections are using Flickr to get the image out. via Assorted Stuff - http://www.assortedstuff.com/?p=2560
by krossbowFollowing the Library of Congress more museums and collections are using Flickr t
- Are video games healthful? - Games - msnbc.com
- Money for research - they probably have little trouble getting subject volunteers among certain age groups. Gary
- tweme - twemes.com
- durff
- YouTube - Let's Fight It Together
- An anti-cyberbullying video that shows the consequences of bully's actions. 6:30 long, useful for assemblies/form time?
by dajbelshaw
- On the Uses and Abuses of Laptops in Education | Beyond School
- Some great comments by students on schools trying to 'look cool' by giving out laptops.
by dajbelshaw
- Adoptic » Home
- A place to promote your blog posts, in exchange for promoting those of others.
by dajbelshaw
- blender.org - Home
- Maybe thiis has been listed before but it looks interesting. Gary.
- Text 2 Mind Map - An online text to mind map converter
- kristianStill
- TwitterFone:
- Send Messages to Twitter with Voice
by dajbelshaw
- Microsoft Education <br>US Specialist Team Blog
- skomadina
- Learn about online collaboration with Microsoft Office Live Workspace
- skomadina: If you want to do real-time screen sharing, you can download the Microsoft SharedView beta for Windows here. The Office Live Update and SharedView are currently only available for Windows. Has anyone used this? (Edtechtalkers)
- Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform
- jschinker
- Discovering Biology in a Digital World : Teaching in the digital world, part I: technology is not always your friend
- "Teaching an on-line course turned out to be as much a learning experience for me as it was for my students. Now, it's time to step back and reflect on what was learned."
by cephalopodcast
- Share videos, Create compilations, Add slides and annotations | Omnisio
- lhancock
- Clonezilla
- alex.ragone
- Windows 7 Features Revealed
- The biggest "feature" is the touch and multi-touch integration, which takes many of its roots from Microsoft's Surface Table, and will be available as an interface options for other apps.
by jschinker
- TwitterTwatterTwutter
- A more appropriate Twitter error page (now with conjugations)
by cephalopodcast
- XNeat: Always On Top, Transparent Window, Send To Tray, TaskBar Manager Sorter Arranger
- ihancock
- Political Humor 404 Error Page Generator by allvoices.com
- We've created this 404 Error tool to allow you to create your own opinion about ANYTHING and be heard! We've provided the pictures of various political figures, so feel free to use them or upload your own image to create your custom 404 page!
- Presentations ETC Homepage
- keskes1
- Keeping Science In Children's Orbit - washingtonpost.com
- Effect of No Child Left Behind on science education. Although not directly related to educational technology it does have implications for the future. Hope our American friends can correct the direction this is taking. Gary
- Curriculum Materials for Teachers
- Microsoft is pleased to offer teachers these training and curriculum materials. The materials include a range of professional development resources, curriculum and learning materials designed to support teachers in developing further skills.
by dajbels
- E2BN FlashMeeting
- skomadina
- Top News - Scientists release educational computer game
- May be useful but apparently not for Mac unless you have an Intel-based Mac running Windows XP - too bad - missing part of the educational market. Gary
- Open Conference Systems | Public Knowledge Project
- jm: free software to coordinate conf. proposals
- Wired Campus: Frustrated With Corporate Course-Management Systems, Some Professors Go 'Edupunk' - Chronicle.com
- The obligatory edupunk post - Open Monologue
- Responding to potential subversiveness - Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech
- Lesson Writer
- Flashcards: matching, hangman, crossword, word search, word scramble and flash cards
- Grooveshark Lite - Listen to Music Online
- Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
- edubloggercon East» BLC2008
- Introducing Edupunk | BlogHer
- iEARN - International Education and Resource Network
- sioc-project.org | Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities
- educon21 » home
- Status of support of Windows Vista for Connect 6
- jm: How can this be??? Just had a class session canceled because guest presenter on a Vista machine. Adobe's core products don't work with Microsoft's core products - 2 of the biggest names in tech! Maybe Microsoft should step away from the Yahoo negotiat
- Apple 2.0 Apple takes delivery of 188 mysterious ocean containers
- awesome screenshot program
- Home (designedtoinspire)
- jm: my test of google sites ... combo between google docs and google groups, right?
- EdTechTalk - FriendFeed
- jm: I created an EdTechTalk room in friendfeed, but I have no idea what that means :)
- ScribbleLive...live blogging
- jm: scribble live - backchannel your event
- edtechtalk May 25...live blogging
- jm: let's try scribble live ...
- Universal Education Search - ccLearn
- jm: OER search ... is this the answer?
- Dimdim: dimdim releases open source eagle - dimdim releases open source eagle - read the pdf from May 19th
- jm: dimdim releases open source eagle - read the pdf from May 19th
- 20 Ways to Learn a Language Online - ReadWriteWeb
- jm: more cools links for language learning
- My Ed.D. thesis proposal: What does it mean to be ‘digitally literate’? at dougbelshaw.com
- jm: doug bleshaw's "openness" re: his personal educational journey ... cool!
- Power of the Backchannel
- jm: from sd
- Rifflet, A Home for Unfinished Songs
- jm: cc licensed unfinished songs ... collaborate away
- Google Sites Opens Up For Everyone
- jm: was once part of google apps or orgs, now for anyoneg
- Teaching and Learning With Twitter 2008
- jm: SD take on JJ's post ... interesting take on bridging to the other 98%
- Unbundling college courses will challenge universities
- jm: will it?
- Flowchart.com - Flowchart software - Create Flowcharts Online with Realtime collaboration - [Beta v2.0 build 6997]
- jm: An online multi-user, real-time collaboration flowchart software. Doesn't require any software download and works with your favorite browser such as FireFox, IE, Opera, Safari, Konquerer, etc. via ehub
- Remime
- jm: A free reminder service that offers easy-to-use system of birthdays and events with alarms that you define for yourself. You can enter repeating and one-time events, add pre-defined hot events, import your email contacts, get birthdays with a single c
- LetsProve
- jm: like feedfriend
- TED | TEDBlog: XO laptop redesign: Pics!
- krossobow
- Networking with Twitter - My Twitter Stats » Onlinesapiens Blog
- empaey
- Digital Wish
- ihancock
- Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen
- ihancock
- Gliffy.com
- keskes1: talked about a 18 months ago but one of many nice diagram tools
- Spoof Website Christopher Columbus @ All About Explorers
- kristianstill
- skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard
- keskes1: talked about 18 months ago, but a really nice product!
- voo2do : simple, beautiful web-based to-do lists
- keskes1
- Top News - Index reveals what kids are searching for online
- Probably what you would expect in an American school setting. Would be interesting to compare this to other countries. Gary
- OLPC 2.0 coming; will project survive to see its launch?
- New OLPC Laptop coming -- no keyboard, two touch screen displays, only $75 -- maybe.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Design revamp for '$100 laptop'
- Another development and "At the MIT event, Prof Negroponte announced the resumption of the Get-One-Give-One programme to allow people in wealthy nations to buy two XO laptops and donate one to a child in a developing country. The programme will be open to
- UsingMac - 101 Must Know Quick Leopard Tips
- krossbow Some very cool and hidden tips. Somedays I really need the Eliza one.
- Shareaholic :: Firefox Add-ons
- JW
- Freebox
- durff
- ALA | Children's book on male penguins raising chick tops ALA's 2007 list of most challenged books
- arvind: list of most-challenged books in American libraries. Give me a break people.
- Virtual classroom at the University of Central Florida puts teachers to the test -- -- OrlandoSentinel.com
- jason: The troublemaker is one of five computer-generated students inhabiting a high-tech virtual classroom..gives future teachers a chance to practice important class-control and teaching skills by using realistic classroom scenarios.
- May 2008 snapshot of UK HE and FE developments in SL
- amiddlet50:
- gRSShopper
- dajbelshaw: gRSShopper is a personal web environment that combines resource aggregation, a personal dataspace, and personal publishing. It allows you to organize your online content any way you want to, to import content - your own or others'.
- SLanguages 2008
- Conference about Language Learning in Second Life
- MyStudiyo.com - MyStudiyo Prizes & Comptetitions - Create a quiz, embed it on your site or blog, all in just 5 minutes!
- Yolango
- Google Sites now open to everyone
- jm: out of goolgle apps avail for anyone
- YouTube - We Think
- Dictionary, learn languages, online quizzes - bab.la
- Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » EC&I 831 - Voicethread Reflections
- 21st Century Technology Tools by Liz Davis (Book) in Education & Language
- Thank you Liz
- Can your cat do this? on Seesmic
- Blogamp - Audiocasting for the masses
- TechRadium sues Blackboard over patent
- The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques - PDF Only - SitePoint Books
- Free download for a limited period of time. Maybe useful for those that use Photoshop, Gary
- TED | Talks | Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought (video)
- vance: In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.
- The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project
- ulrich: The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project. The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do. FOAF is about your place in the Web, and the Web'
- searchCrystal - Home
- Microsoft Issues Statement Regarding Yahoo!: Microsoft announced that it is continuing to explore and pursue its alternatives to improve and expand its online services and advertising business.
- jm: HOT Off the press ... Microhoo may be back in play
- TLt Summit
- Science Museum - Launchpad Online - Launchball
- kristian Still
- Cubescape
- kristian Still I visual art / math blocks application
- Yearbook photos botched in 'unfortunate lapse' - CNN.com
- The downside of teaching people to manipulate photos...Dschink
- Idioms Defined & Translated
- Useful idiom site in English, Spanish, & French
- 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs
- 25 Reasons to Convert to Linux, compiled by The Linux Information Project
- MySpace wins $234 million antispam judgment | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- Spellr.us Launches: Check Your Site For Spelling Erors
- CBS Corporation To Acquire CNET Networks, Inc.: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
- YouTube - Learning to change
- arvind: fantastic video on the future of education
- Curriculum Materials For Teachers - Materials for ICT Teachers
- kristianstil
- Passive multiplayer online game
- kristianStill: This game allows you to leave traps or gifts on any web page. You can also take missions across the internet, discovering new content while leveling up.
- Oddcast - Home
- kristianStill
- Games in Education
- kschroed
- inquire2learn » home
- skomadina
- 20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient | Six Revisions
- js: No more sneaking porn into the US.
- ivan krstić · code culture » Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi
- arivind a long, but interesting article from someone who left the One Laptop Per Child program. He is obviously unhappy with the direction of the program and lays out why.
- WWTelescope
- ihancock
- Teacher Network, A Free & Fun Teacher Social Network - imbee - imbee.com - Industrious Kid
- jason This was mentioned on the last Lullabot podcast.
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- Dimdim - the world's free web meeting
- skomadina ja se zovem serge a pewe mi je mali bibo sa peticama
- Clipart ETC Homepage
- krossbow Welcome to quality educational clipart. Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. No advertisement-filled pages with pop-up windows or inappropriate lin
- Top News - Parents unsure about kids' digital media use
- More about the digital divide - some of this is a bit depressing. May parents-in-law (in their 80's) and my children (in their 20's) both use Nintendo DS but many of the parents surveyed don't get it. Gary
- Read me first: Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first | Technology | The Guardian
- js No more sneaking porn into the US.
- TweetWheel - Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other!
- alicemercer
- PrevNet
- ihancock
- Smithsonian: Science and Technology
- Worth looking at again. Gary
- Bill Gates Introduces Touch Wall
- mrich Looks, familiar, eh? SMARTtech may need to step up their game!
- Adobe Labs - Buzzword
- jason: Adobe does Google Docs.
- Welcome | Creative Commons
- kschroed Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
- Physics Educations Simulations
- Useful of physics teachers? Gary
- BBC NEWS | Technology | '$100 laptop' platform moves on
- gary: The drama continues. Gary
- CPMP-Tools Software
- kschroed: CPMP-Tools is a suite of both general purpose and custom software tools designed to support student investigation and problem solving in the 2nd edition Core-Plus Mathematics texts. math
- Mobog.com
- mrich1911 The "FlickR" of the mobile phone
- Blabberize.com! - Blabberize Your Pictures
- kschroed: Make talking pictures out of your regular pictures.
- ZCubes - Do It All, Browse, Paint, Teach, Draw, Play, Write, Publish, Handwrite, Watch, Listen, Network, Learn or Sketch, Create Albums, Homepages, Greeting Cards, read News, create documents, Create presentations, slide shows, spreadsheet, resume, zpaint
- kschroed: ZCubesTM is the world's first website where you can seamlessly browse, calculate, create, edit, draw, hand-write, watch, listen, paint, publish, search, type, print, network, teach, learn, love, and work.
- Utah State OpenCourseWare — Free Online Course Materials — USU OpenCourseWare
- kschroed: Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities.
