Monday, 20 June 2011

Ed Tech Crew 148 – Google Whacked and Google Ganger

Podcast number 148 – Feb 7th, 2011


[Running time: 1:02:14 hours, size: 42.8 MB]


Download it here!


Think like a computer scientist (Python). http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/


News & General Websites of interest:


“IPocalypse” The Internet has finally run out of addresses: http://goo.gl/cSQUa


New home for Global teacher blogs http://global2.vic.edu.au/


In search of the Googlewhack – interesting conversation around search and google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack


10 Tablets to Keep an Eye on in 2011

http://gigaom.com/mobile/10-ces-tablets-2/


Great site for learning Trig

http://www.touchtrigonometry.org/


Comic Life 2

http://plasq.com/products/comiclife2


Sound Cloud – http://soundcloud.com/


Google Body Browser – http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html#


Skype Education – open in Beta

http://education.skype.com/


Google Docs – another update http://www.google.com/google-d-s/whatsnew.html

OCR is an interesting one: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176692


New Social Web Browser – Rock Melt Beta release

http://www.rockmelt.com


State Library of Qld donated 50,000 images to Wikimedai Australia for the public domain (Dec 21st) – http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMAU-SLQ3?utm_medium=sitenotice


Newspapers available online to browse: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper


Add the Australian Schools Calendar to your Google Calendar:

https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=r6rued9pal4i9kb6f9192t48h8@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Adelaide&gsessionid=OK

or Events from EDNA in iCal http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/schools_events


Changes at the WayBackMachine – Calendar View http://waybackmachine.org/


Some of the many Feedback from listeners:


Brendan O’Brien



  • The 60second science video competition is now International. Open to everyone. A$9000 in cash prizes http://bit.ly/4du9KR Students LOVE it!


John Pearce



Clay leben



Ian Guest



Roland Gesthuizen



Shelly Terrell



Important Notice

There have been so many links over the Christmas break please go and have a look at the Ed Tech Crew Diigo Bookmarks Group here: http://groups.diigo.com/group/ed-tech-crew



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