Classroom 2.0 Panel

Getting ready to start a classroom 2.0 panel -- going to participate and take notes in backchannel today - http://www.chatzy.com/610230759294 -- password is:  neccHyperlink for page - http://necc2008.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1997968%3ATopic%3A11...

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Live blogging Chris Dede- Assessment of Immersive Environments - #necc 2008

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Live Blogging Keynote - Wisdom of Crowds NECC

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/29/2008

Handipoints LoginCool page to work with children. Can also use with a personal report card and add teachers.tags: education, all_teachers, edu_new...

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Live Blogging Edubloggercon at NECC

Ustream channelBroadcast by Ustream.TVWill be live blogging Edubloggercon here.May have some other people join me.Also, a monstrous group chat is evolving here. (Passcode: bikx9...

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Laughing at Wife of the Year: Elaine Freedman (Terry's wife!)

Adding to my list of reasons to go back to England, my friend Terry just sent me this hilarious video where he interviewed his wife.I love her! Like I always say, behind every great man is a woman who keeps him humble! Elaine Freedman, you're my kind of woman -- I want to meet you! I just love Terry -- he is one of my most trusted advisors and has been one of our many amazing researcher/pedagogical experts who tells us the truth...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/27/2008

techLEARNING.com | Web 2.0: from Curious to CompetentNew web 2.0 ebook - I haven't read it yet, but would like to see your thoughts on this. Those who read book get 30 days of atomic learning.tags: education, web2.0, technology, techintegrator, professionaldevelopmentThe Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives | WHDbVery nice article sharing about the open source alternatives to proprietary...

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A photographic journey into plurk: See for yourself before you jump the twittership

BubbleShare: Share photos - Powered by BubbleShareI chronicled my trip from Twitter frustration to curiosity about plurk. Follow the journey. However, as you can tell, my recommendation is, don't jump the twitter ship yet.Plurk isn't instant, you can't import your e-mail, although it says you can. There are features in there that just don't work, and yet plurk doesn't say it is in "beta." I really like the interface of twitter...

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Help my friend Scott, we need your clicks

A friend of mine from high school, Scott Rigsby, is the first double amputee to complete an iron man in history.We did an amazing interview with him on Wow2 a while back and I've blogged about him before. I'm asking you to do me a favor, he is in the running for the "Energizer Keep going Hall of Fame" but it is determined by votes.You may vote here once a day until July 26. (and read more about the contest)Please help me help...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/26/2008

K12 Online Conference 2008 | Announcing K12Online08 Keynotes!Keynotes for K12 online 2008 -- you have 16 days to submit your proposal. This is a wonderful conference and Julie and I are so excited to be keynoting the strand, "Kicking it up a notch" -- we're working hard when we meet at necc to "kick it up a notch" as we brainstorm on this keynote!tags: k12online2008, education, professionaldevelopmentPublishing : Posting to your...

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Notes from Google Teacher Academy

Notes from Google Teacher Academy Note: I took these notes in Google notebook and exported them to Google docs and after they were formatted, I posted to blogger from Google docs. Google Teacher Academy Teachers Going to Google :) Home - Teachers Going to Google :) This is what many of these teachers feel like -- 250 applications for...

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My day at Google Teacher Academy

Tomorrow on this blog, you'll get a lot of links. Also, I have a post coming from Google docs with my notes.Although it is 12:10 on the east coast and I'm dead tired, I just have to reflect on my thoughts about Google Teacher Academy today.It was a wonderful experience. To be here at such an icon of our time... the company who showed what it was like to become so wildly popular as to literally become a verb, I felt like a part...

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Bell Canada Executive Patrick Pichette to Join Google Executive Team

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (June 25, 2008) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Patrick Pichette will be named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Mr. Pichette served as President of Operations at Bell Canada, a leading global communications company.Mr. Pichette brings nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including 7 years at...

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Cartography for the Masses

AnnouncementJune 24, 2008Today, Google unveiled Google Map Maker, a new product that allows users to contribute and edit Maps data for regions around the world. Google Map Maker will initially be available in 18 countries: the Caribbean (Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines,...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/24/2008

A VC: Am I Bored With “Web 2.0”?Nice post. I think many of us are wanting to push past the cool and trivial and use Web 2.0 to do meaningful, authentic things (imagine how students feel.)I think a more important question is that "Are students bored with worksheets?" Authentic and network building experiences and learning should become part of what they do. They don't want the trivial any more than we do.tags: education, web_2.0,...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/23/2008

k12learning20 » homeThis cool course is fascinating. I've been getting a lot of links titled "Thing 1" or "Thing 8" -- didn't know what it was and now I do. The 23 things is a fascinating way to teach teachers about these tools. Great resource for professional developers to look at.tags: education, edu_trends, professionaldevelopmentSample TweetboardTweetboard lets you follow specific tweets with certain people. I asked yesterday...

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Slideshare group for your #NECC presentations

I've made an event in slideshare for your presentations for NECC. Just upload your presentation as usual and then add it to the event. (I do think you have to join the event first.)Also, the presentations that are uploaded have been added to the feeds on my NECC Netvibes page. This is yet another way to bring others in. IF you wonder why I'm using #necc in the title, it is so when my blog post is tweeted that it will be pulled...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/22/2008

Hashtags - NECCFor those of you who don't twitter but would like to follow what twitterers are saying about NECC -- this is one of the hashtags that may be used. To make this work for you, you must be following @hashtags and then use #necc in your title -- I like it sans date, but am finding some people using #necc08 and #necc2008. I'll probably use #necc to save tweetspace.tags: education, necc, necc2008, necc08Twitter Hashtags...

