EdTechWeekly #107 with guest Angela Maiers

18:59:52 matt montagne -> JL...u gotta give us rundown of the storm...wondering what that was like
19:00:02 jeff -> very icy
19:00:17 jeff -> and there's this strange constant crackling in the trees
19:00:45 sharonp -> I am recovering from whiplash after hitting the icy patch on the top of my porch stairs the other night .... tumbled all the way down... :-(
19:01:25 jan smith -> like that: scope without sequence
19:01:39 jan smith -> hope you are ok, sharon
19:01:43 sharonp -> Jeff, we woke up with no power Wednesday AM, was a few hours before we had ti back
19:01:56 jeff -> heading in to hour 69 here
19:02:01 sharonp -> yikes
19:02:17 sharonp -> do you want Quebec hydro to come and rescue you?
19:02:48 sharonp -> I disagree with you DAve
19:02:59 jan smith -> different...
19:02:59 dave -> thanks sharon
19:03:00 sharonp -> LOL
19:03:12 dave -> did you like my 'little lies' comments from thursday?
19:03:16 JenW -> I would agree with Dave if I remembered which one he was  :0
19:03:37 matt montagne -> sharon...did the storm hit montreal area hard as well??
19:03:38 jan smith -> Is there a ustream?
19:03:43 sharonp -> oh yes, loved it.... someone saying out loud that the Emperor appears to be naked
19:03:57 Scott Shelhart -> I have audio - no video.
19:04:31 sharonp -> @matt we had about 15000 people without power.... all back by end of day... not as bad as NH, obviously
19:04:50 jan smith -> you sound great
19:04:52 matt montagne -> @sharon...ahh...and I hope you are feeling OK after the fall...
19:05:00 sharonp -> don't think we have the pleasure of video tonight
19:05:06 Gary -> @Scott - don't think there is video
19:05:19 moixland -> sound great
19:05:55 sharonp -> @matt on robaxet and heating pads...
19:06:15 dave -> http://tinyurl.com/5uj9wg

19:06:18 sharonp -> I miss John....
19:06:21 dave -> http://www.idsnews.com/news/orienter/story.aspx?story_id=12301&section=life
19:07:29 sharonp -> My husband had an old schoolfriend post their gr. 4 class picture a couple of weeks ago
19:07:52 matt montagne -> I'm gettin g a bit nervous with facebook as many of my college buddies are starting to use it and come on board...
19:07:56 sharonp -> of course, he wasted no time in getting out his old school albums and scanning MORE photos to post on FB
19:08:00 MikeSansone -> anyone seen the PSA on YouTube with offline version of photos posted on a school hallway bulletin board?
19:08:09 matt montagne -> not nervious about any photos now, but it is the old ones from college
19:08:28 JenM -> Microsoft stuff: http://visitmix.com/Lab/Oxite
19:08:55 dave -> @matt yes... that's exactly the issue isn't it :)
19:09:26 jan smith -> @mike, yes, really great for kids to see & talk about
19:09:55 DaveC -> ... half a dozen pdf readers...
19:10:07 dave -> is there a frickin' echo?
19:10:19 dave -> i swear i hear this every week ;-)
19:10:38 matt montagne -> I can tell u that they (vista machines) are a PIA for joining WiFi networks...every time a student brings one in it is an adventure...just no consistency in wifi card management
19:10:42 jeff -> http://www.nicetranslator.com/
19:10:45 angelamaiers -> Hi Durff!
19:10:54 Cathy E -> no echo here - audio is great
19:11:03 mrsdurff -> reverse psychology of Microsoft
19:11:08 mrsdurff -> hi angela
19:11:14 sroseman -> where is the audio again
19:11:28 jeff -> ustream or ETT A
19:11:32 mrsdurff -> put another of you videos up for 7th grade this coming week
19:11:34 jeff -> http://edtechtalk.com/live
19:12:05 angelamaiers -> http://storynory.com/
19:12:05 JenM -> http://speakaboos.com/
19:12:27 mrsdurff -> click the fingers people
19:12:33 mrsdurff -> make them hurry
19:12:40 angelamaiers -> http://www.nibipedia.com/app.html
19:12:57 DaveC -> They're pushing hard on the ed community.
19:13:00 mrsdurff -> they did this site lastt week
19:13:24 dave -> http://www.macworld.com/article/136007/2008/10/wunderradio.html
19:13:35 mrsdurff -> of course he did
19:14:01 kevinh -> Yes!
19:14:13 mrsdurff -> hi kevin
19:14:19 kevinh -> AOL radio is good too
19:14:24 kevinh -> Hi
19:14:36 mrsdurff -> I like Jango
19:14:47 JenM -> One Dollar Diet Project: http://onedollardietproject.wordpress.com/
19:14:51 Gary -> Dave is admiring a Apple product!
