Do you know a totally wired teacher?

From the Classroom 2.0 Ning today:FromWill Richardson (www.Weblogg-ed.com) today. Seems like a great way for Classroom 2.0 members to nominate each other!----This request comes from Jim Daly of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, though the award is being co-sponsored by Yahoo! Teachers:The 2007 Mashup “Totally Wired Teacher Award” will honor a trailblazing teacher who has successfully pioneered the innovative and educational...

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Developers Discuss Future of Innovation in Web Applications at Google Developer Day

Google announces open source technology for offline capabilities, new tools for mashup programmingSYDNEY, Australia (May 31, 2007) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today is hosting more than 5,000 developers at 10 locations around the world at the first-ever Google Developer Day. In keynotes and breakout sessions in Sydney, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Madrid, Paris, Hamburg, London, and Mountain View, California, Google engineers...

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Google Launches Gears Open Source Project to Bring Offline Capabilities to Web Applications

At Google Developer Day, New Browser Extension Provided to Developer CommunitySYDNEY, Australia (May 31, 2007) – 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. This new browser extension is being made available in its early stages so that everyone can test its capabilities and limitations...

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Announcing: Microsoft Surface

If you have luddites who aren't comfortable with the computer in your school, hold on.Computers are coming to your tables, walls, filing cabinets, doors, and oh my goodness, perhaps even that flat surface on the student desk.At the everything D conference that I blogged about yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will announce Microsoft...

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Google is planning to acquire Panoramio

More Information about the acquisition:Frequently asked questionsPress inquiriesFrequently asked questionsQ. What is Panoramio?A. Panoramio is a website that enables digital photographers to geolocate, store and organize their photographs–and to view those photographs in Google Earth and Google Maps.Q. Why is Google planning to acquire Panoramio?A....

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What does your network look like

Christy Tucker has a fascinating analysis of her delicious network, she says:In this screenshot, Vicki Davis (brightideasguru) is at the top, Wes Fryer (wfryer) is in the lower left, and Will Richardson (willrich) is in the lower right. My network (christyinsdesign) is in the center with the colored lines. Looking at this image, I can see...

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs appearing TOGETHER on Wednesday, May 30th

I'm trying to find the live stream for this (if there is one) but Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are appearing live together tomorrow at the D: All Thing Digital Conference put on by the Wall Street journal.For live updates check out the blog at http://allthingsd.com/I did a little digging and if you're quick, you can share the questions YOU want to ask at http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070523/questions-for-bill-and-steves-excellent-adventure/.Join...

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Come over to talk about Training Teachers at EdTechTalk with Pam Shoemaker

Pam Shoemaker is on edtechtalk.com tonight as we talk about training teachers.Here is the tentative agenda, and as always we will expand this and discuss!Order of the Evening:Welcome=CherylWOW2 Moments --Cheryl, Sharon, Vicki, JenPam Shoemaker --Pam's Blog: http://shoemap.edublogs.orgIntroWeb 2.0 Usergroup Initiative8th Grade Moodle - SS Curriculum/Michigan tech proficiency/Michigan high school on-line learning requirementhow...

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Google Announces New Mapping Innovations at Where 2.0 Conference

AnnouncementMay 29, 2007This morning at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, John Hanke, Director of Google Earth & Maps, announced new innovations for Google Maps that offer a whole new perspective on search: Street View andMapplets. Available on Google Maps at maps.google.com, Street View and Mapplets further Google’s commitment to provide users with the mostinnovative maps available online and developers with new tools...

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Join in the FREE and Incredible future of education conference!!

George Siemens has planned another blockbuster FREE educational conference. I highly suggest sending your teachers and administrators to http://www.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies/conferences/foe/ to sign up and to participate. Not only will they learn but they will USE the technologies like Elluminate that are going to be must-haves for the school of the future.I'm excited about presenting this Saturday morning at 8 am EST...

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Horizon Project Peer Review: Best Practices

Simulpost with TechLearningThe Horizon project has been fascinating, not only because of the project itself but also because of the intentional involvement of students as young as ten in the peer review process.Thank you to our 5 peer reviewer classrooms from 5 countries!Sharon Peters did a GREAT job with high school review and having it mid-project really gave the students excellent feedback and fuel to move ahead!Chrissy Hellyer...

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Google Leaps Over Language Barriers

AnnouncementMay 23, 2007Google Translate adds new feature to convert search results into 12 different languagesHere at Google, part of our mission is to make the world’s information universally accessible to our users, regardless of differences such as language. Today we are releasing a tool from Google Translate that takes us one step closer to this goal. We are happy to announce the arrival of a new cross-language search feature...