- YouTube - Learning to Change-Changing to Learn
- kschroed
- YouTube - A Vision of K-12 Students Today
- kschroed
- Read The Words
- skomadina
- YouTube - The Evolution of Digital Communities
- dajbelshaw: Ethan Zuckerman talks about the history of digital communities as a primer for a panel on the community dimensions of the media. The panel was part of Beyond Broadcast 2006.
- What Are We Protecting Them From? : May 2008 : THE Journal
- ihancock
- BBC NEWS | Technology | '$100 laptop' embraces Windows XP
- praxis: "The founder of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), which developed the machines, denied the move was a "desperate new measure" to secure more orders." but "I liken running Windows in dual boot on the laptop as exactly what Apple did on their machines,"
- Powerset
- jm: search wikipedia articles by topic, phrase or question
- Mozilla Developer News » Blog Archive » Firefox 3 Release Candidate now available for download
- jm: Firefox 3 release candidate up
- OPML Resources for ReadWriteWeb Readers
- jm: looking to freshen up your RSS feeds?
- Schools will have until 2009 to buy Windows XP
- jm: more on XP
- 7 Leading Browser-based Video Conference Tools | VoIP Sol
- jm: browser based video conference tools
- Confirmed: Wired Buying Ars Technica
- jm: a lot of web 2.0 financial filtering this week
- Event Marketing | Online Calendar | Spongecell
- jm: would this have a place on ETT?
- Snackr is an RSS Addict's Dream Come True
- jm: Streaming RSS on your desktop
- freshAIRapps.com - Adobe AIR Application Showcase, Tutorials and Resources
- jm: Can someone remind me what AIR is all about?
- FedEx using Drupal
- jm: cool
- Permanent Link to on being together
- jm: TLt2008
- The Associated Press: Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked
- jm: update to Jeff's story
- Aptana Studio | Aptana
- jm: anyone try this?
- CBS Corporation To Acquire CNET Networks, Inc.: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
- jm: hope nothing changes :(
- http://seesmic.com
- jm: blogosphere all a flutter ... what is it?
- Virtual Learning » Dancing with the devil: a view from Blackboard’s European conference
- jm: a moodle user from Open University on BB
- Angel Rolls Out LMS 7.3, Strikes Integration Deal with Elluminate
- jm: angel to include elluminate
- EVERYTHING 2.0
- FeedKiller. Make your own RSS mix.
- Convert Youtube and Myspace Video to MP3! Only at VidtoMP3.com
- LiveMarks - SWiK
- Ask500 - Public Opinion Polls for the World
- Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips
- WiiMoteProject.com
- dajbelshoaw: A discussion board for using Wiimotes in unusual ways (IWBs, etc.)
- Eduslide: Create and Deliver your own tutorials - Free
- webwriter: Create online courses or tutorials using templates. Collaborate with others
- ABC News: Teacher's Boozy MySpace Scotches Job
- cyndidannerkuhn:
- Photojojo » Play Nicely With Others: Games to Play With Your Camera
- krossow: In an effort to explore these new (and somewhat suspicious) avenues of “fun” and “games” we respectfully present our findings on the subject: five games you can play with your camera and photos. Apply the games mentioned in this post to e
- iConnect iLearn in the 21st Century
- cyndidannerkuhn
- 8 Easy Firefox Tweaks for Super Fast Web Browsing by mad WAHM
- from kjarrett
- Parents unsure about kids' digital media use
- 67 % of parents said they did not think the web helped teach their kids how to communicate. 87 % did not believe the web helped their kids learn how to work with others. 3 out of 4 did not believe the web can teach kids to be responsible in communities.
- Kappan Author Interview Podcast Series
- Phi Delta Kappan — The Journal for Education. They have some education podcasts that might be of interest.
- School AUP 2.0 | Main / HomePage browse
- kschroed
- Low-income kids to get laptops | GreenvilleOnline.com | The Greenville News
- More OLPC news. Gary
- YoYo Games | Make
- gakschroed: memaker 7 - free (and almost free) software to develop educational games
- Domain Tools: Whois Lookup and Domain Suggestions
- Drape's Takes: Edublogger Etiquette
- Amazon.com: Used and New: Asus Eee PC 4G (7" Screen, 800 MHz Intel Celeron Processor, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard Drive, Linux Preloaded) Galaxy Black
- jm: how I got my eeepc for $73 off of list ... open box
- Amazon.com At a Glance: warehouse_deals
- jm: Amazon.com subsidiary Warehouse deals offers Amazon's open box and refurbished items ... how I got my eeePC for $80 off list ...
- Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
- jm: registration open - held in Madison Wiscosin
- Kidmondo: an online baby Journal
- Marinelli
- jm: drupal themee
- FCKeditor - WYSIWYG HTML editor
- jm: drupal wysiwyg html editor
- Mollom
- jm: comment spam module for drupal developed and maintained by Dries Buytaert
- The eLearning Guild : Mobile Learning
- jm: mlearning
- Will Google Join the Crowd With A "Friend Connect" Platform?
- jm
- public beta 3.0, which includes native OS X support
- jm:
- Google overtakes Yahoo as most-visited U.S. Web site
- jm: tough quarter for Yahoo
- K12 Online Call from Proposals
- jm: call for proposals
- Adobe launches Photoshop Express update with Flickr support
- jm: adobe launches free photoshop express update with flickr support
- Mobilizing Generation 2.0
- jm: danah boyd has chapter in new book on netgen
- Convert Any Text to an iTunes-Compatible Audiobook [Audiobooks]
- jm: results are "listenable" ... hmmm?
- Ars Technica
- jm: jeff get out there and nab your .org domains
- Amazon forgets to pay taxes
- jm: oops!
- SlideShare Gets $3M for Online Presentations
- jm: popular slide share raises $ ... makes you feel better relying on service
- Quamut
- jm: project from barnes and noble ... is it a "how stuff works" kind of deal?
- Hellotree
- jm: free collaborative family tree and private network for families
- Welcome | The PC Decrapifier
- Studeous | Connect Your Classroom
- kschroed: "Studeous is a learning and school management system that utilizes web 2.0 technologies to bring the most useful and practical features of the internet into the forefront of the classroom."
- Wiimote Madness
- dajbelshow: Notes on how to make a cheap IWB using a Wiimote and hacked IR pen. YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ. Software (Windows): http://johnnylee.net, (Mac) http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard.
- buzztter
- emarcos:
- Free Online Publishing – Digital Publishing – Yudu Freedom
- PC World - Business Center: Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops
- TimeTube
- ZoeyBot - A Virtual Desktop for Kids
- Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know | Online Marketing Blog
- Digital Storytelling and Reforming PowerPoint
- TG Daily - Geek Squad lawsuit opens up with employee confession
- Fresh Ubuntu
- Edtechtalk Forum | Categories
- Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees - Insider provides details of new 'protocol agnostic' solution - dslreports.com
- The Stats Are In: You're Just Skimming This Article - ReadWriteWeb
- professionallearningboard Toolbar - Download - moodle, professional learning board, professional development, continuing education, education, staff development, clock hours, ceu, teachers, K12, credit, college, school, teacher license, pbis, free resourc
- kschroed: Teacher Collaboration Toolbar
- Flat Classrooms » home
- kschroed: Flat classroom wiki
- On The Media: Transcript of "Sex, Drugs, and Video Games" (May 2, 2008)
- Alex Ragone
- SMART Training Center
- Two-minute tutorials on SMART notebook 10 and others
- Create Your Own E-Learning
- krossbow: What is the LCDS? The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamle
- Computerworld - 100 e-mail bouncebacks? You've been backscattered.
- arvind: article on backscatter spam, messages that return to you even though you didn't send them
- Aunt Lee Dot Com
- kschroed
- World Science Festival
- arvind: 5 day science festival celebrating, what else, science! 2008 is in New York City
- Nota : Grab it. Mix it. Share it.
- durff: Software Challenge
- Online Programs That Let Parents Track Grades in Real Time Are Popular but Can Raise Stress - New York Times
- “And the bad can become very ugly.” Hmm ... not sure what to think of this. Some parents may need a reality check. Gary
- NBC News Launches iCue for Students - TVWeek - News
- Not sure how this will work - needs watching. Will is include advertising? Gary
- Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera
- JS: Works with many point-and-shoot Canon cameras
- Wonderful resource describing Web 2.0 Tools
- napolib
- http://www.searchrascal.com/report?q=interactive+whiteboards
- skomadina: Search Rascal - a search ranking engine
- Technology News: Handheld Devices: Think Before You Ban: A Handheld Is a Powerful Learning Tool
- Many schools (including ones in my district) are banning cell phones and iPods. This article suggests that they don't see the big picture and the use of such devices for education. Gary
- Clearwire, Sprint Nextel to form WiMax venture - May. 7, 2008
- dschinker
- Microscope Imaging Station
- Good images for science and biology and good science. Gary
- Creating open educational resources - LearningSpace
- webwriter: A free course on creating open ed resources. Part of the Open University.
- Groupboard: multi-user java whiteboard and chat
- elf537
- Data recovered from Columbia disaster - CNN.com
- dschinker: DOS proved useful after all this time! - ~Dschinker
- Podcasting News » Audacity Update
- jason r:
- IFVP: home of visual practitioners, graphic recorders, graphic facilitation, visual practitioners
- skomadina
- Wakerupper.com - Free Wake-up Calls and Telephone Reminders
- kschroed
- STR ProScope HR: Hand held digital & video USB microscope camera for science & technology education
- jason: We use one of these at work. Kids like it. Bit pricey for the individual consumer, but fun for the classroom. Mac and PC compatible.
- Tiny notebook works for on-the-go use - CNN.com
- dschinker Interesting Review - D. Schinker
- SmugMug Photo Sharing. Your photos look better here.
- cyndidannerkuhn
- ABCya! The Leader in Kids Educational Computer Games & Activities
- kschroed: ABCya! is a leader in free & exciting computer activities for elementary students to learn on the web.
- Rob Pegoraro - Fast Forward's Help File - washingtonpost.com
- krossbow: Finally I now understand about the difference between rss and atom feeds. Lesson learned - choose Atom when possible.
- Visual Newsreader from msnbc.com
- kristian Spectra Visual Newsreader
- BBC NEWS | UK | Child web-safety guide launched
- "New teaching resources aimed at helping primary school children surf the web safely have been launched." Gary
- Yahoo! Teachers
- Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!
- WikiMapia is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth.
- Oddcast TTS Demo
- Type and talk
- iCue > Welcome
- AudioBooksForFree.com
- from vancestevens
- Techdirt: Copyright Scholar Kicked Out Of Canadian Copyright Panel
- Oh Canada....
- Web page statistics and survey trends for page size and web objects
- Adobe - Open Screen Project
- Canadian bank hands out free Eee PCs - Engadget
- Move to Canada Jen
- PC World - Microsoft Backpedals on Windows Updates
- oops
- Riva VX: Riva FLV Encoder
- Mediafly: Get ALL your podcasts from ONE place delivered ANYWHERE
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Luminaries look to the future web
- PodBreeze
- lightweight podcatcher
- Upgrade for your OpenID Login!
- tweetpeek
- Group Twitter Feeds
- UrbanOutfitters.com > Podcasting Kit
- jason: Pump up the volume, says Urban Outfitters. Mac not included.
- Addictomatic: Inhale the Web
- krossbow: Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It's the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what's up and what's now.
- Becta Government
- jm: Emerging technologies for learning
- 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers : eLearning Technology
- jm: elearning (i don't like that word) round up of articles
- Emerging Technologies for Learning - Vol 3
- jm: emerging technologies for learning - roundup of papers
- Big Question: Learning Design for Digital Natives? Bugwash!
- jm: what do you think?
- What We Don't Know About Open Access: Research Questions in Need of Researchers
- jm: open access
- Open Doors and Open Minds: What Faculty Authors Can Do to Ensure Open Access to Their Work Through Their Institution
- jm: open access review
- Commenting, Learning Together
- jm: more on the 31 day comment challenge
- AT
- jm: more free wifi location for iphone users (only?) ... hmmm
- Meebo Funding Confirmed at $25M. Now What?
- jm: in year of filtering out of web 2.0 companies, looks like meebo still attracting $
- Twitter Integration Coming to CoverItLive
- jm: all about the rumors here at ETW
- Learning Designer position at Athabasca University
- jm: job at athabasca
- The FWK Licensing Model
- jm: WAAAAAY inside baseball (or inside Open Ed licensing, but for those interested ...
- Madonna in Concert on MSN Music
- jm: more reach to the "other 98%"
- Microsoft releases the long-anticipated Windows XP SP3 (updated)
- jm: can the ETW smartypant-dudes help JM figure this one out?
- Docstoc
- jm: embed documents into web pages ... per mashable, just raised $3M in funding
- Everyone on Ginger - Netvibes.com Blog
- jm: major netvibes upgrade
- Rogers Telecom confirms it will offer iPhone in Canada
- jm: iphone to canada
- Web 3.0, the "official" definition.
