Check: Crew

Download the “lineSegment” script that you will need to add to your objects along with your Scratch Script

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/768188/OpenSim%20Project/lineSegment.txt

Let’s Start Building – a series of great little projects to get you started with building in Second Life or OpenSim

http://www.users.on.net/~angsty/index.html

In World Guests

Lucy Barrow

Blog: http://lucybarrow.edublogs.org/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/lucybarrow & http://twitter.com/begoniaisland

Steve Collis: http://www.happysteve.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/Steve_Collis

Dean Groom: Blog http://deangroom.wordpress.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/deangroom

Year in review! Some of the things we covered and looked at:

1.Do you remember what “Asperatus” was?

2. iPad

3. Filtering

4. Ultranet

5. YouTube Safe Mode

6. 1:1 Law Suit in the US – Spying Laptops

7. Cyber Safety

8. The “Ed Tech Crew” world was introduced to “Weaponised Email” & “Bog of Inefficiency” and just this week I came across “Ransom Ware”

9. ICT Innovation Fund -$40 million

10. National Curriculum – the Australian Curriculum

11. Merspi.com

12. Twitter

13. Robot teachers

14. NBN – Australian National Broadband (Where is it?)

15. Did we mention the iPad

16. DeathStar Canteen

17. Our School libraries needed help

18. ACEC2010

19. ‘Other Podcasts‘ episode in April was a bit hit… will do that again next year

20. Horizon report

21. Music mayhem and links with Katie (again out of our comfort zone but such a great episode)

22. Facebook Privacy

23. BECTA – GONE

24. Lots of links – I think at last count we have covered 578 links – 320 twitter mentions

25. Not sure if there was anything that google has not done this year?

26. We had PLAN B? And the mysterious Twitter Department user that only tweets in the good times

27. “Brettanomyces”

28. Mentioned 213 videos

29. Web2.0 Suicide

30. Talked with some great classroom teachers and bloggers

31. Virtual worlds – again a step into the unknown for the show

32 iPad (again)

33. Meeting, communicating and just learning from our listeners and the wider Ed Tech community.

Thanks to all our Guests:

Lucy Barrow

Dean Groom

Henrietta Miller

Katherine Morris

Mark Fox

Adam Brice

Brendan O’Brien

Andrew Owen

Andrew Douch

Shane Roberts

Ashley Proud

James Spittal

Steve Collis

Adrian Camm

John Pearce

Helen Otway

Anne Baird

Katie Wardrobe

Krystie Alleaume

Mark Richardson

Jenny Ashby

Eric Rosenbaum

Mary Manning

Thanks to our Contributors:

Roland Gesthuizen

Clay Leben

Shelly Terrel

Darren Murphy

Wes Kriesel

Eric Marcos

John Pearce

Andrew Jepperson

Dianne Rees

Sue Tapp

Ian Guest

@fboss

@melcashen

@JodiWoo

Mark Richardson

Andrew Williamson

@ccoffa

heather carver

adrian bruce

Marita Thomson

Clare Rafferty

Rhonda Powling

Andrew Sartori

Shane Roberts

Jane Hart

Andrew Churches

Beth Ehrlich

Jo Mcleay

Rob Rankin

Shephen Heppel

Adam Brice

Teresa Rush

Camilla Elliot

Marc Blanks

Glenn Macmahon

Anne Murchison

Chris Rogers

Tom March

Lois Smethurst

Wayne Eglington

Narissa Leung

Gary Flake

Simon Collier

Richard Olsen

@RissL

Mark Pilson

Thanks to all our listeners each and every one………

Videos:

Great video to end the show with – Zeitgeist 2010: Year in Review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE

Final News

The website and show is going to go through a few changes to mix up what we do….something to look forward too in 2011.

Thanks to all our listeners and we will see you all in Feb 2011

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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]

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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

Mapping the Twitterverse: http://www.readwriteweb.com/assets_c/2011/01/Twitterverse-26752.php

Challenges, change and trends 2011 – http://www.slideshare.net/dwenmoth/challenges-change-and-trends-2011?from=ss_embed

QR Stuff – http://www.qrstuff.com/index.html

TwitterCure by Kathy Schrock – https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/twittercure/

How to make an interactive lesson with YouTube – http://www.knewton.com/blog/edtech/education-edtech/2010/12/15/how-to-make-an-interactive-lesson-using-youtube

Clay leben

Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2011 – http://cck11.mooc.ca/

Open Exhibits – http://openexhibits.org/

SimpleDiagrams – http://www.simplediagrams.com/home

Ian Guest

EmbedPlus – http://embedplus.com/

Roland Gesthuizen

Things babies born in 2011 will never know http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111745/things-babies-born-in-2011-will-never-know?mod=family-kids_parents

