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
- ContentGenerator.net - create your own Educational Flash games
- kristianStill
- Do Our Students Measure Up?
- Parents crashing online party - CNN.com
- Debbie Schinker
- toonlet: web-comic blogging in minutes
- kristianStill: web2.0 cartoon creator
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Social sites prove hard to leave behind
- Wait to use these sites until your a near retirement? Gary
- Va. Student's Snow-Day Plea Triggers an Online Storm - washingtonpost.com
- Now you need to be careful even if you don't use FaceBook or YouTube. See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNfJA0Q80bA Gary
- Khan Academy
- jseal: Excellent collection of math video's Iincluding SAT prep) freely available through youtube
- AlchemyGrid Clipped Website Content
- mfertbauagh - Create widgets for your iGoogle, Netvibes, and Pageflakes start page—or to embed on a web site—from any web page with a simple point-and-click.
- Feature: Access Your Computer Anytime and Save Energy with Wake-on-LAN
- pellerman
- Innovative Teachers Network
- Pangea Day
- Skype Worm Causes Video-Sharing Shutdown
- SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides
- jm: highlighted in the PBS Frontline show "Growing up online" ... web2.0 version of cliff notes?
- inTASC Research Projects
- arvind: research on 1:1 laptop programs, computer-based assessment and instructional technologies
- Slashdot | Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes
- js: As if designing for IE weren't hard enough. If you'd like us to comply with standards, please press 2. If you'd like us to work like the old IE, press 7.
- Digg - College textbook prices up 186% since 1986; enter revolution
- js It's time for open textbooks
- Free & secure tools for teaching IM & Chat in school | Welcome to NCS-Tech!
- jm: review of ajax IM
- ajax im - the ajax-based instant messenger
- jm: free IM to set up on your own private network
- βloglines (128 unread, 109 pinned)
- donnabrag: online students Internet
- MultiTweet beta
- krossbow: MultiTweet is a great way of managing multiple Twitter and Jaiku accounts on a single page.
- Grazing for Digital Natives » digitalstorytelling
- susan ettenheim
- FRONTLINE: coming soon: growing up online | PBS
- Maybe worth watching. Gary
- Researcher pinpoints Skype vulnerability
- jason:
- BBC NEWS | Technology | The concerns of copyright reform
- "negative effects on education" Gary
- Edublogs Campus » Create, manage and control your own edublogs
- jm: just announced ... refocused edublogs "premium"
- Android
- From Lee~ a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.
- International Conference on Creativity Education
- rubyfire: The 2008 International Conference on Creativity Education invites academics and decision makers in creativity policies to attend a series of seminars targeting different disciplines, life stages, and environments that cultivate creativity. The s
- The Future of the Future: Boundary-less living, working and learning
- rubyfire: Competing in a billion-mind economy means totally rethinking how you live, work and learn. That applies to you as an individual as well as to the organizations to which you belong. In the enterprise of the future, living, working and learning en
- 5 Free Online Pie Chart Utilities
- jm: didn't know there was a demand for pie chart makers ...
- keybr.com - Typing at the speed of thought!
- jm: cool typing tutorial
- White Paper Podcast
- From Lee ~ Techniques, guidelines and tools regarding IT installations
- Microsoft® Expression®
- From Lee~ Microsoft® Expression Blend™ is the professional design tool to create engaging web-connected experiences for Windows. Free Trial Download Buy Expression Blend
- What is Silverlight, really? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
- lFrom Lee~ An outsiders description of Silverlight
- Android
- From Lee~ a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.
- doof.com | Play Games, Make Friends, Have Fun
- 2007 Crunchies: The Winners
- YouTorrent.com (BETA) - Your Torrents. Real Time.
- The "Google generation" not so hot at Googling, after all
- but it's not true that students today are "expert searchers." In fact, the report calls this "a dangerous myth.
- Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous
- Google Press Center: Press Release
- Google.org today rolled out five core initiatives that will be the focus of its philanthropic efforts ...Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Googl will collaborate with experienced partners working in each of these fields,
- Flickr to host Library of Congress photos | Underexposed - CNET News.com
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Nasa investigates virtual space
- CoLab island every Tuesday at 1pm Pacific Daylight Time.
NASA's virtual CoLab is a dedicated “island” in the “Second Life” online virtual world, and will later be complemented by a traditional Web-based community website.
- Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project
- Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange
- jm: from a contributed link ...
- There - the online virtual world that is your everyday hangout
- jm: do we need to try another 2nd life?
- VisibleBody
- jm: I couldn't get log in to work, but concept looks cool!
- Universities with the Best Free Online Courses -- Education-Portal.com
- jm: seems like a bit of cheesy site, but a nice roundup of free courseware
- Economist.com
- jm: even though we couldn't get a debat going ... it doesn't mean the economist can't ...
- webnode.com - create your website easily
- jm: create personal web pages and blog; use existing domain
- Free teleprompter/autocue service. Cueprompter - The online prompter.
- jm: is there a need for this?
- OLPC XO User Review
- review of the XO laptop
- The Crunchies » Finalists
- jm: awards for the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.
- Social, work lives collide on networking websites - USATODAY.com
- jm: social networking when social circles cross
- Dairy Queen workers' hijinks on web shock owner
- When social networking goes bad. Gary
- » Social networking sites pose “dangers” for educators? Sustainably Digital
- ricks
- Woman helps teachers expand the use of digital technology in the classroom -- OrlandoSentinel.com
- When they get to school, she said, "we're cutting them off at the knees. We need to take what they're doing at home and show them educational ways to use it." Gary
- Educational Origami - Powered By Bloglines
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- Create A Graph
- pgoerner: Nice program to create a graph...simple to use and very visual.
- Facebook photos land Eden Prairie kids in trouble
- praxis: If I was a student this might keep my off Facebook. I can't imagine this happening at my high school but who knows. As for "invasion of privacy" .... hmm - your picture is posted on the web and probably with your knowledge. You can vote on the sit
- CNN.com - The Marquee
- Thinner than a book...Debbie Schinker
- newsobserver.com | Some ask, y talk when u cn txt?
- My school bans the use of cell phones but others do not - especially for text messaging. Gary
- Record and share voice messages on the web with Drop.io - Download Squad
- amiddlet50: Record and share voice messages on the web with Drop.io. Online file storage/sharing site Drop.io has added a new feature that makes it even easier to share messages with a group of friends or colleagues. Last month we told you how you could u
- PBS lets kids 'Play!' online for a price - USATODAY.com
- This is becoming more common. Gary
- AydinDesign in 3D
- Aydin Design 3D representation of the website using gogofrog
- » Breaking News - Twitter Bookgroup Kate 2.0
- rubyfire: Advantages of a Twitter Bookgroup
- Openads Blog » Hosted Version of Openads!
- Intel Classmate PC Laptop reviews - CNET Reviews
- MySpace agrees to social-networking safety plan | The Social - CNET News.com
- ChatMaker.NET: Make your own chat room!
- Pistachio Consulting Inc. » Twitter is my Village
- Main Page - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Simply great
- Educational Gaming Commons
- Twitter / Sylvia: Still fretting about the co...
- Education, Technology, and Design Conference Calendar | Ed Tech Hacks
- Second Life banks banned, run on banks begins
- twittpoll.com - twit your opinion
- Best Practices in Online Teaching
- Social Networks in Education » home
- alex: Need a place to collaborate? This is a pretty good place to start.
- The Browser: Analyzing the tech biz Are we already moving on from traditional social networking? «
- So how is netvibes different from protopage? - Debbie Schinker
- Welcome to Postalz: Send Postcards online
- kristian Still: Great tool, create and send e-postcards
- Inspiration - Big Think - Browse Ideas
- dennisar: more on Big Think
- What do cell phone reception bars mean? | Ask MetaFilter
- jason: Pretty much doesn't mean squat.
- The Browser: Analyzing the tech biz Google Earth adds YouTube videos «
- Debbie Schinker
- BLC06: Sustainable Learning Communities - Teach42
- dennisar
- http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/01/03/china-censorship-youtube-tech-intel-cx_ag_1203techchina.html
- China plans to block web-based video sites like YouTube
- Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China
- Background and Analysis from Harvard Law School on Internet filtering in China
- Tech-Ex: Australia Moves to Censor the Internet
- Australia requiring filtered Internet for kids
- Australia Joins China In Censoring The Internet
- Australia is requiring a "clean feed" for child-accessible computers
- ALA | Intellectual Freedom
- ALA resources and position on Internet filtering in libraries
- Internet Filtering: Beware the Cyber Censors - Vol 12 no 4 - Rethinking Schools Online
- JS: Opinion item comparing school Internet filters to "big brother" style censorship
- Internet Filters In Schools And Libraries: Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
- JS Background on Internet filtering in American schools
- Face value | The accidental innovator | Economist.com
- jm: evhead behind blogger and twitter
- ::: drewmedia graffiti :::
- vance: Changing Text Type your text in the box on the left, and click update to see your new graffiti. Fills and Backgrounds There are currently 15 solid fills, 15 gradient fills, 14 solid canvases, and 8 special canvases to choose from. Simply click the
- Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
- webwriter: Includes how-to and story examples on iTunes.
- MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make your own XO laptop bag
- for:davecormier
- Recap: Women in the edublogosphere 2007 | Janet Clarey
- jm: chick edubloggers you may or may not know about ...
- FLNW » home
- jm: future of learning in a networked world Jan 16 - 28
- tinymap - quick and easy maps
- jm: awesome mapping tool based on of google maps, annotate map, add waypoints, save it, share it, password protect it. Cool!
- TimeBridge
- krossbow: TimeBridge has introduced the first Personal Scheduling Manager designed to help busy people find a time to meet— fast. This innovative, new web application works across calendaring systems, companies and time zones.
- CrossLoop - Everyone Helps
- krossbow: # Simple Secure Screen Sharing # Connect Any Two PCs on Earth # Free File Transfer and Switch Control
- Fund For Teachers®
- krossbow: Fund for Teachers enriches the personal and professional growth of teachers by recognizing and supporting them as they identify and pursue opportunities around the globe that will have the greatest impact on their practice, the academic lives of
- Website not a kindred spirit, says Anne authority
- for dave: Web safety but in contrast to the PEI "Living Archives" project. Gary
- Feature: Get Things Done Over the Phone with Jott
- jm update on stuff to do with jott
- Stickam - The Live Community
- durff
- PC World - Former OLPC CTO Aims to Create $75 Laptop
- Games at Sploder - Flash Game Creator, Games for MySpace, Blogger, Xanga, and Everywhere!
- durff
- OLPC developing dual-boot Windows, Linux OS for laptops - Yahoo! News
- Not "big, bad, Microsoft"? Gary
- Twiddeo is Twitter+Video! Powered by V:social
- durff
- Download free .pdf to .doc converter
- cmcraft: This is the first PDF to DOC converter I've really seen. I've looked for one of these for years. It allows you to convert any pdf to a Word document that is editable. I've tried it on a few documents and the quality is acceptable. Via lifehacker.
- Please Sign In
- durff
- Infinite Thinking Machine
- alex
- Instructables - The World's Biggest DIY & How To Show & Tell
- rubyfire: Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab
- Kevin's Meandering Mind » The Merits of Blogging: A Research Study
- rubyfire: dissertation research study (the summary is here and the full report is here) that he did around the topic of blogging in the classroom, and it is a very thorough and deep look at the ways in which blogging can enhance the educational learning f
- Smilebox - Learn more about Smilebox and Club Smilebox
- rubyfire: Smilebox is a fun and engaging service that connects you with family and friends using your photos and videos. It's free, easy to use, and the results are amazing.
- Polaroid back to its roots with tiny printer - CNN.com
- Brilliant. Now maybe there's a reason to have a camera phone. I fonly they'd take pics with a high enough res to get a decent print...Debbie Schinker
- Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond - ReadWriteWeb
- jm: "Ultimately, I'm not yet convinced myself that persuading anyone is the way to go "
- Gates on Microsoft's expansion - CNN.com
- dshinker
- SpaceTime™
- alex
- JW Media Player
- alex
- stream asx / pls files?
- alex
- COVERITLIVE.COM - Home
- krossbow: ...now I want to liveblog everything” – techpresident.com * Make your next live blog truly live * Ideal for covering politics, sports, conferences * Instantly publish pictures, video and audio * 100% compatible with all web publishing softwa
- Open Web Awards presented by Mashable.com
- jeff
- SmashMash
- krossbow: Transform photos and videos with The Ultimate Creativity Machine
- uTIPu - Capture and share PC know-how in a video for FREE at uTIPu.com
- krossbow: Capture and share your screen in a video In just a few clicks, our TipCam software records a video of your screen and posts it for sharing. It's easy and FREE! Get started in just 3 easy steps...
- flauntR- Free online photo editor with thousands of one click effects
- flauntR We love to see people do great stuff with their photos. In our world, everything can be professional, yet free to use. Advanced and yet easy. Powerful enough to do cool things, yet simple enough to be used everyday. Move your photos in and out of
- http://cohereweb.net/
- New online knowledge connections/mapping web service. Share bookmark and maps. Related to Compendium. OpenLearn tool from OSC project.
- Professors help students virtually - USATODAY.com
- Hmm - just like EdTechTalk? Gary
- Watch and learn - web - Technology - smh.com.au
- A good summary of web technology use in education. Gary
- Coming soon: a computer that fits a pocket
- Yes but will we ban them in schools? Gary
- On The Media: Transcript of "The Persistence of Memory" (January 4, 2008)
- alex:
- Alberta premier threatens to sue over domain name
- praxis: Cyberbullying? Non-Canadian edtechtalk followers will probably not get the humour of this.
- Digital world creates a new underclass | Business | The Observer
- OLPC America to launch in 2008
- OLPC for USians
- Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » 2008 » January » 05
- neat service! Debbie Schinker
- Budding deafness rocks the iPod set - National - theage.com.au
- Time to stop listening to all those podcasts - one of my most important forms of PD? Gary
- Bonsall Union School District | From The Superintendent
- vance
- knowplace
- jm
- Big Think - We Are What You Think
- How we installed and used swftools | aWebFactory
- New Media Literacies White Paper
- Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
- Best Practices in Online Teaching
- webwriter: A course in Connexions authored by Larry Ragan at Penn State, August, 2007. The course includes advice about: preparing to teach in an online environment, managing the teaching of a course, and addressing larger issues surrounding online teachi
- Maxtor OneTouch™ 4 Mini, Portable Hard Drive, Portable External Hard Drive, Portable HD
- jm: nice portable backup option ... got one as gift
- 20+ Tools For Creating Your Own Games
- krossbow: We all play games, but not many of us have tried to actually create games. Have you been scared due to all the programming knowledge you think it takes? Well, thanks to the wonders of the web, now there are numerous tools that enable almost anyo
- Google Policy Fellowship
- Fellows will have the opportunity to work at public interest organizations at the forefront of debates on broadband and access policy, content regulation, copyright and trademark reform, consumer privacy, open government, and more.
- Teachers & Teaching (Videos/PPoints)
- kristian still: CPD videos perhaps.
- Teach ICT - Tons of Free Teaching Materials and ICT Revision
- kristiam still Tons of free teaching, revision and learning material
- blog of proximal development » Blog Archive » How to Grow a Blog
- dennisar
- eLearn: Feature Article
- kristian still
- Create a talking character using any photo or picture
- durff
- BridgeBuilder-Game.com - The ultimate bridge building games website
- The ultimate bridge building games website
- Planet Science | Wired
- kristian still: Planet Science... Science can be fun... Wired
- dy/dan annual report contest
- From MizMercer: Dan Myer has another contest to try to improve the design aesthetic of teachers everywhere...
- Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games
- vance
- The Thinking Stick » ‘08 The ‘Live Web’
- How does the non-stop live web change our net lives and how does it maifest itself in education?
- Eye-Fi
- Automatic wireless photo upload
- Guerrilla Warfare and the OLPC - OLPC
- Jeff Felix 's Dissertation
- Edublogging: Instruction for the Digital Age Learner
- Drupalcon Boston 2008 | Drupal Conference Organizing Website
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- DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards
- lifestreams - your life live
- jm: another "find" from the twitteristas ... in private beta ... will it have "legs" in 2008?
- Slideoo.com - The horizontal photo slideshow for Flickr
- jm: Another cool flickr slideshow embed thingy ... works like a charm
- Education‽Blog List
- jm: another list of edublogs based on technorati "authority" rank
- The Orange Box - Portal
- jm
- Confusion Over New York Cellphone Ban in Schools
- praxis: There has to be something more to this story - you can carry your cellphone to school but can't bring it into the building?
- Education World ® Technology Center: Doug Johnson: A Proposal for Banning Pencils
- krossbow: A Proposal for Banning Pencils By Doug Johnson Ex abusu non arguitur in usum. (The abuse of a thing is no argument against its use.)
- Yugma : Free Web Conferencing, Online Meetings, Web Collaboration Service, Free Desktop Sharing, video conferencing, remote control software, net meeting, mac conferencing : - Yugma Web Conferencing Service Giving Back to the World of Bloggers on One Year
- cmcraft: Yugma wants to give away free one year accounts to bloggers. They don't seem to ask much in return, am I missing something?
- The Scoble scuffle: Facebook, Plaxo at odds over data portability | The Social - CNET News.com
- jm: details of the data scuffle
- Plaxo
- jm
- Stomach Flu Spread By Contaminated Computer Keyboards - Yahoo! News
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"In addition, people who are ill should stay home for one to three daysafter they have had their last symptom, because they continue to shed thevirus and can still contaminate objects," Chai added.
- Play Scrabulous online for free - at Scrabulous
- jm: all the Twtiteristas are playing!
- Half an Hour: Last Year's eLearn Magazine Predictions
- jm: So ... how do you "grade" these '07 Predictions?
- Overview | Drupal Conference Organizing Website
- jm: Is the registration already closed or not yet open?
- Slide - slideshows, slide shows, photo sharing, image hosting, widgets, MySpace codes, web publishing, music - Slide
- jseal
- Airborne internet may generate turbulence
- Maybe this has application to school networks. Teach students proper use of unfiltered technology and expect it later? Gary
- Star Trek DIY: Fans make their own 'Webisodes' - CNN.com
- Never heard the term "webisode" before. Interesting story - could have edu apps as well! ~ Debbie Schinker
- Tony Vincent's learninginhand.com
- Kristian Still: Lots of mobile / handheld goodness.
- Mixbook | Create Amazing Books With Your Friends!
- Showcase student work
- QIK | Streaming video right from your phone
- durff
- School bus becomes virtual classrooom.
- praxis: An interesting option for long bus rides. Gary
- Little laptop a hit in rural Peru - CNN.com
- praxis: More about the XO laptops.
- eduwikius » home
- ulrich
- Money Programme
- Free teleprompter/autocue service. Cueprompter - The online prompter.
- krossbow: Free teleprompter/autocue service CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed. Check the system requirements and give it a try. Bookmark this site and come again when ever
- Neulio - online course creator
- webwriter:Author lessons into courses. Free.
- Googling for Your Grade - TIME
- Merry Christmas! I know you don't have a show for a few weeks, but you HAVE to check out this link!! - Debbie Schinker
- Youth Radio
- is there a list of words that are systems driven ? e.g by typing in "Stats" , twitter responds displaying followers /following stats !! thas kewl, but there must be more keywords correct ?? :)-
- krossbow: here are some of the words you can use to interact with Twitter:
- Remember The Milk - Services / Remember The Milk for Gmail
- wkjellstrom: Remember The Milk for Gmail is a Firefox extension that allows you to manage your tasks in Gmail, add new tasks, automatically add tasks for starred messages or specific labels, and much more! -From Willy at Trinity School.
- Spicebird
- Spicebird Collaboration is much beyond e-mail communication – it's a process where individuals work together to achieve a common goal. Apart from having e-mail, instant messaging and group calendaring, an ideal collaboration system should make 'working
- http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/
- dennisar
- LunaPic Online Photo Editor
- durff
- Log in, enter password, read a textbook
- mr.circe: "A shift toward digital textbooks for kindergarten through high school not only is updating the way students learn, it's changing the business model for Pearson, one of the world's largest publishers of school textbooks."
- protagonize: community-driven interactive fiction
- krossbow: Choose your own adventure. Protagonize.com is an online community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the adventure, a type of collaborative fiction. Curious? Find out more!
- Langwitches » Blog Archive » Global Audience?…Are you Globally Friendly?
- rubyfire: If you are writing a public blog, professionally or with your students, you need to asks yourself the question "Do I have a global audience?"
- Tweet Scan - Real-time Twitter Search
- durff
- 24im - Free EIM Service
- krossbow: 24im - Free Group Based Enterprise IM. 24im is the smarter, faster, easier way to deliver enterprise-grade IM to your private group. For Free.
- Open Source Living
- js: Open Source resources from Sharon Peters
- Storyboard Pro Software - Movies
- susan ettenheim
- UACALI - MaxAuthor
- webwriter: Free authoring tool to create language lessons with audiovisual multimedia. Supported by the U. of Arizona.
- Internet Access Is Only Prerequisite For More and More College Classes - washingtonpost.com
- If I take one of these courses maybe I should include it as professional development when I need to report PD to my administration. Gary
- Web Playgrounds of the Very Young - New York Times
- So who will control/monitor the educational value of these commercial sites? Gary
- Live Chat
- krossbow: Welcome to Live Chat! Live Chat provides real time text support right in your browser. If Foxkeh says we're open, click on him to begin a one on one chat with one of our volunteers.
- Rose Parade Gets A Podcast Accompaniment
- ds
- professionalgrowth wiki
- dennisar
- dennisar's channel - Sketchcast.com
- dennisar
- CARET
- js: Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology, from Wow2, 1/1/2008
- » Tagging, Tracking and Using RSS with Twitter! Mobile Technology in TAFE
- rubyfire how to on tagging with twitter
- Study: Web generation heaviest users of public libraries - CNN.com
- Debbie Schinker - REALLY interesting info...
- OLPC CTO quits nonprofit effort - Yahoo! News
- praxis Interesting development - effect of OLPC? Gary
- The Best Links 2007 (kottke.org)
- jeff
- Online HTML Editor
- dennisar
- kwout | A brilliant way to quote
- durff - did we talk about this one??
- Connecting Students to Advanced Courses Online -- TOC
- jm: Connecting Students to Advanced Courses Online highlights six providers of academic coursework by delivering advanced on line courses to students through technology. The primary audience is for district and schools decision-makers who are looking for
- AHAH Microformat
- apophenia: Pew on teen social media practices (with interesting bits on class)
- jm: d boyd take on latest Pew report on teen social media practices
- Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » EC&I 831: Upcoming Ed. Tech Grad Course
- jm: new course from Alec Couros - follow along ...
- AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet - No Voice Line Plans
- jm: DSL without the phone line
- Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » A Vision of Students Today
- Wikia Search Project to Launch Jan. 7, Wales says - washingtonpost.com
- OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen quits nonprofit effort
- jm
- guess-the-google.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
- Peter Suber, Open Access News
- jl:
- iPod in education overview - pt.2
- Might be handy for teachers in the trenches.
- onepage | Tim's Blog
- Education Handouts for 2.0 tools
- Poll Everywhere - Simple Text Message (SMS) Voting and Polling, PowerPoint Polling
- Global online Word Cup for all ages
- About the Word Cup No matter what your age is or where you live, join us for the Word Cup - an annual, global, online vocabulary challenge for all ages! Trying out is free, and lots of prizes are awarded to winners of various skill levels. Hosted by eSpin
- Creation college seeks state's OK to train teachers | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Religion
- On The Media: Transcript of "Head Space" (December 14, 2007)
- alex
- Adults warn kids off social network sites, use them themselves -- Pew Internet report on search and identity - Boing Boing
- AfterEd
- Half an Hour: Not the Edublog Award Winners
- ZML.com - Download movies online.
- arvind: wow, download movies for $1.99. how can this be legal?
- Allan Jardine | Reflections
- Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet.
- PoducateMe | Practical Solutions for Podcasting in Education
- jl: PoducateMe.com provides instruction for and discussion of podcasting in education.
- Futurelab - Projects
- Manual catches 2 student hackers
- I think our school district should consider hiring this student. Gary
- Podcasting News » 24-Hour Podcast Marathon To Raise Money For One Laptop Per Child
- A webcastathon by any other name?
- 6 Online Tools for Text to Speech you would not want to miss
- 6 Online Tools for Text to Speech you would not want to miss
- DocSyncer - Synchronize Your Microsoft Office Documents with Your Google Docs Account
- Sync your MS Office documents with your Google Docs
- Star Trek DIY: Fans make their own 'Webisodes' - CNN.com
- Sherry's 50th Birthday!
- Scripted Re-Mark - Batch Editor for Bookmarks
- YouTube - Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See
- The Alphabetizer puts just about any list in alphabetical order. Alphabetize words, songs, titles, email addresses, phrases, sentences. List sorter!