19:15:08 matt montagne -> I'm skeptical...just not a fan of reading long copy on iPHone and doing extrensive writing...
19:15:10 mrsdurff -> who needs to lose wait now?
19:15:14 dave -> @Gary finally saw something good
19:15:18 dave -> :)
19:15:19 mrsdurff -> after the holidays i see it
19:15:46 Gary -> Step 1 to the light side.
19:16:10 mrsdurff -> antithesis of western lifestyle
19:16:11 jeff -> http://quizlet.com/   
19:16:42 DaveC -> And written by high school students, IIRC
19:16:56 jeff -> http://www.braingle.com/
19:17:26 mrsdurff -> Jeff isn't the curmudegon in this group
19:17:35 jeff -> Thanks mrs. d
19:17:43 mrsdurff -> your welcome
19:17:45 angelamaiers -> http://www.visiblebody.com/
19:17:48 JenM -> oh ... pa-lease, durff!
19:18:15 angelamaiers -> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_gladwell?cur...
19:18:51 angelamaiers -> http://www.schoolmatters.com/americasbest/gold
19:19:23 Gary -> How were they ranked?
19:19:32 dave -> http://nettuts.com/articles/web-roundups/jquery-for-absolute-beginners-v...
19:20:32 JenM -> Resizer: http://resizeimage.org/
19:21:06 jeff -> http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/primary.html    
19:21:21 matt montagne -> I've been loving skitch on the mac for quick image resizes...
19:21:35 jeff -> http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-f...
19:21:49 JenM -> I'm a microsoft fan-girl and we don't have such a fun thing, Matt :)
19:23:14 angelamaiers -> http://www.twitblogs.com/login
19:24:11 matt montagne -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles  link on articles that wikipedia is in need of...we're talking about working with a group of students at my school to pick one and develp the article (using primary, secondary sources, etc).
19:24:36 angelamaiers -> http://www.elllo.org/english/About.htm
19:25:06 dave -> http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/selfdiscipline.htm
19:25:36 mrsdurff -> and dave who isn't
19:25:40 angelamaiers -> http://delicious4teachers.pbwiki.com/
19:26:13 JenM -> Twitter Stuff: http://tweetwasters.com/ ... and ... http://remindr.info/
19:27:30 mrsdurff -> JEN!
19:27:36 matt montagne -> hey , I'm digging the little task list app that just came out for gmail...that is pretty nifty...
19:28:10 dave -> this is what i tweeted today http://twitpic.com/suk3
19:28:26 jeff -> http://k12.customguide.com/       http://mashable.com/2008/12/12/gmail-pdf-viewer/
19:28:33 sharonp -> hey, am doing my course project on twitter - loving these links!
19:28:51 sharonp -> @matt going to be checking that out soon
19:29:13 sroseman -> try http://twitter.grader.com
19:29:19 sharonp -> How cool is that !
19:29:29 sharonp -> @sue yup, did that
19:29:37 Scott Shelhart -> http://www.skyfire.com/  I put this on my phone this week.  Now I can watch flash video on win. mobile
19:29:58 angelamaiers -> http://brightkit.com/dashboard
19:30:45 angelamaiers -> compfight.com
19:30:56 mrsdurff -> hi john
19:31:02 JohnS -> hey...
19:31:04 angelamaiers -> http://www.thecurrencyofthefuture.com/The_Currency_Of_The_Future_video.html
19:31:25 sroseman -> Yes
19:31:30 dave -> http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/?
19:31:50 sharonp -> LOL
19:33:46 JohnS -> Had one once that didn't bother to copy/paste. Just printed out the web page and turned it in.
19:34:00 JenM -> Screen Capture Tools: http://blog.go2web20.net/2008/05/best-screen-capture-tools.html
19:34:10 matt montagne -> we have a teacher who posted a spoof that he wrote on metamorphisis back in the early 80s...he gets hate mail from students all the time who copied his piece to use as their own...pretty funny!
19:34:44 mrsdurff -> now that IS funny
19:34:54 jeff -> http://www.hidefconferencing.com/index.jsp        http://fonolo.com/home
19:36:07 matt montagne -> http://www.halfaya.org/leo/writing/story/crime.html  Here is his article...he actually received an email from a student in a class that used his article as a lesson recently...
19:36:14 mrsdurff -> what time are the edublog awards?