IBM 100 * 100 YouTube Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Lost Canister of Film – http://mashable.com/2011/01/18/lost-canister-of-film-prompts-youtube-search-for-its-owners/

A video by Roland – check it out – very interesting video: Get involved…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9KhR4qRC8I

Shelly Terrell

MyTweeple – Relationship Management – http://mytweeple.com/home.aspx?yourock=true

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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Ed Tech Crew 149 – Sharing an anniversary with Anne Mirtschin

Podcast number 149 – Feb 14th, 2011

[Running time: 1:00:20, size: 50.2 MB]

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News & General Websites of interest:

http://trunk.ly start collecting your links

“The Daily” is available here! http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/the-daily/id411516732?mt=8

A MOOC video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc

Google Whack – From @fboss: Check out @davegorman and his book: http://goo.gl/TcG5z

Google Pollution http://fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1707 & Spam Clock http://www.spamclock.com/

Video – Where ideas come from – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

Interview with Anne Mirtschin

School: Hawkesdale P12 College

Websites:

Blog: http://murcha.wordpress.com & http://murch.globalteacher.org.au

Twitter: http://twitter.com/murcha

Anne’s School – http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&ll=-38.10791,142.319909&spn=0.006264,0.013658&t=h&z=17

Move your blog to Global2 http://murch.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/02/13/export-your-blog/

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Ed Tech Crew 150 – An Interview with Kevin Honeycutt

Podcast number 150 – Feb 22nd, 2011

[Running time: 1:34:22 hours, size: 64.9 MB]

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News & General Websites of interest:

Your Classroom as an Apple Store shared by Amanda Marrinan

http://web.me.com/timholt/Intended_Consequences_v._2.0/Intended_Consequences/Entries/2011/2/17_Your_Classroom_as_an_Apple_Store.html View

And YouTube – Toy Story 3 = Awesome! (The Facebook Song) shared by Roland Gesthuizen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrnPR37X7u4

Yes, The Khan Academy IS the Future of Education - shared by Daryl Bambic

http://singularityhub.com/2011/02/13/yes-the-khan-academy-is-the-future-of-education-video

Kidblog.org – Blogs for Teachers and Students shared by Tom Wursthorn

http://kidblog.org

Incorporating Game Dynamics in the Classroom – ITCP Core 2 Spring 2011 shared by Priscilla Stadle

http://itcpcore2spring2011.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/15/incorporating-game-dynamics-in-the-classroom/

Interview with Kevin Honeycutt

Websites: http://kevinhoneycutt.org/

http://essdackartsnacks.org

http://mysafesurf.org

Blog: http://tradigitallearning.org

ictguy @kevinhoneycutt

Interview with Eric Marcos

A Video made at BETT (London) with Eric.

http://meetingsreview.com/clients/bett/2011/review/bett2011_techsmith.htm

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Ed Tech Crew 151 – Holy thunderbolts we’re ducking crickets

Podcast number 151 – Feb 28th, 2011

[Running time: 51:03 mins, size: 43.5 MB]

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News & General Websites of interest:

New MacBooks Pros – http://www.apple.com/au/macbook/

The Daily Papert – http://dailypapert.com

Via Andrew Williamson http://www.jewelbeat.com/ & ipads http://livebinders.com/play/play/2619

Interesting site – John Seely Brown via Clay Leben

http://johnseelybrown.com/ Learning spaces, design and innovation

See his EduCause article: http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume43/MindsonFireOpenEducationtheLon/162420

iPads Suck

http://ieduc8.blogspot.com/2011/02/ipad-sucks.html

Advancing the Flip: Developments in Reverse Instruction

http://www.connectedprincipals.com/archives/2775

And http://vodcasting.ning.com/

Zipcast from Slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/ictguy/meeting#

Feedback from listeners:

Apps & Software:

iPhone – Ipod touch App – DropPhox http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropphox-snap-send-to-dropbox/id411118930?mt=8

Allows video and images to be transferred directly to you dropbox for sharing.

Darren Murphy – Ruby Game Programming for kids: http://ruby4kids.com/ruby4kids

Dragon Dictate – Free iPad App http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/dragon-dictation/id341446764?mt=8

Videos:

Lord David Puttnam – Keynote from learning Without Frontiers, London

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iv0rOYHTIU&feature=player_embedded

Making a Wikipedia Book – very good idea via Roland G

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Enwp_screencast4.theora.ogv

Under 10 minutes – how to videos shared by Ian Guest

http://www.undertenminutes.com/

& HowCast - http://www.howcast.com/

App development for Anroid – http://appsgeyser.com/

Heather Bailey – Free Icons – http://www.iconfinder.com/free_icons

Digital Media Video series from PBS – John Pearce

http://video.pbs.org/video/1797357384

Activity-Event

We have an Ed Tech Crew Challenge – Video to celebrate education and classroom work

See this video (Brian & Eileen’s Wedding Music Video) http://vimeo.com/1531870

we see these video’s all the time but where are the videos celebrating our learning.