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A good laugh: 9th grade student summary video with the accent gone wild

I needed a laugh today and here it is. The summary video from a 9th grader. He changed from a French accent to an asian accent in midstream. I laughed so hard. After being up till around 1:45 am last night finishing up grades, I needed ...

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Substrate paper? Predictions from students! Wow!

What is going to happen in the future?This is what the students say on the Horizon project:From looking at the new ways to buy, read, and sell books are changing it is possible that in the future there will be no more books they will be on the computer or be shown on the wall with projectors or some kind of laser projector. They are coming out with flexible paper it is called a substrate based color electronic paper. The paper...

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"These Games are Why Kids Wake Up in the Morning"

As I am grading the Horizon project, I just had to share this quote written from the heart of a teenager. He was discussing Massively Multiplayer Gaming as it relates to governments and says:"The Governments need to realize that while these games seem like just games to all the politicians, to kids and teenagers and some adults these games are why they wake up in the morning. Identity theft, kids thinking that the games are real,...

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Brian Crosby on WOW2 tonight - learn how he brought a student with leukemia into his classroom via Skype

The amazing Brian Crosby is on WOW2 tonight over at Edtechtalk.com at 9 pm EST. What a great thing to do while grading -- just catch the stream and listen (click on one of the channels.) If you wish to go into the chat, you can click the chat button on the left and ask questions and chat with us!Brian writes the Learning is Messy blog but we became entranced with his classroom when we saw his work to bring a child who has leukemia...

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New Feature on Google Trends Shows List of Current Top-Rising Searches

AnnouncementMay 22, 2007On Monday night, Google launched Hot Trends, a new feature on the Google Trends report. Hot Trends enables users to see a list of the current top 100 fastest-rising Google search queries in the U.S. Users can also select specific dates to see what the top-rising searches were at a given point in time.For years, Google has produced a manually compiled list of popular searches called the Google Zeitgeist....

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Encouragement for Teachers

This is just a quick thought to all of you teachers out there who are so busy that you cannot breathe!It is tough with all of the things that we have on us and so many people misunderstand the teaching profession,"Oh, I'd love to have my summers off... you teachers don't have to work in the 'real world.'"To which I respond,"I've worked in the 'real' world, and I love the classroom, although my hours are MUCH longer, and I make...

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Real-Time Newsmakers Capture Weekly Google Zeitgeist

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Are kids too much of an open book on Facebook

Thank you to Christopher Sessums for sharing this video about Facebook. I'm going to share it with my students. (I also found it on youtube but the link above is another site.)Again, educate students about their privacy. What they don't know may come back to haunt them.Their privacy is a very valuable thing! It should be treated with care.tag: Facebook, Christopher Sess...

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An easy way to attend the conference: Listen live at EdTechTalk

Just a note! I have grading to do today but want to listen in on the Webheads Conference, so I went over to http://www.edtechtalk.com/listen and am listening to the current sessions. Jeff Lebow and Dave Cormier are doing an incredible service to the educational community and are going into the sessions and "snagging" the stream out. This way you can listen and grade or work.The only disadvantage is you don't see the slides nor...

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If you're online you should be at the Free Online Conference: Webhead Convergence

All educators who are online and have a moment, should take advantage of the incredible resource put on by the "WebHeads" -- this group of people has worked very hard to bring us an incredible K-20 conference for educators.The CURRENT event can be seen at the bottom of http://www.webheadsinaction.org/.You'll see more training that you can...

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Summary videos from 9th grade efolios

I've been grading the efolio portion of the 9th grade portfolios. These are done on our wiki. Here are a couple of highlight videos that I particularly liked.Note: the video he talked about in this was never uploaded. We probably upload about 60% of our videos, some of them, while great for classroom use and discussion may not be appropriate for being available on the Intern...

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Meet your Mobile Phone 2020

From Julie's Blog today, I found these videos from the horizon project:Atif from the ISD school in Bangladesh has done a great job with his mobile phone video. Wow!Or how about Ginger from the Shanghai School in China.I am going to enjoy watching all of the videos this summer. I am learning so much and am excited about the quality of these videos and what I am learning from them.David Warlick may not know this, but an e-mail...

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Terry Freedman's interview about Horizon

We sat down with Terry via Google Docs recently and answered his questions about horizon. Thank you, Terry, for your kind words and for your promotion of global collaborative projects.Had a great youth summit session today in elluminate (even though I was home sick) we elluminated anyway! It was wonderful and full of the ups and downs of all learning. (This was their second time in elluminate.) I will share the link here when...