- FStream - 1.3.1
- PDF Editing & Creation: 50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat : Codswallop
- Grazr - Reading List Management and Tools
- YouTube - Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales
- Edublogosphere IRC Login
- Language Lab Unleashed & EdTechTalk Reunion / Flashmeeting Sandox
- MeBeam ™ Web based video conferencing: Home
- CNET
- Twitter Downtime
- edte.ch » Blog Archive » Why’s everyone using Pownce?
- UBCWiki: http:wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart
- Clips: Use a Wiimote to Make Whiteboards Out of Anything
- Totally Wired: How Technology is Changing Kids and Learning
- 5.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- TwitDir - a Twitter directory - Find your friends and more on Twitter!
- Official Google Blog: Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
- Academic Productivity » Academics are prostitutes?
- A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff
- Bye bye Eduspaces | EdTechTalk
- IU Graduation: Mine! | Designed to Inspire
- Yippie!!
- Music is Not for Insects: Frets on Fire: freeware patterned after Guitar Hero
- Webinar Archives | Discovery Educator Network
- EdTechHacks
- Funderstanding Roller Coaster
- Daft Doggy Free Podcasting and Voice Tags
- Dissertation-Couros-FINAL-06-WebVersion
- [UPDATED] Was Cory Linden fired, or did he quit? - Massively
- jm: shake up at 2ndLife HQ
- Merriam-Webster Online
- jm: W00T!
- Freewebs.com - Free website, free hosting, free webpage
- Google Trends
- ThinkGeek :: I'm blogging this Babydoll Tee
- To: Jen, From: John
- http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/ladies/5a8b/
- To: Jen, From: John
- Little Miss Giggles t-shirt by Junk Food
- To: Jen, From: Dave
- The Wikipedia Review
- YouTube - Toyota shows off violin-playing humanoid robot
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp
- What is a barcamp, anyway?
- Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare
- del.icio.us/url/fd39f4563826d78327e0d40175066edc
- The 2007 Edublog Award Ceremony | EdTechTalk
- » blog The Edublog Awards
- 2007 Edublog Awards
- Real Time Rome
- Weblin - Press Releases - www.mcvuk.com
- weblin
- ooVoo - Free Video Conferencing and Video Messaging
- from jasonR
- Charity Forced to Pay Copyright Fee So Kids Can Sing Carols | TorrentFreak
- Jeff: Christmas is known world-wide as a time for sharing, a time for giving. But for one charity, instead of Santa arriving with gifts, the copyright police turned up demanding money. Why? Because the charity allows children to sing carols on the premise
- Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia | The Register
- Is Apple coding Leopard to run Windows apps natively? | Reg Hardware
- Girls Make History by Sweeping Top Honors at a Science Contest - New York Times
- Top 10 educational stories of 2007 - connectivism! | Dave’s Educational Blog
- no one tagged this yet? Are we saving it for edtech yearly? If I tag something with davelink, does that mean he has to talk about it?
- Taste of Tech » Students 2.0
- QuickTime Flaw a Potential Threat to Second Life Fans - Security Fix
- Students 2.0 Edublog Pre-Launch: Help Spread the Splash | Beyond School#comments#comments
- Overstream -- Welcome
- subtitle friendly video sharing
- Feelin’ a Little Cocky? Grade Your Website! | MakeUseOf.com
- jm: time for an end of the year vanity status check?
- BarCamp wiki / EduCamp
- jm: Did anyone go to the NYC Educamp???
- Create online quizzes free quiz maker - ClassMarker
- kristian still: Neat quiz maker
- In-flight Internet access starts next week | Computerworld Blogs
- dc
- PanKap Edulinks - Science links for high school students
- kapil
- Farewell CompUSA: Company to shutter remaining stores
- JS: Retail takes another hit -- tech community happy about closeout prices
- globeandmail.com: Video games invade university classrooms
- Video game to teach ethical decision making. Ethical? I guess that depends on your meme. Gary
- weather.com - White Christmas Probability
- Debbie Schinker
- Dell Drivers and Downloads
- jm: DELL UPDATES SIGMATEL DRIVERS 12/04/07 - now featuring .... STEREO MIX ... WOOT! Sorry Vististas ... looks to be for XP only
- Xoost.com
- Make-a-Flake - A snowflake maker by Barkley Interactive
- JS: from jdub's blog
- proTECHt » home
- pgoener: We invite schools and classes from around the world to take part in creating a robust resource that will help promote positive use of technology and educate others about possible problems one can encounter with using technology.
- HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework
- cathyE: multimedia resources for high school
- Generation YES Blog » Blog Archive » What the research says - effective technology professional development
- krossbow: Less structure required What the research says - effective technology professional development
- Presenting about presenting
- imaniprmney
- Welcome to dimdim
- For Jeff from Pellerman - worth another look? dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. dimdim is a browser-based web 2.0 service that allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, list
- Jamendo : Open Your Ears
- Countdown maths problem
- Kristian: Countdown maths problem
- Commodore 64 still loved after all these years - CNN.com
- Debbie Schinker (Color CoCo were better, though I've never heard of a Color CoCo orchestra...(-:)
- ThinkGeek :: USB Drink Chiller & Warmer
- jm: if I had Jeff's name in the holiday grab bag ... he would never have to leave the basement!
- ThinkGeek :: more beer
- jm: if I had john's name in the holiday grab bag
- ThinkGeek :: meh
- jm: if I had Dave's name in the holiday grab bag ...
- del.icio.us/url/fd39f4563826d78327e0d40175066edc
- jm: more fun + ETT vanity!
- Web Site Marketing SEO Tools, SEO Score
- jm: Grade your web site = fun + vanity
- Open Planner | work smarter. teach better. share.
- jm: open source curriculm planning and more ...
- Students 2.0
- Cyberbullying — National Crime Prevention Council
- jm: more from the tweets
- NetSmartz.org
- jm: made the tweet rounds this week - web site re: net safety
- Coming of Age on blip.tv
- Seedlings Team, Joyce insights, puppets, video, web 2.0 tools... what's not to like
- At N.J. college, students must buy a cell phone with GPS for safety - BostonHerald.com
- No "big brother" until ..... someone decides differently? Gary
- Reality-check or rip off? People spending millions on virtual gifts - CNN.com
- Debbie Schinker
- Whatisthatfile.com - It's good to be Sure...
- krossbow: -Like Definr but for Windows apps. Do you see something running and want to know what it is or if it possibly a bad thing, check here. Also helpful if you have something crashing but it's not the name of the program but a part of a larger progra
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: Year 1999 A.D.
- REALLY interesting! I love the multiple monitors, gigantic printer, and "push button" technology. The gender stereotypes are amusing, too. Debbie Schinker
- Project Playlist | Myspace Playlist | Create, Share Music Playlists | Music Playlist || Facebook, Tagworld, Stickam, Hi5, Friendster, Xanga, Myspace Music Playlists
- pgoener: social music experiement
- Technology Integration Matrix
- krossbow: For those who ask "but what does it look like?" What is the Technology Integration Matrix? The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five inter
- Rise of the mobile novel sets alarm bells ringing in Japanese literary circles - Times Online
- At least they are reading? Gary
- Gibson unveils self-tuning guitar - CNN.com
- js
- Exploiting Second Life
- Orders to One Laptop surge
- praxis: Maybe this will work. Gary
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Glimpsing Nigeria's digital lifeline
- praxis to DAVE: This may be of particular interest to Dave - Nigeria again - more positive this time but some problems indicated at the end of the article. Gary
- Mixing in Math Index Page
- krossbow: Mixing in Math activities are: * Quick ways to mix math in to what after-school programs already do: sports, snack time, arts and crafts, playground games; * Easy to prep; * Easy to lead. You don't need math background or special training; * Fre
- Compendium Institute
- web2learn
- Top News - MIT adapts free online courses for high schools
- skomadina
- Urban Legends Reference Pages: Computer Storage (1956)
- Debbie Schinker
- Reader: Web 2.0 and Education
- sine
- David Seah - The Printable CEO™ Series
- pellerman
- In Japan, cellular storytelling is all the rage - Mobiles & Handhelds
- pelloerman
- typoGenerator
- pellerman: This is a pretty cool little tool.
- WiZiQ Blog: VC Update - Microsoft Word, Excel added
- from maaganm
- Science Videos Search Engine
- arvind: screened videos on various science topics. Search or browse by category
- Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Understanding Digital Citizenship
- eebee Alec Couros on digital citizenship
- Poll Everywhere - Simple Text Message Voting
- durf:
- Institute of Educational Assessors -
- kristianstill: Keynote speech by Paul Black - Author of "Inside the Black Box." Assessment for Learning
- YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
- krossbow :Playlist: SMART's Notebook™ Version 10 New Features SMART has come out saying that the next version of their software (v.10) will be only for the education market.
- Vodpod: Collect your favorite videos
- ALEUTIA - The Ultimate Off Grid Computer
- Solar powered computer
- ASCII Poster Maker
- krossbow: Looks to be similar to the rasterbator. More ways to spend that ink budget early. ASCII Poster converts any image into a giant PDF poster suitable for mounting on your wall. Each poster is made completely from ordinary letters and numbers.
- dayofbirth.co.uk
- krossbow: interesting facts about your birthday and things that happened on the same date. Could be used for daily news broadcast.
- Genfavicon. Free Online Favicon Generator. Icon Generator.
- krossbow: What is favicon? A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site's name in the URL bar of most browsers. The most common sizes for favicons are: 16x16, 32x32, 48x48,
- Nourish – RSS to Email Service – Blog Powered Newsletters
- krossbow: Nourish is a simple web application which allows you to take any RSS feed from content you publish (like a blog), and convert it into an automated email newsletter your readers can subscribe to.
- Mailpic - Protect your mailbox from spam!
- Krossbow: Mailpic creates a small picture of your e-mail address for you. By using this picture, you make it nearly impossible for spammers to find your address and send you spam e-mails. For example, this.is.an@example.com turns into (e-mail address).
- RyanCollins.org » Banning Wikipedia
- Welcome to Naked Software
- Center for Evaluation and Education Policy
- Spam 2.0 - Spammers pose new problems for an evolving web
- Webcasting Help Wanted | The Webcast Academy
- » Welcome to the Eddies! The Edublog Awards
- http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/01/eye-fi-embeds-wifi-into-your-sd-flash/
- Amazon.com: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device: Kindle Store
- Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
- E-Smith Server - SME Server
- Moodle: Modules and plugins - Moofolio
- Tuttle SVC: The Breadth of "Commercial" Use
- jm: Tom hoffman post on NC of OER
- OERs, Licensing, and Are We There Yet? | FunnyMonkey - Tools for Teachers
- jm: Bill Fitzgerald's take on the capetown dec.
- Responding to Criticisms of Cape Town at iterating toward openness
- jm:
- The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
- JM: The FAQ worth a read, too
- Flipbook Printer - Mouser - Software - DonationCoder.com
- jm: fun flip book creator - tried it last year and it actually worked!
- TeacherTube - The Rights of the Child
- From Miz Mercer: There are not a lot of elementary appropriate materials that are web based, so I put this video together to help. You can see my pageflake at: http://www.pageflakes.com/alice_mercer/17155572 about this subject
- Internet Archive: Million Book Project
- JS: JS: 1.5 million free books online. Carnegie Mellon project as seen on CNN
- muse
- elenaw: Community for Internet2 enabled technologies
- Digital library surpasses initial goal of 1 million books - CNN.com
- Debbie S: Carnegie Mellon project surpasses 1.5 million books digitized and freely available online
- Resolution:License update - Wikimedia Foundation
- jm
- Video: Blogs in Plain English | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
- from bud the teacher: We made this 3 minute video for people who wonder why blogs are such a big deal. If you're a blogger who wants people to understand why you have a blog and how it works, this video is for you.
- Eye-Fi WiFi-enabled SD card finally shipping - Engadget
- Alex: ry? dan? andrew? A great device
- On The Media
- alex: A piece on the one laptop per child program --- interesting. Dave was right as of now.
- Jamendo Blog » Blog Archive » Breaking news: Wikipedia announces Creative Commons compatibility!
- alex: Creative Commons deal with wikipedia
- Teachers Report Assistant - FREE time saving utility for teachers
- KristianStill
- claimID.com - Manage your online identity
- jl
- YouTube - Virtual Social Worlds and the Future of Learning
- jl
- EVO 2008 Call for Participation wiki - For six weeks (Jan 14-Feb 24), partic...
- jl
- PC World - New QuickTime Bug Exposes XP, Vista to Attack
- Kids Around the World | Home
- Asterpix Interactive Video - learn more
- jl
- Create free online surveys and polls with PollDaddy.com - Use our award winning survey software to conduct your market research.
- jm: used by the eddies
- Utterz
- jl: a mutlimedia twitter?
- English Teaching Lab: English grammar practice on the Web
- jl: from José Luis Cabello 's blog
- Linux Desktop – Is it an Option for Normal Users? Part 3
- The Ed Techie: The Cape Town declaration - some thoughts and suggestions
- jm - from Martin Weller (edublog nominee, btw): his take on the cape town declaration
- The Cape Town Declaration Comes Online! at iterating toward openness
- jm: D. Wiley's take on the cape town declaration
- The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
- from nicobaird, "I found this declaration and I feel it is really not something to support! After reading a post by Stephen Downes I completely agree with him! I hope the Open Education community will join in asking them to OPEN UP this document!"
- How To Send Very Large Files Across The Web: Eatlime Does It - Robin Good's Latest News
- File transfer, considering last weeks options for this service, heres another.
- Educational Computer sites for kids? | Ask MetaFilter
- "I would like the site to be targeted towards grades 6-8 and, if possible, teach anything from computer concepts to programming. Bonus points if it is presented as a sort of game." JasonR
- TVnima: You're the TV show director!
- arthus
- SlideShare (share powerpoint presentations online, slideshows, slide shows, download presentations, widgets, MySpace codes)
- Welcome to Speak Up
- Speak Up, a national online research project facilitated by Project TomorrowSM, gives individuals the opportunity to share their viewpoints about key educational issues.
- The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
- Game - Dare2BDigital
- Online Learning Challenge, to highlight online learning opportunities at BC’s public post-secondary institutions.
- befuddlr!
- Procrastinator's Delight
- Half an Hour: Criticizing the Cape Town Declaration
- Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog
- jm: for alice mercer - this wasn't tagged before, but I think this is what you were looking for last week?
- Freeplay Music, Broadcast Production Music Library, Free and Mp3 Music Downloads, See Usage Terms.
- jm: from cathyjo tweet - licensing?
- fotowoosh - Powered by Freewebs
- jm: from cogdog tweet: cool
- CiteULike: Frequently Asked Questions
- ulrich
- get-snagit-7-25-from-techsmith-for-free/
- pellerman: Here is another free tool. Snagit! captures images from your screen.
- Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: When E-Mail Is Outsourced
- Alex: I think this is a schinker article -- NEWS!
- 60 Second Science
- JS: from the Moodle presentation at the conference this week.
- habari - Google Code
- Mysterious: "Habari represents a fresh start to the idea of blogging" From JasonR
- I Do Dog Tricks
- jason: This will make you laugh!
- Download SnagIt for Free - Full Licensed Version | Digital Inspiration Technology Guide
- JS: Free SnagIt.
- Blogs for Learning
- JS: an online resource about instructional blogging. The site provides students and instructors with information and resources about the technical and pedagogical aspects of blogging in the classroom.
- Alice.org
- 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.: Alex
- Download Camtasia Studio with Registration Key for Free | Digital Inspiration Technology Guide
- JS: free old version of Camtasia
- Free Camtasia AND Snag IT
- great description of how to get the new version of Camtasia for free!
- Banning Wikipedia at school: good idea or missed opportunity?
- "a local school librarian who put up her own "Just Say No to Wikipedia" signs in the computer lab...." JasonR
- The River City Project: Introduction
- JS: From Lisa at the C. M. Conference
- Verizon Announces Plans to Unlock Network - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
- alex:
- Embedded Media HTML Generator
- krossbow: Embedded Media HTML Generator step1 The Embedded Media HTML Generator has been developed to ease the burden of inserting video and animations into web pages. Please select the type of media you wish to embed in your web page...
- befuddlr!
- Online puzzles, great lesson opener!
- Cell phone college class opens in Japan - Yahoo! News
- "Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take video clips. Now, they can take a university course." JasonR
- Husky Educational Technology Assessment
- jseal: Excellent tests to see if teachers have ed tech skills.
- Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print
- vance:
- Artsonia Kids Art Museum — The Largest Student Art Gallery on the Web!
- krossbow: Artsonia is the world's largest kids' art museum. Our dream is that every child will have an online art gallery, reflecting their masterpieces from pre-school through high-school, preserved forever!
- MailBucket
- krossbow: MailBucket is an experiment in alternative methods of email management. For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to slurp@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/slurp.xml (where
- The Google Highly Open Participation Contest - Google Code
- FreePrompter
- celtx - Overview - It's The Story That Counts.
- E-Book Reader That Might Be Worth It
- jl: we missed this last week, right?
- Camtasia Studio 3.1.3 for Free - Mobile Learning
- cmcraft: TechSmith is offering Camtasia 3.1.3 for free. Just register for a key and you're off!
- Camtasia Studio
- pellerman: Jeff, I thought you might be interested in this....Free Camtasia Studio (version 3)
- Regiftable.com: Create a free personalized holiday gift certificate
- krossbow: If you really want to give something valuable, give your time. Use your holiday spirit on activities such as gift wrapping for a charity or volunteering at a local food bank. Give your friends and family members vouchers good for five hours of y
- IU gets $3.1M to study technology in teaching | IndyStar.com
- Virginia Department of Education Division of Technology, Instructional Media and Training
- p21: Linda Holt's collection of presentations and resource to use for for Instruction and Remediation
- Wanganui.mov (video/quicktime Object)
- rubyfire: This movie from the Picture It Now: Extending learning through ICT video series outlines research into podcasting and student learning at Wanganui Park Secondary College, Victoria.
- circlingsquare.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- rubyfire: This publication, by the University of Nottingham, is about making opportunities for students and teachers to voice their opinions about schools and learning in order to make a difference. It reports on activities that have been used to prompt t
- Learning with Mobile Phones
- rubyfire: This article by Elizabeth Hartnell-Young looks at research into mobile learning by a team from the University of Melbourne. Mobile phones are being used for learning in schools and TAFE colleges. Nokia has provided twenty 7610 handsets and the s
- Learning with student response units (clickers)
- rubyfire: This 2007 article investigates the work being done in evaluating the use of Student Response Units (SRU) by the University of Western Sydney. SRUs are small hand held devices which allow students to instantaneously give responses to lecture cont
- Virtual Coaching as PD for teachers
- rubyfire: his 2007 article by Kay Cantwell dicusses the virtues of online PD in the form of virtual coaching, which can address many issues for busy teachers who need PD that is both timely and relevant. Rather than having teachers go out for external, is
- The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education: --> Guide to the Educational Technology: ICT in Education Website
- Educational Technology, information and communication technology, practical advice, leaders, managers.
- FairTest Home
- More NPR Music info
- NPR Music
- Download Audio Editing Software. Free Version.
- » Favorite podcasts Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts
- FeedBlendr - blending RSS, Atom and RDF feeds into a single river of news!
- AirSet - Organize busy work & family lives with shared online calendars, contacts & lists - AirSet
- Arvind's calendar of preference
- Conferencecast of Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference 2007 | EdTechTalk
- Open Learning Environment.jpg ~ FileUrls.com - Get an url for your file!
- Will Richardson & Gary Stager - Live: The Bootleg Video
- vozMe
- jm: create .mp3 out of any text
- FileUrls.com - Get a shareable URL for your file
- jm
- MindBites - What do you know?
- jm:
- Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
- jm:
- weblogged-tv » NYSCATE
- NYSCATE discussion between Will Richardson and Gary Stager
- Live Documents, A Microsoft Office Killer?
- Live Documents
- MacGyver Tip: Boost Your Wi-Fi Antenna for Less than a Dollar
- Procrastination FlowChart
- Apple - Education - iTunes U
- from skomadina
- Mozilla Developer News » Blog Archive » Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available for download
- Animator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantART
- From Miz Mercer: Great take-off on the old removing the fourth wall in an animation (who can forget Duck Amuck? -= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Amuck)
- POW-PAK by CurtsWorks
- JS: free web-design, blogging, and podcasting program created for educators by an educator. It is a great match for schools for several reasons: EASY - Within minutes any staff member can have a home page online with no knowledge of HTML or web design. Th
- Web Poster Wizard Home
- JS: Web Worksheet Wizard and Project Poster have combined to make Web Poster Wizard. This FREE tool allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online. Teachers can also set up classes and assign projects to st
- Online text to speech (TTS) converter SpokenText
- jeff
- Derek Powazek: NaNoBloPo Q&A 7: Academia
- Miz Mercer via James Famer (incsub.org) Nice succint analysis of academia's (college/univesity) issues with web 2.0
- Virtual Ubiquity - Buzzword
- The new web based Word Processor on the block
- Visual Dictionary Online
- Debbie Schinker
- The Presurfer: Can You Grow Cress In A Keyboard?
- Perhaps this is a more "green" use for all those old keyboards in classsrooms...
- A "Psychological" Optical Illusion
- How do I clear my web browser's cache? - Knowledge Base
- May be of use.
- definr - incredibly fast dictionary
- incredibly fast dictionary
- Usingmac.com - Mac OS X Leopard: 200+ Productivity Booster Keyboard Shortcuts
- Mac OS X Leopard: 200+ Productivity Booster Keyboard Shortcuts
- FreshBargains.net | Where the deals are always fresh | Find coupons, rebates and the best deals online in one place.
- » Favorite podcasts Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts
- Download Win2PDF -- PDF creation software
- dc
- edublogs: Lingro - turns any webpage into an interactive language learning tool
- Jeff L
- lingro: multilingual dictionary and language learning site
- From Lisa
- NPR: Music Home
- alex
- FreshBargains.net | Where the deals are always fresh | Find coupons, rebates and the best deals online in one place.
- A mashup of many of the top deal and bargain sites focusing mostly on techie stuff. what is FreshBargains? fresh · bar · gains - (fresh bär'gins) - noun 1. a website that has all the best deals online. 2. a place where the de
- VirtualSalt
- Jomcleay:This site contains articles and information relating to the Internet and to education in general.
- Problem Based Learning
- resources for problem based learning. This publication, from the Centre for Learning and Professional Development at The University of Adelaide, is aimed at the university teacher who wishes the problem-based learning (PBL) approach for the first time.
- CDBurnerXP: Introduction and News
- dc
- Opening Up Education - The MIT Press
- jm:
Opening Up Education - follow up ... it is ready!
The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
Edited by
Toru Iiyoshi
and
M. S. Vijay Kumar
Foreword by
John Seely Brown
Opening
- KEEP Toolkit
- jm: The KEEP Toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers,
students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge
representations on the Web.
The KEEP Toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and ins
- Encore - ENCORE
- jm:
ENCORE is an Educational Network and Community for Open Resource Exchange.
It is created, managed, and maintained by volunteers from within the
learning sciences. Our goal is to support researchers as they exchange
open source or open conten
- Slashdot | Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged
- JS: UK getting serious about data security?
- Lose an unencrypted laptop and 'face criminal action' - Computerworld UK - The Voice of IT Management
- JS: UK gets serious about data protection
- Podcasting News » Free Audio Editor Available for PC & Mac
- "NCH Swift Sound’s free WavePad audio editing software is now available for Mac OSX as well as for Windows. It’s a wav and mp3 editor, but also supports vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and other formats." From JasonR
- Welcome to docstoc : find and share any document
- From speters - another resource for teachers and students - like curriki and we the teacher
- PlaneBuzz: We Knew This Was Going To Happen: iPhone Equipped Passenger Takes On Flight Crew Over Weather
- JS: Life isn't always exactly the way Apple tries to paint it.
- TVnima: You're the TV show director!
- Webinar Wire
- "...a multi-author blog for the web event services market...[for] marketers, tech service providers, and web event producers and promoters to contribute their news, opinions and insights." A new blog. More tech than ed, but some good advice. From JasonR
- Megaconference Jr.
- blog about the conference February 21, 2008
- What kids learn in virtual worlds | CNET News.com
- "Kids who are active members of virtual worlds are learning how to socialize, how to be technologically savvy, and how to be good little consumers." From JasonR
- Themes can't override core & module stylesheets | drupal.org
- DC: Login or register to post comments #1
- Mathtrain.com with Mr. Marcos
- Student-created mathcasts and other resources. Moodle-powered website for middle school students in math class with Mr. Marcos. We are a public school in Santa Monica. This site also has a podcast, with student-created mathcasts.
- Mathtrain.com with Mr. Marcos - powered by FeedBurner
- Mathtrain.com with Mr. Marcos Podcast. Lincoln Middle School students in Santa Monica, CA use my Tablet PC & Camtasia Studio to create video math lessons (mathcasts) - - building library of these kids teaching kids tutorials. See: mathtrain.com & iTunes.