- jm: web 3.0 ... here we come ...
- Zoho Vs. Google (And Microsoft And Adobe)
- jm: update from GigaOm on latest zoho, google, et al. comparison
- The Comment Challenge: 31 Days to Being a Better Blog Citizen
- jm: good summary of current "comment challenge"
- Impress Your Friends and Co-Workers: Obscure Firefox Keyword Search
- jm: Cool tip from SD (from Alan Levine)
- LearnHub Integrates CC Licensing - Creative Commons
- jm: from SD
- FlipCamera by PureDigital
- jm: update and nice overview of the flipcamera discussed previously
- comic strip maker
- randynobx
- RCampus home - A Collaborative Learning Community. - RCampus
- sine: What is RCampus? RCampus is a collaborative learning community that utilizes our popular Open Education Management System. With RCampus Open Tools, faculty and students can perform all their work from building websites and ePortfolios, to managing c
- Top News - Blogging helps encourage teen writing
- Interesting but maybe obvious. Gary
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Spam reaches 30-year anniversary
- An anniversary that we wish was not necessary. The tinned "spam" was much better. :) Gary
- FontStruct | Gallery
- clicksa: Create and share fonts
- Kickplay – Play | Personalize | Share - Free Personalized Games - As fun to make as they are to play - Free Games
- Build free personalized games - gamebasedlearning
- Math4Mobile - The mLearning Way
- OLPC News: OLPC's New President & Negroponte: Its a Laptop Project Now
- Social Tools for the Office Worker: How to Subvert I.T. and Play at Work - ReadWriteWeb
- vance We can't all eat, breathe, and live social media 24x7, as much as we might like to. Some of have day jobs that require a bit of our attention, too. And unlike the web-app embracing startups we read about, the policies at more traditional companies a
- Top 100 Tools for Learning: Summary PDF
- from Andrew Middleton: Jane Hart's list of the top 100 tools. Nothing surprising here. After the avalanche of Web2.0 are we starting to run out of ideas? Or consolidate?
- Informal Style of Electronic Messages Is Showing Up in Schoolwork, Study Finds - New York Times
- “I think in the future, capitalization will disappear.” Interesting look at the possible future - LOL. Gary
- Wii virtual race gives students a track and field workout
- "We" wish this were true. But: "There are skeptics of the video game's supposed health benefits." Gary
- 2008 Comment Challenge Wiki
- bwatwood: Challenging bloggers to become better blog citizens. Challenge runs from May 1 - 31, 2008.
- Sounds Good - Audio Feedback project site
- Bob Rotheram's site to support JISC project on audio feedback
- When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web - washingtonpost.com
- Not sure if we are to laugh (how foolish they are) or cry (how stupid they are) about this use of technology by teachers. Gary
- BBC Me and My Movie
- krossbow
- Quiddler Daily Puzzle
- kristian still A simple solitaire word game
- The Sect of Homokaasu - The Rasterbator
- kristian still
- Visible Body | 3D Human Anatomy
- fletcher Discover Human anatomy like never before
- Wired Campus: A Sociologist Says Students Aren't So Web-Wise After All - Chronicle.com
- arvind: great article explaining how teens might just know less than we think about technology. Perhaps it depends on how you measure "knowing"
- Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Digital World — Open Education
- js: Another description of Bloom in the 21st century. Goes along with Jeff's link from last week.
- Chalkle :: What is Chalkle
- "Teaching is a rewarding job. One of the rewards we like best is laughter. That’s why we created Chalkle– a place for you to share those funny stories with your fellow teachers."
- From Our World to Yours: Digital Storytelling by Communities
- gary - From the National Film Board of Canada: "Designed in partnership with remote First Nations communities in British Columbia and the Yukon, Our World invites youth to use digital technology to share their stories with their communities – and with t
- Technology Review: Una Laptop por Niño
- Some positive news about OLPC. Gary
- Male Call: Recruiting More Men to Teach Elementary School | Edutopia
- jason
- Ask H&FJ | Hoefler & Frere-Jones
- The ampersand
- Connectivism Blog
- jm: OER a cute kitty?
- plannecc2008 » Bloggers Cafe
- Create your own crowds :: Crowdstatus.com
- The Gong Project - The Web Voice Communication Tool
- Teaching for Information Literacy
- TeacherTube - Teach the World
- useful little program for checking out your pc
- Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose
- jm: tee hee ... backchannel in action
- The eccentric billionaire : John D. MacArthur-- empire builder, reluctant philanthropist, relentless adversary [WorldCat.org]
- jm: biography of John D. MacArthur ... the reluctant philanthropist
- Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Learning From YouTube: An Interview with Alex Juhasz (Part Two)
- jm: youtube part 2 Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fhenryjenkins.org%2F2008%2F02%2Flearning_from_youtube_an_inter_1.html
- Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Learning From YouTube: An Interview with Alex Juhasz (Part One)
- jm: youtube class part 1
- Liliputing: Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables
- More shopping options for Jen
- educational-origami » Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
- IMAGINATION -- image-based authentication: Step 1
- Next generation captcha
- Craigslist grouses about eBay lawsuit | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- Microsoft’s Mesh Revealed—Sync All Apps And All Files To All Devices (As Long As They’re Windows)
- Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com
- YouTube - The Truth According To Wikipedia
- vance: wales keen o'reilly everyone is here great video
- The Top 8 worst Microsoft promo videos | Crave : The gadget blog
- Audio Resources
- A1 FREE Sound Effects Lots of sound effects. 2b-royaltyfree Home to the hottest Royalty Free Vance Stevens: Production Music on the web 3D Cafe Free sounds and music. Video stuff too. Backgrounds etc.
- Google Webmaster Central
- Web 2.0 Expo 2008 Blip.tv Video
- StartYourTube.com | Upload Videos and Start a Video Sharing Site
- Create your own Youtube site
- Educators on virtual islands see classroom potential | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
- Good article looking at SL. However: "A lot of the conversations revolve around fear." Gary
- AndreaMosaic Home Page
- js: Welcome to the official page of AndreaMosaic, a photographic mosaic Software. With this freeware program you can create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures.
- Education Week: Companies Targeting Low-Cost ‘Netbooks’ Directly at Education
- Good summary. Gary
- Are wired kids well served by schools? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- randynobx
- Top News - Gaming helps students hone 21st-century skills
- Good article about using tools such as SL for learning. Gary
- Judge to NYC public school students: No cell phones for you!
- jason
- Alice.org
- ulrich: Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics
- Dipity
- Dipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about. kristianstill 20080427
- Obsolete Skills: Skills/Skills
- I bet some of you even know how to do these things yet...D.Schinker (-:
- Concrete examples don't help students learn math, study finds
- Haven't we figured out how to teach math yet? john schinker
- YouTube University gets failing grade from prof, students
- jason
- Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop’s Battery Life
- cyndidannerkuhn
- Are wired kids well served by schools? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- "Kids associate one word with school--'boring,'" Gary
- ABC News: $100 Laptop Program Falls on Hard Times
- Gets more complicated all the time. "Which do you think Microsoft is going to put its marketing muscle behind?" Gary
- classroom2dot0 » live conversations
- gary -
- Users petition to keep Windows XP - CNN.com
- dschinker
- Welcome to Webware 100 Awards 2008
- Courses - UCSB Cognitive Science
- Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cogsci.ucsb.edu%2Fgrad_emphasis%2Fcourses.php
- Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail - CNN.com
- New Search Engine TripleMe - the power of Google, Yahoo, MSN Live in One
- Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers
- clicksa
- Colored charts meant to show HISD schools' growth | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
- So a school who has all its students scoring over 90th percentile could be rated at the bottom if all of them are only above the 85 percentile a year later? Wait until the Fraser institute finds out about this! Gary
- Chicken chicken chicken
- pellerman
- Subservient Chicken
- vance stevens chicken does whatever you tell it to
- TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world
- jason
- gdocsuploader - Google Code
- krossbow Max OS X application to allow for easy and quick uploading of documents into Google Docs.
- Gickr.com: Create GIF Animations online | Upload pictures or get images from Flickr | Pimp myspace graphics
- kristianStill
- http://www.courserepository.org/index.html
- jm: free OERs
- NOAA Learning Objects
- jm: lessons related to oceans / weather ...
- BBC - History - Games
- jm: interactive games
- Blackle - Energy Saving Search
- Publishers Sue Georgia State over Digital Distribution
- jm: always fun to see what happens when companies sue their customers ... wonder why open access journals are becoming so popular ... go figure
- Writing Style Guides General Reference
- jm: list of writing style guides
- CIA - The World Factbook
- jm: at least they share some of what they find after all that snooping around
- The 2008 Statistical Abstract
- jm: US statistical abstract database
- Etext Center: Collections
- jm: ebook collection from University of Virginia
- Biographical Dictionary - S9.com
- jm: biographical dictionary
- facilitatortips " Online Surveys and Forms
- Freenode
- explorations in the ed tech world
- Ajaxian » Yahoo! BrowserPlus: The rumour is true
- jm: rumour about the rumour ...
- V597SLsyllabus.htm
- From the EdTechIsland Folks - This year's course - June 9~August 3
- Tama Leaver dot Net » Blog Archive » Mayer and Bettle are back!
- jm: understanding CC via fun animation
- Space, Issue #1 - Digiatal Creations by students from the Youth Twitter Network
- Free Math worksheets, Free phonics worksheets, Math Games and Online activities, work sheets
- Tools for Educators - Worksheet wizards, game creators, 100% customizable worksheet generators with images!
- Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics
- BookPALS Storyline Online
- KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion!
- Very easy, worked like a charm
- Find teaching jobs, school jobs, education jobs at SchoolSpring.com!
- Art cyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
- Good Parenting: Kid Breaks Vacuum to Play Xbox Instead of Doing Chores; Mom Sells Xbox, Pranks His MySpace
- Illuminations: Welcome to Illuminations
- Illuminations is designed to provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students & Provide materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics
- CSI: The Experience - Web Adventures
- wikiHow - The How-to Manual That You Can Edit
- Cell | 3D Cell Explorer
- alex ragone:
- New Media Expo
- jm: from Jose today ..
- iterating toward openness - Answering Stephen, Episode 43
- jm: SD and DW chatting it up again ... good point to consider re: "commercial use" of OERs
- iterating toward openness - Coming Out of Silent Mode
- jm: announcing flatworld knowledge opentextbooks
- Make Textbooks Affordable
- jm: textbooks
- Professors Gone Paperless :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs
- jm: textbooks gone wild?
- FT.com - Ebay considers sale of Skype subsidiary
- JS: Ebay has figured out that paying $3 billion for a company that mostly gives its product away may not have been the best move.
- Photos: Asus Eee PC 900 vs Eee PC 701 - Crave at CNET.co.uk
- jm: yes ... I'm done now ... eeepc comparison pics
- AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 - CNET News.com
- JS: The tubes are full from all of this video watching and downloading and other such nonsense. We should have a system that allows my important traffic to get through faster than your stupid YouTube videos
- Asus Eee PC 900 Win (Windows XP) Full Review, Laptop Reviews on CNET.co.uk
- js to jm: more on the newest in the eeepc line
- Lessig Lectures the FCC on the Need for Neutrality - GigaOM
- GoToWebinar : Webinars & Web Events Made Easy
- Asus Sets Eee PC 900 U.S. Launch for May 12th
- jm: new eee pc on horizon in US ... sun already up in europe and asia
- PassPack Online Password Manager
- kristian still
- Deutsche Welle - EinSteinchen
- Wetpaint Please Touch - Create Your Own Masterpiece!
- kristianstill
- Noesis: Sending large files to another user
- psu_pd08 Here's a list of places that will allow you to send large files over the internet. Some are fee, some are not.
- PalBee - Easier, Faster and Free Video Conference & Video Chat
- vancestevens
- Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets » TweetLater.com
- jason: Why?
- Teen Dating '08: Nude Pix On Cell Phones, Police Say Swapping X-Rated Photos To Flirt Common Among Teens - CBS News
- "Adolescents are not known for thinking things through...." Most middle school teachers could tell you that but this seems a bit too far. Gary
- Lesson ideas using Google
- paul reid: From search games to presentations on how to use Docs & Spreadsheets with your students, here you can find real-world examples of innovative ways that teachers and librarians are using Google tools to help students learn.
