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EdTechBrainstorm.2007.10.18

Doug — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:21:04 -0500

This week we discuss the subject of homelessness, and I play a clip from an interview that I during a social services fair in Victoria, BC as part of Homelessness Action Week.We also talked about the self-advocacy work being done by and for homeless individuals at Homeless Nation

I was joined by Dave Cormier, Alice Mercer, Jeff Flynn and Arthus -- thanks to them and all who joined us in the text chat.

EdTechWeekly#42 - Open Education, Teacher in Space, Cambodian Blog Summit

admin — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:18:12 -0500

EdTechWeekly#42
Open Content dilemmas, teacher in space, Cambodian Blog Summit,
August 12, 2007

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James Stanger Interview

lee — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:22:11 -0500

Listen in to an interview I did with Dr. James Stanger, one of the experts from

EdTechTalk #79 - A Discussion with Curtis Bonk & Steve Kossakowski

admin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:54:22 -0500

EdTechTalk#79
July 15, 2007

A Discussion with Curtis Bonk of Indiana University & Steve Kossakoski of SPDC
As Steve's ECD897 students and assorted memebers of the Bonkosphere listen in, our guests discuss how educators and learning institutions can adapt to the ever increasing flow of emergent technologies at our disposal.
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Relevant Links:

Curtis Bonk

Curt Bonk's E-Learning World
Fall2007 "The Web 2.0 and Participatory e-Learning" Syllabus
Travelin Edman Blog

Steve Kossakoski

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EdTechWeekly#20 - Whiteboards, Quizzes, Tumblr, Bad Domain Names, & Some Drinking Stories...

Jeff — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:59:10 -0600

EdTechWeekly #20
March 4, 2007
Open source resources, Tumblr, Bad Domain Names, & Several Drinking Stories...

Educationbridges Grant Expression of Interest Form ( Educationbridges registration required )
Jamie's Chinswing Question: How can blogs & podcasts be used in early elementary classes?
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Selected Links
Quiz School Tour
Web based, nice looking quiz creation tool

PBS Teachers — Resources For The Classroom
PBS unveils one of its most comprehensive for pre-K-12 educators

EFF: Action Alert - Support the FAIR USE Act!
more possible good news from Congress...really!

How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories
List of good things happening with Open Source & Education

IST Conference 2007
Where Jen spent the weekend ...

Entry on Teacher's Unions and Web 2.0
My summary on teacher's union and web 2.0

Tumblr
blogs reinvented

eMarketer.com - Facebook Extends Lead As Fave Young Adult Site
Where the whippersnappers are spending their time online ...

Mindomo - Web-based mind mapping software
web based concept map - how does it compare to Gliffy?

Comeeko - Creating comic strips from your photos
fun - add photos, speech bubbles, share - pure web2.0 silliness

Musicovery : interactive webRadio
Cool for the found artists and music, but also for the content display and taxomony

Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
I like the simplicity of this page, but I''m curious about the authority of it? Looking for more info on this as I'd like to have info on fair use for an inservice I'll be doing.

Picnik
holy heck this is the sickest online photo editing website i have ever seen. it is like a free, web-based Picasa (or close enough anyway).

LINUX ON DESKTOP: 13 Things to do immediately after installing Ubuntu
Dave, I think you need this article

Top 10 Worst Domain Names » Unofficial DreamHost Blog

EdTechTalk#72 - Discussion with Stephen Downes and Mike King of IBM

admin — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:51:58 -0600

EdTechTalk#72
November 27, 2006
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A conversation between Stephen Downes and Michael King.
Topics discussed included:

IBM as a consulting company - what that means
IBM's attitude toward open source - how does it view other players - Sun, Novell
The IBM patent portfolio - does IBM risk being a patent troll - the SCO lawsuit - progress
IBM in e-learning specifically - Lotus, Domino - still in the game?
IBM and the Blackboard patent - company position - message?
Toward the development of open educational resources? Tools - services - product?

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21st Century Learning #20: Bill Fitzgerald on DrupalEd

alex.ragone — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:48:29 -0600

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #20
A Conversation with Bill Fitzgerald on Drupal in Education
October 31, 2006
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We had an excellent conversation with Bill Fitzgerald, from FunnyMonkey.com, OpenAcademic.org and the brand spankin new DrupalEd Distribution on how Drupal fits into education. The goal of the show was to create a cookbook for a conference site with Drupal -- we got to it in the last 10 minutes! Thanks to Bill for his time and the excellent conversation.

If you're interested in getting involved in the Drupal Education movement, join the Drupal Documentation Listserv,comment on the DrupalEd Distribution page, and join DrupalEd Drupal.

Past Shows on Drupal, Elgg, and Open Source:

# 11 - Open Source Show
# 17 - The Read/Write Web Conference

Other Drupal Resources:

About Drupal
Drupal Wikipedia Entry
CMS Academy Drupal
Drupal Page at the School Computing Wiki

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EdTechTalk#67 - A Discussion with Chris Messina

admin — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:07:29 -0500

EdTechTalk#67
A Dicussion with Chris Messina
Hour#71 of the Worldbridges Webcastathon
October 15, 2006

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EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #11 for July 21, 2006

alex.ragone — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:20:04 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #11 for July 21, 2006:

Open Source, ePortfolios, Moodle, Drupal, Elgg, Open Source Schools, Exeter, FunnyMonkey.com

Our guests included:
Steve Kossakoski - Assistant Superintendent, Technology & Research for SAU-16 in Exeter, NH and a pioneering open source practitioner - See http://www.k12opensource.org/ & http://www.spdc.org/ Steve Haragon from http://www.k12opensource.com/
Bill Fitzgerald from http://www.funnymonkey.com/

An Exciting Conversation about the use of open source software and its uses in schools. See the show notes for amazing links that were shared during the conversation.

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