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EdTechWeekly #177

December 12, 2010 

The EdTechWeekly crew takes and old-school look at some of the recent news and resources from the educational technology world.

Dave's Links:

• http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ejzfp/paypal_shut_my_account_today_because_my_business/ paypal cancelling accounts of clients who give to wikileaks
• http://ds106.us/ The reverend, and digital storytelling
• http://www.hedgehogs.net/mod/hedgehogs_theme_index/learnmore.php# curverider sold. elgg moves forward with non-for-profit
• http://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=2241 Canadian elearning conference extended deadline for proposals, starting line for registrations
• http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/pew-twitters-your-place-news PEW twitter research
• http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/ The shadow scholar

Jen's Links:

• Google ebooks: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/06/google-ebooks-e-reading-takes-to-the-cloud ; http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/overview.html ; http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices ;
• Keep ahead of the crowd with info on a curated list of cool new sites http://betali.st/
• Microsoft Introduces Montage, a Magazine-Like, Topic-Based Web App: http://mashable.com/2010/12/11/microsoft-montage ; http://montage.cloudapp.net/edit/fc12c674-2f28-4a09-acfb-03afd971b04a?topic=chicago%20bears
• OS Marketshare: http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-hits-25-market-share-xp-sinks-to-50 ; http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Microsoft-Patch-Tuesday-to-End-Year-With-Massive-Update-526090
• iPad2 Rumors: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/12/apple-supplier-foxconn-ready-for-ipad-2-production-in-february-2011.ars
• Chrome CR48 Overview: http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/07/google-unveils-cr-48-the-first-chrome-os-laptop
• The year in review from google: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2010

John's Links:

• Jolicloud: http://www.jolicloud.com/
• Chrome OS looking for piloters: http://www.google.com/chromeos 
• US National Education Technology Plan: http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010
• Layar :http://www.layar.com/
• 5 Fun and Safe Social Networks for Children: http://mashable.com/2010/10/11/social-networks-children/
• 12 Videos to Spark Educators' Thinking: http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2010/11/12-videos-to-spark-educators-thinking.html
• Diana Laufenberg at TEDxMidAtlantic: http://ecram3.blogspot.com/2010/11/diana-laufenberg-tedxmidatlantic.html

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EdTechWeekly #174

November 14, 2010 

Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John 

Dave's Link: As a follow up for last week's "online PhDs are awesome" discussion http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/education/10kaplan.html?_r=1&src=tptw NYT's article on Kaplan and lobbying to go with our own fun at UPEI. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/11/10/pe-upei-degree-maclaughlan-584.html?ref=rss#socialcomments

Jen's Link: Hard to NOT mention the #boycott amazon uproar this week. Jen used the story as an opportunity to try out tweet doc -> http://www.tweetdoc.org. Check out the boycott amazon tweets linked here if you were hiding under a rock on Wednesday and Thursday ... or if you just want to see how tweet doc functions :) ... http://tweetdoc.org/View/6387/Boycott-Amazon

John's Link:  If we're talking about books, there were a couple compelling book-related items that crossed my radar this week. Adrian Hon, founder of Six Apart, addressed book piracy in an Op Ed in the Telegraph a couple weeks ago (Your time is up, publishers. Book piracy is about to arrive on a massive scale). And from Read Write Web comes a piece (Will Your Local Library Lend E-Books? (Or Can They?)) on the impact of e-books on the ability of libraries to legally lend resources. What better topics for one of the few weeks when we don't have a librarian as a guest?

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EdTechWeekly #172 

October 17, 2010

Regular hosts: Dave, Jen, John

Guest hosts: Lesley Edwards, Teacher/Librarian from North Vancouver, BC.

This Week's Menu:

• Dave's Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/learning_educational_technologies/media-literacy/new-media-literacy-critical-thinking-Howard-Rheingold-20071019.html

• Jen's Link: http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html As we head into our two-week hiatus, Jen needs a link-dump fix!! No better place than Jane Hart's latest round-up of top learning resource links. In her fourth attempt to poll the greater edtech community, Jane's 2010 Top 100 Tools for Learning list includes contributions from over 530 educators and "closed" for new contributions today .. Sunday, October 17th. Let's take a minute and consider some of our past and current favorites to give Jen her edtech resource fix for the next couple of weeks! [oooh ... another resource roundup via a tweet from our guest host ... http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/10/best-of-edtech-web-2010.html ]

• John's Link: What is the role of social networking in improving our world? Gladwell says Twitter is not the revolutionary tool it's made out to be. The Twitter founders disagree. Meanwhile, anecdotal evidence suggests that social networking tools are having a tremendous effect when people need help.

• Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not be Tweeted, Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker.

• Twitter Founders: Gladwell Got it Wrong, Liz Gannes, Gigaom.

• Social Networking to the Rescue, Alexandra Gekas, Woman's Day.

• Lesley Edwards: - Experts and Newbies: In this new blog 4 High Tech High teachers write their ideas and experiences around using Project Based Learning (by the Buck Institute for Education) http://biepbl.blogspot.com/ And: WhatEdSaid - blog by Edna Sackson, Melbourne Australia

•       http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/

•       http://twitter.com/whatedsaid

Next week: No show on October 24 or October 31. We return November 7 with Connie Sitterley, Teacher / Technology Integration Specialist from Pennsylvania, and Kyli Yerse, school technology consultant.

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