- PlayThree: Anti PlayStation 3 dirty tricks exposed -Who is to blame?
- JS: Are you kidding me?
- Fox News Uses Actor As Kid With Dusty Playstation 3 | GameBrink.Com
- JS: Here's the video from Fox News
- Top 12 Areas for Technology Innovation through 2025 - ChangeWaves - Observations on the Future from Social Technologies
- JS
- Yes, Google is trying to take over the world. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
- SCoPE: Seminars: Social Media in Education: November 12 - December 2, 2007
- Greenbush Edusim
- p21
- ASUS | Eee PC
- JS: Competition for olpc?
- Proboscis | SoMa | online store
- Thinking Cubes from kristian still
- Posted a New Teacher Blogging Guide - Classroom 2.0
- rubyfire: a guide that will take a teacher through their first teacher administrated student blog.
- Mogulus » Broadcast Live.
- from cathy e: live video
- iTALC
- krossbow: iTALC has been designed for usage in school. Therefore it offers a lot of possibilities to teachers, such as * see what's going on in computer-labs by using overview mode and make snapshots * remote-control computers to support and help other pe
- Filmed World: Welcome to filmedworld.com
- p21
- Share Educational Content on WiZiQ
- skomadina: Free? Online , copmpletly web based eLearning platform.
- http://neit.wikispaces.com/
- plasq.com - Skitch - Snap, Draw, Share
- another reason to add a mac to the arsenal
- ABC News: Pasta Monster Gets Academic Attention
- Employees gone wild (online) II: Special Teacher Edition
- "...the Ohio Education Association (OEA) has sent out a memo to teachers in the state, discouraging them from maintaining public profiles at all." From JasonR
- School textbooks, rife with errors, tentatively approved | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | News: Education
- New Yorkers rally to help online Romeo | CNET News.com
- StupidFilter :: Main / HomePage
- Not sure I understand this - does that mean I'll get filtered out?
- Prince to sue The Pirate Bay | Crave : The gadget blog
- Yahoo! Settles! With! Jailed! Chinese! Journos
- Firefox 3.0 may ship with a slew of serious bugs intact | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- Complete Zune Guide: Complete Guide to Zune 2's Software and Firmware
- Kevin Shannon: Microsoft RoundTable Video Camera
- cool camera
- Apple Plugs 44 Security Holes - Security Fix
- Zune.net | Zune Marketplace
- Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything - Telegraph
- Dr. Allan Luke: The New Literacies (Webcast) - Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat
- Dr. Allan Luke: The New Literacies
- TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve.
- an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities.
- cbc archive for kids
- The Blog Readability Test. What level of education is required to understand your blog?
- Instructables.com
- The World's Biggest Show & Tell
- DonationCoder.com
- a clarification between coppa and copa
- EduBanners.com Educational Banner Exchange - Free advertising to promote your educational site!
- Just curious if you edtechtalkers have heard of this site or know anyone who has used it. What do you think? JasonR
- HotChalk
- For teachers, students and parents from grades K-12. Teachers can manage their coursework, collaborate with students, and communicate with parents. Students can organize work online. Also plans for adding school administrators. JasonR
- Welcome to Route 21
- Download Free Political Documentaries And Watch Many Interesting, Controversial Free Documentary Films On That You Wont Find On The TV!
- POKIN AROUND: A real person, a real death
- Horrible: Teenage girl commits suicide because of Myspace trist gone bad. Turns out the boy she liked was really the parents of her neighborhood friend. Another cautionary tale. Is this story legit?
- SmartRatings.com - Directory of Expert Product Reviews & Product Ratings
- from arvind: get all the reviews on products before you buy them
- CNN enters the virtual world of Second Life - CNN.com
- From Debbie Schinker - interesting that this media giant has decided to explore SL. (Realistically, I bet they think they can learn more about their target demographic with the ultimate gola of making money in an industry that is losing money rapidly).
- Literacy in the New Media Age - book review
- There's actually not very much about new media discussed - merely an assumption that iconic or visual communication is challenging the dominance of writing.
- StarLogo TNG
- JS: Mit is working on this new implementation of Logo.
- Teachers risk trouble by posting on social sites - cleveland.com
- I guess it depends what you are posting?
- StupidFilter :: Main / HomePage
- JS: What happens when you take spam filtering technology and apply it to filtering out all the stupid stuff on the web? Silence.
- Techlearning > > Three Steps to Eliminating Teacher Technophobia > May 1, 2007
- 1. The Curriculum Database 2. The Survey 3. The Weekly E-mail From JasonR
- Free SAT Prep
- JS:According to the College Board 2006 Profile Report analysis of SAT scores, students from wealthier families typically receive higher marks. ProProfs (www.proprofs.com) hopes to even out the playing field for the two million individuals who take the exa
- Read Around the Planet (English) :: Two Way Interactive Connections in Education
- A well run classroom collaboration experience using video conferencing equipment. I have done this for 2 years.
- Emulating the XO/Quick Start - OLPCWiki
- from arthus
- FreeRice
- Democrats: Colleges must police copyright, or else | CNET News.com
- Sounds very familiar to the CIPA. ... from ijohnpederson
- Google Apps in the Enterprise: A Promotion-Enhancing or Career-Limiting Move for Enterprise Architects? | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
- Ecar Report from Burton Group: In February 2007, Google announced Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE), a collaboration and communication solution offered as software as a service (SaaS). Initially combining a portal, e-mail, instant messaging (IM), calenda
- Digication e-Portfolios: Home
- from alex
- The Shakespeare Programming Language
- Hmm...
- Videoconferencing Out on a Lim
- I nominated Janine for an EduBlog Award. Her Web site is devoted to integrating Interactive Videoconferencing into the curriculum and the classroom. I think she does a pretty good job. From JasonR
- Your Privacy Is An Illusion: Bank intern busted by Facebook
- "Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters." Cautionary tale. Suppose this is the kind of literacy we need to teach. From JasonR
- Janet Collaborate
- "...for teachers and lecturers in Schools, Colleges, Universities, Research Institutions and the Cultural Sector. [It} is a 'one-stop-shop' for opportunities to work collaboratively, especially using videoconferencing." A UK site. From jasonR
- Skype can launch only once in Leopard if firewall is enabled - Skype Forums
- Why Skype won't run on Leopard with firewall enabled. Also, some workarounds. JasonR
- Verizon Thinkfinity - Literacy, Education and Technology
- Verizon's portal to all things education. From JasonR
- Discovery News : Discovery Channel
- From Debbie Schinker: Many wider, interesting implications for the expansion of this technology...
- Attendee Profiles - Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovations Online Conference
- starts november 15
- The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education: --> Interactive Whiteboards from a leadership and management perspective: a personal view
- Interactive Whiteboards from a leadership and management perspective: a personal view By Terry Freedman Created on Sun, 4 Nov 2007, 08:49
- JISC Podcast - Social Technologies in Education
- hardmana
- Flightplans for Learning: Differentiation & Deep Thinking with Technology
- Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the flight... a pilot's job is to provide a safe and successful flight. In much the same way, a teacher must design an age-appropriate environment where students can develop a love of learning. Each teacher designs their ow
- mp3DirectCut v2.07 (freeware)
- dc: DAVE's LINK DO NOT TOUCH
- Screencast: Yet Another Mac Screencasting App
- Verdict: not as good as iShowU
- Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel
- from arthus
- film music | mobygratis.com
- hi, i'll keep this brief. this portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and
- film music | mobygratis.com
- G.ho.st (ghost) Virtual Computer (VC), Web OS (WebOS) and Online Storage
- Warner Music Boss: We Were Wrong
- jm: tee hee
- jagbox - Share files for free.
- myIcourse
- jm: free course managment sollution
- In Pictures: Online computer tutorials based on pictures. Free.
- International Creative Network - Asoboo
- Make Your Own Venn Diagrams
- NEIT 2007 | JeffLebow.net
- Jeff presents the keynote at this year's Nysais/Neit conference
- Taste of Tech » 21st Century Illiteracy
- Dave: John Schinker writes "If you cannot do something you’ve never done simply because no one has taken your hand and shown you how to do it, I don’t want you teaching my kids."
- Welcome to Route 21
- Traveler IQ Challenge
- vmware server... what's not to love
- The Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
- The United Nations Internet Governance Forum will be holding the third global conference on the future of the Internet in Rio next week with live audio and video feeds. This United Nations conference follows the first World Summit on the Information Socie
- SimTeach
- Jeremy Kemp from Stanford has created quite a nice bunch of sites.. wikis, blogs, etc for sl
- IGF Brazil 2007 :: Internet Governance Forum
- The United Nations Internet Governance Forum will be holding the third global conference on the future of the Internet in Rio next week with live audio and video feeds. This United Nations conference follows the first World Summit on the Information Socie
- designmatters » Design Matters
- One of the best presentation featured as part of K12 Online. Great for staff and older students.
- jm: E-Learning07 Protopage for conference
- FreeFolio Demo
- jm: pulled from link alex put in this week ... hmmm? what is the diff from WP - mu?
- SUPER © .
- jm: anyone tried this? on a recommended link in a prior post?
- MRBS: Multi-Room Booking System
- JS: Software for web-based scheduling of shared resources, like media centers, computer labs, conference rooms, etc.
- National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)
- JS: Free online courses for higher education, high school and advanced placement.
- haiku spilled guts » cribchronicles.com
- Another new webcaster -- Congrats, Dave!
- Vance's ESL_Home: Second Life - Getting around 'in world'
- treefalls » home
- Joyce Valenza's wiki of resources
- 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot - CollegeHumor video
- Football - Instant Color Schemes
- vance s.: Let Yahoo pick your color scheme! Enter a word or phrase and I'll grab 5 related images from Yahoo Images, and get the 6 most prominent colors from each.
- Avoid Fake Web Sites
- JS: Good examples of fake web sites for teaching students how to evaluate online resources
- Google Sketchup for Dummies - Boing Boing
- Google's free 3D drawing program. It's easy to use, but it's even easier when you watch someone with a lot of SketchUp experience use the application and explain what they're doing.
- NewTeeVee Live
- GigaOM network introduces NewTeeVee Live – a premier event showcasing the online video industry's hottest topics, most talented video producers, promising technologies, leading innovators and top funding executives. JasonR
- Exclusive Lifehacker Download: Better YouTube Firefox Extension
- Better YouTube Firefox Extension betteryoutube-header.jpg Watch YouTube videos more efficiently with Better YouTube, a brand new Firefox extension that compiles our favorite YouTube Greasemonkey scripts into a single convenient package. Better YouTube sma
- David Beard's Website
- e-Show n Tell 2007
- The e-Show n Tell 2007 Blog has been established to provide ongoing coverage of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework's e-Show n Tell 2007 Mini-Conference. Fantastic resources
- Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Announcing Freefolio - a social e-Portfolio
- alex ragone
- LibrarianInBlack: IL2007: Cool Tools for Webmasters
- alex ragone:
- Wobzip - (Un)Compress on the Fly
- uncompress archives and zipped files on the web
- Can I Hear You Now? (Techlearning blog)
- Great post by Bob Sprankle connecting things like twitter and Dan Pink's book, a Whole New Mind. Kudos to Bob on this marvelous post.
- NYSAIS NEIT 2007 Unconference
- arivind: The official page for the 2007 NYSAIS technology UNconference
- Slashdot | Expanding Fair Use To Reform Copyright Law
- from John S.
- How jaxtr Works
- from jeff lebow
- LeMill — LeMill
- from jeff lebow
- Livescribe :: Turn Your Paper On
- Very interesting pen. Expensive too.
- Conversion Central: 101 Tools to Convert Video, Music, Images, PDF and More : Codswallop
- from jeff lebow
- Jen Stark
- from alice mercer
- NPR : StoryCorps: 'Listening Is an Act of Love'
- A. Mercer compelling stories and a great audio archive for the future
- Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » Clarifications on “A Vision …”
- Michael Wesch follows up on his most recent video, clarifying a few pieces and providing a bit of background. from ijohn
- ECOO 2007 Conference :: Forum
- This session will focus on creating and sustaining blogging communities
- Edheads - Activate Your Mind!
- Site shared at the Virginia Assoc. of Science Teachers Conf. this week. Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards. We partner with various school systems in the United States, wh
- Universities TV - Find Internet TV
- Internet TV Stations
- Flickr: Photos from EricGjerde
- from Miz Mercer; great source of mathematically based art and paper art and CC non-commercial licensed. Great for math instruction.
- Teaching Revision With Google Docs
- Some nice resources for incorporating docs into the writing process
- PipeBytes
- sue roseman PipeBytes is simple way to send send your music, movies, presentation to a friend or colleague
- Elearning07 : Podcast Downloads
- presentation podcasts
- -- MonkeyJam - Resources
- Keep your butt on the ball: Classrooms are ditching chairs for balls | Science Buzz
- Different kind of tech for ed. JasonR
- NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication | nmc
- Second Life filter JasonR
- Profilactic.com - preventing an online identity crisis
- Mash all your stuff up into one feed
- Teaching & Learning Celebration
- Not free ($350/2 days early bird special), but looks interesting
- True Knowledge Search
- an internet search company. Our unique technology represents general knowledge in a form that computers can understand and process.
- Snapvine
- Leave voice messages by phone
- Adding a blogroll from your Google Reader
- Results of first comprehensive study of Maine's pioneering ed-tech initiative show promise
- PJ Higgins Students Ustreaming their Environment Presentation
- Northern Voice 2008
- jm: get your moose on ... those canadians ... STARTS THIS WEEK!!
- NoteMesh - collaborate to graduate
- Use a wiki to collaboratively build class notes.
- NYSAIS Conference 2007
- Meebo Blog
- Not Drupal Wordpress Mu
- A Living Archives Presentation October 26th
- Internet bullying warning to parents - web - Technology - smh.com.au
- Praxis6942: The problems continue - this report from Australia
- Cast-Control :: The Pinnacle of Shoutcast Control
- JS: do we know anything about this? Seems like something we might be interested in. The older, no-longer-maintained free version is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cast-control/
- Carbonite Online Backup: Easy. Completely Automatic. Secure
- agrover: unlimited backup space online, $50/year. Pretty great deal for backing up all your important data. Mac version coming soon.
- SesameVault™
- More iPhone streamy goodness. Do any other smart phones/windows mobiles fo this? Is anyone trying to access edtechtalk/worldbridge material on-the-go? And how long until there is an iPhone compatible chat room at ETT? From JasonR
- The Big Juicy Twitter Guide | Caroline Middlebrook
- krossbow: The Big Juicy Twitter Guide Hi, it looks like you're new to my blog, which is great because I love getting new visitors! Please consider subscribing to my RSS feed. It's a full text feed, and you can also subscribe via email using the box to the
- Google Reader (65)
- krossbow: Joost Chooses Meebo for Chat Rooms from Mashable! by Kristen Nicole joost-meebo.png For an IPTV service whose chat options had been questioned by some, you may be glad to know that Joost has chosen Meebo as the provider of its chat tool, which w
- Streaming radio on the iPhone
- How long until I can listen to EdTechTalk live on my mobile? JasonR
- Innovate 2007 - Virginia DOE
- p21
- Wired for Books
- p21
- NMC Campus Observer » Immersion in Virtual Morocco
- p21:
- Resources for creating digital stories - edna.edu.au
- Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » “A Vision of Students Today” Transcript
- p21:
- JamNow.com
- Allows musicians and enthusiasts to create audio content online in real-time. Enables real-time music collaboration and creation, linking musically oriented communities of interest. (From JasonR)
- YoYo Games | Home
- p21: Great for kids to learn pre-programming skills. On the same page as scratch and alice. My kids are using it to create their own content in video games.
- Pageflakes - Design Matters
- from Miz Mercer
- Ning not K-12 - Ning in Education
- From Miz Mercer: Looks like there are problems with new COPPA rules and using Ning for under 13 yos
- NextGEN Gallery at alex.rabe
- JS: I've been looking for a good gallery plugin for wordpress, and this might be it.
- Reallusion CrazyTalk for Skype - Live Avatar & Instant Media Sharing on Skype
- With this you can share Second Life through Skype. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMQcRuo5tQ From JasonR
- YouTube - Second Life in Skype!!!
- Stream Second Life through Skype. From JasonR
- Facebook: Have Data, Will Travel? Rumored Ad Product for Third-Party Sites
- Fox Orders Halt to McCain Ad - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
- MySpace to officially join Google's OpenSocial | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
- Tumblr 3.0 released
- Over 400 new features, fixes, and improvements. Introducing Tumblr 3.0
- Job Search | one search. all jobs. Indeed
- In one simple search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. Indeed.com includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages
- Best Education Blog - The 2007 Weblog Awards
- jm: NOT the edublog awards ... but an education category
- Comic Life Resources
- from cnansen: List of Resources, Lessons, & Ideas some of these ideas can be applied to some of the web apps that allow similar web sites that replicate Comic Life such as Toondoo, etc.
- Zune Insider : Zune Podcast Submissions and Directory
- EdTechRoundup Meeting #2 - come join in! at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
- EdTech UK timezone friendly webcast
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
- PodCamp Community UnConferences wiki / PodCampEDU
- jm: Did this miss our radar screen?
- Interview with gOS Founder: “Linux For Human Beings (Who Shop At WAL*MART)” » fsckin w/ linux
- ESPN - Ohio St. 38, Wisconsin 17
- TimeScroller
- from Betchaboy - About TimeScroller TimeScroller is a free Macintosh OSX Widget which, in addition to showing the current time, allows you to quickly find a suitable time for an overseas phone call or conference.
- Twins Gain Fame By Inventing Bully-Proof Underwear - Cincinnati News Story - WLWT Cincinnati
- Almost the Google PC: Everex gPC available at Wal-Mart
- Entertainment on Web could bloom with strike | CNET News.com
- MoodBlast — Circle Six Blog
- AT&T Tech Channel
- Why don’t we wiki well?
- Recording Industry vs. The People
- TwitterPoster
- TwitterPoster is a visual application based on Twitter API. It provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of the Twitter users. From JasonR
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog: How the Flat Classroom Project Almost Died Yesterday!
- passionate blog post by Vocki Davis on the Flat Classroom Project and ad free ning for educators
- Seagate Settles Class Action Lawsuit
- JS: Seagate settles class action suit centered around the definition of "1GB". Purchasers of Seagate hard drives are entitled to a 5% cash settlement or Seagate software option.
- Face it - oldies want chums, too - Telegraph
- JS: Social networking isn't just for kids anymore
- YouTube - Hero in the Hallway!
- student made antibullying video (via Wes Fryer)
- Technicality may end student program - The Boston Globe
- Hard to believe this one.
- freshdelicious - FRESH DEL.ICIO.US
- Sketchcast.com
- Steve Hargadon: Big News from Ning: Ad-Free Student Networks
- Learning and Teaching Scotland Online Service
- jm: Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) is committed to providing world-class teaching and learning experiences for Scotland’s children and young people. As the lead organisation for curriculum development in Scotland, we offer support and guidance to
- 13 Lessons to Teach Your Child About Digital Photography
- Note - before I start I should say that you can probably teach a child too much about photography and ‘kill’ some of the playfulness that I think makes the images that a child can take special. My main advice would be to instill in your child the firs
- University Opens Dedicated Podcasting Room
- While Wright State is not the first university to adopt podcasting on campus, they are one of the first schools to have a facility dedicated to the creation and consumption of new media.
- Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People
- A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
- A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
- WritingFix: Home of Interactive Writing Prompts and 6 Trait Resources for Teachers
- WritingFix: Where getting your daily writing "fix" is more important than fixing your writing. Write EVERY day!
- How to Subscribe to a Blog Feed
- OMG It's the all new Edublog Awards!
- Mind42 - Free Online Mind Map
- Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday
- JS: Google tries to buy Facebook, but falls short. Microsoft invests in Facebook. Google counters with its own API. Game on.
- FireShot :: Firefox Add-ons
- cmcraft: That great screenshot tool as a Firefox extension that I mentioned in an earlier post. I had to tag it for my own future reference.
- CyberCollege, free Mass Media nd TV Production online course
- Don't let its circa 1997 html design fool you. This is a very, very extensive site on tv/video production. Lots of basic and technical information. Here is an example page: http://www.internetcampus.org/tvp006.htm From JasonR
- Pop!Casts
- p21: An fantastic collection of presentations from the Pop!Casts conference
- Best Buy takes minority stake in Mydeo for video sharing
- 99 Mind Mapping Resources, Tools, and Tips - College Degree.com
- VectorMagic
- krossbow: 1. Upload 2. Configure 3. Vectorize 4. Review & Download!
- Prof replaces term papers with Wikipedia contributions, suffering ensues
- from JasonR, and JS
- PhotoRec - CGSecurity
- krossbow: PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its 'Photo Recovery' name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesys
- Vimeo. Because everyone shouldn’t see everything.
- The new standard in online video
- CB Model Pro - Easy 3D Modeling
- DC:
- Mac OS X: Rebuild Your Mac with 20 Useful Downloads
- krossbow: Mac OS X only: So you erased your hard drive to install Leopard, and now you've got to load your Mac up with all your essential software. I kept a detailed inventory of the downloads I hunted down all over the internet to load on my Mac this wee
- Mind42 - Free Online Mind Map
- rubyfire: collaborative mindmapping
- Coolest T-Shirt EVER - The Animated Wi-Fi Detector Shirt » Coolest Gadgets
- Tuttle SVC: Creating a C|Net for Education
- Apple iPhone launching on Rogers December 7th? | The Boy Genius Report
- Mathematics in Movies
- collection of movie clips in which Mathematics appears. by: Oliver Knill, Harvard University
- Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershots
- TokBox: Talk to The World
- easy video mail service
- Ruckus Nation: An Online Idea Competition to Get Kids Moving!
- ...challenges you to imagine a new product for kids that’s fun and cool enough to make them want to get up and move around. $$$ prizes
- Betchablog » Blog Archive » The Plague of Plagiarism
- The bottom line is that we have to stop blaming our kids when they copy and paste stuff into their assignments. But the buck needs to stop with the questions being asked in the first place.
- Librarians' Internet Index
- Free text messages ? txt2day.com
- Linux Doesn’t Lack Drivers, it Lacks Complete Drivers
- Parent Trap
- More and more parents are getting burned when their kids spill family secrets online. This FUD brought to you by JasonR
- FreeRice
- rubyfire: Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game.
- Create an ePortfolio with del.icio.us tags
- These links represent some of the versions of my online portfolio, plus links to most of the artifacts that are included in my portfolio. I have been recreating my portfolio with a variety of online services, software and strategies T
- [unsanity] Products Compatibility
- For Leopard upgraders. Mac OS X Hardware and Software compatibility status.
- US tops "dirty dozen" of spam-relaying countries by a landslide
- JS: we are our own worst enemy
- Video: Zombies in Plain English | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
- alice mercer: From Alice Mercer via Ken Rodoff: Nifty CommonCraft video on Zombies, which is just in time for Halloween!
- Slashdot | America's View Of the Internet
- JS: more than HALF of Americans believe Internet content should be controlled by the government ?!?
- Geek To Live: Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client
- JS: followup to T-bird for Gmail, plus new IMAP support.
- CourseLab - free e-Learning authoring tool
- Another free course authoring tool, now version 2.3, just not open source.
- SurveyGizmo: Online Survey Tool - Web surveys, Polls, Forms, Quizzes, Landing Pages
- alex: Cool Free Survey Tool -- Recommended by our Science Department
- Interactive Media Review
- Harvard students and faculty write about media and learning. Issue 1.1 includes an article by Paul Gee on games and learning.
- Popcast 2007 Education Fellows Panel
- Discussion of education reforms by panel of five educators selected for PopTech Fellowships. RT: 43 min.
- videocalltips.com
- "Tips and Tricks for making Video Calls for FREE." A little bit markety. From JasonR
- Teachers' lack of fair use education hinders learning, sets bad example
- JS:
- European copyright law used to threaten Canadian public domain site
- colr.org
- JS: Generate a color scheme from any picture
- Stripgenerator v1.0.3
- Generate COMIC strips.
- Educational Technology Blog Carnival
- from cephalopodcast
- Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer wiki / safedsn
- arvind: Wes Fryer's presentations on safe digital social networking
- CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software
- skomadina:
- O'Reilly Network -- Interview with danah boyd
- arvind: Interview with the always brilliant danay boyd on O'Reilly's Women in Technology site
- New Media Means New Choices | nmc
- p21: Kristina Woolsey, closing keynote session on new media. 2007
- Know any free chatroom software?