- Planet Green Game
- napolib
- MERLOT Awards
- thpapak
- As online testing nears, educators are the ones who are nervous
- Sometimes using technology should be more carefully implemented. Gary
- Rounds on quest for laptop money | argusleader.com | Argus Leader
- Interesting debate. Is it worth spending a great deal of money on laptops for students when desktops might in the longterm be less expensive? Gary
- Top News - Patent office deals a blow to Blackboard
- The story is not over but even more confusing. Gary
- Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine
- Are you elite techies trying to secretly control society? (-: ~ Debbie Schinker
- Boolify Project: A Educational Boolean Search Tool
- kristianstill
- Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » Presentation: The Crisis of Significance
- alex
- Curriculum Vitae for Kristin Hokanson
- wmcfisher
- Yahoo, Weighing Options, Keeps Them Open: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
- JS: Yahoo considering Microsoft buyout or agreement with Time Warner. At the same time, they're trying out Google Ads in their search results
- FuseCal - The Web's Events in Your Calendar
- JS: FuseCal™ makes it simple to stay up to date with any calendar on the web. We sync events to your personal calendar program, and send you updates when they change.
- Transitioning to Web 2.0: Using Blogs to Promote Authentic Learning in the Classroom
- Gizmoz. The world of animated avatars, widgets and user generated video clips
- make yourself a talking avatar
- 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator 3D mouse
- GroupTweet
- Logic Emotion: The Top 10 Made Up Words of Web 3.0
- jm: tee hee
- Currency Converter | Xurrency.com
- jm: slick currency converter
- URLBunch : Bunch links together for easy sharing
- jm: bunch a list of URLs and recipients open them up all at once ... maybe a good option for ETW?
- DarkCopy - Simple, full screen text editing
- jm: is this something anyone "needs" or "wants" ... hmmm
- Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Training, Desktop Sharing, Web Meeting, Free Web conferencing, eLearning, Presentation Software, Web x collaboration, Collaboration software
- jm: oops ... recording and archiving (under development) ... kind of a big deal, right?
- Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Training, Desktop Sharing, Web Meeting, Free Web conferencing, eLearning, Presentation Software, Web x collaboration, Collaboration software
- jm: dimdim pricing options ...
- dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Training, Desktop Sharing, Web Meeting, Free Web conferencing, eLearning, Presentation Software, Web x collaboration, Collaboration software
- jm: dimdim out of private beta ... anyone give it a try?
- YAKIToMe! - Free Text-To-Speech (TTS) Audio Book Podcasts
- BMWSportTouring Forums: Space Shuttle Processing: Rarely seen by the general public
- clicksa
- Find Your Perfect Keyboard - Reviews by PC Magazine
- jwitter
- What Would (Will) our Children do with This | 2¢ Worth
- randynobx
- Internet Safety Podcast - Family safety meets cyberspace
- Maybe useful resource for parents by teacher suggestion? Gary
- Buy it later
- krossbow: Show me a teacher that makes enough money that they wouldn't rather buy something when it goes on sale then pay full price!
- RSS Directories
- JL
- Periodic Table - Flash Version
- skomadina
- QuantumShift.tv - Be the Change! Share the Story!
- JL
- Teaching Keyboarding -- When? Why? How?
- arvind: an informative article on keyboarding. When to teach it, how to teach it, why to teach it
- GeoGebra
- jseal: A web based opensource version of GeoSketchpad
- Musicovery : interactive webRadio
- jason: Just a nifty tool. Might even be educational.
- Evolution In The Classroom: 'Evolution Machine' Lets Students See It Happen
- clicksa
- BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Wii becomes home of online video
- clicksa: wii
- Top News - Birmingham approves low-cost laptop project
- A project with "many gray areas" - it was bound to happen? Gary
- Created using the entire movie script
- clicksa: Unbelievable!
- History, History Photos, Reference Guide, Historical Information, Facts, News, Video, Research - National Geographic
- Great site and probably posted before but a reminder might be useful. Gary
- records both sides of a skype conversation
- napolib: PowerGramo skype recorder is a complete audio recording solution for Skype. With it you can record and manage all kinds of Skype calls easily.
- MyStudiyo Templates - Create a quiz to embed on your site/blog in just minutes!
- Top News - Videotaped beating sparks national outrage
- praxis: Interesting article up to the point where it is expected that schools should play a larger role in preventing these sorts of events .... agree to a point but when schools make a choice to get involved, it often becomes their job (and they can then
- danah boyd - Bio
- jm: db has an agent ... hmm ... go figure?
- LiveLeak.com - The Human LCD - Amazing
- clicksa
- Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care - ReadWriteWeb
- dschinker: DAS
- CushyCMS - Take the work out of managing content
- alec: Nice, free CMS. See video.
- HP unveils small laptop for schoolkids
- praxis6942: And another option. Gary
- Lookybook | Home
- jamacc: Great resource for librarians for selection, showing illustrations for read-alouds. See blog post: http://books-and-bytes.blogspot.com/2008/04/lookybook-experiment.html
- NowLive is Live, Interactive Broadcasting
- jm: used on Classroom 2.0 ... is it promising?
- Twubble
- Job Searching Educational Technology and Instructional Systems Technology
- jm: job search round up ... thanks to CB
- Final Report - Safer Children in a Digital World
- sine
- SLanguages 2008
- emailed to wia from howard vickers
- Living Archives teacher resources
- Academic Word List
- The list contains 570 word families which were selected according to principles outlined below. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English.
- Tweetburner
- Research Sources for Writers: A Guide to Backing up Your Words
- Content Directories - CC Wiki
- Learn English Online - Learn English, Learn Spanish, Learn Italian and more.
- The Web Edtech Podcast
- TeacherTube - How to create a great PowerPoint without breaking the law.
- Shine: Fashion and Beauty, Healthy Living, Parenting, Sex and Love, Career and Money, Food, and more
- Yahoo for women
- OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID - ReadWriteWeb
- Desire2Learn Launches Web Services for Learning Management : April 2008 : THE Journal
- clicksa
- Coming soon: superfast internet - Times Online
- randynobx
- Past Sites of Week - Free lesson plans help bring Google Earth into classrooms
- Maybe useful for some teachers. Gary
- Idiomsite.com - Idioms and Sayings
- ELL, ElenaW
- Hypertextopia Manifesto — Hypertextopia Manifesto
- leslie.tech
- The Connected Classroom: DIG-ging diigo...
- It's HOT and here's the reasons why.
- Miranda IM - Home of the Miranda IM client. Smaller, Faster, Easier
- durff
- Cerulean Studios: Creators of Trillian and Trillian Pro Instant Messengers
- durff
- Home | Pidgin
- durff
- Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks
- Durff
- Newseum | The Interactive Museum of News
- New media NEWSeum opens in Washington D.C. on April 11. Look at hundreds of newspaper front pages daily. Interactive web activities explain the importance of news media.
by webwriter
- How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients - ReadWriteWeb
- cephalopodcast
- Don Norman's jnd.org / In Defense of Cheating
- Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jnd.org%2Fdn.mss%2Fin_defense_of_c.html
- Docstoc.com Blog » Embed Documents into your Blog or Website
- jm: from coolcat tweet - embed doc in blog
- Education Mashups - Mashup Awards
- krossbow
- Meme: Passion Quilt | VanishingPoint
- ??? What is this ?? worththesurf: I am ill today so my creativity and mental capacities are being quite challenged just continuing to breath and stay awake, so I am using Robin's post format
- Intel Unveils New Classmate PCs - washingtonpost.com
- There will be losers here - hope they are not the students. Gary
- Second Life Lipsync Viewer
- Free online media file conversion (Document, Images, Audio, Video & Archives)
- Google Reader
- BigIdeaFUN.com - Penguins - Arcade - Spaced Penguin!
- kristian: Gravity learning
- What would happen if Will Richardson and David Warlick got in a fight?
- jason
- Sophie 1.0 multimedia book authoring
- webwriter: Sophie is software for writing and reading rich media documents. Sophie’s goal is to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of people ; to redefine the notion of a book to include rich media and mechanisms for reader feedba
- Geni - Genealogy - Free Family Tree
- jason: Simple genealogy maker with Web 2.0 goodness. Submitted for you consideration by cephalopodcast
- Official Google Blog: A common sense approach to Internet safety
- cmduke: We've also been involved in a variety of local initiatives to educate families about how to stay safe while surfing the web. Here are a few highlights:
- Private photo and video sharing - 2pad
- js: Store photos online. Upload via email or web form. Keep them private, or share them.
- Tom Chapin - Not On The Test
- jason Submitted for your consideration by the cephalopodcast
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032708-netkid.html
- praxis: Makes you feel old
- eLearn: In Depth Tutorials - Designing and Developing E-learning Projects: A Three-Tiered Approach
- clicksa:
- IS UNIT WEB SITE - IPTS - JRC - EC
- clicksa
- Prologue Theme
- js: Twitter for Wordpress, kinda
- Get the Photo Dropper Flickr Wordpress Plugin
- js: Pull CC images from flickr into your blog
- Call Graph: The free Skype call recorder
- js: test
- 101 most useful websites
- Reflections on AERA | Crucial Thought
- jm: AERA annual meeting Chris Craft roundup
- Ping.fm | Your Dashboard
- Ping.fm is a simple service that allows you to post to multiple social networks with a single message.
- classroom2dot0 » LIVE Conversations
- jm: follow along with all the recent Diigo roundups over at Classroom 2.0
- Tabber - Home
- clicksa aggregate all your social networks in one place
- Lexisum - Lexicon Wikipédia Summary
- clicksa
- Yakkle - Instant Collaboration
- clicksa
- zurpy
- clicksa
- VisualCV
- clicksa
- Zephyr: Now, Test Management is a breeze
- clicksa:
- placeSpotting.com | The online map game
- kristianstill: placeSpotting.com is a funny new online map game. Spot places somewhere on earth and create map riddles for your friends
- Creating a Collaborative Syllabus Using Moodle : March 2008 : THE Journal
- clicksa
- Adobe Labs - BRIO
- clicksa: Adobe online conference
- iSpring - PowerPoint to Flash converter
- kristianStill
- New Media Expo
- jl The New Media Expo is an annual convention that educates individuals and companies about how to produce high-quality audio and video digital content, grow a loyal audience, and market or monetize that content in creative ways.
- Apple - Support - Discussions - kmosx: OS X TCPIP NETWORK SPEED: Take ...
- montgorp
- American RadioWorks - Design of Desire
- alex
- Adobe - Premiere Express
- alex
- Google: No kids allowed | Surveillance State - CNET Blogs
- js: Google's terms of service, while ignored by the vast majority of users, contain a pretty shocking clause: Under 18's are not permitted to use any of Google's web properties. Thats right kids - no search, YouTube, Gmail, news, or images.
- Digital Campus
- webwriter: Podcast. A biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums.
- eJamming AUDiiO
- JL
- Adobe Photoshop Express - Made You Look.
- durff
- Adobe joins list of companies not reading own EULAs
- JS: Use Photoshop Express and Adobe can use your photos however they want.
- Aviary - Creation on the fly / blog / Aviary, Photoshop Express and other image editors compared
- JS: Comparison of Aviary, Photoshop Express, and other online photo editors
- Timelines.tv - History, documentary & television on the web
- KristianStill
- FriendFeed
- randynobx
- Cooperative Classrooms Lead To Better Friendships, Higher Achievement In Young Adolescents
- "Students competing for resources in the classroom while discounting each others' success are less likely to earn top grades than students who work together toward goals and share their success..." Implications for social networks? From JasonR
- Tertiary ed around the world. | MetaFilter
- cephalopodcast ...
- iReport: 'Naughty Auties' battle autism with virtual interaction - CNN.com
- efl537:
- Adobe Photoshop Express
- randynobx
- Volume conversion calculators for metric and imperial units
- alex
- Focus on Education
- jm: Innovation 2008 - ATTEND ONLINE!!
- Graphic Novel by Beatrice
- doug: Clay Burell's post about a student's graphic novel. Posted as a Flickr set--works nicely in slideshow mode
- Mnemograph: Web Based Timeline Software
- pgoerner: online timeline creator built for collaboration - interesting tool for our classrooms!
- Welcome to PrimaryAccess
- amiddlet50: A brilliant tool for Digital Storytelling educators
- 19.20.21.
- This seems like it will be a website to watch. I love studying the numbers. I cannot wait to see what these experts say about how the world is changing.
- Read The Words
- krossbow: Step 1: Tell Us What You Want To Read * Upload MS Word * Upload Adobe PDF * Upload HTML File * Write Text Content * Cut & Paste Text * Website Address * RSS Feed
- Durff's Blog: Travelling down the Yellow Brick Road
- cyndidannerkuhn
- Down for everyone or just me?
- krossbow: Check to see if a web site is really down or maybe it is just you...
- Student won't be expelled over Facebook study group
- Follow-up to previous story. Gary
- 10 Ways to Keep your PLN from Running Amok! | 2¢ Worth
- dennisar
- YouTube - Web 2.0 song, Are You Blogging This?
- rubyfire: A song and video about blogging and web 2.0.
- 15 Free Icon Sets for iPhone - SoftFacade
- reggieee
- UVa First-Year Student Computer Inventory, Fall 2006
- Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Stephen Downes on Personal Learning
- clicksa: Personal learning presented by Stephen Downes
- Gadgets comes to Google Docs | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- pgoerner: wow- how to use gadgets on spreadsheets in very cool ways to display information. Nice!