19:36:35 mrsdurff -> ty
19:36:53 dave -> http://edublogawards.com/
19:37:12 mrsdurff -> oh yes! love to break things
19:37:37 mrsdurff -> I have a Christmas party at that time - oh well
19:38:12 mrsdurff -> great idea
19:38:53 angelamaiers -> http://www.flipclips.com/
19:39:09 angelamaiers -> http://www.twitlonger.com/
19:39:26 angelamaiers -> http://twistory.net/
19:39:58 angelamaiers -> http://www.visuwords.com/
19:40:32 dave -> http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/hp-begins-offering-linux-on-enterpris...
19:40:35 JohnS -> Wow. She's good. Much better than that other guy you used to have.
19:40:40 dave -> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j27byHk1EAb3KhBo1ePXyg...
19:40:47 Scott Shelhart -> angela is rocking the links. good job
19:40:53 dave -> http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy?ob4
19:41:16 sharonp -> @JohnS I think that other guy should be worried about being invited back
19:41:27 JenM -> Project management: http://www.slifelabs.com/
19:41:27 JohnS -> no doubt
19:41:51 JenM -> http://sprintsweets.com/
19:41:54 randyn -> THANK YOU!!! (calculus rules) :)
19:42:18 jeff -> http://shoutem.com/ 
19:42:24 jeff -> http://edumuve.com/tour/
19:42:38 jeff -> http://www.kindersite.org/
19:42:40 JenM -> Sprint sweets from ihancock ... thank you!
19:42:56 angelamaiers -> http://www.youtube.com/user/statevideo
19:43:40 angelamaiers -> http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/tools.htm
19:44:00 kevinh -> Time to rethink a few things
19:44:02 mrsdurff -> the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing and doesn't care
19:44:06 angelamaiers -> http://flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/3096825156/?addedcomment=1#comment72...
19:44:36 angelamaiers -> http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=56397
19:44:49 JenM -> Angela's Blog ... http://angelamaiers.typepad.com/
19:45:37 mrsdurff -> you seem like an expert to me
19:45:39 troyapeterson -> Angela kinda' rocks!
19:45:54 JenM -> http://news.cnet.com/2100-1008_3-6149636.html
19:45:57 sharonp -> Great job, Angela! am very impressed
19:46:04 angelamaiers -> Awh! You guys are awesome!
19:46:13 Scott Shelhart -> http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm   the end
19:46:33 angelamaiers -> Together we r smarter
19:46:33 mrsdurff -> who is next week?
19:46:38 matt montagne -> nice job Angela!!!
19:47:29 mrsdurff -> break it!
19:47:41 jeff -> Skype to +9900827048484880
19:48:00 jeff -> USA 1-201-793-9022 , 8484880#
19:48:13 troyapeterson -> Let's break it yo!!
19:48:33 mrsdurff -> getting invalid phone #
19:50:06 mrsdurff -> call the 1-201 #
19:50:17 mrsdurff -> then enter the conf #
19:50:28 mrsdurff -> mute stream as you enter
19:50:59 mrsdurff -> i can't see who else in the call like in a skype call
19:51:31 JenM -> @durff ... yep ... I wonder if jeff can share a screen like that with us?
19:51:35 mrsdurff -> so how will we know how many in the call?
19:52:36 kevinh -> Hey Durf!
19:52:41 mrsdurff -> hey
19:53:14 James Sigler -> What are you trying to break now?
19:53:38 moixland -> trying to break the conferencing system.  Use the info on bottom right to call in
19:55:00 James Sigler -> Is there video or just audio?
19:55:16 JenM -> just video
19:55:22 JenM -> ooops ... just AUDIO
19:55:26 JenM -> duh! sorry!
19:56:10 JenM -> wow!
19:56:36 JenM -> muted 'cuz Tom is back from out of the closet
19:56:41 James Sigler -> Is this phone conference?
19:57:13 mrsdurff -> yes
19:57:18 JenM -> [jeff] Skype to +9900827048484880 [jeff] USA 1-201-793-9022 , 8484880#
19:57:33 James Sigler -> Is the skype # a Skype out #?
19:58:03 jeff -> http://www.hidefconferencing.com
19:58:08 JenM -> James ... you can call using skype (not skype out) or via a phone
19:59:06 troyapeterson -> representin' the Midwest
19:59:15 kevinh -> Thanks all
20:00:04 Gary -> Thanks again!
20:00:22 kevinh -> Night! : )
20:00:29 randyn -> night
20:00:36 JenM -> night, all ... Thank you!
20:00:55 James Sigler -> That had great sound quality
20:00:59 mrsdurff -> night
20:01:10 jeff -> Thanks all
20:01:28 James Sigler -> night
20:04:06 PeggyG -> Just in time for the wrap up :-( Sorry I missed the show