Google Teams Up with Leading Artists to Create New Themes for iGoogle

AnnouncementApril 30, 2008Today, we launched a collection of new themes created by leading artists for iGoogle, Google’s personalized homepage. With iGoogle, users can access and arrange the content they want on their homepage to personalize their web experience.We’ve collaborated with almost 70 artists from around the world, inviting them to use iGoogle as their canvas by creating unique, dynamic themes for our users to personalize...

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DoubleClick Mobile Integrates with Mobile Ad Networks

Integration Enables both Direct and Indirect Revenue Streams for Mobile PublishersNEW YORK, NY – April 30, 2008 – DoubleClick, a premier provider of digital marketing technology and services, today announced that DoubleClick Mobile, the company’s advertising delivery system for mobile devices, is integrating with mobile ad networks including AdMob, Google’s AdSense™ for mobile content, and Millennial Media’s premium MBrand network...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/30/2008

horizonproject2008 » Video SpecificationsThis page outlines how we are sharing video on the Horizon project this year. After literally hours of testing to overcome the "youtube barrier" we have worked out how to use Ning as our video sharing and embedding platform.Using tools like a firefox plug in that allows downloading of any video AND zamzar, these 7 videos literally show you how you may "snag" and edit any video. Just remember...

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Upcoming Events & PD w/ Me (and others)

Here are some upcoming events (some free and some not) I'd like to share with you. All of them have live elements that you may want to join!Sounding Board Informational MeetingKim CofinoWed April 30th at 11:00 am UTC (see local times here). You can access the session via the link on the Sounding Board page. There is still time to sign up your classroom to be a peer review classroom for the horizon project.Innovative Uses of...

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Google Maps Street View now available in driving directions

AnnouncementApril 29, 2008Starting today, finding your way around town will be easier than ever: Street View is now integrated into Google Maps driving directions. In the regions across the country where Google Maps Street View imagery is available, users will see camera icons next to each step of their directions, which will open a Street View image of the location, along with an arrow showing the action to be taken. Users can...

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Google Announces Availability of Additional Proxy Materials

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 28, 2008 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that additional proxy materials are available for its stockholders in connection with the 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on Thursday, May 8, 2008.The additional proxy materials are available at the following websites: www.sec.gov, investor.google.com/proxy.html, www.proxyvote.com/ (beneficial stockholders) and www.envisionreports.com/goog...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/26/2008

techLEARNING.com | Technology & Learning - The Resource for Education Technology LeadersThis webinar is Monday about Web 2.0 and I'm co-presenting. If you attend, you'll receive a 3 month free trial subscription to Atomic Learning. Preregister here.This will give you access to the series I did on Web 2.0 and how to set up an RSS reader, etc. Also, the new one I've done on Flattening your classroom will be available as well.tags:...

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38 Birthday presents from CoolCatTeacher to you!

Happy Birthday to Me! Wow! Your twitters, skypes, little e-mail notes and more have really made today special. In addition, my family was wonderful and my amazing husband sent me flowers. Although I still have a stack of grading from here to Qatar - I had a good day.So, I thought that today, I'd give 38 presents to you for you to open and enjoy. One for each year of this amazing blessed life the good Lord has seen fit to...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/25/2008

Home - Microsoft PopflyMicrosoft Popfly lets you make mashups and build web pages without knowing code. I am to the point I don't teach the detailed web site creation coding I used to. I teach RSS, embedding, creating wikis, uploading media of all kinds, but I just don't know how important coding is any more at the basic level.I want to spend some time tinkering with this.tags: mashup, microsoft, education, ad4dcss, geeks4,...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/23/2008

Intel® Mash MakerIntel Mashmaker is a tool that you download and "mashup" sites together. It is supposed to allow average everyday people to be able to mashup google sites, flickr, almost anything with what programmers call an api. tags: hzmeta, mashup, education, techintegra...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/22/2008

You got the love? My week at Suffern Middle School | Welcome to NCS-Tech!Kevin Jarrett talks about his week at one of the leaders in innovative technology, suffern Middle School. An excellent read to see what this digital revolution is all about. Wow!tags: education, bestpractice, digital_access, digital_literacy, ad4dcss, blocked_blogs, bestpractices, edu_trends, techintegratorWikinomics » Blog Archive » How mass collaboration...

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Google Launches Developer Sandbox for iGoogle

AnnouncementApril 21, 2008Today, Google opened a sandbox for developers to help them build richer gadgets for iGoogle, which will offer users more powerful and interactive features. To ensure developers get the most out of their gadgets, we’ve also launched an updated developer website which guides developers through building and distributing gadgets to iGoogle’s growing audience.iGoogle’s new features will include left navigation,...