- Password Strength Checker
- krossbow
- Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools Collection
- joemommapoo
- mp3 or not - Don't you hear it?
- mrich1911
- OldVersion.com
- efl537
- About the Pulse of Education
- Follow educators as the twitter away the remains of their day
- adobe in education
- joemommapoo
- myGreenElectronics
- alex
- Public Schools Expand Curriculum Online : NPR
- alex
- Welcome to EeeUser! [EeeUser Eee PC Wiki]
- Very useful wiki for tweaking the eee. I have used it to open up the basic eee os. Do not need to know anything about linux to follow the directions. Huge community support for this wiki.
- Education|Evolving
- dennisar
- authorSTREAM Present and Share PowerPoint Online
- kristianstill
- Children's Books Online - BigUniverse.com
- kristianstill
- Phun - 2D physics sandbox
- joemommapoo
- Assessing Learners Online. Practitioner File
- webwriter: An overview article about doing online assessment of learners referenced by Learning Times Greenroom podcast #41, February 28, 2008.
- Photojojo » Photography and The Law: Know Your Rights
- From MizMercer: Useful to know, includes links at bottom to similar rights in Canada and New Zealand
- Twitter breaks down barriers in the classroom
- jason
- Moviestorm
- amiddlet
- How To Spark Remote Learning - Forbes.com
- Using SL for ESL. Gary
- Nortel LearniT
- cyndidannerkuhn :
- Main Page - Web 2.0 That Works: Marzano & Web 2.0
- alex
- BlogBoard : Convert Blog Feeds to Speech | MakeUseOf.com
- krossbow: Want your blog content read back to you? BlogBoard is a free service that converts regular text feeds to speech. Converted feeds can be accessed and played from any web-enabled PC or mobile phone. There are two ways to add new blogs/feeds to Blo
- Toward A Definition of 21st-Century Literacies
- alex
- Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music
- js: Musopen is an online music library of copyright free music (public domain music). We want to give the world access to music, without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recording
- I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS
- jason: ...the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
- Guys Read
- krossbow: Boys often have to read books they don’t really like. They don’t get to choose what they want to read. And what they do like to read, people sometimes tell them is not really reading. I think boys need to: • Choose what they read. • Pick
- KidZui - The Internet for Kids
- mrcirce
- MiniLegends: Resources & Strategies | Learning with the Fang
- mseyfang: You've probably heard that Adelaide blogging teacher Al Upton has been forced to close his class blog of many years 'minilegends'. Help me collect and synthesize responses that will help al, his school, the department and the cause in general
- Did We Just Witness a Twitter Marriage Proposal?
- jason
- Google Code
- randynobx
- Gspace
- thespian70:
- 7 Ways Teachers Can Use Online Tools to Keep Students Interested | Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten
- JS: Technologies teachers can use to engage students
- Radio.isg.si | Streaming radio and archive of free music.
- JS: Streaming CC media
- Mutant Palm: Engaging Chinese Netizens: Fanfou
- Fun every step of the way
- randy
- TeacherTube - 10 Steps
- clicksa
- Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains
- webwriter: Blog on brain fittness. Reviws and links to resources. Studies the use of "brain fittness" in marketing and PR.
- Project Management, Group Collaboration, and Task Software - TeamWork Live
- clicksa
- Picture this: Teachers are using comics, now called 'graphic novels,' to captivate reluctant readers - 03/22/2008 - MiamiHerald.com
- clicksa
- Twitxr.com - A picture is worth a thousand words
- atinkoff: Share photos with Twitter
- Follow Twitter Conversations - Quotably.com
- View Twitter conversations as threaded discussions. Just enter a username. No Signup!
- Make your own comic with MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages
- jm: shared by a fellow student ... he uses this in classroom
- Emily Chang - eHub
- Teach and Learn online. | LearnHub
- Sheboygan Press - Photo Gallery
- dirty jobs in IT
- The Site for Books & Readers - Shelfari
- cyndidannerkuhn
- Earthcast 2008
- Test of Awesome Highlighter
- from submitted link ... test of using awesome highligher
- YouTube - Minority Report at CeBIT 2008
- clicksa
- The Numbers Guy - WSJ.com
- clicksa
- viscosity - the modern art generator
- alec: Modern art generator.
- Zhura - Make it together
- from courosa
- The Strengths Movement
- Web 3.0: Playing it safe with our data
- lojo_ion
- Techdirt: Teachers' Union Debating Ending Homework For Students
- Teen Chat Decoder Dictionary Lookup - A
- CyberLink Live - Remotely access your media -- including live TV, video, audio and photos on any web-browsing device.
- jm: remote access for your media
- hulu: Watch your favorites. Anytime. For free.
- jm: free high quality tv streaming
- Fasterfox :: Firefox Add-ons
- jm: tried this one?
Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.
- the Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight
- amiddlet- tool for highlighting and sharing bits of a web page. Also has a twitter interfacetool for highlighting and sharing bits of a web page. Also has a twitter interface
- Google Sky
- browser version - alec
- Fridge Magnet Idea
- Electronic gadgets latest sources of computer viruses - CNN.com
- Ack!!! ~ Debbie Schinker
- bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online
- joemommapoo, mindee -
(we've talked about this, right?)
- viscosity - the modern art generator
- kristian still
- Creative Docs .NET - Get Creative!
- kristian
- ABC News: Crude Teen Blogs: Suing for Online Rights
- My first reaction - if I was the teacher, I might not want the school involved. I might inform them after contacting legal authorities. Difficult problem for schools but teachers may want to take the initiative here. Gary
- :: Reviews : Skype 2.0 vs. Ekiga for Linux
- jsigler: Is Ekiga better than Skype? Is it available on PC or Mac?
- Liam’s Pictures from Old Books
- Useful for the classroom? Gary
- Podcasting News » You Talking To Me? Study Finds Kids Paying Less Attention to TV
- kids aged 9 - 17 are paying less attention to television than they used to. They are doing other (online or mobile media) activities while watching the ‘tube.
by cephalopodcast
- Weblogg-ed » URGENT: 21st Century Skills for Educators (and Others) First
- courosa
- The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know
- A rather startling way for someone to use YouTube and technology. Gary
- MediaPost Publications - Study: Kids Are Master Multitaskers On TV, Web, Mobile - 03/10/2008
- The problem: can we really multi-task? I am not sure science is sure. Gary
- useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design
- JL
- Welcome to Google Sites
- JL
- BricaBox
- JL
- Searchme, Inc.
- courosa: New visual search engine.
- Official Google Enterprise Blog: Instant workgroup collaboration with Google Apps Team Edition
- alex ragone
- Sched.org is No Twitter, But It Does Help Sort Through Conference Chaos
- krossbow: One of the Wired blogs is going gaga over Sched.org, declaring it to be this year’s Twitter. Last year, everyone was using Twitter to figure out which parties to go to. But you know what? I think they still are. More people learned about the M
- Michigan Department of Education K-12 Technology Planning Web Site
- I looked at the 2006 plan and specifically the indicators for student technology literacy. Bridges being built in Michigan.
by hollyrae
- celemony_ :: Direct Note Access
- Tech talks at Google
- JL
- Education Week: Copyright Confusion Is Shortchanging Our Students
- Fear by teachers of copyright. Gary
- BBC NEWS | Education | Technology and the death of handwriting
- Many tests are now written using technology but what happens if they are not? Gary
- Many teens spend 30 hours a week on 'screen time' during high school
- cephalopodcast
- Garageband 4.0 Help (iLife '08): Recording iChat audio and video conferences
- For mac users, I just realized that you can record iChat conference with Garageband.
by cephalopodcast
- Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration for the Web
- courosa: A free, no-setup, web-based meeting playground
- The Associated Press: Ga. School System to Go Single-Sex
- jseal
- Newspapers US and Worldwide - refdesk.com
- joemommapoo
- Pixton™ - The User-Generated Comic Strip
- joemommapoo
- DEVELOPMENT OF A NASA-BASED MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE LEARNING GAME, SOL MMORFI
- Virtual worlds allow scientists to "tinker with things!" Yeah! Massive online gaming begins with NASA?
by pgoerner
- SpeakLike: Home
- JL
- Podcasting News » Whole Foods Looking For Kids To Host Earth Day Podcasts
- cephalopodcast
- Student accused of cheating on Facebook faces expulsion hearing
- A follow-up. Read the comments. Gary
- copyrightchart
- joemommapoo
- How to get (European) kids interested in engineering
- Very Funny Ads
- The Faculty Is Remote, but Not Detached - New York Times
- praxis6942: Note that on-line teachers may be paid less. The "trick" of having larger class sizes is also possible. Unless you belong to a union this may not be a good choice. Gary
- NECC The Constructivist Consortium - Events
- rubyfire: The Constructivist Celebration is an opportunity for you to let your creativity run free with the world's best open-ended software tools in a great setting; with enthusiastic colleagues who share your commitment to children, computing, creativit
- Podcasting Basics: Simple Steps for Introducing Podcasting into Your K-8 Class, Part 1 : February 2008 : THE Journal
- clicksa: Introduction to podcasting
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- from alex ragone
- Companies/Industries Using Group SMS Text Messaging Powered By Ez Texting
- mrpowers0607: This company provides group text messaging for 2.5 cents per message. Think of the possibilities for use in schools. "What do you mean you forgot your lunch for the field trip? It was on the blog, the social netowork, email, and we even sent
- Simply create blogs and usernames for your students | Edublogs - education blogs
- jm: create student blogs on the fly
- Make3D --- convert your image into 3d
- Alltop.com - Education
- Edmodo - A screencast teaser | edmodo
- clicksa
- UNdata
- clicksa:
- OLPC News: OLPC Haiti: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of XO's in Abject Poverty
- Omeka
- a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, it's easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits. free and open source
- The CUE Community
- Digital kids ditch homework for networking | Technology | The Guardian
- British 15-to-19-year-olds admit spending significantly less time doing homework than they used to as a result of their use of social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, according to research published today. From JasonR
by cephalopodc
- A Blog Around The Clock : The so-called Facebook Scandal
- A student is threatened by expulsion for organizing a Facebook group for studying chemistry.
by cephalopodcast
- OLPC News: A CEO Search Result: Negroponte Leaves One Laptop Per Child
- Blackboard Inc. v. Desire2Learn Inc.: “Grey” Monday March 10, 2008 at e-Literate
- ijohnpederson » Creative Commons and the NETS for Students Standards
- www.iste.org/permissions
- Hashtags
- Moodle 1.9 is now available!
- Footnote - The place for original documents online
- Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past.
- First spam felony conviction upheld: no free speech to spam
- Daylight Saving Wastes Energy, Study Says - WSJ.com
- What Price Scrabulous? - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York Times
- Scrabulous
- Jimmy Wales - Valleywag
- south by southwest festivals + conferences
- PayPal to Safari users: 'Ditch it'
- Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived - ReadWriteWeb
- Video: Twitter in Plain English
- bwatwood: cephalopodcast
- Dangerously Irrelevant: Cell phone cameras in the K-12 classroom: Punishable offenses or student-citizen journalism?
- cephalopodcast
- School: Should We Bribe Kids And Teachers For Good Grades?
- "Some would receive nearly $50 for acing the standardized tests, a small fortune for many at this school, P.S. 188 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan."
- Main Page - Free-reading
- jseal
- iCalamus.net :: iCalamus :: Demo movies :: Demo movies
- cyndidannerkuhn
- Biology Animation Library
- Excellent collection. Gary
- Recuva - Undelete, Unerase, File Recovery - Home
- from Durff
- How to Create a Timeline in Excel
- Tiny huge 1 terrabyte optical disk
- Woogi World - Teaching kids Internet safety, life values, and fun!
- randynobx
- Chinese hackers: No site is safe - CNN.com
- from randynobx
- How To: Send Twitters from the Command Line in Any OS
- Tweeted by Ryan Collins. Useful for auto-notification/network monitoring scripts?
- Encyclopedia of Life
- PicLens | Immersive Slideshows Across the Web
- from dennisar
- 25 Tools for teachers
- from ElenaW
- Steve Chen: YouTube to Add Live Video « NewTeeVee
- Hey another webcasting opportunity
by coordinator2
- What is the "X factor" when it comes to classroom management? | Ask Metafilter
- When it comes to managing a group of high-schoolers what is the personality trait that makes some teachers have more control of their classroom than others?
by cephalopodcast ...