- from arvind a decent list of free chat software apps - flash, java, html and more
- Share Outlook Calendar Free, Google Calendar Sync, Pocket Outlook Google Sync - SyncMyCal
- from Arvind fantastic free (and paid) tool for syncing your Outlook calendar with Google Calendar or 30boxes.com calendar (my online calendar of choice)
- Knock Knock, Millenials are Here - Ijohnpederson
- UK government: Schools shouldn't sign licensing agreements with Microsoft
- Ubuntu Home Server Edition
- Techdirt: A Modest Proposal: Don't Try To Censor Students Who Have This Thing We Call The Internet
- SanDisk drops a patent lawsuit bomb, sues 25 companies for infringement - Engadget
- How to make your handwriting into a font : The Imaging Buffet
- How To Bypass Comcast’s BitTorrent Throttling | TorrentFreak
- Zune 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions
- 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions For The Microsoft Zune
- Gmail gets IMAP - Download Squad
- With IMAP, users can now access their email via a desktop application like Outlook or Thunderbird, read emails, make changes, delete, and have the changes made across platforms.
- Translate 2.0
- This is a cool translation site that keeps track of translations and you can export them to a pdf.
- PongSat
- Build your own satellite out of a ping pong ball and send it into space -- for free
- Eyeclops - I Want One Of Those
- Format Document
- 12-982. Qualified immunity; insurance coverage
- Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits - home page
- The Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits is a unifying association formed in 2004 to advance the common interests of more than 20,000 nonprofits in the Grand Canyon State. We are a statewide organization of, by, and for all of Arizona’s nonprofits.
- National Council of Nonprofit Associations | Home Page
- The National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA) is the network of state and regional nonprofit associations serving over 20,000 members in 41 states and the District of Columbia. NCNA links local organizations to a national audience through state as
- ASU Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management - About Us
- ASU Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Management exists to advance nonprofit leadership practice so that organizations can better achieve their mission.
- rsizr lets you intelligently resize your images — gallery
- whoah, flash based image resizer. can anyone say helpful!
- Pixelpost
- fantastic featured photoblog software. runs on sql and php servers. free and nice.
- eLML - eLesson Markup Language
- An open source XML framework for creating structured eLessons using XML. For easier lesson authoring eLML will offer a web-based WYSIWYG editor in late 2007.
- What Works Clearninghouse: Beginning Reading
- JS: 94% of effectiveness studies for early reading programs don't meet evidence standards, according the the US Dept of education
- Free Documentaries: Download Free Political Documentaries And Watch Many Interesting, Controversial Free Documentary Films On That You Wont Find On The TV!
- JS: Not the largest collection of videos on the Internet, but they do have full-length streamable documentaries on a number of subjects. Want to see Super Size Me or Fahrenheit/911? They're there. For free.
- Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
- JS: Cool flash explanations of music theory
- Printable world map
- Two Brains
- jm: /jane hart: Learning Goals are any focused area of learning that will help you with your job. Try to make your learning goals measurable and achievable. LearningFlow is a tool to help you achieve those goals. It allows you to associate resources from
- Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Creating Multiple Student Accounts From One Gmail Account
- jm: per alec C. I noticed a twit from Kim Cofino re: her setting up linked Gmail accounts from one account. This made me wonder how this was done. I’m not sure if this is what she meant, but if you follow this Jingcast, you will see how you can set up m
- Pew Internet: Teens and Online Stranger Contact
- jm: /from tama l: Several behaviors are associated with high levels of online stranger contact, including social networking profile ownership, posting photos online and using social networking sites to flirt. Although several factors are linked with incre
- OLAT (Online Learning And Training): Open Source LMS ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
- jm: per stephen d: "I tried out OLAT (there's a demo on the site). It's fast and mostly intuitive to operate." but a lot of clicking needed ;)
- Free & Open Source Software Portal:Software/Courseware Tools
- jm: /from Stephen Downs: WebWorld Portals : Free & Open Source Software Portal: Software: Courseware Tools
- Apple - Mac OS X Leopard
- jm: leopard official launch on Friday 10/26 ... preorders taken now ;)
- meebo :: Firefox Add-ons
- jm: Get a sidebar with all of your buddies visible while you're browsing. Get visual notifications when your friends IM you. Drag and drop links and images from web pages right onto your friends!
- Directory: Free Web and Mobile Apps | MakeUseOf.com
- jm: "All apps and services listed here are free (99.99%), or at least come with decent free account option. Unlike other similar directories this one lists tools that are actually WORK, meaning that you won’t find a social networking website used by 50
- Flux » Articles » Bringing together tools for teachers
- jm: from the flux blog "At the Handheld Learning Conference last week I presented with Lyndsay Grant a workshop entitled ‘Mobile Learning Exchange‘ that overviewed mobile learning and then hosted something of a discussion about common approaches and c
- incorporated subversion - education, media, community » Blog Archive » A Con Job?
- jm: con job? hmmm ....
- Inside the Mind of a 9 Year Old File-Sharer | TorrentFreak
- aquaculturepda » Alan Levine
- This is snippets of information I gained from Alan Levine's presentation in Melbourne 16 October, 2007 as part of his Australian Cross Country Tour
- Evidence mounts that Comcast is targeting BitTorrent traffic
- JS:
- Pirates take over anti-piracy website - News - Tech.co.uk
- ICANN | My Name, My Language, My Internet: IDN Test Goes Live
- paidContent.org - The Economics of Content - Discovery Does Its Biggest Online Buy: HowStuffWorks For $250 Million
- How stuff makes money
- Kiwi brewery offers lifetime's beer for stolen laptop | The Register
- Wuala: Unlimited online storage for free, almos: Wuala
- Share and sharealike
- ajax cms
- configuring a complex drupal
- A Way Forward: The Environmental and Spatial Technology Initiative | Edutopia
- Nice video of kids+tech in Arkasas. Lead to a documentary on Japanese internment in AK.
- 100+ Web 2.0 online Generators | Yazzie's Online Journal
- Miscellany: INSERT COIN
- JS: neat practical joke hack.
- Schools learn a high-tech lesson - OregonLive.com
- Students at Lake Oswego Junior High can find a satellite image of their house within minutes on the Internet, but when a virus shut down school computers last week, many of them struggled to address an envelope to their parents.
- OpenLaszlo | the premier open-source platform for rich internet applications
- CL&P Blog: All Criticism of This Website Is Hereby Forbidden
- MySpace to offer free Skype calls | New media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
- Interplanetary internet proposed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer - Engadget
- galaxybridges, here we come
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Official Website
- Sharing is nice (even with ads)
- Instructify
- The Instructify philosophy–Teach smarter, not harder.
Teach smarter, not harder. Instructify is where teachers can stock their toolboxes with practical, time-saving classroom ideas and cutting edge methods of instruction.
- (mt) Media Temple - (gs) Grid-Service : Details
- A Life in the Day of Doug Belshaw (video) at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
- Bravo! Take the Doug Belshaw Challenge!
- Google wins in blind search test | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- JS: Google only gets 51%, and Microsoft beats Yahoo. Apparently, they only surveyed coaches -- the total was more than 110%.
- TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology
- TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology This vidcast blog is for teachers interested in improving learning with technology. This vidcast accepts submissions from all educators and will include great submissions in its broadcast. Text, photos...
- KrazyDad - Games and Activities
- YouTube - A Vision of Students Today
- Kind of clever PSA about edtech from JasonR
- WiseMapping | Visual Thinking Evolution
- DOC Cop = Accurate + Fast + Free + Plagiarism Detection
- JS: Similar to Plagium, but more feature-rich like Turnitin.
- NOZA, Inc. - Database of Charitable Donations
- A new way to search for foundation and grants information online for free.
- MySpace and Skype to Announce Partnership - New York Times
- In a deal that will connect two of the largest Internet services, MySpace, the social network owned by the News Corporation, will announce on Wednesday that it is teaming up with Skype, the Internet telephone service owned by eBay.
- Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab
- don't think we talked about this one did we? submitted again this week.
- Livescribe :: Sneak Peek
- smart pen indeed
- Blackboard Patent claims re-rejected
- yay!
- iAlja: Giving your Facebook profile a Second Life
- Our Third Annual College Rankings
- WikiMatrix - Compare them all
- Beyond School: One for the Mouse-Potatoes: Your Future Without Net Neutrality
- jobchoice » home
- jm: Keep up with the job choice
- Marcie Hull Presentation
- Greenbush Edusim
- The Edusim is a free & open source educational 3D interactive virtual environment platform (Metaverse) built on open source Croquet with resource packs
- Clockwise or counterclockwise? |
- 70+ Online Language Communities and Resources
- 25+ Tutorials For The Web Minded
- jm: looking for online tutorials? start here, baby!
- Apple iPhone and iPod touch - Web apps - All Categories
- jm: apple.com directory of iPhone applications now up ... let the real fun begin
- Podcast: Girls Gone Geek
- A different kind of Women of Web. educational and well produced.
- GREdic wordlist - The Ultimate GRE Dictionary
- jm: This word list contains 6,500+ words and 10,000+ definitions from some of the most authoritative sources, with meanings specifically targeted at those you will encounter at a GRE test.
- SOUNDKEEPERS.com: Vocabulary Builder
- jm: Study for GRE, GMAT and SAT using our vocabulary builder. These FREE services also provide you with muliple choice questions to these commonly used words. You may also create your own set of cards that you can review as you learn these words.
- LaCie - Hub - USB & FireWire Hub
- jm: Got cables - don't hide 'em ... turn them into art!
- SHARE beta
- jm: per jane hart - “Share” beta is a web-based service that allows you to upload and share files. You can distribute the URL for the file to a selected number of users, post the link for the URL on a website, or embed the code for previewing the file
- fo.reca.st: web 2.0 surveys for everybody
- jm: from jane hart - fo.reca.st surveys allow you to design online surveys, collect responses from the visitors of your blog or website, analyze them and finally present the survey results - all using only your web browser and for free.
- Greenbush Edusim
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
- Virtual manipulatives to use in math education.
- Cyberchallenge
- JS: Sometimes, you just have to know how to multiply.
- Group Dynamics in Cyberspace
- JS: What are the implications for WB/EB/ETT as it matures? The model presented here is consistent with many of my own experiences. This might be better for a brainstorm or hangout rather than ETW, but it could also be a postshow item.
- Letting Social Networking into Schools | 21st Century Connections
- JS: With links to the actual report and suggestions for schools, the NSBA points out that our kids ARE interactive online. They're spending almost as much time on the Internet as they are watching TV. We should be (a) teaching them how to behave responsib
- Teacher adds a 3D virtual environment to her SMARTBoard
- Technophilia: Discover the .EDU Underground - Lifehacker
- jm: from lifehacker - Little appreciated outside the world of academia, there are literally thousands of .edu sites bursting with incredibly useful and interesting information and resources.
- Brains are Weird
- twitter-casts » home
- In the Edu-twitterverse, great ideas simply crop up. It all adds to our learning journeys. A kind of thinking lab emerges at times.
- Lifelong Kindergarten :: MIT Media Lab
- Home for project links to Scratch, Crickets, and other creative explorations
- A safe social network for Schools
- About: Creative Commons at Video: Wanna Work Together?
- jm: Great short videio overviews of what creative commons licensing is all about. Not a lot of detail, but just a few minutes of high level goodness.
- A Little Help From My Friends: Classroom 2.0 Educators Share Their Experiences - 10/1/2007 - School Library Journal
- Steve Hargardon
- Doxory
- durff
- youngwriters07 » home
- Please feel free to check out the blogs of young writers around the world by clicking the links below, reading, and having conversations with some very fine young writers
- SingSnap | SingSnap - The other hotel california
- Endless hours of fun for the Karaoke crowd
- Edugrids Main Page
- Jaiku | Google Q&A
- Watch Out Twitter - here comes Googleku
- Google Earth Lessons
- jm: interesting list of links to incorporate google earth into lessons
- BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Kwik-Fit sued over staff radios
- JS: This case *didn't* get thrown out of court ?!?
- Bloggingheads.tv
- Something you need a PC to appreciate. Two people talking, head to head. submitted by JasonR
- New Mic For Podcasters: The Blue Snowflake
- Portable Snowflake Microphone is the latest USB mic from Blue Microphones. The mic combines a USB bus powered capsule with a class compliant design to make the Snowflake plug and play on Mac and PC. submitted by JasonR
- KC Softwares
- know why your video files has no sound or refuses to play correctly.provide you with as much information as possible about your video files
- Official Google Blog: Reach out and message someone
- jm: from crafty184 via twitter - hot off the press - Google buys Jaiku!
- A VC: Twittering Photos
- jm: here's how ...
- TwitterGram: Flickr-to-Twitter setup
- jm: Dave Winer's flickr to twitter tool
- NMC Publishes Results of Educators in Second Life Survey | nmc
- Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations
- jm: shout out to our corporate edtechers George Siemens goes all corporate and stuff :)
- Streaming Video: Creating a Professional uStream Show |
- IHeard - online radio search
- Real iTunes killer: Review of Amazon's DRM-less music download store - TECH.BLORGE.com
- FriendFeed To Aggregate Social Network Data Into A Single Feed
- EdD at Athabasca: The Centre for Distance Education - Doctoral Program
- jm: (sigh) only 12 lucky "winners" will be joining the new cohort in the fall of 2008, but not Jen :) $40k Canadian
- Silicon Alley Insider: Microsoft: Yep, New Zunes. And DRM-Free Music?
- EdD Program > Prospective Student > Concentrations > Instructional Technology & Distance Education
- jm: Nova University one of the largest online EdD programs in Instructional Technology approx $40,000
- China's Great Firewall turns its attention to RSS feeds
- Sony BMG's chief anti-piracy lawyer: "Copying" music you own is "stealing"
- Ed.D. in Educational Technology (Blended Online) | California Professional Administrative Services Credential | Education | Graduate School of Education and Psychology | Pepperdine University
- jm: Blended 60% f2f; 40% online EdD in Educational Technology offered at Pepperdine - approx $50k total program costs
- Virgin sued for using teen's photo - Technology - smh.com.au
- Pirate Bay sues media giants for 'sabotage' | The Register
- Google Prepping A Second Life Competitor?
- New AT&T terms of service: We'll cut off your Internet connection for criticizing us - Boing Boing
- Ubuntu beta, now with flash and flashiness | Underexposed - CNET News.com
- kyte: TV out of the box
- kyte allows anybody to create their own interactive TV channel on their website, blog, social network or mobile phone With kyte, you create your own live TV shows and broadcast them on your own interactive channel, on your website, blog, social networ
- UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- iPod Sets Man's Pants On Fire - News Story - WSB Atlanta
- We knew they were hot, but ...
- Some professors banning laptops from classes | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
- jm: AAARGH!! "After all, it's awfully hard to check your e-mail, surf the Web or chat with friends using a spiral notebook." Let's bash what we don't understand, right?!
- VideoLAN - Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!
- durff added: VLC now called "VideoLAN"?
- Feature Story: Mom Needs an "A": Hovering, hyper-involved parents the topic of landmark study
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To gather data, Somers and fellow researchers interviewed U.S. public university and college administrators, faculty, admissions staff and counselors who are on the front lines when the helicopters land.
- Plopp SecondLife
- PhD - Instructional Design and Technology with F2F and Distance Options
- jm: "The ID&T program at the [Old Dominion University] Darden College of Education provides students with a solid grounding in instructional design, cognitive theory and research to meet these challenges." 20k - 40k depending on residency
- columbus day - Ask.com Web Search
- jm: an american "holiday" that "celebrates" .... ? Different perspectives from different people. What do you teach your kids?
- Groups: Edublogger Community - Upcoming
- jm: a group john pederson set up to track upcoming edublogger events. lots of other possible uses.
- Ustream.tv - Weblogg-ed TV
- jm: Will Richardson's new Ustream.tv "channel"
- Tagzania: tagging the planet
- Tagzania is about tags and places. If you register and log in, you can add places, points, to create and document your maps.
- Jennifer Jones' Job Interview 2.0
- Welcome to MirandaNet
- The MirandaNet Fellowship, founded in 1992, is an e-community of practice for international ICT policy makers, teachers, teacher educators, researchers and commercial developers who are passionate about digital technology in teaching and learning and abou
- Mutating Pictures
- JS: Rate each picture on how much it looks like a face. The "fittest" pictures survive and produce more mutated offspring. The less fit ones die off.
- Bubble Guru
- durff
- School libraries are wasting away | MetaFilter
- IMified - Instant Productivity
- WHAT IS IMIFIED? IMified is an instant messenger buddy that works across all major IM networks and offers access to a growing number of web applications, as well as productivity tools like notes, reminders, and todo's. Imified helps you get things done fa
- Children's Technology Review - Welcome!
- To help parents, librarians and educators find quality interactive media/technology products.
- Learning technology teacher development blog for ELT: Interactive presentations
- TED | TEDBlog: How to blog a conference
- KeyJnote
- The stylish way of giving presentations KeyJnote is a program that displays presentation slides. But unlike OpenOffice.org Impress or other similar applications, it does so with style. Smooth alpha-blended slide transitions are provided for the sake of ey
- StoryBox - got something to say
- Write a short story and share it in the web. Creative writing tool.
- In the Classroom, Blazing a Path From Fidgeting to Focus - New York Times
- Using PowerPoint to "cure" attention deficit disorder...hey look, bikes!
- WiZiQ Blog: Using WiZiQ with Moodle Step-by-Step Instructions
- Robin Good Syndicaat » SlideShare (share powerpoint presentations online, slideshows, slide shows, download presentations, widgets, MySpace codes)
- In which Robin Good graciously shows Vance Stevens how to NEWSMASTER using http://www.syndicaat.com. A recording was made in Camtasia but audio was distorted, so Vance made this slide show taken from screen shots at critical junctures
- School Library Journal Print Page
- Teaching searching using GOOGLE
- Record by phone with Gabcast.com
- AGIMO | Consultation Blog
- Government agencies in Australia have traditionally involved citizens and community in the processes and decisions that affect them. With the advent of e-government and the increasing use of information and communication technologies to enhance government
- Second Life in Education » educationaluses
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Escape from BB Prison
- Browser Statistics
- Flock 0.9 to 0.7 Feature Comparison | Flock
- claims to be a linux screencast... will test
- screencasting events
- New Media Literacies Institute at UPEI -Saturday, September 29th, 2007 | EdTechTalk
- catch the raw recording - fun!
- Abject Learning: Don't call it an Open Education 2007 Wrap-Up
- jm: Brian Lamb's take on the open ed conf. He give the keynote the last day.
- http://51weeks.com/events/3
- jm: OpenEd conference site -
- on open ed 2007 - D'Arcy Norman dot net
- jm: when D'Arcy Norman says a conference was "amazing" and has "left him changed" it is probably worth taking a look :)
- 20 Tools For Working With Fonts
- Give a Laptop and Get One
- Buy a laptop for a child, get another laptop free | CNET News.com
- Buy a laptop for a child, get another laptop free | The New York Times | September 23, 2007, 8:45 PM PT | Steve Lohr
- MapMSG.com - Play Statetris
- Statetris is an interesting game mixing aspects of the popular game 'Tetris' and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location. Fun, challenging and educational!
- Flickr Foldr Monitr
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Freeware that watches a folder and uploads the photos there to flickr automatically.
- Twitter Collaboration Stories
- Fitted Tshirt > ijohnpederson | CafePress
- cool tshirt ... via... john pederson
- Urban Legends Reference Pages
- I should have sent this to best of edtechtalk because in my position at a new campus, I'm getting the same urban legend emails. This really is an essential part of becoming a digital literate. I'm now on an education campaign to introduce my co-workers to
- Bitch | Feminist Response to Pop Culture
- And from my friend Carrie, the article on Ladies Beware, which is unfortunately only in paper form, shows how fearmongering spam keeps us scared, and not facing things that are really scary. Goes with link to snopes.com
- Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool
- JS: A different approach to documenting online research - did john talk about this last week?
- New Zealand Launches Wiki To Help Citizens Draft New Law | September 27, 2007 | AHN
- JS: Why let congress have all the fun?
- Jobfox - My Jobfox Page
- interesting app even not for a job search resume
- A N I M O T O: the end of slideshows
- Allows you to create a short music video. You can supply the pictures from your flickr account and add music.
- Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Winners 2007
- Awesome visuals from the NSF Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge...
- Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
- js no wonder I can't remember my password
- podsafe music network
- These great podsafe songs are some of the best in new music. Browse and make your own playlists.
- Teachers without Borders - a compass for worldwide educational reform in the information age
- jm: keynote at opened 20070930
- OpenCourseWare Finder
- jm: search for open courses
- Welcome to OpenOCW! — OpenOCW
- jm: create your own open course - via plone?
- Pointsmartclicksafe - mainstream pro-net usage
- The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte
- awesome podcast
- blog search engine
- vlc streaming
- jm: thanks for reminding us to check our own links :)
- yay ubuntu
- 7-Zip
- great open source compression/unzip tool
- Maps.Live.com
- Gotta give credit where credit is due
- 10 Google Services That Get No Love » Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips
- Gmail - Alexia would like to be added as one of your friends!
- DNS tools, reports and Hosting tests, advanced network and domain name tools.
- timeanddate.com
- del.icio.us
- Open Ed Test
- Yugma : Free Web Conferencing, Online Meetings, Web Collaboration Service, Teleconferencing Solutions, Presentation Software: home
- CDBurnerXP: Introduction and News
- just works well
- Open Ed Test 2
- http://www.nvu.com/
- Open Ed Test
- Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.
- Internet Speed Test - Broadband, DSL Bandwidth Connection Check
- NetMeter
- nice lite bandwidth monitor
- WordNavigator.com : Home Page
- WiZiQ Online Teaching | Distance Education | E-Learning and Tutoring
- One to watch? ... free "elluminate like" interface
- You convert it
- Free! Upload any format, image, documents, audio & video without buying or installing anything on your PC. Currently offers no size limit unlike Zamzar. That may change.
- Directory of open access journals
- BioEd Online: Biology Teacher Resources, Lesson Plans
- RoopleTheme Demo Site
- Lotus Symphony - Free Document, presentation and spreadsheet software
- jm: IBM today announced IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Beginning today at www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony, business, academic, governmental and consumer users alik
- Iconfactory : Software : Twitterrific
- Twitterrific is a fun little application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website.
- WordPress › Blog Tool and Weblog Platform
- js: LOVES IT
- Firefox - Rediscover the Web
- the other 85% can't be right, right?
- Skype - internet calls - download Skype free now - free calls - official website
- where would ett be without skype?
- Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing
- where would the blogosphere be without flickr?
- Windows XP: Movie Maker 2.1 Download
- oldie, but a goodie for the quick jobs "Windows Movie Maker 2.1 makes home movies amazingly fun. With Movie Maker 2.1, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops."
- Screen Capture | SnagIt | TechSmith's Screen Capture Software
- SnagIt lets you capture, edit, and share exactly what you see on your screen - from TechSmith the people who brought you Camtasia
- Clean Up Center - Windows Live OneCare safety scanner
- when you've got junk in the trunk ... best bet for a quick clean up
- Welcome to Google Docs & Spreadsheets
- loved it as writely, still use it often
- Despair Inc. Demotivators®
- JS: Nothing to do with edtech, but I love these.
- Slashdot | New York Times Ends Its Paid Subscription Service
- JS: Traditional media continues to evolve.
- Smile: The :-) turns 25 - USATODAY.com
- eSchool News online - Low-cost school computing set to take off
- Inside Higher Ed :: Students' 'Evolving' Use of Technology
- How IT Affects Learning
- deviantART: where ART meets application!
- Join the largest art community in the world! As a member, you can collect favourites, submit art, and track your friends and favourite artists.
- Education Week: Thought Textbooks Would All Be Gone by Now? Well, Think Again
- p-12rubric.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- Kerpoof Studio
- Designing Cyberinfrastructure
- jm: "Cyberinfrastructure offers a vision of advanced knowledge infrastructure for research and education that integrates diverse resources across barriers of geography and time – and across the subtle and complex barriers of discipline, community, secto
- History and Theory of Infrastructure - NSF Workshop
- jm: Conference report: "By generalizing the lessons of social and historical analysis, this workshop will contribute to the development of infrastructure studies as a distinctive and practically engaged field of study, while also reporting back to the NSF
- HASTAC
- jm: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboration - org committed to new forms of collaboration through the creative use of technology.
- Our Cultural Commonwealth : American Council of Learned Societies ...
- jm: report on a 2 year study by the commission on cyberinfrastructure in the humanities and social sciences, supported by the Mellon Foundation
- x is the new y
- ScribeFire :: Firefox Add-ons
- ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.
- Best content management software.
- Take a Child Outside • NC Museum of Natural Sciences
- Anti-technology initiative
- Novell WebAccess
- SUPERGUIDE: The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu. | APC Magazine
- JS: Can you really replace Windows with Linux?
- Tech product reviews for cell phones, computers, MP3 players - CNET
- 1st stop when I want a quick hardware review.
- Google Reader
- Good all around feed aggregator. Used the OPML features up and down with great success. Sharing features of groups of feeds or individual posts are nice, too.