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Following NECC: Here's my RSS page

Every time my students and I have a new topic, we create a new PLN. A personal learning network in the form of an RSS page aggregates all things of interest and gives one a starting point.If you have netvibes, here is the page I've made over there, or you may click the button below to just add it to your own netvibes - Opening Twitter to...

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US Presidential Candidates Debate on Twitter

Well it SAYS it is an Obama/ McCain Twitter Debate, however, it is really some of their advisors. However, there is a "twitter" debate between the two candidates nonetheless.How does it work?How to play along:1) You can "follow" all three particpants via Twitter:Ana Marie Cox - moderator from Personal Democracy ForumMike Nelson, who's advising the Obama campaign on tech issueLiz Mair, online communcations director for the Republican...

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Math Videos and Math Cast Innovation in Sixth grade

A big hat tip to Eric Marcos, sixth grade math teacher at Lincoln Middle School in California.His video overview of the work of his students is inspiringHe and his students have co created the Math Train Podcast and Math Train TV.Mathtrain TV is a "free educational kids teaching kids project" created by he and his kids.I love these videos like this area of a target circle problem.I have so many questions that I want to ask Eric!...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/21/2008

High Techpectations: Survey Results GadgetsCool survey results gadgets from Lucy Gray -- very very cool for use with children and to demonstrate spreadsheets and charts. I like the little worms she used on her favorite colors chart.tags: education, elementary_teacher, spreadsheets, math, googledocsAdvocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety, and SuccessThis is the RSS page on netvibes that pulls together all of the most recent...

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Mainstream Media vs. Blogosphere: Mainstream Ed vs. Edublogosphere?

It is no secret that mainstream media tends to dislike the blogosphere and many bloggers (particularly political ones) dislike mainstream media.However, I find the current Associated Press assault on quotations used on the Drudge Retort (with links, mind you) as short as 35 words to be #1 Shortsighted and #2 the wrong thing to do for mainstream media. (Hat tip to Will Richardson and Jeff Jarvis.)It is all about eyeballs. Whoever...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/19/2008

Firefox web browser | International versions: Get Firefox in your languageFirefox 3 is available for download now and is in public preview mode. I'm downloading it tonight and by the time this posts on my blog in the morning, I'll have some thoughts to share. What do you think?tags: firefox, education, edu_newappExits: Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to YahooREsignation letter or work of prose? Although many...

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Let's look at Miguel's Idea: Positive Screensaver for Ed?

I'm fascinated by Miguel's Idea and wondering how it can best be done. Miguel says:"So, it occurs to me as I skim through the images in PassionQuilt08 on Flickr...what about a screensaver made of all these positive images? Wouldn't that be a conversation starter? The only problem...I'm not sure how to best go about this. Create a folder, drop the images in there, and then point your screensaver...

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Working on Google TCA & NECC presentations

While in the midst of a huge undertaking at our church this week, every afternoon and evening is spent working on presentations for the next two weeks. It will be a very exciting few weeks with many things planned. I'll keep "official" events on my public calendar on Airset and in the list below.I'm so excited about Google Teacher Academy next week and about Edubloggercon. Also, over the past few weeks, I've booked my school...

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Google Code Jam 2008: Programmers Worldwide Invited to Participate in Google’s Global Coding Competition

Registration opens June 17; regional finals to be held in October before grand final in Mountain View on November 14MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – June 17, 2008 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that registration is now open for Google Code Jam 2008. Programmers ready to use their coding skills, creativity, and ingenuity to solve a series of challenges can register at code.google.com/codejam. The top 500 contestants will win...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/17/2008

Funky Ways to Express Yourself - BeFunkyCool website that turns real photos into cartoons uvatar (looks more like you than a random avatar) and video cartoonizer (cool) which takes video and turns it into a cartoon. This should be another cool website to enjoy w/ your digital photography and eventually videos.tags: edu_newapp, technology, all_teachers, educat...

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A little Taxonomy with your Folksonomy?

Who am I?Well, when I use wordle to take a look at the tags I use in delicious, I see a lot about who I am.(to see the larger image of this picture, look at this Java image in the Wordle Gallery.)Wordle takes a word cloud of any text that you either paste in or your delicious tags. The larger the word, the more you use it. So, obviously,...

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Sites that Caught My Eye Today 06/13/2008

The Top 100 Management and Leadership Blogs That All Managers Should Bookmark - HR WorldThis lost of the top 100 Management and Leadership blogs may have some great blogs for administrators and headmasters to read.tags: education, administrator, bestpractices, edu_news, professionaldevelopmentPluto gets a new name: plutoid | Oddly Enough | ReutersOK, Pluto is now a "plutoid" as are many other asteroids that are the size of pluto...

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Google Announces Non-Exclusive Advertising Services Agreement with Yahoo! in U.S. and Canada

Companies will also Enable Interoperability Between Their Instant Messaging ServicesMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (June 12, 2008) – Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) today announced that it has reached an agreement that gives Yahoo! the ability to use Google’s search and contextual advertising technology through its AdSense™ for Search and AdSense for Content advertising programs. Under the agreement, Yahoo! has the option to display Google ads...

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