- How Dangerous Is the Internet for Children? - New York Times
- Some fears are overplayed, others are underplayed, and above all, the Internet plays a huge part in adolescence today.
by agrover
- Welcome | PodCamp South Africa | 2008
- clicksa
- BBC - History - Timelines - British Timeline
- clicksa
- Apple is Number One Laptop Supplier in Higher Education - Mac Rumors
- Apple has edged past Dell and is now the #1 laptop supplier in higher education
- Comiqs | Honeymoon
- KristianStill to
- WWTelescope
- KristianStill
- windows sky drive
- joemommapoo
- JABET » How Podcasts and Other Media Feed Learning Addiction
- clicksa
- globeandmail.com: Teachers demand ban on bullying video game
- A coalition of groups representing four million teachers in several countries, including Canada, is urging retailers to refuse to sell a controversial video game about school bullying. "Bully won several awards", "entertainment experience", "And if you do
- ChitChat Educational Network
- Ryerson student fighting cheating charges for Facebook study group
- Not cheating if you don't do it on FaceBook? Gary
- YouTube - Twitter in Plain English
- great video from CommonCraft explaining Twitter
by agrover
- NJ Court Upholds Decision to Dismiss Porn-Surfing School Librarian - 3/5/2008 2:00:00 PM - School Library Journal
- What was she thinking???
by ElenaW
- Wikipedia:Academic use
- Wikipedia's article on academic use instructing people not to cite them for papers. Interesting
- WOWOWOW
- Seems like WOW should sue for infringement.
by cephalopodcast
- Peak Pro 6 Released
- BIAS Peak Pro 6 has officially been released. It updates the popular audio editing, processing and mastering application with many new features including specific podcasting features...
by cephalopodcast
- Free Animated Download of Horton Hears a Who! - 2/29/2008 4:00:00 AM - School Library Journal
- Horton Hears a Who by ElenaW
- Flickr Related Tag Browser
- KristianStill
- SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- Reviewing for a test could be just a click away on your iPod
- Meanwhile some school ban iPods and other MP3 players because it interferes with real education. Gary by Praxis6942
- Wired Campus: Another University to Give Away iPhones or iPods - Chronicle.com
- Oklahoma Christian University announced Friday that it will give a double dose of mobile technology to incoming students starting in May — an Apple laptop computer and an iPhone (or an iPod Touch, which is essentially an iPhone without the telephone fun
- iNet - Curriculum redesign
- Across the world, the 45 - 60 minute lesson is the standard in schools and is widely accepted as the norm and, perhaps best, model for effective learning and teaching. Another standard form of school organisation is that learners move through their educat
- YouTube goes live to take on TV | Technology | The Observer
- Plan to add live video broadcasts to its 73 million clips widen website's battle with channels
by cephalopodcast
- openDSM - education.au
- mseyfang: interesting search tool from OZ
- distributed-search-manager - Google Code
- mseyfang Maybe a bit low level (good for site developers/administrators) openDSM is a tool developed by education.au Ltd Australia to provide a lightweight fast search across multiple distributed education repositories (digital libraries, cultural image l
- The Dumbing Of America - washingtonpost.com
- dschinker: Although I understand - and largely agree with - her points, I found her categorization of video/digital media disturbing.
- Jenuine Tech.com -- WELCOME
- Technospud morphs into JenuineTech
- Team FREDNET - Race to the Moon
- londonpedagogyplanner - Google Code
- (
- A New Earth Web Event
- jm: Oprah got a bit bigger audience than EdTechWeekly - 500,000 people simultaneously logged on to watch, but looks like they had a few glitches, too - "Oprah not afraid to fail!"
- The Sixty One
- ElggVoices
- jm: push content to your phone ... hmmm ...
- 11 Resources For Learning Guitar On The Web
- jm: learning to strum online
- WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier: Using the Blog
- dschninker
- CoCo Quest: Color Computer Games and More!
- dschinker: Mike Snyder's TRS-80/COCO2/COCO3 games are available for free download. Play using a COCO emulator, or copy to a diskette for use on a REAL COCO2 or COCO3 system.
- Technology in the Middle -Good Teaching + Low Tech = High Achievement
- The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning
- KristianStill: Framework for 21st Century Learning
- YouTube - Better Than A Test on Ukulele
- cyndidannerkuhn
- Aviary - Creation on the fly
- Cozimo — Collaborate and Review Digital Content Online, in Real-Time
- Free Moodle Web Conferencing Block and Activity - WiZiQ Live Class
- Johnson @ SLN 2008 » SlideShare
- jm: Larry Johnson NMC slides
- Welcome : PBS TeacherLine
- jm: partner in teacher domain
- Ustream.tv - SUNY Presentations
- jm: list of all presentations
- Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com
- Pakistan Blamed for Worldwide YouTube Break - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog
- smARThistory
- jm:
- smARThistory.org » About smARThistory //
- jm:
- Network Solutions, ICANN Sued Over Domain Front Running
- Intel 8 Core Xeon X5365 V8 Preview - Driver Heaven.net
- Teacher Training Videos created by Russell Stannard
- Thing-a-day.com
- jm: post based on the topic of the day
- Live Video is Coming to YouTube in 2008
- jm: breaking news ... sort of ... not?
- MoFuse: Create a Mobile Website, Mobile Site Builder, .mobi Compliant
- jm: mobile viewable websites
- Pages tagged with "hz08" on del.icio.us
- jm: All links tagged for the 2008 Horizon Report
- Main Page - Horizon Project
- jm: larry johnson pointed to during his preso this week
- The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
- jm: freeware roundup
- edmodo | The free communication platform for education.
- coordinator2 Twitter for educators?
- YouTube - Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
- jsigler Interactive whiteboard for $55. Neat. I made one this week, and it works. Sort of. More on my What is School 2.0? blog http://school20.siglersite.com/2008/03/01/60-wii-interactive-whiteboard/
- iLearn Technology
- ReachBy: Free Personalized Contact Pages with Spam Protection
- Internet TESL Journal (For ESL/EFL Teachers)
- World Math Day
- Thanks to a Tweet from KernKelly
- edmodo | The free communication platform for education.
- jm: 20080907 update
- south by southwest festivals + conferences
- JL: South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conferences and Festivals - March 9-18, 2007 - Austin, Texas
- A Capitalist Jolt for Charity - New York Times
- cyndidannerkuhn
- Second Brain™ - All Your Content
- randynobx
- Phun - Screenshots and movies
- pellerman This is a pretty cool looking physics game!
- Termites - Seating Plan Software
- Elana: Try this out
- TI-34 MultiView™ Scientific Calculator (Middle School)
- mrrich1911
- Teachers strike back at students' online pranks | csmonitor.com
- I am familiar with one case where a teacher was made fun of on a open FaceBook page set up for those who attended a certain by a former student. It took some time for the former student to remove the post. Gary
- My Learning Space | K-12 Schools | e-Learning | Hosting | Support | Training | Technology - Top 10 Tools for Learning in 2008
- PSU_PD08: A list of the top ten tools for learning in 2008.
- Second Brain™ - All Your Content
- ulrich: Second brain is a social content aggreagator. We make it easy to keep track of all the content that you have online.
- Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
- sutterphoto: What a great article about Learning 2.0. I'll definitely reference this when making pitch to admin for using more 2.0 tools in the classroom and how it relates to pedagogy.
- Google relaunches JotSpot as Web publishing tool
- cydidannerkuhn
- NPR: Coffee: A Little Really Does Go a Long Way
- arvind: an NPR story about how much caffeine is in various coffee/tea drinks. You might be surprised...
- Video Setup Tears Down Class Walls - washingtonpost.com
- Rather short slide show but interesting. Gary
- Let's Rewrite the Rules for Kids' Media
- Good summary of the issue. Gary
- Flickr: Photos from The Library of Congress
- jseal
- dotSUB.com ~ Any film in any language.
- joemammapoo:
- Student Mathcasts and Mathtrain.com Project Makes Front Page
- Our math class project of Mathtrain.com and our student-created video lessons (mathcasts) made the front page as "top story" on Wednesday 02/26/08 in the Santa Monica Daily Press newspaper.
- Elgato Home
- joemammapoo:
- Daves' Take on EdTechTalk
- DC
- MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed - Columns by PC Magazine
- Podsafe Music Network - Once- Music from the Motion Picture
- CK-12 - Flex books for every student
- Pageflakes - Get it Together
- Blackboard Won at e-Literate
- FOSSwiki - Freeware and Open Source Software.
- Identifies by OS. Gary
- Newseum | Today's Front Pages | Map View
- kristian still: Nice opener for language lessons
- Lessig '08 - Change Congress.
- Flickr: Photos tagged with nv08
- jm: photos from NV
- northernvoice: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
- jm: technorati aggregation of NV stuff
- Jury Supports Blackboard Patent ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
- jm: Stephen's recap and links to various edubloggers in the BB decision
- Phun - 2D physics sandbox
- kristianstill
- Centre for Distance Education - Collaborative Tools Evaluation Site
- jm: reports of evaluated products from Athabasca
- Centre for Distance Education - Collaborative Tools Evaluation Site
- jm: list of products evaluated by our good friends at Athabasca
- New education site using FeedAPI | drupal.org
- Google sponsors new race to the moon - International Herald Tribune
- 12 Screencasting Tools For Creating Video Tutorials
- jm: mashable screencasting tools
- Forget Excel: 14 Online Spreadsheet Applications
- jm: mashable spreadsheet roundup
- Forget Word: 13 Online Word Processors
- jm: mashable's roundup of online word processors
- Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps
- jm: mashable presentation tools - timely for Jeff and Jen??
- Microsoft to share some of its secrets
- praxis: Interesting - how will this be useful to educators? Gary
- MAKE: Blog: Wizkid computer dispenses with mouse and keyboard
- jason: ...computer of the future...Wizkid has no keyboard or mouse, 2 microphones, W-Fi, Bluetooth, IR receiver / emitter, an RFID reader, and maintains interaction with users through a gesture-based augmented reality environment...
- Personal data on 28,000 schoolchildren stolen
- praxis: Strange place to keep data about children. Gary
- the miniLegends mentoring program
- jason: If you’re an educational blogger...and would like to ‘mentor a mini’ then please leave a comment on (this) page saying who you would like to be connected with...drop into their blogs from time to time throughout the year and leave a positive
- Online Education and Training Delivered Across Northern Ontario
- If You Can’t Let Go, Twitter - New York Times
- Learning4Content/Registration - WikiEducator
- Six “Key Emerging Technologies” for Higher Ed Profiled in the 2008 Horizon Report | nmc
- jm: latest horizon report for 2008
- Download the 2008 Horizon Report
- jm: Here's a copy of the latest Horizon Report
- Film: U.S. Students Can't Compete in High-Tech World
- jason
- Tips for savvy medical Web surfing - CNN.com
- Note your usual type of education, but patient education counts, right? Interesting article...Debbie Schinker
- Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain - New York Times
- jason: Research shows...the primary creators of Web content...are digitally effusive teenage girls.
- The Mossberg Solution - WSJ.com
- praxis: Online tools for choosing a school? Based on standard test results? GMc
- Video: Merlin's New Time & Attention Talk | 43 Folders
- rickscheibner
- A Single Place For All Your Notes! | EverNote Corporation
- randynobx: nice little note taking program
- about us @ twine
- randynobx
- Streem
- krossbow: It's a serious attempt to help define the next iteration of weblogging and social media, or to be the Apple to Facebook's Microsoft, or something. But if it's just a neat toy then that's okay too. It's coded in Ruby/Rails/AJAX and pretty sloppy
- Digital Media and Learning Competition
- Black Cloud is an environmental studies game that mixes the physical with the virtual to engage high school students in Los Angeles and Cairo, Egypt. Teams role-play as either real estate developers or environmentalists using actual air quality sensors hi
- Cinch
- jm: This is TOTALLY cinch ... call the number, get podcast feed of recorded call. Only glitch and kind of a big one is that it uses your phone number in the URL ... hmmm.. kind of like UTTERZ that JL highlighted some time back
- Scribd’s iPaper Plan - GigaOM
- jm: Om explains iPaper
- ShowYourself Widget
- International Edubloggers Directory
- jm: International Edublogger Directory -
- Electronic media may well be damaging the minds of the young, say Sunil Iyengar and Mark Bauerlein
- JasonR: zomg! teknologe is bad 4 u! boo!
- LeapFrog debuts Crammer Study and Sound player for students - Engadget
- JasonR: LeapFrog is moving on up the chain, and hitting 3rd through 8th graders with a new study aid, the Crammer Study and Sound System.
- Hands-on with LeapFrog's new edutainment lineup - Engadget
- jasonR: more edu-"toys" from Leap Frog debut
- Online content providers sign up to code of conduct to protect children | Technology | The Guardian
- JasonR
- Chatzy - Create your own private chat rooms
- pulled from network - durff
- SocialSafety.org
- jkitterman
- Wikidot - Free Wiki Hosting
- worth the surf:
- WikiBios.com - A Biography For Everyone On Earth
- worth the surf: While you can do many things to fill out and customize your WikiBio, the only thing that you can't do is write it on your own. That's why the wiki section is designed to be filled out others, as we think that you’ll like seeing your life
- Madarin 2.0
- skype podcast are changing the way people learn language
- Wildlife Filmmaker, Video Mashups, Animal Videos, Wildlife Footage - National Geographic
- krossbow: Make your own nature wildlife film.