- Logitech > Mice + Pointers > Mice > V270 Cordless Optical Mouse for Bluetooth®
- If you have bluetooth, this is a great little mouse to free you from at least one cord. I've used mine for a year now on a windows laptop ... smooth tracking ... only need to change the 2AA batteries every 3 months or so. Makes for joyous surfing!
- Adobe - Adobe Acrobat 8 for Education
- Like it or not, pdf is a common format for sharing online documents. Acrobat offers a range of features to help teachers and learners edit, mock up and provide audio or written feedback within the document. I use it daily as a student.
- HP, Lenovo, Dell Support Solar Power for PCs
- irc
- New Literacies in New Media Landscapes
- Brian Mull : Yugma - Skype Edition Hits One Out of the Park
- This is a blog posting by Brian Mull about the new release of Skyped-up Yugma. He reports good success using it. Linktribution to Mark Wagner of edtechlife.com.
- Texify - Online LaTeX equation writer, generates math formulas from LaTeX expressions.
- A Offline Gmail Client: Sweet
- yay!
- 20 Amazing Optical Illusions - The List Universe
- Eye boggling fun
- Teaching & Learning Leader of the Year | EdTechTalk
- Jeff, Jeff, he's our man ... if he can't webcast it, no one can ... yeah, Jeff!
- Drupal Podcast No. 43: New Features in Drupal 6 | Lullabot
- deliGoo - Delicious Search Engine
- Google Intends to Integrate Its Social Applications
- what's ahead in the googleverse
- The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public | TorrentFreak
- oops
- IBM adds heft to OpenOffice open-source project | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- "We believe that this relationship will improve our ability to deliver innovative value to users of IBM products and services. We also believe that the collaboration will lead to an even broader range of ODF-supporting applications
- Fark.com sues over attempted hacking
- Prince to sue YouTube, eBay over music use
- Banner Ad Trojan Served on MySpace, Photobucket - Security Fix
- BBspot - Jobs Offers Apple Lisa Early Adopters Store Credit
- development: 2.3.0 - Release Notes
- Ejoh » Blog Archive » OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 released already
- The $100 laptop now the $188 laptop - CNN.com
- Drupal 6.0 beta 1 released | drupal.org
- Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- WTF: Pitzer College Offers “Learning From YouTube” Class
- Ambrosia Software's WireTap Studio
- WireTap Studio shares a name with WireTap Pro, it is an entirely new application with a broader range and appeal...podcasters can record from their microphone as well as a second application such as iTunes or Skype.
- Nick's Picks — Selected Resources from TeachingBooks.net - 9/13/2007 - School Library Journal
- Hispanic heritage month
- Reuters/Second Life » Rival grids threaten Linden’s monopoly on SL technology
- IBM's SiSi virtually translates speech to sign language - Engadget
- As the debate continues regarding the reasons fewer men are entering teaching, a larger question looms: Does it matter? While the education experts aren't so certain, some parents have no doubt that it does
- Robot Maker Builds Artificial Boy -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
- Maybe a replacement for the men not teaching in elementary schools?
- Adobe - Online Events : Event Details
- jm: Join us for a (free) live, interactive, one-hour online seminar on Adobe® Captivate® 3 and find out how you can rapidly develop engaging elearning experiences. Our product experts will review the latest features and benefits, enable you to interact
- Live Slick: Top 10 Freeware Software Nobody Knows About - But Should
- Mobility Technology Online Expo - PCMagCast by PC Magazine
- jm: Free - "PCMagCast's Mobile Technology Online Expo will give business stakeholders the knowledge they need to evaluate a wide array of devices, applications and solutions for use on the road. We're going to concentrate on showing you how to save money
- Canada Post
- not sure the edtech connection ... cyberjohn?
- Teacher Magazine: Classroom Podcasting 101
- bring on the propaganda... 2008 elections and NCLB
- dc
- MASSCLUSIVITY | An emerging consumer trend and related new business ideas
- jm: ties into my link from asmallworld.com ...
- Welcome to ASMALLWORLD
- jm: The "Massclusivity" of social networks ... tee hee
- Flip Video
- jm: Best selling video camera at Amazon and Target and hyped all over the place. Anyone tried it?
- Fun Flip wows camcorder crowd - USATODAY.com
- jm: Pure Digital's Flip Video is currently the No. 1 best-selling video camera at Amazon (AMZN) and Target.com.
- Google School: Check Local Times with Google - Lifehacker
- SKYPE TOOLBOX: 50+ Enhancements for Skype
- On the worm that affects Skype for Windows users - Heartbeat
- evildoers, meet skype. Skype, evildoers....
- Welcome to NoteSake - Take notes online, stay organized
- jm: With NoteSake, you can take your notes during class, share them with a friend, or groups can work together on the same note, all through your laptop
- Running the numbers on Vista | CNET News.com
- Standalone unit sales of Vista at U.S. retail stores were down 59.7 percent compared with Windows XP, during each product's first six months on store shelves,
- ITC in the Classroom Blog: Helping in the search for Steve Fossett ICT in my Classroom
- jm: "In my class assembly on Thursday I am going to talk to my children about the missing adventurer Steve Fossett and how with the use of technology I have managed to help look for him. Even though I am some 5000 miles away from where his plane is meant
- Handheld Learning 2007 Conference - Learning While Mobile
- jm: Handheld Learning 2007 Conference: October 10-12th 2007 - Now in its third year the Handheld Learning Conference and Exhibition has established itself as the signature event for those interested in opportunities presented by “always-on” learning.
- learninginhand.com Blog
- jm: "I've added a section to Learning in Hand to help educators use the Mobile Web. I provide plenty of sample sites and tips for classroom use. Educators might be interested in making their own mobile site, so I've included a page with information about
- SocialTech: Web Slam: 2.0
- jm: Per Josie Fraser: "This morning, Helen, Frances and I ran a Web 2.0 slam workshop."
- Adobe - Authorware from Adobe : FAQ
- jm: "Adobe plans to discontinue development of Authorware® software, the visual authoring tool for creating rich-media e-learning applications for delivery on corporate networks, CD/DVD, and the Web."
- Home | dev.mobi Internet Made Mobile
- jm: "You've just found the world's most exciting mobile development community. Whether you are just getting started with .mobi, or are already a mobile guru, we have something for you. We hope you enjoy using it!"
- Checking in with .mobi at MobHappy
- jm: update on the .mobi domain standard
- Vizidesk
- jm: from jane hart a cool way to highlight your presentation
- Lesson in life and death: pupils build dying teacher's coffin - World
- A DUTCH primary school teacher dying of cancer is overseeing one last class project: her pupils are making her coffin.
- doonesbury
- link from d. boyd good one
- Dutch Royals Caught Revising Wikipedia
- Unix, Linux keywords banned from Xbox Live — Enterprise Linux Log
- not open indeed (or very mature)
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook opens profiles to public
- block it now if you want
- Microsoft format rejected - The Boston Globe
- what? Microsoft not meeting open standards?!
- Thought-controlled wheelchair - Boing Boing
- technology: good
- Search for an Ideal Streaming Technology — IUPUI School of Informatics
- Adobe’s Flash, Apple’s QuickTime Broadcaster. Clipstream’s Clipstream Live. Internet 2’s DVTS, Windows Media Encoder, Real Networks’ RealProducer Plus and Helix Server, VideoLan’s VLC, and VX30’s VX30 Live and VX30 Broadcast System.
- F-Secure : News from the Lab - August of 2007
- js: Another Sony Rootkit -- this one in a USB drive.
- Vista/XP Virtual Desktop Manager
- js: Software allows you to have multiple virtual desktops, and quickly switch between them. Similar to Linux "workspaces." For XP and Vista.
- ICDL - International Children's Digital Library
- Kids can search, filter results, and read books online.
- From the Edtech Inbox - September 2007 | EdTechTalk
- All the neglected emails from the last few months
- Share This : 5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online
- Megalist of lists
- EUROCALL 2007 Virtual Strand
- some archived media from Europe's Computer Assisted Langauge Learning Conference
- Open Education Week 2: Getting Knowledge for Free
- PodCamp Boston 2 » Welcome to PodCamp!
- The Podcamp that started podcamping - Oct. 26-28, 2007
- WDIL.org — WDIL.org
- A community-driven source of information and inspiration for developing interactive educational websites
- Windows Live Translator Beta
- only 6 years after altavista and 2 years after google
- Ubuntu Screencasts
- Happy Month of Screencasts!
- Media Convert - free and on line - convert and split sound, ringtones, images, docs - MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV WMA AVI MPG MP4 DivX MPEG4 iPOD PSP OGG WMA AAC MP4 MPC MMF QCP KAR MIDI REALAUDIO FLAC JPG PSD DOC PDF RTF TXT ODG ODP ODS ODT SXW WK1 M
- what doesn't it do?
- A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
- We the social networkers, in order to form a more perfect web...
- Apple - To all iPhone customers
- a note and $100 from Steve
- Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview
- The preview also includes a new search engine that includes contextual search. You can now search your own bookmarks, all bookmarks or just your network’s bookmarks. If you do not specify what you want, it searches whatever you are currently looking at
- Photos: New Apple iPods - Start with a sputter | Crave: The gadget blog
- The latest fix for Ipodaholics
- Website Broken Link Checker Robot / Bot / Spider :: Apple Macintosh OSX Business Software
- Site also has link for those who might need a similar programme for Windows,
- 5min - Life Videopedia
- jm: short video tutorials
- Vimeo.
- another video-sharing website. Has privacy options so you can set who can see the videos you upload. Has a kidvimeo' section. Can be embedded in blogs/wikis/websites
- HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help
- HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.
- Official Google Blog: An update on Google Video feedback
- We're giving a full refund -- as a credit card refund -- to everyone who ever bought a video. We'll need you to make sure we have your most recent credit card information, but once we know where to send the money, you'll get it
- Australian Blogging Conference:
- jm: The Australian Blogging Conference will be hosted by the Legal and Regulatory Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and the Queensland University of Technology on Friday 28 September in Brisbane, Australia.
- I Am a Deviant Tool User. You?
- jm: an old fashioned edublogger smackdown :)
- SchoolTube :: Home
- jm: moderated or teacher approved video upload service ...
- Combatting Plagiarism
- jm: our own JohnS suggestions for combatting plagiarism
- Business 2.0 RIP - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
- jm: "We’re sad to report that employees of Business 2.0 magazine were told today that the monthly publication will close next week, after they finish the October issue."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/technology/07apple…
- JM: "In June, they were calling it the God Phone. Yesterday, it was the Chump Phone. — People who had rushed to buy the Apple iPhone over the last two months suddenly and embarrassingly found that they had overpaid by $200 for the year's most coveted
- Phixr - Online Photo Editor
- jm: photo editor
- TokBox: Talk to the World.
- This one may have been posted before.
- BBC NEWS | Health | MP3 users 'risking hearing loss'
- Won't be able to warn the students - they won't hear us.
- YouTube-style Embeddable Google Maps | TechSoup Blog
- Haven't tried it yet....
- SlideAware
- jm: collaborate in real-time, collect feedback, share presentaion, embed in blog, upload / download directly to PPT
- VCASMO - Home
- jm: VCASMO is a multimedia presentation solution for personal photo-video slide show share, business presentation, training, acadamic teaching, sales pitching, seminar, conference, press release meeting, live event.
- Presentation Technologies: Breakthrough New Delivery Platform - Vcasmo Integrates PowerPoint With Video - Robin Good's Latest News
- jm: Vcasmo only secret is hidden inside its unique video + PowerPoint sync interface in which anyone can easily and precisely sync the video with specific slides or images in your show.
- WebSlides - Converting bookmarks to slideshows
- jm: new feature from diigo.com bundle important course resources for students
- PodcastPeople – Your online podcasting studio™
- jm: Cheryl mentioned again this week - she uses as a podcasting studio with students
- "Quotation" Mark Abuse- Flickr
- "Signs" that abuse "Quotation Marks."
- What is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?
- Flickr: The Atrocious Apostrophe's Pool
- This group documents prominently-placed and egregious punctuation mistakes. Bonus points (redeemable for nothing at all) are awarded for finding examples with unintended, hilarious meanings.
- Book - Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works
- From: ASCD SmartBrief <ascd@smartbrief.com>
- Running the Numbers- Chris Jordan
- This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics.
- Searchbots - build your own search robot
- Build a personalized search robot and send it out to search the web by tag, colour, mood, photo or location. Ask it questions and watch it grow up and learn about the world as you do.
- In Their Own Words publication : JISC
- jm: The JISC e-Learning Programme has funded a two-part sequence of studies under the Learner Experiences of e-Learning theme, with the aim of informing the development of appropriate learning environments and tools and the effective design of l...
- Directorate for Education:Department
- OECD views education in a 'cradle-to-grave' lifelong learning framework, involving formal, informal and non-formal settings. Internationally comparable statistics and indicators underpin the work but it has a strong qualitative dimension as well.
- WorldwideLexicon.Marx: Recent translations (all)
- jm: Worldwide Lexicon is a service, which enables community-driven translations on any website. If you speak two or more languages join our translation community and help sharing the most interesting content on the web with the people, who speak your lang
- Yochai Benkler - Wealth of Networks
- all 500+ pages of this book available via pdf or amazon - jm
- See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
- Twitter Blocks: jefflebow
- Terraminds micro search
- wikirage: What's hot now on wikipedia
- UbuntuHQ
- Vista Service Pack 1 details announced: timing, beta, more
- the final version of SP1 is currently slated to ship in the first quarter of 2008, but that this date is only a target.
- html2wiki - Convert HTML text to wiki markup
- Zoho Writer- Offline with Google Gears
- Zoho Writer, the online word processor, is launching a new version today that lets you work on your documents offline.
- Data Robotics, Inc.
- a new solution for home data backup. Nothing worse than losing your data. Check this product out
- OPML File for OpenEd Course
- OPML file for OpenEd Course sponsored by Dr. David Wiley and attended by several friends of ETT
- Qipit - Copy and share documents
- Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish!
Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish!
- tiddlyspot
- hosted tiddlywiki
- Wired's list of naughty Wikipedia edits
- Inside DCSNet, the FBI's Nationwide Eavesdropping Network
- blogTV - Watch Live
- Top 100 Tools: TiddlyWiki
- open source wiki with hosted or download for server options
- TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook
- post to your server or run on a thumb drive to made a wiki on a stick
- Podclass - Share Your Knowledge With The World!
- create or take free (or for a fee) courses
- Code to unlock iPhone cracked - CNN.com
- from v. davis: Software unlock to be posted within days for the iphone. The ability of one carrier to lock in such a technology seems to be in question with those rushing to break the codes that require iphone uses to use the AT&T service.
- .:: NOTEPAD++ ::.
- I'll never use Wordpad again
- TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software
- CcPublisher - CcWiki
- Best Open Source Software | Lifehacker
- Ed/ITLib DL → Ubiquitous Discussion Forum: Introducing Mobile Phones and Voice Discussion Into a Web Discussion Forum
- per v. davis: Fascinating research paper about the importance of including voice in text only discussion forums. Fascinating paper from the journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia.
- Ed/ITLib DL
- per v. davis: What a great resource of research -- I signed up to access the journals, create my own binder and access this information! After Dr. Robert McLauglin spoke at Wow2, I want to make an effort to become more a part of the deep web.
- Librarians' Internet Index
- Websites that librarians believe can be trusted -- monitored by librarians. I am going to look into this resource for more information and to see how up to date the information is. - v. davis
- TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills
- TrueCrypt - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com
- This open-source encryption program is loaded with powerful encryption features, but a lack of in-program help may dissuade all but those users who definitely need or want to completely secure their data.
- Right to Education Project: a Human Rights resource
- The Right to Education Project (RTE) is a public access human rights resource, the only such site in the world devoted solely to the right to education. It was started by Katarina Tomasevski, the first ever Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education of
- Annoyed Librarian: A Librarian's Anti-2.0 Manifesto
- "An alternative voice in librarianship" ...
- iCommons.org
- Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around th
- eSchool News online - Teachers gain tech skills while in their PJs
- Good idea but Office 2007?
- FEconnect | Building Online Communities with Drupal
- Great for helping the non techie learn about communities.
- YouTube - ASCD's The Whole Child
- # Whole Child on YouTube We've got a powerful new tool in the effort to spread the word about ASCD's Whole Child Campaign. ASCD recently released a short video on YouTube that dynamically captures the message of the Whole Child. ASCD hopes you'll watch t
- Crowdsourcing Reaches Facebook Users in First Collaborative Online Course
- A new online course is being offered for Facebook users, but it is not being taught by a single instructor. Instead, the course is being created by Facebook users themselves through a collaborative process known as "crowdsourcing." The class is being cond
- Las Vegas SUN: Teachers who get police training could get extra pay, carry guns
- Wired Ed: Teens taking more tech to class
- Technology use by students in schools.
- Top 100 Tools for Learning
- ABC News: Private Cell Phone Numbers Listed Online
- Your cell phone number IS online -- they call this the wild west of personal information -- for $15 most people can buy all kinds of information about you including your cell phone number.
- YouTube - Welcome to EduBlogger World
- Edublogger world video will be talking about this more on the blog later.
- Common Craft - video explaining web 2.0
- Videos explaining Web 2.0 tools like Wikis, RSS and Social Booking mark that make these tools easy to understand.
- http://labyrinth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/
- Authoring tool to create branching narratives (pathways) through interactive case studies.
- Audival - Podcasting Tips & Tricks
- udival is run by Stefan Hedengren. The purpose of this blog is to help people into the world of podcasting with the use of tips, articles about equipment as well as sound clips for use in podcasts.
- NKY.Com - Schools adapt to digital age
- More on the "digital gap" but are these students that much ahead of the teachers?
- Free iPod Video Converter - Freeware converts DVD AVI MPEG WMV RM to iPod Video
- Windows-media video files can be converted to podcast-friendly QuickTime files with the free Jodix converter. QuickTime files can be made podcast-friendly using iTunes (free) and choosing ADVANCED - CONVERT SELECTION FOR IPOD.
- OurStory.com - Capture your stories, save them permanently.
- Create timelines for your stories and pictures.
- Don’t Ask This Question, Part III: A Call for Evidence at www.matthewktabor.com
- We need evidence when promoting blogging - not just rhetoric.
- Threat Level - Wired Blogs
- Teen is convicted for filming 20 seconds of the Transformers movie for her personal use. It is thought to be the first such case. This will be my question of the week in my computer classes.
- Does the Tap-Tap of Laptops Drive Professors Insane?
- jm
- Fuzzwich Mini-vids. Animate your thoughts.
- online animation
- Evoca
- Evoca is the new recording client for Skype. This is wonderful to have an easy add in. We've been using evoca to podcast for our horizon and flat classroom projects. Worht a look.
- Student News - Stories and Video from CNN.com
- Daily student news streamed commercial free from CNN -- I'm going to use this in current events.
- edublogs: 10 Top Tips for Unplanning the Perfect Unconference
- Tips for planning the perfect unconference - great resources for those planning unconference events around the world.
- Pageflakes - Learning and Development
- A Pageflake of Trainig and Learning blogs.
- Main Page - Wikimedia Commons
- Wikimedia commons has great photos for you to use if you work with digital storytelling projects.
- See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
- This researcher has developed a database that tells you which wikipedia articles were edited from a particular place.
- etfs trading vacation insider rumor at truerumors.com
- Democratizing Information - Guy Kawasaki
- Why FireFox is Blocked
- Some web sites are blocking Firefox because they claim it's ad-blocking software allows its users to "steal" content by viewing it without ads.
- Flickr Wallpaper Rotator
- ClassTools.net Interactive Whiteboard Resources
- Some neat new free resources that are great for a smartboard. I'm going to be looking at these.
- QDnow, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
- elana w - "excellent podcasts"
- RecTel: Call Recording Service
- Jeff may be interested in this. Are there any similar services? This UK service allows you to record phone calls from your landline for free. They can be downloaded in .wav or .mp3 during the following week by entering you PIN. (It wasn't actually working
- Creative Commons Commercial
- This is great!
- Text Messaging to Improve Social Presence in Online Learning
- The authors describe a pilot study of text messaging which explored its usefulness in enhancing social presence and communication in online courses. In 2006, the Technology Advancement Center (TAC) at East Carolina University conducted a mobile phone user
- Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Learning Environments for Gen Z | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
- This presentation outlines how computation, visualization, storage, and high-speed networks can create novel learning environments. The resource is available in three formats: presentation, video and podcast.
- Podcast: Net Generation Students and Campus IT | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
- This podcast was recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Southeast Regional Conference. Moderated by Jeanna Mastrodicasa, co-author of Connecting to the Net.Generation: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know about Today’s Students, this panel discussion
- ICT in the Curriculum
- From the Department of Education and Training in Western Australia this website has a collection of information about the use of ICT's in the classroom. Including chat rooms, email, podcasting, video conferencing, blogs and netiquette.
- Edtags.org: Bookmarks for the field of education
- Edtags.org is a website for educators (teachers, education graduate students, professors, librarians, etc.) to connect with people sharing similar interests, discover relevant materials and store and categorise favorite bookmarks.
- Hacking education with Yahoo! Teachers
- The Gobbler is a widget for assembling and sharing lesson plans. Documents can be tagged and shared with other Yahoo! Teachers users. Searchable library of lesson plans by grade level. Metadata includes learning standards from each state.
- Ultimate GMail Collection: over 80 Tools and Tips » Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips
- Characteristics of E-learning 2.0 - podcast
- Audio recording of presentation by Dr. James Caras, Sapling Systems, Austin, Texas to the ID SIG of Austin ASTD. 64 minutes.
- Trends in Global Communication Conference
- This is a conference where a teacher is trying to find particpants -- teachers of students preferable ages 16+ years -- if you want to look at global collaboration in your school, take a look and see what is planned and if it fits.
- Dorio - drikin.com
- Dorio is a friend of Skype. He searches, logs chats, notifies by mail, just like IRC bot. And He grows with plugins you feed.
- Students more wary of Wikipedia than thought
- Creative Commons Search
- Handy Creative Commons search directory.
- Dalhousie complaint closes Facebook page
- Teenager unlocks iPhone for international use
- See what happens when you give those kids too much technology education!
- Sleepy? Spend less time on the internet or watching TV, say scientists | the Daily Mail
- Implications for students and their use of technology - timing is important.
- Blogs in Education
- Free tutorial on blogs in education from Wired Safety. I'll have to view it, but it looks like a great resource from a reputable source.
- Bloglines v3 (beta)
- The Bloglines Beta is a personalized start page with drag’n'drop functionality, and a few other new features, such as the ability to choose between three new feed reading views, and the capability to keep track of what you’ve read and what’s still n
- Socialtext Documentation / Socialtext Documentation
- Syllabus / Stanford Communication Dept
- K7 Unified Messaging, free Fax and voicemail to email.
- ChipIn
- Mindquarry for Collaboration, Teamwork, Productivity | Mindquarry | The Open Source Collaborative Software
- Mindquarry is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing (documents, images, media files, etc.), task and project management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that meshes simplicity and functionality.
- Elements of Collaboration | Mindquarry | The Open Source Collaborative Software
- The aim of "Elements of Collaboration" is to give an overview about current collaboration techniques and technology and to show how better collaboration can lead to improved workflows and higher productivity.
- GDrive is Here
- Spock
- ego searchers, engage!
- Lonelygirl15, face of Web 2.0, dies at 17 - Netiquette - MSNBC.com
- Facebook Goes Open Source
- Frequently asked questions about 1000Keyboards
- 1000Keyboards is a website created for writers to submit, share, critique and communicate in an environment tuned to promote growth and exposure.
- KnockaTV
- The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
- ‘Fake Steve’ Blogger Comes Clean - New York Times
- Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community
- NASA - STS-118 Education Resources
- SPACE.com -- Teacher-Astronaut Adjusts to Life in Space
- Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it | InfoWorld | News | 2007-08-08 | By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
- News
- Indiana high schools are currently testing desktop Linux machines in school systems across the state as part of a plan to provide every public high school student with a computer. If successful, the plan will provide each high school student in the state
- Main Page - WikiEducator
- dedicated to free content ...
- OneWebDay
- The mission of OneWebDay is to create, maintain, advance, and promote a global day to celebrate online life: September 22
- Thank You - Series Contributors and Readers | Terra Incognita - A Penn State World Campus Blog
- "I just want to take this opportunity to thank all of the contributors to the Impact of OSS and OER on Education Series that we kicked off last March. I have received a lot of private positive comments on the quality of your postings and the relevance of
- Licenses/NC - Definition of Free Cultural Works
- The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License
- Open Education License - WikiEducator | Google Groups
- More voices chime in ...
- The Perseid Meteor Shower
- For several weeks in early August, Earth will be bombarded by lots of extra-terrestrial debris. But you need not worry – most of it will be dust particles that burn up in Earth's atmosphere as meteors. Indeed, August is the best time to witness the mete
- Registration Open — Open Education 2007
- registration open for The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning conference September 26-28, 2007 in Logan Utah.