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Let me Fall! Inspirational Song & Performance by Cirque du Soleil

In this, I see so much of what happens when I work with students. Sometimes, we do our best to warn students and yet, they make mistakes and fall. But we love them anyway.The classroom should be a place where mistakes (of the non life-threatening kind) are allowed and welcomed. If they already know it all, then why are we teaching it?I needed to hear this song this week. It is just beautiful and I see what happens in my classroom...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/21/2008

Reaching Out With Your Conference | 2¢ WorthExcellent article for conference organizers from David Warlick. He has some great recommendations and links to the works from a conference in California this week.Conferences are setting up social networks as a best practice. As these handy sites go mainstream, effective use of such networks seems to be increasingly an important understanding for students as behavior on these sites...

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Free Conference May 2nd at Princeton: I'll be there

I'm very excited about the upcoming "Students and Electronic Media: Teaching in the Technological Age" at Princeton on May 2nd on May 2nd. I will be presenting along with some other amazing speakers.Also, I plan to make an appearance at the free Parent Seminar the night before (May 1 from 7 - 9 pm,) although I have no formal part, I want to see how they handle this and discuss it with parents.The conference on May 2nd has the...

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What are the 10 best videos for promoting educational change?

We are working to add the 10 BEST videos on educational change to the wiki. What are they? Where should they go (looking for the best on each topic.)When we give people these videos, we're giving them something that helps them "sell" what they are doing . I suggest showing these videos for professional development, school boards, and anyone who cares about education.We've started a page for your nominations for the best videos....

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/18/2008

wikisinEFL » Wikis in EFLA website with examples of best practices of wikis used in EFL (english as a foreign language) classes. Excellent. Kudos to this!tags: education, ad4dcss, digital_communication, bestpractice, case_studiesfrontierlict » homeThis is a wiki being built for a digital literacy program for teachers within a school division. This approach is a great one for districts and is a way to reach everyone with current...

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Amazing deep learning on a sick day! This floors me!

Just got home late from a track meet and came in to check the Digiteen and Horizon Project nings. I found this amusing blog entry from Nyomi L at the Baccalaureate School for Global Education (NYC - USA) entitled "Sick Day.""Alright well, today I missed school to go to the doctor to deal with some breathing problems that I've been troubled with and after that, I happened to see a copy of Wikinomics staring at me from behind a...

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Google Announces First Quarter 2008 Results*

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/17/2008

Blogdimension - The Web 2.0 search engine!A search engine that just aggregates web 2.0 stuff. I found this interesting.tags: brightideas, education, edu_newapp, toolsArtsonia Kids Art Museum — The Largest Student Art Gallery on the Web!This site claims to be the largest student arts gallery on the web! Looks fascinating. Not sure how they use first names and locations and get away with it. I'd like to know what those who have...

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Take a look at what has happened in 72 hours.

a cross post at the Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety, and Success blogSince this project is now 72 hours old, I thought we'd give a few stats for what is happening!We have 27 people signed up on the Advocates public list.16 Readers for our Blog (Feed set up 24 hours a go.) Over 1200 views of the wiki, with 70 edits, and visits from 9 countries and more than 300 unique visitors and 64 members.74 bookmarks sent to the diigo...

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Check Out the Latest Version of Google Earth

AnnouncementApril 16, 2008Today we’re introducing a new version of the Google Earth desktop client. The new release, Google Earth version 4.3, greatly advances our vision of offering a realistic, 3D model of the world in Google Earth by giving users a higher quality, more immersive experience. Google Earth 4.3 also adds more realistic, real-world data so users have more ways to discover and explore all the interesting features...

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Google’s Website Optimizer gains independence and blog, offering value "beyond the click"

AnnouncementApril 16, 2008Today at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, Google Website Optimizer™ launched out of beta as an independent product. Formerly a feature within the Google AdWords™ advertising service only, this free website-testing tool is now accessible through its own website (www.google.com/websiteoptimizer) as well. In addition, Google’s Website Optimizer has introduced its own blog (websiteoptimizer.blogspot.com).Google...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 04/16/2008

Technology Integration Matrix - AnnotatedTechnology integration matrix from Florida. This amazing resource was picked up from Lucy Gray. Really amazing.tags: education, techintegrator, technology, curriculum, digital_literacy, bestpractice, ad4dcssWelcome to the Webby AwardsWebby awards voting is open now. Very cool. Voting closes May 1st and some cool things are there. How about having students vote (but check the sites in...

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Advocate Action is Heating Up

simulpost with Advocates 4 Digital Citizenship, Safety, and Success blogJust a quick update on this. I'll still keep my focus over here, but we're starting a group blog that I think will end up being much bigger than I. We're looking for a few passionate bloggers to join the group over there with me. Drop me a line!We've created one page to monitor all of the activities for this project - http://www.netvibes.com/coolcatteacher#Ad4dcssWhere...

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