- A resource for Alberta parents who are actively involved in their children's education and interested in locating interactive web sites that support and enhance their child's learning.
- For Alberta parents but useful for others. Gary
- Fears of Internet predators unfounded, study finds
- Presentation on Delicious
- emapey: BWatwood presentation on Del.icio.us to be delivered at eLearning 2008 on Feb 18, in St Petersburg
- YouTube - Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
- alice mercer: Hey, this meteorologist didn't like the math text she reviewed for the state of Washington and made a video about how she thinks it's bad, and how math should be taught. Welcome to the Web!
- Izzy Video | The Video Podcast That Shows You How to Shoot and Edit Better Video
- Alec / courosa: Good tips on creating online video.
- Writer's block? Cure writer's block with creative writing games - brainstorming widgets - poetry generator - character name generator
- donna bragg
- wide open sapces wiki ready or not ?
- tctt: Leo 推荐 wiki 你准备好了 准备翻译中
- www.dontclick.it
- randynobx
- Del.icio.us Networking Features » Onlinesapiens Blog
- emapey
- List of Favorite Twitter Blog Posts » Onlinesapiens Blog
- emapey
- Comiqs | Create & Share your Comic Stories
- susan ettenheim
- Manage your del.icio.us account locally with Netlicious Review & Download Link | freewaregenius.com
- krossbow: Description: Netlicious is a desktop client that can manage your del.ici.ous account. It offers a number of useful features including a built-in browser, quick posts and tag editing, exporting your bookmarks to HTML/XML, a search box, the abilit
- streaming red5
- RulesofThumb.org - Homepage
- alice mercer:
- Classroom2.0 LIVE Conversations
- Online Schooling Grows, Setting Off a Debate - New York Times
- Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? - New York Times
- Harvard Opens Scholarship, Freeing Up Knowledge and Budgets | Open Culture
- Facebook - LTCWiki
- vancestevens: The rapid growth of Facebook and the highly personal nature of data provided by users has raised concerns about privacy and security of data. The recent launch of Beacon - Facebook's marketing program that shares data with advertisers and di
- LLT Vol 12 Num1: On The Net: You’ve Got some GALL: Google-Assisted Language Learning
- vancestevens: Language Learning & Technology Vol.12, No.1, February 2008, pp. 3-11 ON THE NET You’ve Got some GALL: Google-Assisted Language Learning Paginated PDF Version George M. Chinnery University of Maryland – Baltimore County
- Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home - New York Times
- jm via bonk: bonk quoted in the NY times today ... he also shares with us a round up of language links
- LoMasTv » Spanish Immersion TV
- jm via bonk: (online Spanish video magazine for people who wish to improve their Spanish skills. Authentic Spanish videos include television programs, music videos, interviews, documentaries, and travel. Web site offers Spanish and English captions, pitch
- Languagelab.com - BETA! - Live Language
- jm via bonk: (It uses the virtual world of "Second Life" to attend classes on a virtual campus. A placement test determines student's level. Classes are composed of 6 to 8 students at the same level. It uses voice over IP)
- Mango Languages - Home
- jm via bonk: (provides the study of a second language on an individual setting. The lessons are completely based on Flash movies. The learner listens and reads the phrases presented on each screen and he/she is encouraged to repeat each phrase. Something
- Learn languages with FriendsAbroad. Practice your foreign languages at the FriendsAbroad.com language exchange
- jm via bonk: Free voice calls, a language learning network. Learn language skills in an online language exchange community of millions of users in over 200 countries speaking more than 80 languages. Speak, hear, and look up words in online translation d
- Language Exchange Online via Skype on the Mixxer
- jm via bonk: 300 teachers and 15,000 people looking for a language exchange. A free educational community for language learners and teachers to find a language partner—use tools like Skype, chat, etc. Not growing as fast as Livemocha. Run through Dic
- EnglishPod | Learn Business English with Daily MP3 Podcasts
- jm via bonk: Focused on mobile English learning in China. Same company, Praxis, as Chinesepod and Spanishpod.
- Learn Spanish - SpanishPod
- jm via bonk: (the latest venture of the people from Chinesepod; expected to grow even faster than Chinesepod did)
- Learn Chinese - ChinesePod
- jm via bonk: (teaching Mandarin online; hundreds of thousands of podcast downloads each month plus many other supplemental language services; Ken Carroll is a co-founder
- Livemocha: Learn Languages and Practice with Native Speakers
- jm via bonk: combines language learning self-paced lessons (i.e., online contnt) with a community of tutors (i.e., people who give of their time and talent), and a suite of tools for learning language.
- Getting Fired At Yahoo: A Twitter Log
- R.E.M. Releases New Videos Under Open Source License
- Grouply - Tool for Yahoo and Google Groups
- Harvard Opts In to 'Opt Out' Plan :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education
- jm: more on open access ...
- Home - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- jm: Harvard's open access decision
- apophenia: open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals
- jm: a bit "inside baseball", but an interesting take on academic publishing and "open" access
- Welcome to the Course! « Blogs, Wikis, and New Media
- jm: david wiley using a free WP hosted account as a means of managing a course ... course content well worth a look, too!
- Abject Learning: Ridiculously easy and inexpensive course hosting will never fly
- jm: nice recap of kicking it cheap, lean and mean ... with a free hosted WP account
- Installing Drupal 6 | Lullabot
- jm: not upgrading to 6.0 'til I see how from the dudes and dudettes at lullabot
- How to get an Instructional Design education without paying tuition | effectivedesign.org
- jm: some of the top ID resources listed in this tongue in cheek (sort of) post.
- Garr Reynolds/Presentations
- jm: may come in handy for us jeff :)
- I want a Freeware Utility to ... 450+ common problems solved : eConsultant
- jm: freeware list based on "I want to ..."
- Go Fix the Web! (A case for micropresentations)
- donnabragg:
- Negative Implications Of No Child Left Behind: As Graduation Rates Go Down, School Ratings Go Up
- Jason: When no child is left behind, no child gets ahead.
- YouTube - You Suck at Photoshop #1
- arvind: part 1 of a series of highly-acclaimed Photoshop video tutorials
- Annenberg Program for Online Communities
- jm: I guess educators aren't included in their list of "entrepreneurial" thinkers :)
- Drupal 6.0 released | drupal.org
- PicLens :: Firefox Add-ons
- arvind: probably the best Firefox plugin I have ever seen. Makes viewing online photo galleries a delight. Install this ASAP
- Overlay.TV
- HelloTxt - Dashboard
- susanettenheim
- Jon Udell: language evolution in del.icio.us
- vance stevens
- The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
- alex
- Websites for the Primary Grades
- keskes1
- YouTube - Cheat At School With your IPOD!
- Probably old news for most but a "useful" demonstration for teachers. Gary
- NPR : Podcast Directory
- jm: the full roundup of NPR podcasts
- tteach! - free interactive online knowledge sharing.
- loonyhiker
- mydigimedia by Amy L. Webb
- krossbow: Who owns what list.
- Free Absorb Content on Yenka
- arvind: free math and physics content for 14-16 year old students. Great resource. Targeted for use on a whiteboard
- ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design
- amiddlet: ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges facing underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture of open source design innovation,
- A School That's Too High on Gizmos - washingtonpost.com
- praxis: Some schools may have too much money/technology. Good technology still needs good teachers and good teachers will use technology for everything. Gary
- "Vista Capable" scheme was panned at Microsoft
- JS: So I *wasn't* the only one who thought this was deceptive and possibly illegal
- OWEN & MZEE
- jamacc: Fantastic site!! Cool web 2.0 tools. Interactive. Love it!
- academhack » Blog Archive » Twitter for Academia
- vancestevens: Rather than cover what Twitter is or how to use it (see this video as well), I thought I would explain how I use it, specifically for academic related uses, and teaching.
- twemes.com
- vancestevens: Global #tags for twitter
- Yes Tech! | Meme: Passion Quilt
- cyndidannerkuhn
- Plugoo
- krossbow: Plugoo offers you several communication tools based on instant messaging: * Plugoo Widget, to interact LIVE with your website visitors; * Planet Plugoo, to meet people from all over the world, share your interests and chat with them instantly.
- Twittershare | Phoreo.com - Design + Technology for Do-Gooders
- reggieee
- PDFescape - Your Online PDF Reader, Editor, Form Filler, Form Designer, Solution
- krossbow: PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files. It allows you to open your PDF files right here on the web without downloading or installing any software. With PDFescape, you can fill in PDF forms, add text and graphics, add links, and even add new fo
- Grokker - Enterprise Search Management
- dinnisar
- edutagger - K-12 Social Bookmarking / Popular
- rubyfire: edutagger is a social bookmarking service for K-12 learners and educators, allowing you to store your web links online and share them with others, all within an educational context.
- Linda Stone: Just Breathe: Building the case for Email Apnea
- arvind: an article about the potential harm caused by holding breath, something people tend to do while e-mailining, texting, etc
- Yahoo! NewsGlobe
- kristian still
- Audiobook Podcast Collection - Download Free Audiobooks | Open Culture
- Georgian history | City of Vice | Channel 4
- kristian still: Great murder mystery
- muveeMix
- kirstian still
- Your Chance to Doodle 4 Google
- donnabragg
- Riffly - video / audio comments for sites
- 20+ Great Resources For Video Tutorials
- Drape's Takes: Surveys Via Google Spreadsheets
- The future of Elgg: 1.0 and beyond
- Wanted or Not, Windows is Coming to the OLPC Laptop | Compiler from Wired.com
- AND THE WINNERS ARE (Part II)
- WordWorld | PBS KIDS
- jm: WARNING STARTS PLAYING AT OPEN -
- Oprah and Eckhart Tolle Teach A New Earth in Live Webcast Classes
- jm: leave it to oprah to bring online learning to the other 98%!
- SchoolTube
- "...to educate and empower students and educators in safe, effective video production and online video sharing. "
- Teaching Hacks
- JL Golly a Wiki full of good info
- Multiple Intelligences Test
- Ian Truelove spills ideas: Kid Grid
- 100 Things to do with Google Maps Mashups
- OZ Projects Online Projects
- rubyfire: OzProjects is an Australian site that celebrates online curriculum projects and the world of unique learning opportunities such projects offer students and teachers. Access online project support resources and a range of online tools for your on
- Programming: The New Literacy | Edutopia
- rubyfire: This article by Marc Prensky published in February 2008 edition of Edutopia challenges educators to consider the importance of programming literacy for 21st century learners.
- Simple Spark
- jkitterman
- twemes.com
- krossbow: Twemes.com follows Twitter.com tweets that have embedded tags that start with a # character. As an example, the following: Twitter #socon08 to add to this weekends tweets - http://twemes.com/socon08 Twemes can use letters, numbers and the - a
- OpenID » Blog Archive » Evolving the OpenID Foundation Board
- What is collective intelligence ? · Buzzword
- dennisar:
- TwitPic - Share photos on twitter
- sutterphoto: Sharing photos on twitter - what a great idea!
- Try It | Digital Tools | Detail.php?tool Id=62&fullpage=true | Enquiring Minds
- kristianstill: Soda creates physics-based interactive 'toys'. In the Sodarace, users can put their constructions into competition against others.
- Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Art of Speaking: "There is a special circle in hell for those who use laser pointers," this and other advice from a master speaker.
- krossbow: I = f(K,P,T) Your Impact is a function of your Knowledge about speaking, Practice, and Talent — in decreasing order of importance. Winston’s advice focuses on your knowledge about speaking. This is the easiest way to gain the biggest increas
- Games Learning Society 2007 presentations
- webwriter: Video recordings GLS, July 2007 conference.
- Top 25 Linux Games for 2008 | WHDb
- RIAA president "simply musing" about filters on your PC
- JS: RIAA was just brainstorming when discussing internet filtering to keep people copyright-legal
- http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Polaroid-Film.html?ex=1203138000&en=6ad6ca7de02ede1d&ei=5070&emc=eta1
- JS: part of the ongoing "end of an era" series. I don't know anyone who didn't see this coming.
- HP US Philanthropy: K-12 HP Technology for Teaching grant
- JS: HP is giving away 110 awards of $40K each to US public schools with innovative technology project ideas. Deadline is Feb 14
- www.panwapa.com
- From the Schinker kids: Panwapa aims to foster the foundation for global citizenship and community activism in young children, ages 4 to 7. Featuring an entirely new group of Muppet characters, Panwapa consists of an interactive website, a DVD, and print
- TASC: Thinking actively in a social context
- Mother Stunned To Find Daughter On Google - Detroit News Story - WDIV Detroit
- In '08 presidential race, who's the most tech-friendly? | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com
- Giants win, domain squatter loses | Crave : The gadget blog
- Live Yahoo Streaming
- Appeals court: First Amendment protects forum trolls too
- Microsoft To Acquire Ustream.tv For $50 Million?