- Open Education License Draft at iterating toward openness
- David Wiley attempts an Open Education License Draft
- Curriki - WebHome
- Global Education Learning Community
- Create Avatar
- Ustream.tv - Chris Pirillo Live
- video from Gnomedex via Pirillo's Ustream
- Lijit | Home
- Install the Lijit Search Wijit on your blog to give readers the most relevant results from a source they trust. YOU.
- US Pirate Party seeks legitimacy, starts in Utah
- Police Blotter: Defendant wins breathalyzer source code | CNET News.com
- Welcome to the STF Short Course Workshop on Using GPS, Google Earth and GeocachingF
- From Dean Shareski: Welcome to the STF Short Course Workshop on Using GPS, Google Earth and Geocaching
- Danah Boyd and thoughts on Myspace …. and more « HeyJude
- Danah spoke at the education.au seminar today about the rise of social networks and the profiles that students develop and make public on their myspace site.
- Taste of Tech » Summer Renewal
- Our own JS (yeah, john) has put together an awesome summer renewal roundup (not just saying that because he lists ETT and ETW) ... do yourself a favor and read / do he suggested "summer renewal" series!
- No More Hard Drive! 100 Free Software Apps to Go Online-Only
- major roundup to kill some time ;)
- YouTube - Supermarket 2.0
- been around a few months, but making the rounds of late ...
- 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
- CreateSpace - On-Demand Self Publishing, DVD on Demand, CD on Demand, Books on Demand, DVD Duplication and DVD Replication
- CreateSpace on Demand Publishing is simple: we manufacture physical products when customers order so no pre-built inventory is needed. Through our service, you can sell DVDs, CDs, and books, for a fraction of the cost of traditional manufacturing, while m
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | UNESCO.ORG
- Category:All extensions - MediaWiki
- This category holds all extensions currently registered at MediaWiki.org, ordered alphabetically.
For more useful category break-downs, please check the main extension category.
- Schoolboards: net dangers over-rated; bring social networks to school - TECH.BLORGE.com
- via Slashdot
- Minesweeper: The Movie
- CollegeHumor video. Because this is what technology is really all about.
- Creating and Connecting/Research and Guidelines on Social and Educational Networking
- A National School Boards Association (NSBA) study.
- A Win-Win Scenario: 'Game School' Aims to Engage and Educate
-
Don't use the word "fun" to describe what will go on in the Game School, a proposed New York City public school that will use "game design and game-inspired methods" to educate sixth through 12th graders.
- Wal-Mart, Facebook team up for campaign - School Inc. - MSNBC.com
- Blogger & Podcaster: Magazine Archives
- Not only can you read a free digital copy of the magazine, but as you turn the virtual page you can click on a link towards the top of the page and listen to a podcast audio version of each page!
- CBC News In Depth: Personal computing
- What managers can learn from teen use of web 2.0.
- Design For the Other 90% | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- exhibit currently running at the Cooper-Hewit Museum in NYC ... JMad visited and will share some highlights
- Wide Open Education » Open Educational Resources
- Blog by Steve Carson ...
- Intro to Open Ed Class - Feedback and Enrolling at iterating toward openness
- Per David Wiley, "I’m also very happy to say that this class will be completely online, run completely in the open, and is welcome to all comers."
- ilife4windows » home
- Thanks to Mark Wagner for this "share" in Twitter ...
iLife for Windows? An Introduction to Picasa, Audacity, and Movie Maker in Education
- MixerCast
- another one ... per alan levine on twitter ... create, mix, publish images, video and sound
- Edition 13 - From the Fringe : The Knowledge Tree
- The journal of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework, The Knowledge Tree: an e-Journal of Learning Innovation, enables the sharing of research and innovation in global e-learning practice.
- NPR : Gates Foundation's Education Chief Controls Billions
- Profile: Portland schools superintendent Vicki Phillips starts her job as education director at the Bill and Melinda Gates' Foundation on Wednesday.
- mynoteIT - An online note taking tool for students.
- social network concept for a student's schoolwork managment
- the Sun in Motion - gary palmer
- Pachyderm 2.0
- Opensource server or a hosted service coming in September 2007. Designed with museum exhibits in mind. Multimedia flash aurthoring templates.
- Why would I IM my professor? That’s just weird.
- Professor suggests virtual office hours to a student. Student says, “Why would I IM my professor? That’s just weird.”
- The Longest Day - washingtonpost.com
- University class spends a day without electronic media - interesting results and discussion.
- walk2web - Walk. Explore. Have Fun ;)
- A toll that can help find new websites by following the outbound links from a single web site, Very Cool!!!!
- Best Portable Wireless Microphone Kit For Your Video Production Needs: Robin Recommends - Robin Good's Latest News
- nextgen tricorder, per chance?
- Mexican Billionaire Donates Laptops - New York Times
- 8 things that I like about edublogs at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
- This is Mr. Belshaw's follow up to what he hates. It has many fewer comments. What does this say about us that we comment on what's wrong more than what is right? Do we do that in our classes?
- 'Listening' computer revs up reading skills | csmonitor.com
- Soliloquy is designed to be "an electronic lap" for struggling students who don't get one-on-one reading time with parents, creator Marilyn Jager Adams says. The program will read a story, listen and gently correct a child's reading or explain new words.
- ON THE JOB / A textbook case of rock: The Angry Tired Teachers get down
- Angry Tired teachers band -- speaking out for US public school teachers using rock and roll and youtube. Fascinating thoughts -- I like how they manage their classrooms. This article was in the San Francisco chronicle.
- Particle Emission Characteristics of Office Printers
- Report about the particle emissions of printers -- IT support administrators need to look at this list and call their manufacturer. We often don't consider this source of indoor air pollution -- laser printers with as many carcinogens as a cigarette?
- cambodiabloggingsummit » home
- Beth Kanter is going to Cambodia to teach children how to blog (talk about promoting change -- give people a voice!) She is raising money and asking for support -- read more. I think we'll see more things like this in the future. Good luck Beth!
- eContent: Jump Drive Learning .. or .. Wiki on a Stick
- Turn your memory stick into a pre-configured device that runs applications and software not found on a host computer.
- eContent: Legos
- Lego robotics!!!! How Cool!
- Scrapblog // Create a world for your pictures.
- another one ... popping up all over ... combine photos, video, audio and text to create "scrapbook" to share and professionally print
- Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English | Common Craft - Video Production and Consulting
- ... this one on social bookmarking ...
- Loki - You Can Get There From Here
- "Combining GPS-like location, local search and one-button access to location-based content, Loki is the first web-based application to make the Internet revolve around you. Literally."
- iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme by ContentRobot
- Machinima.com: Making Movies in Virtual Reality
- Download details: Office Add-in: Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office
- Embed Creative Commons licenses in your Office stuff.
- TwitterWhere
- Fun way to share your lat. and long. to the twitterverse. Uses Open ID
- crossover for linux
- MUVE that is tres cool
- TG Daily - Point and click Gmail hacking at Black Hat
- Yikes! “You’re an idiot if you use T-Mobile hotspot,” said Graham.
- House panel approves legal shield for bloggers | CNET News.com
- A congressional panel on Wednesday voted, against the Bush administration's wishes, to shield journalists including advertising-supported bloggers from having to reveal their confidential sources in many situations.
- Grub's Distributed Web Crawling Project
- Search ...is currently broken. Why is it broken? for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will start to change all that.
- Animated Alan Watts talking Zen
- a way to make lectures more engaging?
- Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You - WSJ.com
- Helpful tricks and workarounds
- Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter | PPS, PPT to SWF | authorPOINT Lite
- looks like a good web publishing option for presentations
- Create Photo Books with Panraven
- Review of panraven from Read / Write web
- Panraven - Live Your Life, Share Your Story
- Create online "stories" by uploading photos and adding text ... have your masterpiece printed when you are done ... heads up from R/Wweb.com
- GigaOM Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse «
- Dave?
- Multiverse
- Dave?
- Educationalwikis » Examples of educational wikis
- A Wiki about educational wiki's - very meta
- The Wiki Toolbox: 30+ Wiki Tools and Resources
- another mashable compilation
- Over Seas Classroom Collaboration | EdTechTalk
- I am a fourth grade teacher in Northern Michigan looking to collaborate with another fourth grade level class over seas on some projects for the students. I would like to work with Skype video conferencing if possible.
- WebbAlert
- New daily 5 minute videoblog about all things tech ... think rocketboom of tech
- FrontPage - eXe : eLearning XHTML editor
- The eXe project is developing a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup
- 8 things that irritate me with edublogs at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk
- seemed to strike a chord in the edublogoshere this week ... what do you think?
- YouTube - Did You Know 2.0
- factoids in flash
- Where To Find Free Music For Your Videos And Podcasts
- podsafe music options
- Internet Radio Equality Act.
- “If great progress toward a fair solution for webcasters is not made by Congress’s return to
Washington after Labor Day, then we plan to take expeditious steps toward passage of the Internet Radio Equality Act
- The Long Tail: Why I gave up on Second Life
- Chris Anderson follows Dave's lead
- Defcon 15: Undercover reporter flees - Hack a Day
- To catch a reporter - busted at defcon
- Web's 'drug kingpin' gets 30 years
- an anti-spam vicotry
- Updating drupal | Geeks & God
- Alternatives To Second Life - Uber Edition « Second Life Games
- linux and mac from vista
- shibboleth video
- evoting stupidity in california
- JayCut: Online Video Editing with Export
- Review of JayCut
- JayCut
- Online video editing ... See also Read / Write review in 20070805 folder
- TED | TEDBlog: 100 Websites You Should Know and Use
- ulius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, offered an ultra-fast-moving ride through sites in many different areas, from art, design and illustration, to daily news, blogs and curiosity. Now, by popular demand, here's his list of 100 websites you
- worldclock.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
- Cool ... world "clock" estimating daily, weekly, monthly and ytd "stuff"
- eSchool News online - Study: eBooks could spark interest in reading
- Professor pans 'learning style' teaching method - Telegraph
- EFL for Graphic Designers
- Univ of Wisc Software & Tools
- Six authoring tools to create multimedia online lesson content and quizzes. Free. Developed by Engage project at UW. ... jen did not put this in ... I swear ... Go Badgers
- COLOURlovers :: Color Trends + Palettes
- Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter | PPS, PPT to SWF | authorPOINT Lite
- Didn't get a chance to talk about this on aug 5th ... looks cool
- onXiam - Manage Your Online Identities
- Hmm?
- PBS Teachers | learning.now . Do Internet Filters Undermine the Teaching of 21st Century Citizenship? | PBS
- Read the comments, too.
- CogDogRoo " StoryTools
- Thanks to Alan Levine for this roundup of media creation tools (on a wiki you can edit)
- on the luck of seven | an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators & global change.
- Follow the 7 month adventure of a fellow drupal lover as he travels 7 continents departing on 7/7/7
- Mindmapping, concept mapping and information organisation software
- edtechtalk's bookmarks tagged with "statevirtuallibraries" on del.icio.us
- holy statevirtuallibrary round up thanks to cmcgough!
- NHewLink, The Granite State's Information Connection
- PASCAL - Shared Access - Unlimited Knowledge
- New York Online Virtual Electronic Library
- Digital Learning Commons - Learning without bounds
- GoWYLD!--Wyoming's Portal to Knowledge and Learning
- Badgerlink : Wisconsin's connection to the world of information
- Colorado Virtual Library
- GPLS | Resources for Libraries | GALILEO
- VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia
- West Virginia Digital Library
- TexShare Library Information - Texas State Library and Archives Commission
- Pioneer- Utah’s Online Library
- South Dakota Library Network
- South Dakota State Library - Home
- DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library
- Ocean State Libraries
- POWER Library Internal Access
- OhioLINK - The Ohio Library and Information Network
- The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)
- ODIN Main Page
- NC LIVE - Authentication Required
- NebraskAccess
- Montana Library Network
- Jersey Clicks Home Page
- MOBIUS: Linking Missouri's Academic Libraries
- MAGNOLIA
- ELM : Electronic Library for Minnesota
- MeL: The Michigan eLibrary
- Find Books & Magazines Online
- SAILOR, Maryland's Public Information Network
- MARVEL! Maine's Virtual Library
- Traveler
- LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
- Blue Skyways - a service of the Kansas State Library
- Illinois Digital Academic Library - Homepage
- LiLI - Libraries Linking Idaho - Portal
- INSPIRE Home Page
- Hawaii State Public Library System
- Florida Electronic Library
- iConn.org
- The Alaska State Library Resources
- Alabama Virtual Library: Connecting You to a World of Knowledge
- cmcgough
- GALILEO
- from cmcgough
- Zinadoo create your Free mobile website using zinadoos mobile website creation building tool
- create, publish and share your mobile website
- myabodo : see your world change
- teach kids (and yourself) about environmental impact of decisions around your home using this flash based interactive site
- Refdesk.com ... Reference, Facts, News ... Free and Family-friendly Resources
- quck hit references at your finger tips ... it ain't pretty, but it works the 80/20 rule
- edtechtalkr.jpg (JPEG Image, 553x206 pixels)
- Be an EdTechTalkr - generated by http://creatr.cc/creatr/
- Web2.0 - Logo Creatr
- can't get enough of these logo generators
- Real Lives Pilot Program
- Texas Technology Integration Professional Dev Corps
- Bryan ISD catalog of activities encouraging technology integration. Fun ideas for classroom. See handouts from TCEA 2007.
- TCEA 2007 presentation handouts online
- A directory of speaker presentation materials from 2007 Texas Computer Educators Association.
- Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Fresh Feature Alert: Text Editor Toolbar
- New features on wikispaces, if you use this valuable service in your classroom, you'll want to read part one two and three before heading back to class!
- 150 writing resrouces
- from geek news central
- BBC NEWS | Teachers call for YouTube to be shiut down
- Prevent cyberbullying?
- First Espresso Book Machine Installed and Demonstrated at New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library
- per Bud's tweet ... I'll go check this out next week
- Human Brain Cloud: Play
- cool interface, interesting word association thingy
- eSchool News online - New must for b-school applicants: 'slideware'
- (sigh)
- Tangler
- Bus 2.0: Discussion boards 2.0
- bliin YourLIVE! º Always There
- Bus. 2.0: bliin lets you share your location and geo-tagged photos from your handset in real-time.
- Everex IMPACT GC3502
- Sub $300 computer being sold at Walmart, Best Buy and others online - ships with Vista and Open Office Suite
- Photo2Text.com Convert an image and process to a text file of the original image. Convert picture to text. Ascii Art. ascii photo, ascii image, ascii convertion, asciiart, ascii picture, convert image text, image to text, image to ascii, picture to text,
- convert an 200kb or smaller photo to a text file ... fun
- Geek tattoos - Pile of Photos
- geeks gone too far? you be the judge :)
- Download: Get Miro
- all format media player (and downloader)
- Timeline tool
- A good looking tool with some timelines already created - like the world war 2 timeline or the history of the internet.
- booktwo.org » Swotter
- booktwo.org exists to report, catalogue, investigate, stimulate and debate the future of literature.... not sure this is it
- ONLINE MEDIA GOD: 400+ Tools for Photographers, Videobloggers, Podcasters & Musicians
- Every link you could ever want (circa this week) for audio video stuff
- What to do! - Screencasts
- Screen grabs and audio explinations - demonstrating ways of using information and communication technologies for teaching and learning online"
- "The Learning Objects Literature" at iterating toward openness
- David Wiley - pre-print of his review of learning object literature
- Favourite Tools
- Jane Hart reaches out to the community to ask "What are your top 10 tools" - see also the aggregation into a top 100 list
- SlideShare » FAQs » SlideCast
- Cool! Slideshare now allows you to sync up audio ... add begin points and end points.
- The Edublogosphere Is Being Criticized for Twittering ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
- the twitter conversation continues ...
- 9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network
- Behond facebook and myspace ... build your own ..
- kyte: Channel View - TechCrunch
- See what happened at the TechCrunch party on Friday from the recording of the live feed on Kyte
- coComment blog » Blog Archive » coComment Version 2.0 Beta
- coComment Version 2.0 (Beta) to be released on August 2nd - check out the demo for all the features
- iPhone resources are everywhere | last100
- if you happen to be an iphone user ... check out this ginormous list of things to do with it ...
- How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life
- Hello! Is anyone home (in Second Life, that is) ... companies finding no one is visiting their second life outposts ...
- fichey
- StumbleUpon like site that lets you browse what is popular on the top bookmarking sites like del.icio.us - cool!
- A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope - New York Times
- The "backstory" behind Pownce
- SnapJot Welcome!
- SnapJot is all you need to make quality, durable memory books from any standard web browser. No software to install, just simple online tools.
- ONLINE STORAGE: 80+ File Hosting and Sharing Sites
- massive list of online storage solutions from free to fee
- Giant Steps by Michal Levy
- Graphic art inspired my music - cool!
- Blog Challenge: What is the Most Unusual Blogger You’ve Found? « Lorelle on WordPress
- giving the "unusual" blogs their due ...
- 21Classes – Free Classroom and Education Blogs - Home
- Very decent option for creating a class blog site.
- Web Development Toolbox: 120+ Web Development Resources
- Great List of resources for the coders and web builders
- All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash | The Onion
- GMT: Greenwich Mean Time - World Time / Time in every Time Zone
- more information about times around the world than you ever knew you wanted (huh?)
- Mac software - HyperEngine-AV
- HyperEngine-AV, Arboretum Systems' award winning video editing software is now free, complete with full source code. Users can capture, arrange, edit and process video, audio and text in a free-form, trackless document, to create movies and slide shows
- Jjot - take notes online, fast.
- Sticky notes to create, share and save with a 2 second sign up
- Top 30 Social Bookmarking Sites July 2007 | eBizMBA
- Here are the 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. Although no traffic metrics are completely accurate we do believe the data below to
- Wii + Second Life = New Training Simulator
- Real-world simulations like these are perfectly suited to Nintendo's Wiimote, says MIT research fellow David E. Stone. In fact, he claims the motion-sensitive controller is "one of the most significant technology breakthroughs in the history of computer s
- Bill would force "top 25 piracy schools" to adopt anti-P2P technology (Updated)
- Never mind! Bill being dropped ... for now ...
- digitales » Background to DST
- The international digital storytelling ‘movement’ is generally accredited as having developed from a group of media artists, designers, and practitioners in San Francisco over 10 years ago
- BlogTalkRadio
- BlogTalkRadio is a platform that extends the blog, allowing any individual to host a live blogshow online. Our service is free to all users, whether you host a blogshow or listen in. Hosts earn half of revenue generated by their blogshow and Channel page.
- Plusmo Mobile Widgets for Nokia, Motorola, WAP, Blackberry, iPhone, Samsung, Windows Mobile, Sony Ericsson, LG and other phones
- Plusmo is a FREE service that lets you run cool mobile widgets
- The Role of ICT in higher education
- This paper highlights the various impacts of ICT on contemporary higher education and explores potential future developments. The paper argues the role of ICT in transforming teaching and learning and seeks to explore how this will impact on the way progr
- Catalysts for Change: Information Fluency, Web 2.0,
- How can educators help today's students reach an acceptable level of 'information fluency' that they can carry with them during their academic careers and beyond? The term information fluency is used here to mean the acquisition of three primary skills: b
- I, Cringely | PBS
- Internet Public Library:
- The IPL was founded by a class at the University of Michigan's School of Information, and Michigan SI students almost exclusively generated its content and managed the Ask a Question reference service.
- Web Pages That Suck learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design Home Page
- theory » Second Life Research
- by CyberOne (Harvard Law course) Also has a blog with screencasts..nice resource
- Liferay - Home
- Portal Platform with 60+ portlets
- The Tagging Toolbox: 30+ Tagging Tools
- Really cool tools to follow Tags in many ways. Wow! If you like to make meaning from tags, look at these 30 great toosl.
- eSchool News online - Compatibility concerns delay Vista OS
- Registration required to read full article.
- Writing, Technology and 15 Quick Fixes
- Technology has put a few strains on writing, but no bother - there are ways around it.
- Young keep it simple in high-tech world: survey | Reuters
- "Young people don't see "tech" as a separate entity - it's an organic part of their lives," said Andrew Davidson, vice president of MTV's VBS International Insight unit.- excerpt from article.
- Notely : Student Organisation Made Easy
- Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies - Eduardo Peirano's Top Ten Tools
- my favorite top ten tools
- NewsFactor Network | OLPC Now Ready for Mass Production
- Discovery Channel :: News - Technology :: Story Machine Captures Sound, Images
- Now a new technology allows kids — big and small — to embed sound into traditional drawings and create an interactive story-game.
- Meet the cheapest laptop in the world | Crave : The gadget blog
- Wow! Go free market, go!
- Advertising Age - MediaWorks - Forget the Internet, the Future Is the 'Intranet'
- Welcome to ccLearn — ccLearn
- We love you Creative Commons
- tuXfiles - the Linux newbie help files, tutorials, and tips
- Live Ink | Easier to read because it is easier to see.
- Follow up info and product related to easier to comprehend presentation of text
- NETS_S_standards-1-6.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- I can tag it. Don't see what the problem is.
- Project Foundry™: Engaging Students and Ensuring Results with Project-Based Learning Systems
- CMS for making project-based learning easy
- NETS for Students
- New ISTE standards for students - see link - pdf will not allow bookmarking on delicious
- TalkShoe - ShoePhone™ Beta Program Application
- Voip comes to Talkshoe - potentiallly very easy way to do live, interactive webcasting
- Ourmedia Homepage | Ourmedia
- NTHS > About NTHS
- dr. anne
- New Technology Foundation
- from dr. anne
- Google Intends to Bid in Spectrum Auction If FCC Adopts Consumer Choice and Competition Requirements
- Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that should the FederalCommunications Commission adopt a framework requiring greatercompetition and consumer choice, Google intends to participate in thefederal government’s upcoming auction ofwireless spectrum in
- JotForm - Easiest Form Builder - EdTechTalk Sample
- Here is a JotForm Sample
- Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog
- Mega aggregator of social networking
- Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups
- Second Life Herald: Are Furries Doomed? (contains 'explicit' virtual images)
- Where to draw the lines of appropriate virtual behavior
- CastingWords: Podcast Transcription
- This is a podcast (or any audio file, really) transcription service that is done by people, not machines. It appears costly, but it may be nice for higher profile podcasts or as opposed to using a speech recognition program. Thanks to Steve Dembo for the
- Call_for_Proposals_EVO_2008
- YouTube - About Remixer
- Upload now, edit later
- Herramientas Web 2.0 - EVO Call for Proposals
- Daf's using sitepal and spashcast to spice up a blog welcome and call for proposals
- Sitepal.com - Create Virtual Talking Characters for Your Website
- fun but not ultimately free
- Derek K. Miller - Penmachine words music comment - Vancouver, Canada
- DiMA: SoundExchange is leveraging absurd fees to push DRM on web radio
- SoundExchange to music netcasters: DRM or die!
- Microsoft Watch - Vista - Microsoft: No Rush to Vista SP1
- "It's early days yet, and we're broadly happy with how we're seeing Vista adoption," ... and expect that business deployments of Windows Vista would be "driven by their needs" and would be "relatively independent of when the first service pack comes out."
- Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
- ..uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and "apportion and credit advertising revenue" to ad suppliers in real time. More good news for Linux
- FBI's Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats
- the modern day version of pulling the fire alarm
- The tricky issue of spyware with a badge: meet 'policeware'
- the questions around law enforcement spyware and how anti-spyware companies detect it or not
- ICDL - International Children's Digital Library
- to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community – children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online.
- Open Library: Details: Open Library
- Bravo archive.org folks! Beautiful new interface for archiving and online publishing of printed materials.
- Copyright Board of Canada gives thumbs-up to "iPod tax"
- FlickrStorm. Search on Flickr with some Magic
- Teacher Resources by Annenberg Media
- LIVE TV ONLINE TV watch free internet
- list of live vdieo feeds from around the world
- Hide-a-Pod iPod protection » Introducing Hide-a-Pod
- A different approach to security
- Explode!
- so grown up!
- Next version of Windows: Call it 7 | CNET News.com
- Microsoft is planning to ship its next major version of Windows--known internally as version "7"--within roughly three years
,
Microsoft is planning to ship its next major version of Windows--known internally as version "7"--within roughly three
- J.K.Rowling Official Site - Harry Potter and more
- maybe not much in the way of edtech, but one of the biggest stories of the week - an one heck of a cool website!!!
- Pownce
- must be cool ... invite only ... and on TWIT
- Old lady surfing Web at 40 gigabits-per-second - CNN.com
- lady gets speedy tubes ...