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Google Begins Move to Universal Search

Google Introduces New Search Features and Unveils New Homepage DesignMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (May 16, 2007) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced its critical first steps toward a universal search model that will offer users a more integrated and comprehensive way to search for and view information online. The company also introduced an updated homepage design and several new navigation features that make it faster and easier...

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Stephen Downes on edtechtalk NOW!

If you're online right now, Stephen Downes is joining us over at edtechtalk.com right now! Some exciting discussions planned with Sharon Peters moderati...

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Virtual Worlds Videos from the Horizon

This is the video from the Virtual Worlds project manager, Collin, and co-stars his partners in this project:I also love Andrew S's vision of the future with virtual worlds which he animated in Flash/ Movie Maker. What a fascinating project! I've learned so much from all of the students and look forward to sharing many videos with you from all classrooms. I share these first just because I watched them being made! This next...

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Today's youth summit in Elluminate

The road into a new horizon is full of bumps as shown by today's youth summit. I thought my students did well for their first time in elluminate. After their obligatory 5 minutes of playing with the whiteboard, we settled down to business with the students improving as they went.Here is the recording (bumps and all!)https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2007-05-15.1116.M.ADFF8C3E3AAFB018014C360A1494EB.vcrFor the upcoming schedule...

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Google to Offer Live Webcast of Searchology Press Conference Tomorrow

AnnouncementMay 15, 2007WHO: Google Inc.WHAT: Live webcast of Google’s upcoming invitation-only Searchology™ press conference to be held at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters.WHEN: Wednesday, May 16th, 9:30am – 12:30pm PDTWHERE: google.client.shareholder.com/visitors/event/build2/mediapresentation.cfm?MediaID=25550&Player;=1WHY: Google to highlight the latest news on search innovations. Featured speakers will include Marissa...

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Google to Present at Upcoming Investor Events

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 15, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that it will present at the following investor events:JMP Securities Research ConferenceGokul Rajaram, Product Management DirectorMonday, May 21, 20072:30 p.m. ET / 11:30 a.m. PTGoldman Sachs Eighth Annual Internet ConferenceAlan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Engineering & ResearchJeff Huber, Vice President, EngineeringThursday, May 24, 200711:45...

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Social Networking: The must see video from horizon!

The youth summit kicks off in about 30 minutes. We're excited! Just a quick preview. I've been looking at videos and will be sharing many of them with you here. Here is one from the project manager of social networking. (Yes, it stars me as "Mean Cat teacher.") All of the teams have worked very hard and I will make sure that I share with you from all of th...

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The Essay that Rocked my world: The Personal side of LD

a simulpost with TechLearningYesterday at the Rotary Club I sat there with tears in my eyes listening to my sixth grader win an essay contest. Only I and a few others knew that only three years earlier he could barely compose a legible paragraph. It was third grade and my son suddenly went from a high achieving, well behaved child to one who...

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Speak out about Edubloggercon for NECC

Steve Hargadon has posted the schedule for Edubloggerconn on the wiki.It is scheduled for Saturday, June 23rd from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm but you can drop in and out. Check who is attending and add your name. We'll talk more lat...

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Plans announced to create the Encyclopedia of Life

source: San Jose Mercury NewsThe Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org) will take approximately 10 years to create according to its founders, who will announce the effort in Washington DC today. Who are they? Some of the world's leading scientific institutions and universities in the world.They plan to catalog and share information on all of the species of animals and will allow information on SIGHTINGS from "amateurs."Projected...

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2 Million Online Vids for Mickey Mouse

Disney announces that they have sold 2 million online videos through iTunes, 23.7 million shows, and 92 million ad-supported show episodes. The article at ZDNET discusses how Disney has been revamping their online activities to include more social networking capabilities and a move towards more video on demand services delivered through the Internet.Are classrooms moving online?We continue to move towards Internet delivery of...

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New Version of Google Analytics Now Available Worldwide: More Features, Even Easier to Use, and Best of All, Still Free

Mountain View, Calif. – May 8, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced a new version of its powerful web analytics solution, Google Analytics™. The new version of Google Analytics was unveiled today at the EMetrics Summit taking place in San Francisco. Google Analytics, a free enterprise-class solution, enables executives, marketers and website owners to understand how their users interact with their website and help...

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Karl Fish's SHIFT HAPPENS presentation wins "Best Presentation in the World"

Interesting thing here -- I've congratulated the wrong person -- the creator as seen in the comments is Jbrenamen. It looks like he did a remix.I think some interesting conversations will happen about this one!Congratulations to Karl Fisch who is adding to his growing list of awards with his SlideShare presentation Shift Happens. (Hat tip for this info to Jose Luis Cabello via twitter.)Slideshare has named this presentation...

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