- uTest - Software Testing Community
- classroombooktalk » home
- YouTube - Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
- MySpace deletes hacked Web site for atheists and agnostics - cleveland.com
- Whatever your beliefs this is an indication about the problems of using "free" resources for your on-line presence. Educational sites are just as easily removed. Gary
- PBS Teachers | learning.now . Utah Bill Would Block Wi-Fi Access to Minors | PBS
- jm: (sigh)
- alertle
- jm: next generation aggregation?
- PicLens | Immersive Slideshows Across the Web
- jm: a way to view pictures shared on the web by transforming the browser into a full-screen web
- Cooliris Previews :: Firefox Add-ons
- jm: preview web links, etc. without clicking
- Welcome to splashr.com
- jm: tool for presenting photos
- 2008 Illinois Online Conference for Teaching and Learning
- JL:
- Remember The Milk - Ulrich's Tasks
- ulrich
- 180 Technology Tips - HOME PAGE
- Praxis: From Pete Mackay's "The Teacher List": List member Kathy Gallagher showed me a site that follows the same minimalist approach that I do on The Teacher List! 180 Technology Tips will provide to you 180 no-cost and simple 5 minute computer lessons t
- The Ultimate Student Resource List
- reggieee
- VideoSpin - Create your Own Movie Clips In Minutes!
- kristian still Video editor, first impressions are postive
- Online Event Registration Service - Eventbrite
- krossbow
- Yahoo Board to Spurn $44B Microsoft Bid
- Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » The sorry eduspaces saga rolls on
- ITForum: Alteratives to the Walled Garden listserv?!
- jm: what do you think of listervs in this "day and age" ... great conversations seem to be "lost", but there is privacy to consider, I guess ...
- Visualizations & Fine Print
- bwatwood
- A Whole Lotta Nothing – How to record a kickass podcast between two macs — and cheap!
- jason
- PrincipalsPage - A Navigational Tool for School Administrators
- cyndidannerkuhn:
- pdtogo.com : Professional Development For Busy Educators : lessons, files, podcasts
- elana
- PC World - PBS Adds iTunes U Content
- Some school district block iTunes but this may be useful. Gary
- Slow shipments irk buyers of One Laptop Per Child devices - The Boston Globe
- The continuing story. Gary
- WOWIO: Help
- jason: WOWIO is a new kind of online bookstore that enables readers to download ebooks for free, using commercial sponsorships to compensate authors and publishers.
- PBS Adds iTunes U Content
- skomadina
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
- jason: A nice essay on the realities of economies (and learning) in the Internet Age. Money quote: "When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."
- Howcast
- jason: Founded by veterans of Google and YouTube, Howcast brings together the personality of user-generated content with the quality of a professional video studio to create engaging, informative, and free how-to videos for consumers.
- Podcasting News » ooVoo Introduces Real-Time Video Conversation Recording
- jason: Real-time video chat site ooVoo today announced the release of the newest version of its real-time video chat service, ooVoo 1.5.
- Textonyms give cell phone addicts a new language - Yahoo! News
- I have enough trouble with French - is there a French version of this also? Gary
- Thingfo: Welcome to Thingfo
- krossbow: Create a destination for the things you're talking about. Share your things with your friends, meet new people.
- Issuu - You Publish
- krossbow: Issuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, documents, and stuff you'd normally find on print. It's the place where YOU become the publisher. Upload a document, it's fast, easy, and totally FREE. Within seconds you'll have a super coo
- Second Skin
- jason: a documentary on virtual worlds
- FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds
- krossbow: Welcome to FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples. Take a look at the types of sounds you can find.
- MeaningfulURL.com
- krossbow: interesting I actually think my teachers might remember a url from here rather than the regular url to the district.
- Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components
- krossbow: Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types: * AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats * MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3i
- Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Online Storage
- From Alec's Feb. 6 Ustream
- Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange
- Place to share files. Add through web interface, email, phone, embed from another page. Free up to 100 MB
- Thingfo: Instant Community for Anything
- Kyte: Share pictures and video online or from your mobile
- jm: like qik.com and comvu Pocketcaster
- QIK | Streaming video right from your phone
- jm: like what you have been able to do with comvu pocketCaster for literally YEARS ... why was pocketcaster so ahead, yet never got traction?!?
- Linked : how everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life [WorldCat.org]
- jm: recommended by member of ITForum listserv
- Blackboard Advertises an ‘Open Source LMS’ at e-Literate
- The Whiteboard Blog: Embedding ICT @ Secondary Guides
- skomadina
- Using Super Bowl Ads In The Classroom
- jm: using ads in lesson
- 13 Tools For Tracking Discussions in the Blogosphere
- Bubble 2.0: The 10 most memorable tech Super Bowl ads
- Is this a 'sign' of things to come for Vista? - Engadget
- PodCamp New Media Community UnConference
- StopBadware.org
- Podcast FAQ - Home
- Tutor.com - Online Tutoring Homework Help for Students
- jm: tutor
- Tutorvista.com - Tutoring, Online Tutoring, Homework Help, Tutor, Tutoring Services, Math Tutoring
- jm: tutors
- SMARTHINKING.COM - Online tutoring and writing services that help students succeed
- jm: tutors
- Casting from the Server Room
- jm: edtech podcasts
- Defining and Assessing Learning: Exploring Competency-Based Initiatives
- jm: National center for ed statistics -
- WGU - Education Online - Advantage
- jm: WGU is the leading regionally-accredited university that grants degrees based completely on competencies—your ability to demonstrate skills and knowledge through a series of assessments carefully designed to measure your knowledge of a field of stud
- PDF Text Extraction In Your Browser - PDFTextOnline
- Have used it and it works. Gary
- FixMyMovie
- Maybe useful? Gary
- Instapaper
- praxis: "Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content. We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them. Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you
- Sprout Builder » Home
- amiddlet
- A third of teachers 'struggle with technology' | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk
- Jason:
- UK education group: keep the Wii out of PE class
- Jason: Keep Wii out of PE class?
- Flypaper, Inc.
- webwriter: Watch the DEMO 2008 video for Flypaper. This could be adapted storytelling, presentation, and rapid prototype elearning.
- StatCounter Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats
- VanceS: A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in
- Internet failure hits two continents - CNN.com
- Failure to contingency plan...Debbie Schinker
- CNN.com - Special Reports - Your Digital World
- Kinda fun. Why is "answering machine" there? Who has THAT anymore? (Ok...it says 'Voice Mail' too, but c'mon...) Ditto "high speed internet" - not close to as fast as it was 12 years ago. And last I checked, my BAG was not digital...Debbie Schinker
- MoMA.org | Modern Teachers
- alex:
- NPR: Record Number of Teachers Set to Retire
- Negative or positive effect on use of technology in education? Gary (retired teacher)
- Global Voices Online » Education
- dennisar
- FLNW mashup 1 Alex stephen Leo wong
- TCTT
- questioning Twitter « GNUosphere
- VanceS: This blog post questions why bother with twitter. It attracted lots of comments explaining why. Read the comments.
- Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
- VanceS
- ELI Annual Meeting 2008 - Archives & Resources
- cmduke: Videos, podcasts, blog entries, and other links to ELI 2008 related materials. Several incredible presentations available video and/or podcast - including Michael Wesch's latest thoughts (author/producer of: Machine Is Using Us and Re/Vision of St
- On Demand, on Time and for a Fee, an Army of Tutors Appears - New York Times
- jason: If only there were some way to marry the thing she likes to do (socialize online) with the thing she needs to do (math homework).
- Youngsters not happy oldies going online | NEWS.com.au
- JasonR
- Top News - Schools need help with tech support
- Obvious to most but the numbers are interesting. Gary
- Federal department's BlackBerry blackout gets mixed reviews
- More time for Twitter? Gary
- W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
- alex:
- Excel Games
- kristianStill:
- http://connectwithmusic.org/
- Multimedia,music & technology blended into lesson plans for middle school classroom. Funded by a grant from NAMM ~from Lee Baber
- == Free Culture ==
- musicbridges: A collection of content related to Free Culture, the book by Lawrence Lessig. Also provides a link to FreeCulture.org, the student movement.
- James Frankel
- musicbridges: Frankel's site to help music educators learn more about technology and the role that it can play in music education and professional development. ~from Lee Baber
- PAT-ENTLY SMUG & SNOOTY
- jm: a SUPER twist on trademark - jinx!
- Meet the GIMP!
- DemoRecorder - Screen Recorder for Linux with Sound Recording
- 4 Generations: Water Buffalo Movie Trivia by San Francisco Bay Area Video Production (t2)
- from alec couros.
- Ohloh, the open source network
- Courses app for Facebook
- The Edublogs Magazine : In defense of… this!
- Taste of Tech » eTech 2008
- perhaps the finest ETT story told to date
- Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net : Selling Out the Edublogs Community?
- Monetizing edublogs - a real pity « HeyJude
- Songbeat. The music is mine!
- durff
- myIcourse
- JS: free -- no strings courseware. Moodle without having to install and maintain it.
- Games-based learning: bringing computer games to the classroom
- kristianStill
- Pownce : Note From MrChase
- alex
- injenuity » Viral Professional Development
- choconancy:
- Cycling '74 || Download soundflower
- krossbow: Soundflower and Soundflowerbed Free Inter-application Audio Routing Utility for Mac OS X
- Mediasite.com
- webwriter: Hub for video presentations, lectures, etc. created using SonicFoundry hardware/software products. Search for topics. Free.
- GreenPrint :: Saving Money Today, Trees Tomorrow
- krossbow: GreenPrint software eliminates unwanted pages saving paper, ink, money, and millions of trees
- Students Click, and a Quiz Becomes a Game - New York Times
- Apparently not for type A's. Gary
- ABC News: Can a Video Game Make You Smarter?
- First clicking - now more speed! Gary
- Welcome to Schoolr. The only resource you'll need.
- krossbow: Schoolr would like to thank the Reference.com family, Google, Wikipedia, Acrnonym Finder, Urban Dictionary, Altavista Babel Fish, SparkNotes, NCSU, and unitconversion for their great resources.
- BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | The top tech influencers
- Read the comments. Interesting. No Bell and the telephone? Gary
- Discover copyright ownership info
- gsecor: This is a beta site from Copyright Clearance Center to allow users to find copyright ownership information and other metadata for various sorts of works.
- Learn 4 Life
- webwriter: Writings (video) about edtech innovations in UK with recorded interviews of edtech leaders at various conferences in Europe.
- The Edublogger — Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs
- jm: Possibly the most useful blog you'll ever visit, and written by multi-Edublog Award nominee Sue Waters, The Edublogger covers everything from giving your blog a makeover to adding photos to your site, playing with widgets and much much more. It's an e
- The Edublogs Magazine - Education and the Edublogger
- jm: The Edublogs Magazine is the new one stop shop for all your news, views, ideas and even a touch of gossip about what's floating about the edublogosphere. It's also looking for contributors, so if you can knock up a decent post or two, get in touch wit
- Next Generation Learning Spaces Site at The University of Queensland - Presentations
- jm: presentation material from the captioned re: "learning spaces"
- ITForum: George Siemens Feb 4th - 8th
- McDonald's dishes up diplomas to go - CNN.com
- jm: I don't believe we talked about this when it was brought up in the chatroom on 0127
- Study Guides and Strategies
- jm: any good info?
- Dfilm - is now Dvolver. Make your own movie with the MovieMaker
- Kristian Still: Quick films lesson intro?
- Kerpoof™ Home
- KristianStill
- Teacher's Productivity Hampered by technology. No love. | 43 Folders
- Jason: I have found it increasingly annoying to hear from on high that we need to integrate more technology in our classroom, yet most...teachers are still using old standbys because we don’t have the time to use and troubleshoot our way through technol
- On The Media
- alex
- teachweb2 »
- Web 2.0 Tools in the Queue
- How to Tell If You Are Addicted to Technology | LiveScience
- JS: Is it time to unplug for a while?
- Presentation Zen
- kristian stills - think we have highlighted before, but a good one to keep on the radar screen
- Double amputee walks again due to Bluetooth - CNN.com
- dschinker: Tech, but not ed...but future doctors might need more tech savvay than they think!
- SPSS: Statistical Software
- jm: consider "renting" your software
- CutePDF - Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Save PDF Forms, Edit PDF easily.
- jm: recommended by a student in my class
- COVERITLIVE.COM - Home
- live blogging
- RockYou.com - photo sharing, MySpace slideshows, MySpace codes, MySpace music
- YouTube to feature on wider range of mobile phones
- Watch Free Global TV and Online Video from JumpTV --Online Television --English
- FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS
- durff
- Tech Tools for Gifted Education - Gifted Education 2.0
- brandimay