- pedersondesigns » Blog Archive » The iEye
- tee hee from JP
- JotForm - Easiest Form Builder
- wysiwyg form builder
- fototiller » coloring pages from your photos - 3 easy photoshop steps
- turn digital photos into coloring pages for kids
- Acqualia | Picturesque
- mac only on the fly photo editing
- How to make Windows XP last for the next seven years
- pimp your XP
- 7 Things You Should Know About Twitter | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
- The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE
Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging
learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and
describes what it is, where it is going, and why it
- Welcome to Stixy
- easy does it ajax-y collaboration tool
- Simpsonize Me
- from JS
- Vista plodding along six months after release - CNN.com
- Effect on schools?
- http://www.slideshare.net/jessenfelix/3-types-of-teachers
- socratic + techno teacher
- Interesting perspective on SL
- Fools Guide to Second Life
- InternetRetailer.com - Daily News for Wednesday, July 18, 2007
- Hmm ..... interesting ethical/professional problem here.
- Students used donated laptops to browse porn - web - Technology - smh.com.au
- oh, dear ...
- Box.net - Box Widget - Share your files on Myspace, Blogs, and more!
- CouchSurfing
- If I was a twenty something vagabond again, I might be spending some time on this site - budget travel 2.0 meets social networking
- Participate in Horizon Project 2008 Simply By Tagging | nmc
- Tag with hz08 when you believe you have found something that will directly impact the future of college education in the next 1-5 years -- these will be sent directly to the horizon project 2008. Add to the collection!
- Yahoo! Teachers
- Yahoo! Teachers is free for all teachers, administrators, and education specialists. Yahoo! Teachers hasn't been released yet, but here's a sneak peek!
- Are Twitter, Flickr and others Worthless?
- Aren't there more pressing issues in education?
- Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Student's or Professor's Productivity | OEDb
- Neat website.
- OttoBib - Free Automatic Bibliography Generator. Fast! MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian
- So cool, you can type in the ISBN of a book and it generates the citation automatically -- WOW!
- Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows.
- This appears to be free screen capturing software for Mac (and Windows) which may be the answer to a lot of folks needs.
- Creativity in Academic Innovation » PowerPoint Fast
- "I'd be interested in your comments about the overuse of PowerPoint in teaching. This is not intended to be self promotion, however in this blog post I invite people to join me on a Powerpoint Fast - a challenge to discover what happens ..."
- lazyi.net // Ryan Prins’ Blog » Flickr Slideshow HTML
- HTML code generator to embed flickr slideshows into web pages. It takes a bit of work but worked nicely.
- Post to Pownce, Twitter, Jaiku and Tumblr at The Same Time
- a cross posting time saver
- Gelato: Own Your Own Tumblelog
- Do it yourself mini-blogging
- SnapGenie - The easiest way to add narration to your photos!
- dotSUB.com ~ Any film in any language.
- End the Digital Divide with High Speed Internet - Speed Matters
- search bookmarks from it's elementary tagged show_1
- Queen's Style Guide.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- Viddler.com - Learn More
- Very easy to use, interactive video sharing
- Video Converter. Free video conversion: DVD MOV MP4 3GP VOB RM WMV
- Learn or Teach! TalkBean
- Marketplace for online tutoring - they take 27%
- Intel Joins One Laptop Per Child
- Under the agreement, Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving technology and educational content. Intel will also join the board of OLPC.
- Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec
- Impressive blender - creative (albeit a bit expensive and wasteful) marketing
- openmoko.com
- OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.
- Microsoft readying Vista's first service pack beta for July release? - Engadget
- Hurry, hurry.... please
- NASA - Preflight Interview: Barbara Morgan
- NASA interview with 'teacher in space'
- » Microsoft To Buy Facebook For $6 Billion? »
- Darth Vader & the Borg to team up?
- ScrubIT
- easy to setup safety filtering
- Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth
- Photosynth is MS's newest way to view photos. It takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing how each one relates to the next.
- Curtis Bonk's Fall 2007 "The Web 2.0 and Participatory e-Learning" Course Syllabus
- Includes a comprehensive list online articles, videos and other resources for those attempting to 'teach' web2.0
- Public Domain Movies
- 917 and counting - free for download
- The Raw Story | FOX News asks: Did Mr. Rogers destroy an entire generation?
- Fox News hosts initially got a laugh out of
recent allegations
by a professor at Louisiana State University that tv personality Mr.
Rogers produced a generation of kids who believe that "you're special
just for being who you are" and therefore fe
- Indiana University Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL)
- The AVL, part of University Information Technology Services, is a
facility that includes some of the world’s most advanced virtual
reality and visualization technologies to support research, education,
and creative activities.
The AVL, part of Uni
- Pew Internet Report on China Internet Usage
- Internet Users in China at 137M with double digit growth expected. US at 165M - 210M
- Reading Online
- Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
- Net Radio Wins Partial Reprieve as Royalties Loom
- SoundExchange, a group responsible for collecting music
broadcasting royalties, on Friday confirmed it has proposed new terms for
internet radio that could lower fees for some webcasters.
SoundExchange, a group responsible for collecting musicbroadca
- Online Radio Survives: 7 To Try Before It’s Too Late
- Online radio has temporarily been saved, and these 7 awesome online radio services have prevailed. At least for now.
A SoundExchange executive testified before Congress on Thursday that
the organization will not enforce new royalty rates which were
- Walker Tracker
- step away from the computer ... but then come back and log your steps!
- FlightAware > Live Flight Tracker
- An incredible aggregation of real time flight data ... wow
- 123FLICKR | Create Flickr galleries in seconds...
- Host.123Flickr.com
- Cool way to create a photo gallary of your flickr photos! No log in required ... very "pretty" ...
- SlideFlickr.com
-
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- Canadian iPod user struck by lightning | The Register
- in this case, the victim had earphones on and had been sweating from jogging so this was a case of disrupted flashover and the earphones transmitted the electrical current into his head
- Listening Post - Wired Blogs
- Basically, this news qualifies as a reprieve, but internet radio won't be truly saved until negotiations result in a workable royalty rate.
- Tour de France - Live Tracker 2007
- Slashdot | Optimum Copyright Period Decided by Math
- Harry Potter - Books - New York Times
- Education Week: Teachers Seek Out Software to Help Students' Reading
- Microsoft's OEM catch-22: XP still in the driver's seat
- Not a good indication for Microsoft
- A neutral 'Net needs up to twice the bandwidth of a tiered network
- But when AT&T researchers are involved in writing the paper in question, the results seem a bit more sinister.
- ingimp - software monitoring for open source graphic program
- Not only do we provide numerical summarizations of overall ingimp usage, we also provide personalized mirrors of your own personal, usage.
- Fair Use Day
- Belated Happy FUD!
- Court rejects Webcasters' plea for relief | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- Barring an 11th-hour agreement, then, between Internet radio operators and the music industry, the new fees are scheduled to kick in on Sunday.
- Sony BMG sues CD software firm
- It wasn't are fault - really! See, we're suing someone else.
- Advanced Topics in Learning Object Design and Reuse — Utah State University
- Course Description
This course is designed to help you understand and apply advanced
topics in the design, creation, and reuse of learning objects. The
course is structured around a practical, hands-on project using
learning objects, intermingle
- SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- Penmanship takes a back seat in many elementary schools
- Impact of Digital Media Symposium Schedule - NMC-Campus
- Warner Music To Stream All Its Music Online For Free -- Online Music -- InformationWeek
- Warner Music Group and online community imeem have partnered to stream
ad-supported music and video on imeem's free social media
networking
site.
Warner Music Group and online community imeem have partnered to stream ad-supported music a
- Presentation Zen: Presentation Zen (the book)
- announce to you that
Peachpit Press
will be publishing my first book on the topic of presentations. The
name of the book is Presentation Zen (we’re still working on the
subtitle) and it’s due out in late fall of this year.
- Court declines to postpone Internet radio royalty hike
- Internet radio broadcasters' best hope to avoid the onset of higher
royalties beginning Sunday, July 15, fell by the wayside as the US
Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit denied a
motion to postpone the onset
of the new royalty regime.
Internet
- Andrew Zolli: NECC Sunday Keynote
- The keynote from NECC -- This is something great to listen to. I am going to listen again.
- Andrew Zolli: Creativity Panel Discussion
- If I had to select one MUST LISTEN podcast from NECC, this is it. With four experts on creativity and innovation from various backgrounds it is powerful and humorous.
- Teacher hopes long-awaited shuttle flight inspires | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
- Teacher Barbara Morgan goes into Space on August 7th. We will be following this, so very exciting!
- reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books
- To help stop spam and digitize books use this service.
- Darfur Is Dying - Play mtvU's Darfur refugee game for change
- GoPHP5.org - helping speed the transition to PHP 5.2
- dragging php'ers into the next stage of evolution
- Plagiarism-Finder
- plagiarism (sigh) ...
- Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites
- For those planning a distant getaway
- List of customer service numbers to escape automated systems and get to a human being
- What does it say about our interaction with machines when such an effort is required to actually "talk with a person"?
- RMIT - RMIT launches Second Life island
- RMIT University has opened the doors to its island in Second Life, showcasing the work of its students as it marks its 120th anniversary.
- Top Free Educational Resources :: qoolsqool
- Qoolsqool is a free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. Qoolsqool's mission is to take advantage of 21st century technologies to advance knowledge and education around the world and reach to people
- Bookyards.com » Library to the world
- Our goal is to be "The Library To The World", in which books, education materials, information, and content will be provided freely to anyone who has an internet connection.
- Learning with ICT Website
- The Learning with ICT project and Schools Learning with ICT projects are designed to improve teacher competencies in the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and to enhance student learning opportunities across government schools. The
- 21st Century Literacies: Tools for Reading the World
- This page of resources by Debbie Abilock is for teachers developing 21st century literacies with students, involving analysing, comparing, evaluating and interpreting multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, ph
- Welcome to Curriculumbits.com - Online E-learning Resource Library including games, quizzes, videos, interactive animations, presentations
- A collection of e-learning resources, some of them games, videos, quizzes and interactive animations. Although the full version of the item is available for purchase (English pounds) a preview of the items can be accessed free of charge to use on computer
- TED | Talks | Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world (video)
- In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty
- PoducateMe Guide | PoducateMe
- Very thorough podcasting guide
- flickrSLiDR - Embed Flickr Slideshows within Your Site
- flick
r
SLiD
R
allows you to easily
embed the classic flickr slideshows
on your website or blog. All you need to do is enter the flickr URL
address of the user, photo set or group you would like to embed along
with some options.
- VoiceThread
- narrated slideshows
- Gaming has no significant effects on schoolwork, sociability: study
- Game on, students!
- QuickTopic: free message board hosting (bulletin boards)
- Free message board hosting fully email-enabled. Start a new board in 20 seconds. Public or private. Free message boards
- iphone review from engadget
- The "official" iphone review from engaget
- Scitalks: Smart people on cool topics
- A new site for free science videos and lectures online - for academic and corporate use.
- Zoho's office suite newest Facebook application
- xtimeline - Explore and Create Free Timelines
- single user openid framework
- PoducateMe | Practical Solutions for Podcasting in Education
- comprehensive site on podcasting in education
- RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Court Returns To Brown
- ruby tutorial... see how it's taught?
- Second Life Herald: Woodbury University Island Destroyed
- Sometime Saturday, Woodbury University’s Second Life island dropped
off the map of the virtual world. Second Life players have grown
accustomed to intermittent outages from their metaverse service
provider, sometimes spinning fanciful stories about t
- www.myspace.com/minisodenetwork
- Not sure what the education connection is, but for those interested in pop culture of old, lots of minisodes here for you
- OnGuard Online - Social Networking SItes: A Parent's Guide
- OnGuardOnline.gov provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.
- LessonBites- The World's First Online Instructional Video Marketplace
- LessonBites provides a marketplace for instructors to sell their lessons using internet-based video. To our customers, LessonBites provides lessons in bite sizes (like individual tracks of a CD) so you can learn what you want. Each video is 99 centsv
- Online Music: 90+ Essential Music and Audio Websites
- 3 Internet TV Reviews: LiveStation, VeohTV, Zattoo
- More IP TV headed our way
- PlacesBar Editor
- Simple little utility that fixes something that's driven me crazy about Windows for years
- PodCastAwards.com
- Winners announced
- ZoomIt v1.51
- Presenters of screencast migh really like this - and it's free
- Online Converters
- Useful list of converting goodies
- Hey!Spread - Spread your videos
- Upload your videos to multiple sites at once
- Twitter Fan Wiki - This is the unofficial place where Tw...
- Motherlode of twitter resources
- Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources
- A popular list of resources making the rounds
- The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte
- Join Megan Morrone, mother of three toddlers, and Leo Laporte, father of two teens, as they talk about parenting in the digital age, featuring lots of helpful links and advice, plus interviews with other geek parents, web site designers, and bloggers.
- IPhone: The Musical | New York Times Video
- Bravo! Hilarious New Media & and kudos to NYT and David Pogue for 'No Rights Reserved'
- PaperBackSwap : Your source for swapping books online!
- swap books for the price of media postage ...
- BBC - Languages - Homepage
- "languages a bit at a time" ... access language resources from the BBC web site ...
- eyeOS | Web Desktop - Web OS - Web Office - your files and applications everywhere
- This is an web-based operating system and office applications realized as a webservice
- Old Version Downloads - OldApps.com
- I have been having trouble with Skype and needed to download an older version to try it out. This site has lots of links to old versions of software.
- Awesome Powerpoint Backgrounds hints and tips, links, tutorials, resources and more about powerpoint presentations
- Excellent resources on PowerPoint presentations
- Sunrise: The Browser for Web Developers
- Instead of saving bookmarks only as links, Sunrise captures a screenshot of the page. Allows you to save as a PDF. Also assign a color label to categorize or sort through the entire list. Dynamically set the window width to test at any display size.
- Podcast167: From Hand It In to Publish It: Re-Envisioning Our Classrooms by Will Richardson » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
- From Hand It In to Publish It: Re-Envisioning Our Classrooms by Will Richardson
- Who is Hosting a domain
- tells you which hosting company is hosting a site
- SignalMap - Find Cell Phone Signals. Add Your Own Signal.
- Cool Google maps mashup for cell phone signals
- Simpsons Movie
- Nicely done movie site - create your own Simpsons avatar & play 3 card moe
- Web As Desktop: Test Mac OS X on the web - Lifehacker
- f you're considering a switch to Mac, it'd be worth giving OS X Mercury the once over. Make sure you're not running IE when you check it out because OS X Mercury won't play nice.
- eSnailer
- Send a postal letter from the web - sign up for spam AND junk mail at home!
- 2007-2008 Educational Technology and Related Educational Conferences | EdTechTalk
- Clayton Wright's Megalist of Edtech conferences webifyied
- Open Learning - Openlearn - The Open University
- Looking for something to learn during break ... take another look at free offerings at LearningSpace at the Open University.
- HitchHikr Aggregation of NECC 2007
- Aggregation of Necc07 - how about the twitter stuff?
- Apple - iPhone
- biggest tech news of the week?
- Democratic Presidential Candidates Discuss the Digital Divide
- Andy Carvin speaks with some of the candidates after their June 27 debate
- MindMeister - Geistesblitz Quicksearch Extensions
- These nifty little add-ons allow you to submit your ideas to your MindMeister default map directly from your web browser, without even having to start up the Dashboard or Sidebar.
- OECD Online Bookshop
- Learning resources are often considered key intellectual property in a
- Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources
- Holy video resources overload, batman! "Online video is a huge trend - so huge that’s it’s proving hard to keep
track. From video sharing sites to video mixers, mashups and
converters, we’ve brought together more than 150 of our favorite sites
in
- educon20 » home
- January 26 - 27, 2008 in sunny Philly!
- Christopher D. Sessums :: Twitter Me This: Brainstorming Potential Educational Uses for Twitter
- A nice post for those Twitter junkies out there. - pederson
- TakingITGlobal - TIGed
- Cool websites with great resources. Taking IT Global has some really great things. Flat Classroom won their award this year which was an honor! We need as many groups as possible advocating global collaboration!
- Chris Benoit mystery editor confesses: claims "terrible coincidence" - Wikinews
- Bizarre story gets more bizarre via wikipedia
- The Linux Alternative Project - linuxalt.com
- (formally the Linux Equivalent Project) The goal is to provide an information on software alternatives to Windows porgrams for linux users.
- An Overview of the Influences of Distance Learning on Adult Learners.
- Welcome to Pitsco's Ask an Expert!
- Askanexpert.com connects you with hundreds of real world experts, ranging from astronauts to zookeepers. These experts have volunteered to answer your questions for free!
- SimTeach
- Resource Wiki for exchanges about university teaching with immersive environments.
- Social Networking in Plain English - CommonCraft
- We made this video for people who wonder why social networking sites are so popular. We think one reason is because they help to solve a real world problem. www.commoncraft.com/show
- edu 2.0: welcome to the future of education
- while you heard about it back in december on ETW, edu2.0 "officially" launched last week
- Portrait Illustration Maker - Let's make an original icon!!
- How to create a live web cam feed - Windows Stream / Media Player / Webcam32 / Quicktime / Encoder
-
How to create a live web cam feed with Windows Media Encoder
- Yuuguu. See together. Be together.
- let's give it a whirl ... like yugma ...
- Veodia - The Live TV Studio In Your Browser™
- in beta ... another ustream concept
- Desktop Tower Defense
- Desktop TD is a fun
flash
based puzzle / strategy game where you have to protect your desktop
from invaders by spending money on attacking pieces and building a maze
for them to follow. Strangely addictive yet stress relieving... how
many le
- Change Agency - Advocating a better education system for the 21st Century. » Pay Attention…
- Widgetmate.com : Cool widgets to spice up your webpage
- 3rd party apps | Twittown Blog - The Unofficial Twitter Community and Forums
- Foundation With Real Money Ventures Into Virtual World - New York Times
- 2nd life
- goodreads | see what your friends are reading
- social networking site for book worms
- Hictu - Home Page
- nextgen twitter? you be the judge ...
- Drupal Podcast No. 40: Top 40 Projects | Lullabot
- nice round up of drupal modules by the lullabot gang
- apophenia: viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
- quite a comment / trackback frenzy over this one ...
viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
- Create PDF Online free, PDF API, PDF .NET Server, VB, ASP, Consulting
- PDF Converter
- Diigo Group for new ETT show, It's Elementary
- diigo for ETT show "It's Elementary
- How To Record Skype Calls: A Mini-Guide - Robin Good's Latest News
- NECC 2007 Attendees | Attendees: Program: Podcasting
- iste Atlanta- Necc 2007
- Claroline . NET - Home
- An open source CMS
- Widgetbox › Google Map web widget
- What are the best 100 Web 2.0 sites and services? We don't know. But you do.
- Over the course of 20 days in May and June, the community of
Webware.com users voted for its favorite Web applications. These are
the results: the top 100 Web apps,
Over the course of 20 days in May and June, the community of Webware.com users voted
- Leafletter
- Create a flash portfolio out of websites, images, and text.
- AudioDizer
- AudioDizer is all about getting more content on mobile devices - iPod, Zune, cell phone, etc. We want to create new distribution channels for traditional media companies – newspapers, magazines, websites, advertisers, trade journals and research compani
- Scratch | Project | Bouncing Ball Piano Machine - Draggable Keys
- a sample project
- RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter
- Internet radio day of silence to draw attention to royalty rate hikes
- Osprey Media. - St. Catharines Standard - Ontario, CA
- Facebook | Terms of Use
- Full Circle Online Interaction Blog
- TechnoMisogyny 2007 » The Future of Education ? Puh-lease!
- edubloggercon07 slideshow on Flickr
- photos from edubloggercon
- Virtual Goods: the next big business model
- People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every year.
People spend over $1.5 billion on virtual items every year.
- Boingo wifi goes flat.
- #1
- The Most Hated Words On The Internet - Digital Life Blog - InformationWeek
- "Blog," "netiquette," "cookie," and "wiki" are among the
most hated words on the Internet
, according to a British poll.
"Blog," "netiquette," "cookie," and "wiki" are among themost hated words on the Internet, according to a British poll.
- Lawrence Lessig
- lessig "shift" in focus ...
- BPCentral
- Challenger Center for Space Science Education
- Md. man teaches via Web, iPods - baltimoresun.com
- Learning 2.0 Tip-of-the-week :: Learning 2.0 and Del.icio.us
- Spresent.com - Presentations for New Web
- Snap Shots™
- The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
- MetaSynth 4
- Magnatune: license music and MP3 download
- ReviewBasics -- Home
- The ReDistricting Game
- Barnraiser
- The Savvy Technologist » Blog Archiv » Spread the word on Conference Connections
- Orb | Remote Access Software for Streaming Digital Media
- Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video?
- 7 Things You Should Know
- Proceedings | ELI 2007 Spring Focus Session | EDUCAUSE
- Checkershadow Illusion
- Vol 8, No 2 (2007)
- mobile and distance learning review
- Google adds PowerPoint viewer to Gmail
- The latest jab in the office suite fight
- YouTube Trojan horse rides in on Web TV show's fame | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
- Not sure how this is possible, but doesn't sound good
- Linux leaders plot counterattack on Microsoft | Technology | Reuters
- United we stand, divided we're sued
- Microsoft funds questionable study attacking open source in education
- Open Source schools spend less money per PC on operating systems and productivity software than their Microsoft counterparts," but "Microsoft products were less expensive to manage and maintain than Open Source alternatives."
- Google Video now indexes MySpace, Yahoo Video, and others
- back to focusing on search
- BumpTop
- BumpTop is a fresh and engaging new way to interact with your computer desktop. You can pile and toss documents like on a real desk.
- TED | Talks | Anand Agarawala: BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess (video)
- For those of us who want to bring the mess of our real desk to our computer interface
- YouTube - Microsoft "Surface" - The Magic
- See what the MS Surface looks like
- EVERYZING
- Formerly know as 'podzinger' - one of the most evolved audio/video search tools out there (actually searches audio)
- FastCompany.com - Video, Audio and Podcasts
-
A multi touch driven computer screen. Similar to MS Surface. This video demo is a really amazing vision of the near future
- http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
-
Ubiquitous table top computing - how far in the future is this? Goodbye to the mouse ad keyboard? Three great videos providing an idea of what Microsoft think we'll be doing soon when handling information.
- Haiku LMS - Create a Great Website and Win! - Classroom 2.0
- Haiku LMS - Create a Great Website and Win! $180 each in free subscriptions
- FUTURE-MAKING SERIOUS GAMES
- Steve Hargadon: NECC 2007 Session Tags and Feeds!
- RSS feeds for every session at NECC! WOW!
- NECC 2007 Attendees | Attendees: Program: Hot Topic Lounges
-
Hot topic lounges at NECC -- the place for bloggers, international, and a in world second life lounge. Cool.
- Sloan-C - Conferences - Proceedings
- Many sessions from 2006 conference have handouts you can read. All manner of research on how to make online courses more effective.
- Man fails school exams on 38th try | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com
- JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Indian farmer who vowed not to marry before passing his high school exams has failed to get through for the 38th time. Sometimes exams need to be ignored!
- DivShare - The Web Host for Everyone
- DivShare is a new type of web host. We're all about freedom and simplicity. Upload your videos, photos and other files, and we'll host them forever, for free.
- Chime.TV
- Web video aggregator and viewing portal for hand picked videos.
- Study: Alzheimer’s Patients Say They Do Not Have Alzheimer’s | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
- This could be a useful video for demonstrating to students that can't always assume that something is true just becase it's presented in a certain way
- Linspire Joins Microsoft’s Any One But Red Hat Group
- selective open source buddies
- After eBay pulls ads, Google pulls plug on offending party
- Life just doesn't change that much after middle school, even for multi-billion dollar corporations
- Windows users download 1 million copies of Safari
- more mac toys please
- A History Teacher: Dan McDowell
- Great lesson plans and webquests recommended by Bernie Dodge.
- Free web hosting for educators.
- Oh my goodness. This looks amazing. - from bhwiloff - US Public Schools Only - must verify school, etc.
- NJCMS :: Educational Hotlinks for Middle School People:
- Educational Hotlinks for Middle School People: These websites have been chosen for their quality and special relevance for middle level educators. Selections will be added on a regular basis.
- reCAPTCHA WordPress Plugin
- This is the plugin put out by the reCAPTCHA folks, leveraging captchas to help digitize books. I am going to be installing this when I get a spare moment. This is one heck of a worthy cause.
- What's your online collaboration platform? Nearly half of R/WW readers use Google Apps
- So far, after over 1,100 votes, Google Apps is way out in front - 47% of respondents use it. Basecamp is next with 20%, with Zoho on 10% and ThinkFree 6%. The two Microsoft options, Office Groove and Office Live, have only 2% each.
