diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

  Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

  tags: primary source, social studies, curriculum, media, photography

• Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Blog Archive » Networked Student - The Video

  tags: pedagogy, network, social networking

• Playing with Vocabulary at Bionic Teaching

  tags: Language Arts, vocabulary, curriculum, multimedia

• The Fischbowl: Briefing 2.0

  state department briefing through the internet and You Tube.

  tags: youtube, social_studies, filtering, curriculum

• start · Rip Mix Learners

  This is the wiki for Rip Mix LearnERs to create courses and collect educational materials e.g. lecture note, lecture recordings, as well as Previous years Examination and test papers. These types of content are constantly being updated on the Rip Mix wiki for courses in BSc Natural Medicine, Computer Science and BComm (Accounts) to name a few.

  tags: rip-mix, learning, social networking, wikis, mashup

• Working Smart Exploratory

  tags: note taking, strategies, Vacca

• FINAL REPORT | DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH

  We include here the findings of three years of research on kids' informal learning with digital media. The two page summary incorporates a short, accessible version of our findings. The White Paper is a 30-page document prepared for the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Series. The book is an online version of our forthcoming book with MIT Press and incorporates the insights from 800 youth and young adults and over 5000 hours of online observations.

  tags: socialnetworking, web2.0, education

• NCTE Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment

  Today, the NCTE definition of 21st century literacies makes it clear that further evolution of curriculum, assessment, and teaching practice itself is necessary.

  tags: ncte, literacy, communication, Language Arts, English, curriculum

• Fed Blotter: Murder-For-Hire Plot Unfolds In Text Messages | Threat Level from Wired.com

  tags: murderforhire, cellphones, tech_and_society

• Enough to Go Around? Budget and TCO Tool Kit

  tags: professional_development, funding_ratios, tco

• Technology Funding: A How-To Guide | 21st Century Connections

  tags: professional_development, funding_ratios

• Mogulus Live Broadcast

  appears similar to ustream
  

  tags: streaming, web2.0, media, webcast

• Facebook | Videos Posted by Facebook: Sharing Around the World

  tags: facebook, visualization, professional_development

• Jumpchart - Simple Website Planning and Wireframing » Home

  tags: webdesign, tools, collaboration, development

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The Eyes Have It

A little over a week ago, I was in a two day workshop on Instructional Coaching. One of the conversations drifted to video recording the coach and/or the partner teacher to deconstruct lessons. The facilitator raised questions about how comfortable people would be with being recorded and there were many nodding heads. But just that morning, I had seen the Playskool dance cam advertised on TV.

Then, while skimming news feeds during the session, I came across this article on boingboing about a woman who lost an eye in an accident and would like it replaced with a webcam. Is camera shy becoming a generation gap issue? There are cameras everywhere; people are always taking pictures. Video is close behind. We have already seen early uses and abuses of this.



Trend Watch and the Mutation of Preference

Google.org has announced Flu Trend. This highly altruistic example of the power of mass aggregation of data must have all sorts of people salivating. Imagine being able to sort through all the signal noise and accurately predict an emerging trend. High tech cool hunting.

Researchers in Sweden have been working with little robots that emit patterns of light. When the person interacting with the robots sees a pleasing pattern, she gives the robot a shake. Robot A then goes out into the crowd of robots; when Robot A makes contact with Robot B, the pattern is passed on. Only the pattern is not static. Robot B had its own pattern, so when Robot A’s pattern is acquired it doesn’t so much replace Robot B’s pattern as alter it. Call it recombinant, or even mutated.



Assembly Required

So, cameras are everywhere; robots recognize the patterns we prefer and communicate those patterns to other robots; like a game of genetically-enhanced telephone, the patterns mutate; before anyone is even fully aware of what is happening, Google assembles the larger patterns that emerge from our expression of preferences and predicts any number of behavioral trends--traffic patterns, fashion trends, criminal activity.

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Photo credits
Playskool Dance Cam
Flu Trends graph
Woman holding eyeball

diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• Linda's Blog : Protecting Children From Online Sexual Predators

  To decrease a child's risk of sexual exploitation in every environment, there are several steps parents and caregivers should take:

  tags: predators, online_safety, internet safety, best practice, digital_safety, digital_communication

• Audiria.com - Free and Daily Spanish Podcasts

  tags: audio, podcast, Spanish, world language, curriculum

• BPSTILT Blog: Learning About Podcasts

  tags: world language, curriculum

• Jay Mathews - A Surprisingly Sensible 21st-Century Report - washingtonpost.com

  tags: washingtonpost, 21st-century-skills, assessment, assessmentof2.0products

• Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students : October 2008 : THE Journal

  tags: BlogsinSchools, technology-integration, integrating_technology

• BBC NEWS | Americas | Row over altered US Army photo

  tags: altered, journalism, photoediting, photoshop, ethics, medialiteracy

• Teen Kills Self on Justin.tv | Threat Level from Wired.com

  tags: justin.tv, online_safety, culture

• The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster

  Journal of Darth Vader, Lord of the Sith and Servant to His Supreme Excellency the Emperor Palpatine

  tags: blog, Language Arts, BlogsinSchools

• Welcome to South Brunswick Public Schools - Board of Education - School Information

  The South Brunswick School District believes that all students should have access to technology when they act in a responsible, efficient, courteous and legal manner. Internet access and other online services, available to students and teachers, offer a multitude of global resources. Our goal in providing these services is to enhance the educational development of our students. Acceptable uses of technology are devoted to activities that support teaching and learning.

  tags: aup, Policies

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: What happens when Google kills your student project: The death of Google Lively

  when web2.0 disappears

  tags: web2.0, educational-technology

• JPMorgan Chase: Giving

  tags: jpmorgan, grants, funding

• Qwest | About | Company Information

  tags: qwest, grants, funding

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diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows

  tags: converter, mpeg, software

• Free Video Chat and Video Conferencing from ooVoo

  tags: Videoconference, freeware, Chat, voip

• The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University

  tags: copyright, fairuse, education

• Copyright & Fair Use in Teaching Resources -- Center for Social Media at American University

  tags: copyr, copyright, fairuse, teaching

• Small Pieces Loosely Joined for Kids

  What the Web is For

  tags: web2.0, learning, technology, education

• Google Flu Trends

  First blush is "wow". Left wondering what this means long range in terms of disease prevention, date mining, data ownership, and privacy.

  tags: flu, health, science, curriculum

• Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread - NYTimes.com

  tags: science, curriculum

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diigo bookmarks (weekly)

• iTunes Installation Guide and Implications of the 4th Screen » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  tags: audio, video, professional_development

• Research-based suggestions for the digital storytelling process » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, audio, video, professional_development, researchbased

• The Snorkel: A Resource for Educational Technology Coordinators

  A support forum for K-12 Technology Leaders

  tags: technology, technology-integration, educational-technology

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• Dangerously Irrelevant: 2008 Education Blogosphere Survey results

  I’m both pleased and embarrassed to announce that the results from my second annual Education Blogosphere Survey are now available. Pleased to finally be done and that there were 419 participants. Embarrassed that the gestation almost exceeded that of a human newborn. Thank you, Dan Meyer, for politely staying on my case about this. I hope the results are worth the wait.

  tags: Blogging, survey, professional_development

• Quia - Quia Web - Annotated

  has a number of recall-level activities in a variety of subjects

  tags: assessment, quizzes, world language, curriculum

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