So far, after over 1
- Pageflakes - your free student and teacher start page
- Special pageflakes start page for students and teachers - cool
- Mogulus - Home
- (beta) one to watch in the video casting arena
- Main Page - EduTech Wiki
- #1 EduTech Wiki is about Educational Technology ( instructional technology ) and related fields and was built at TECFA - an educational technology research and teaching unit at University of Geneva. EduT
- Revver » Frequently Asked Questions
- A fine way to run a new media company... Hope they survive
- How to put blinders on Google Street View | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
- Up close and too personal with Google maps
- retrievr - search by sketch / search by image
-
retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
- Slashdot | U.S. K-12 Schools Must Comply With e-Discovery Rule
- Flaws Abound In Apple's Safari Beta For Windows -- Apple Safari Windows -- InformationWeek
- #1
Researchers were quick to dig up vulnerabilities in the beta release of Apple's brand new Safari for Windows browser.
Researchers were quick to dig up vulnerabilities in the beta release of Apple's brand new Safari for Windows browser.
- Apple - Safari for Windows
- giving it a go ... tell you about it on Sunday ...
- Missing girl hunt hits cyber world
- Second Life postings for missing person
- bLaugh
- a sometimes lol geek comic strip
- e-Learning - How To Draw, From a Distance.
- cool educational add on to a fun geek oriented comic strip
- VLIP™ be seen, get heard, vlip it!
- Vlip is an entirely new, easy, active and interactive video community for adults 18 years old and older only.
Vlip is the easiest way to create, share, and interact with web cam captured personal video over the Internet.
“Vlips” are the sing
- Presentation Zen: From design to meaning: a whole new way of presenting?
- Read this before you have to do your next "PowerPoint"
- Internet Owl - Website Monitoring and Change Detection Software
- A tool to monitor websites and to get alerted if there are any changes.
- Flickr Facebook App is Now Available
- There is now a
Flickr
application
available for Facebook, bringing a bit more color and life to your
Facebook profile than many of the applications we’ve seen in the past
two weeks.
There is now aFlickrapplication available for Facebook, br
- Microsoft Math Home
- Produced by Microsoft, so PC only (sorry rest of world) free to try / 19.95 to buy ...
- Smilebox your photos and video clips. Share via email, blog, or print.
- blog.pmarca.com: Essential HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and miscellaneous cheatsheets
- #1
There
are a ton of free cheatsheets, quick references, and downloadable
resources for programming languages and related technologies online --
in this post I've tried to organize and list some of the best for web
development.
There are a ton
- SpaceTime™
- 3D web searching ala, OSX Leopard's Time Machine
- jooce.com - making every computer your computer
- virtual desktop sharing
- juhu
- a mac os x client for jaiku - thanks, Lisa!
- Wazap! game search - cheats - news - downloads - reviews - walkthroughs
- search engine, cheats, news, downloads, articles, tips, tricks, reviews, walkthroughs.
- Motionbox: Videos
- VideoLAN Streaming Howto
- This document explains how to stream, transcode and save streams using the VideoLAN solution
- adVancEducation: Preparing to give a series of lectures in Spain
- NECC 2007 Attendees | Program: Blogging NECC
- The list of people officially "blogging" NECC is up on the ISTE page today -- if you're interested, sign up with them!
- EdTechTalk Public Skype Chat
- Web2.0 Logo Showcase - Complete web 2.0 logo directory for inspiration
- LogoTwo is a dedicated Web 2 Showcase of logo designs. We have one of the largest collections of Web 2.0 Logo desig
- CrowdVine: Create your own social network
- Ning has some competition
- Babelgum
- Another Joost-like interface
- Pages tagged with "necc07" on del.icio.us
- tag of the tags for necc07 - no someone tag this ... tag you're it
- ElectroCity
- "ElectroCity is a new online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It’s great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand. There are some great pr
- Creative Educator For Hire
- from John Pederson in our network ...
- Change Agency - Advocating a better education system for the 21st Century. » The Next Generation of Principals
- "Warning:
I am going to refer to some “generational
theory” in this post. This theory is replete with generalizations and
stereotypes of the members of each generation, while in reality there
are some blurred lines between different generations
- Senate Resolution 205
- Happy Internet Safety Month
- First look: Firefox 3 alpha 5
- The future of Firefox
- Webby Awards - 2007 Winners and speeches
- Five word speeches - good idea
- Firefox Extension for SnagIt
- The Firefox Extension for SnagIt is a convenient toolbar that you can
add to your Firefox browser for easy access to the most popular screen
capture and sharing options for Web page content.
The Firefox Extension for SnagIt is a convenient toolbar th
- ubroadcast™
- Host your own internet radio station - so crazy it just might work ...
- 6 milliards d'Autres, 6 billion Others, 6 miliardi di Altri – A Yann Arthus-Bertrand project
- In 2008 you will be able to listen to the thousands of testimonies which
have been collected, and add your own testimony to the site. In the meantime, take a look at the project, the team, and some
interviews that have
already been made.
- Vote for Drupal in the CNet Webware 100 Awards! | drupal.org
- #1
Drupal has been selected as a finalist by the editors at
CNet Webware
in the first ever
“Webware 100” Awards
, from over 4,000 user-submitted nominations. Winners will be announced on Monday, June 18 and posted on Webware.
- dbpedia.org - Using Wikipedia as a Web Database
- DBpedia.org is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make it available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
- celtx - media pre-production software.
- Celtx is an open source media planning software- that is it is free to download and use. (Useful for drama too).
- D-Link DKVM 2 2-port KVM Switch Troubleshooting, Support, Repair & Service
- dave's link
- #1 Song on This Date in History
- Education - VideoJug
- A new video sharing site. This section is targeted at education.
- Collanos Software Home
- A free online team collaboration online service. Good reviews. Groupware P2P rather than server-based.
- Wikis - LTCWiki - Wikis in education
- Wikis in education from the LTC at the University of Manitoba - good overview and additional resources
- RobinGood-syndicaat-ppt
- In which Robin Good graciously shows Vance Stevens how to newsmaster using http://www.syndicaat.com. A recording was made in Camtasia but when Robin's audio did not record correctly, Vance made this slide show from screen shots taken at critical juncture
- Government Education Portal - Australia
- The Australian Government Education Portal is the online entry point to a comprehensive array of government information and services concerning all aspects and levels of education in Australia. I
- What is Me.dium | Me.dium
- spy on your co-browsing neighbors :)
- ISTE | 2007 SIGTel OLA Winners
- Announcement of Flat Classroom as winning the 2007 SigTel Online Learning award.
- Innovate - June/July 2007 Volume 3, Issue 5
- Join Adobe Education experts as they conduct free, live online product
demonstrations. Find out how to engage students in learning while
teaching essential digital communication skills. Discover how to
simplify and streamline administrative workflows,
- MIT discovery could unplug your iPod forever
- Witricity - wireless electricity
- Adobe - Online Events : Event Details
- Join Adobe Education experts as they conduct free, live online product
demonstrations. Find out how to engage students in learning while
teaching essential digital communication skills. Discover how to
simplify and streamline administrative workflows,
- Skype Journal: You got Twitter in my Skype!
- I like the sound of this.
- MediaShift | PBS
- MediaShift is a weblog that will track how new media—from weblogs to podcasts to citizen journalism—are changing society and culture
- Edheads - Simple Machines Activities - Lever - Pulley - Wedge - Screw - Inclined Plane - Wheel and Axle - Gear
- Edheads is a non-profit organization that provides free high quality educational activities on the Web at no cost to students or teachers. Edheads creates unique, educational Web experiences designed to make hard-to-teach concepts understandable.
- Project Sites - Authentic Task Design
- ASTD 2007 Conference Handouts
- Snap
- The Four Eyed Technologist » Blog Archive » Oh, The Struggles: SL Research Paper
- If you are a Second Life follower -- you must read Ryan Bretag's struggles with writing an educational research paper on SL -- from issues with an insititutional review board to ethics, he's done a great job of summarizing the main issues.
- Microsoft/Prolist WebReply
- Innovative Teachers Forum applications are due to Microsoft July 11th. If you have a great team, apply!
- Yoono :: Firefox Add-ons
- Vancouver 2010 - Canadian School Portal for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
- What is /EDU? Coming in September 2007, vancouver2010.com/EDU will be an online, interactive, bilingual e-magazine where teachers and students can learn more about Vancouver 2010, the Olympic and Paralympic Movements and programs in sport, culture
- blainekendall.com - DeliciousMind = del.icio.us + FreeMind mindmap
- Display your delicious tags as a FreeMind concept map
- Online Learning Resources on the Web
- It ain't pretty (no missing "e" in the logo), but it does the trick - good round up of instructional design and online learning resources.
- TwitThis
- Widget to add to your blog or website to allow quick tweats about your content.
- MindMeister - think together
- yep ... another one ...
- The SeaMonkey™ Project
- Don't forget about this free HTML editor ...
- Dave’s Educational Blog
- toto ... we aren't in web1.0 anymore ...
- Pageflakes - Get it Together
- Dave is fun ...
- Over 10.000 Free Shapes for your Photoshop
- Color Palette Generator
- Free Open Source Software in EDucation Conferences
- FOSSED Conference in Durham NH - register now.
- Kids! We’re going to the Pedagogic Museum! Kids? - Reuters Blogs
- Welcome to a sort of satanic Norman Rockwell world. The Pedagogic Museum, with exhibits showing what school used to be like.
- Codswallop » The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need
- Running a business for yourself means you have to be inventive and always on the lookout for a new and better way to get things done. From invoicing to marketing, these are tools that freelancers need to know about. Organization
- Free Fax • Free Internet Faxing
- Free Internet Faxing - Send faxes to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada for free
- K7 Unified Messaging, free Fax and voicemail to email.
- GrandCentral: The New Way to Use Your Phones
- GrandCentral gives you a single phone number for all your phones, a central voicemail and address book, personalized voicemail greetings and ring-backs, and many other useful calling features. GrandCentral is the new way to use your phones.
- » Free Photoshop Plugins
- Tutorial Blog - » Free Photoshop Plugins
- Zooomr | Mark III
- Zooomr is almost absolutely the best online photo sharing application in the world. See and share photos the world over, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or even blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.
- 3B - create your personalised 3D space in the 3D browser
- 3B - the 3D browser. Create your own 3D space
- egorcast
- OK ... buckle your seatbelt ... post to wordpress, jaiku and twitter via your phone, jott and egorcast
- Venezuela's counter-revolution won't be televised... but it will be on YouTube
- when big brother yanks the plug, turn to your google daddy.
- YouTube to Re-Encode Videos to Support AppleTV and iPhone
- not sure on video details, but sounds like good news for Mac users
- introPLAY
- Maintain a daily log of your exercise activities in 90 different sports and activities
Create an introLEAGUE, a competitive exercise league where your workouts score points during the season
- Just The Facts About Online Youth Victimization
- Presentation before a congressional committee
- Wild Sanctuary on Google Earth or Maps
- Listen here :)
- Wild Sanctuary Adds Sounds to Google Earth Maps
- "listen" to google maps
- WordPress Category Feeds! by Blogging Pro
- feed by category
- Future of Education Conference : Attendee Map (Conference Tag foe2007)
- heeeeere's ... Dave (and the rest of us, too) at FOE
- 2007 Wikipedia Selection for schools
- This 2007 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world.
- Welcome To MySyndicaat :: NewsMastering that Works!
- Feed Aggregator Blender
- » Free Summer Movies for Kids @ raising4boys.com
- "In case you’re not aware, theaters often have special summer promos
where they show G or PG films on weekday mornings for free, or nearly
so."
In case you’re not aware, theaters often have special summer promos where they show G or PG films on w
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Anger over DRM-free iTunes tracks
- 1
News site Ars Technica was among the first to discover that downloaded
tracks free of Fairplay have embedded within them the full name and
account information, including e-mail address, of who bought them.
News site Ars Technica was among the fi
- Top 15 Google Street View Sightings
- Google’s
Street View
feature for Google Maps, which enables users to see certain parts of
several big US cities through panoramic images, has caused a new trend:
StreetSpotting (we just invented that).
Google’sStreet Viewfeature for Google
- Beet.TV: Bombshell from RealNetworks: Rip/Save/Burn "All" Online Video Fomats with New Player...Clips from YouTube and Yahoo Are Easily Downloaded
- The company will soon provide a free downloadable video player that
allows users to save and organize video files in all major formats
including Flash, QuickTime, RealMedia and Window Media.
The company will soon provide a free downloadable video pla
- Google Press Center: Press Release
- google goes off line
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)today announced at Google Developer Day 2007 that it is providing developers with Google Gears™, an open source technology for creating offline web applications
- Smart Mobs: Facebook F8 Keynote Speech
- facebook ... the next google?
- eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
- gobble gobble ... yum
- Zattoo - TV to Go
- Who needs Joost, when you can have Zattoo?
- Lit to Go: MP3 Stories and Poems
- stories and poems - by alice
- Bill Kerr: just the facts about online youth victimisation
- Great post by Bill Kerr about some reports that have been released about youth victimization that run counter to what the news media says. Thanks Graham Wegner for Twittering about this one!
- Streaming Media at the University of Wisconsin
- STREAMING MEDIA TUTORIALS - by cephalopodcast
- EquMath: Math Lessons
- Math lessons online
- Kayuda
- Another collaborative concept mapping tool
- Twitter Blog: There's Twitter in My Facebook!
- Per Twitter blog: "Twitter was invited to be one of the early participants and the new
Facebook application platform. Basically, Facebook now allows
developers to build applications folks can install and use inside
Facebook. It's pretty awesome."
Tw
- VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together: Part 1 of 7 | D5 | AllThingsD
- "In their rare joint appearance at All Things Digital 5, Steve Jobs and
Bill Gates discuss their contributions to the technology industry, the
qualities they most respect in one another, and former Apple CEO Gil
Amelio’s seamanship."
In their rare
- eLearn: Research Papers - Online Learning for Seniors: Barriers and Opportunities
- "In summary, current online learning opportunities for seniors may not
be designed to meet the learning needs of today's Greatest Generation
seniors. Technological and stage-of-life barriers may prevent access
and use of online learning opportunities a
- MLB aims brushback pitch at Slingbox | CNET News.com
-
This week Major League Baseball lobbed its second brushback pitch at Slingbox,
reiterating its stance
that the young company is misusing its content. It's
not the first time
a content owner has expressed concerns over the legality of the
t
- Audio tours | IPOD tours | MP3 tours - Tourcaster
-
Tourcaster is a service that provides
downloadable audio tours for your iPod or MP3 player. Each downloaded audio
tour comes with multiple mp3 files and a map for each city or tourist
destination.
- incorporated subversion - education, media, community » Blog Archive » And the big news is...
- Today I handed in my notice atThe Ageand come July 1st I’ll be working 100% for myself, the majority of the time onEdublogsand the rest doing consultancy, speaking, design & development for education, media and community projects.
- Podcast directory for educators, schools and colleges
- Welcome to educators, parents and carers everywhere. This is the first
and best UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 390
carefully selected podcast channels for educational use - ideal for
teaching and learning activities with children, yo
- Media Alert: New York, New York, in 3-D — Seeing Is Believing: Live Search Maps launches photo-realistic 3-D imagery of New York City, several other cities.
- big week for maps :)
- Google street view: 360 degree views from any point on the map. - gizmag Article
- cool
- Quotations Book: Home
- EduGeek.net › EduGeek Forum › Technical › Thin Client and Virtual Machines › Interactive Whiteboards on Thin Client
- The educational IT professionals' life line
- Video: Wikis in Plain English | Common Craft - Social Design for the Web
- wikis for the rest of us
- Imagination Cubed
- a fancy collaboration whiteboard
- Yet Another Reason Your Filter is Useless (or neat trick to post to jaiku, wordpress or twitter) at Bionic Teaching
- Incredible tips from Tom Woodward on using jott which allows you to dictate a message and have it sent via text - you can use it to dictate a message to go to twitter and jaiku also ! So cool!
- in-browser screencast
- DAVE'S LINK JEFF AND JEN DO NOT TOUCH
- Microsoft to unveil 30-inch touch screen computer - May. 30, 2007
- ah ... ok
Microsoft unveils coffee table 'surface computer'
Software
maker will introduce a coffee-table-shaped computer that has a 30-inch
display, allowing people to touch and move objects on the screen.
Microsoft unveils coffee table 's
- Woot : One Day, One Deal
- why did no one tell jen about woot.com?
- Fox Interactive Media Agrees to Acquire Photobucket and Flektor, Inc.: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
- Web's Fastest-Growing Personal Media Site and Next Generation
Web-Based Photo and Video Service to Join News Corporation's Leading
Network of Internet Brands
Web's Fastest-Growing Personal Media Site and Next GenerationWeb-
- Blah, Blah, Blah: Teachers Top Talking Tests | LiveScience
- New research shows teachers spend nearly a fourth of their time at work talking—not including the silent pauses between words.
- Apple debuts iTunes U on iTunes Store
- iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities.
- Microsoft Surface | D5 | AllThingsD
- Surface, as Microsoft sums it up, brings an “opportunity to create technology that would bridge the physical and virtual worlds.”
- Apple debuts unprotected songs online
- music .. be free! be free!
- Flixn.com | Video Everywhere
- Now you can easily keep in touch with your friends and family via Flixn.com. Flixn allows anyone with a webcam to instantly record video emails, blog posts..unbelievably easy
- Writeboard: New version
- Simple whiteboard - export, share, save - cool (thanks Lisa)
- 16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools
- University of Manitoba: Learning Technologies Centre
- Conference by George Siemens on the future of education. This is the main start page. It starts this weekend!
- jaxtr - link your phone
- With the free jaxtr service, users can link their phones with their online network to hear from callers worldwide while keeping their existing phone numbers private
- Sorenson VRS
- Per John S.
- YouTube - 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
- That's some pretty cool morphing
- Download details: 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS
- Free Microsof add-in allows you to export and save the Office document to a pdf format
- Photojojo » Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids
- Great guide to making really spectacular panoramas that go beyond the horizontal
- Top 10 Ways to Use del.icio.us - lifehack.org
- Zentation.com - where Video and PowerPoint meet on the Web
- Ubuntu on Dell | Ubuntu
- amazing, Ubuntu available preinstalled on Dell machines.
- Dell goes Ubuntu; "Windows tax" is $50 according to pricing
- Now Available - Dell with Ubuntu
- YouTube - A Fair(y) Use Tale
- Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.
- New Copyright Alliance hopes to strengthen copyright law
- The group does want to "balance those rights with the public good" and hopes to "enrich our culture through incentives to create and disseminate new and innovative creative works.
- Apple confirms MySpace ban in retail stores | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- We want to provide everyone a chance to test-drive a Mac, so we are no longer offering access to MySpace in our stores
- Desktoptwo
- Desktoptwo is a free web-based desktop or webtop (some call it a WebOS, although we feel that's a bit premature... for now) that mimics the look, feel and functionality of a local computer
- coRank > edtechtalk > Front Page
- another options for creating a digg-like site
- BBC NEWS | Google queried on privacy policy
- Google has been told that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people's search information on its servers for up to two years.
- Project Censored Media Democracy in Action
- Geonames
- The geonames.org geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license.
- Download Video From Popular Video Sharing Sites: A Mini-Guide - Robin Good's Latest News
- Useful for saving online videos to your hard drive
- mediaconverter.org - the free online file converter
- SLCN | virtual entertainment delivery
- Home of That SLife - good video roundup of SL News & Events
- Meez: Your 3D I.D.
- create your own cool looking a avatar
- Waymarking - A scavenger hunt for unique and interesting locations in the world
- Waymarking.com will provide you with the tools to share and discover unique and interesting locations on the planet.
- One Minute How-To
- The One Minute How-To is your podcast. Each episode features someone just like you who explains how to do something. The catch is that the participant is only given 60 seconds. This means that they need to get right to the point, but isn't that a good thi
- Wesley Fryer's Recommendations from Amazon.com - Books
- Books Wes Fryer recommends that I have have personally found thought provoking and helpful for teaching, learning, and living.
- WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.2
- Wordpress 2.2 -- a new version -- again.
- Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » efficiency
- This educational technology guru is posting an efficiency tip every day. Simple things like CTRL-C instead of Edit, Copy can save loads of time, which he measures with TSPY (time saved per year).
- Gates and Jobs get set for historic tete-a-tete - MarketWatch
- Create-A-Scape - Home
- Create GPS controlled learning walks.
- DonorsChoose.org: Teachers Ask. You Choose. Students Learn.
- DonorsChoose is a simple way to provide students in need with resources that our public schools often lack.
Here,
teachers submit ideas for materials or experiences that their students
need to learn. Individuals like you can choose a project and
- YouTube - Sony's flexible, full-color OLED
- Hmmm, must be some cool possibilities for this...
- pdfforge.org
- OpenSource pdf creator
- Worldbridges.jpeg (JPEG Image, 408x159 pixels)
- test of free mind concept mapping software - exported as jpeg file and uploaded to server
- Review: Voice In Second Life Gets Two Thumbs Up -- Second Life -- InformationWeek
- Review: Voice In Second Life Gets Two Thumbs Up
Review: Voice In Second Life Gets Two Thumbs Up
- Worldbridges Stream Archive | Raw Recordings of Worldbridges Live Streams
- Stream Archive
- Sizer - screen size tool
- Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact,
predefined size. This is extremely useful when designing web pages, as it
allows you to see how the page will look when viewed at a smaller size. The
- udutu | online learning simulations made easy
- free online learning simulations
- Sculpted Prims - Second Life Wiki
- A Sculpted Prim is a prim whose shape is determined by a texture. These textures are called Sculpt Textures or Sculpt Maps. You can use sculpted prims to create more complex, organic shapes that are not currently possible with Second Life's prim system.
- Zoho Meeting - Web Conferencing
- In beta - sent e-mail and got invite to try
- ripple
- search for charity
- k12 Online Conference
- UPDATE: Starting Monday 10 /8: Announcing the second annual “K12 Online” conference for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! This year’s conference is
- Zoho Notebook
- Launch this week of collaborative Zoho notebook
- Zoho Notebook to Launch Tonight
- Zoho, the online document creation service, is scheduled to launch
Zoho Notebook
later on tonight.
Zoho Notebook is a direct competitor to Microsoft’s OneNote and
Google’s Notebook
tools,
offering similar function
- Ecto - Welcome!
-
Ecto
is social software for learning.
Ecto is a hosted, open networked Personal Learning Environment. Use
Ecto
to transform learning into an interactive, collaborative, and student centered activity.
Ecto
- Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share
- $100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed
- the empire grows ...
Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management companyFeedburnerfrom last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editorSam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal.
- Education: Why They Are the Best - Newsweek America's Best High Schools - MSNBC.com
- NEWSWEEK's list of America's best high schools, this year with a record 1,258 names - for better or worse - take your shots!
- Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com
- Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards—and to thousands of ideas,
tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.
- RedHalo - Mobile Learning Platform
- RedHalo is the next generation managed learning platform for mobile devices supporting all the content creation and distribution needs of a mobile learning environment.
- Mobile ESL | Athabasca University
- mlearning web site at athabasca
- Lessons by cellphone a hit (12:45 p.m.)
- The website was designed with a special technology that
- teachr.tv - » OpenCourseware for Delft University Of Technology
- The Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) has published a press release today stating that they will be running a pilot project to offer Open Courseware. Much like many other universities, the Delft Open Educational Resources (Delft OpenER) wil
- horizonproject » Virtual Worlds - Impact on Education
- Eventually virtual worlds will permeate into every aspect of education. They (virtual worlds and education) will be one - inseparable, impossible to distinguish or differerientate. *The must read wiki page written by high schoolers on the horizon project.
- horizonproject » Mobile Phones
- Excellent overview of mobile phones -- I learned so many things reading this wiki, in particular about the move for open source mobile phones -- so much for PDA grading, I can picture assessment by teachers using their cell phone very soon.
- The New Yorker Conference 2007: videos
- Free videos. Panels with various illuminati speak about trends and what to expect between now and 2012. Topics include art, digital games, morality, medicine, and the Internet.
- NGO-in-a-Box | Powerful tools for the daily work of NGO's
- great comprehensive list of Free and Open Source software organizations can use
- PC World - The 100 Best Products of 2007
- Our editors rank the best PCs, HDTVs, websites
- mdmc2007conference » home
- Wiki for Milwaukee Digital Media Conference 2007
- Milwaukee Digital Media Conference 2007
-
A hands on conference in which educators will go
behind the scenes of the Milwaukee Public Museum to work with
instructors from The Stephens Group and museum curators to create
digital content for the museum. Participant
- The Stephens Group - Helpful Teacher Sites and Resources
-
Helpful Teacher Sites
- Top 50 Logo Design Tutorials | E Logo Design
- Forgo the clipart! Find the inner artist! Tutorials on how to design logos and icons.
- CADE
- TeamSpeak
- TeamSpeak is a quality, scalable application which enables people to speak with one another over the Internet. TeamSpeak consists of both client and server software. The server acts as a host to multiple client connections, capable of handling literally t