We want our listeners and their colleagues, peers and students to plan out a video clip to celebrate using ICT in education. You don’t need to shoot the clip just plan it – you can shoot it. Think outside the box – behind the box on top of the box or just forget the box and be creative and different. Spread the Word!

Length – less than 5 minutes

Subject – Celebrating our learning and use of ICT in Education

Prizes – there will be some – we will even arrange to help shoot the video clip with the winning entry

Send details and entries to edtechcrew@gmail.com

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Ed Tech Crew 152 – iPad 2 & BTW Do Your Own Work!

Podcast number 152 – Mar 8th, 2011

[Running time: 39:15 mins, size: 27.1 MB]

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News & General Websites of interest:

Did you here about … the iPad2?

http://www.apple.com/au/ipad/

The iPad Video Apple tried to ban – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvG0fbdMwGc&feature=player_embedded

Video od an iPad hands on

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2381310,00.asp

Ars reviews the Motorola Xoom

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2011/03/ars-reviews-the-motorola-xoom.ars

Drop box resources – via Roland and others on the Moodle list

http://sendtodropbox.com/

http://dropdav.com/

Working with Students and teacher used Symbaloo

http://edu.symbaloo.com/

TED Ed – Register your interest and get involved

http://education.ted.com/

Plagiarism: The Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V boom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12613617

Remote Desktop tool – not seen this before. Like the fact it works acorss multiple platforms

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx

IWB debate

http://www.techlearning.com/blogs36842.aspx?id=36842

Feedback from listeners:

via John Pearce – Digital Story Telling

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/03/11-good-digital-storytelling-resources.html

And

Evernote as a 1 on 1 reading conferencing tool

http://www.russgoerend.com/2010/09/one-of-essentials-in-reading-this-year.html

Apps & Software:

Diigo App

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/diigo/id417202559?mt=8

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Ed Tech Crew 153 – More than just your average links

Podcast number 153 – Mar 16th, 2011

[Running time: 1:02:14 mins, size: 54.5 MB]

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News & General Websites of interest:

Web conferencing -

http://www.buddymeeting.com/index.php & WebX http://www.webex.com.au/

Buddymeeting is built on http://www.bigbluebutton.org

Henrietta Miiler in the Ed Tech Crew t-shirt http://twitpic.com/48oqe2

21 things- Discussion

http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/03/21-things-that-will-be-obsolete-by-2020

The Zune is Dead! http://mashable.com/2011/03/14/rip-zune-player-2006-2011/

Lois Smethhurst Book chats using Ed Modo

http://e-bookchats.wikispaces.com/

Dr Donna Gronn’s ICTEV award

http://acce.edu.au/acce/news/acce-announces-award-winner-outstanding-leadership-use-ict-education

How far can schools go in regulating teachers’ social-media use?

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/117918104.html

Twitter for Teachers

http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/22554534/FrontPage

SimpleBooklet – http://simplebooklet.com/

Feedback from listeners:

Shelly Terrell

YouTube Facts and Figures

http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/17/youtube-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/

Internet Safety and Responsible Use Conference Keynotes

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/isruconference2011/category/keynotes/

Roland Gesthuizen

Top 10 augmented reality travel apps

http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/top-10-augmented-reality-travel-apps-569570

Tristan Mether & Rob Rankin (Hello Rob long time no links welcome back)

Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education

http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html

Via Andrew Jeppesen – Explore the world with video – http://www.vmap.com/

And from Ian Guest

Glucose song (via You Tube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJvAL-iiLnQ

Or a new diagramming tool

http://www.diagram.ly/

From John Pearce

This site looks interesting and will get a whole heap of investigation from me:

http://togetherville.com/

Voir QR: The History, Use & Abuse of QR Codes (From Slide Share)

http://www.slideshare.net/tactica_inc/voir-qr-the-history-use-abuse-of-qr-codes

Field Guide to Victorian Fauna By Museum Victoria

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/field-guide-to-victorian-fauna/id423945031?mt=8

Internet Tutorials

http://www.internettutorials.net/

From Camilla Elliot

Tools for the 21st Century Teacher

http://issuu.com/mzimmer557/docs/tools_for_the_21st_century_teacher?mode=embed&layout=http%3A//skin.issuu.com/v/light/layout.xml

Speaking Image – Collaborative Image Annotation

Blog post on this tool by Joyce Valenza

http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2011/03/09/speaking-image

Link to site: http://speakingimage.org/

Augmented Reality Game (Tony)

Blog about the game here: http://www.livescience.com/13211-augmented-reality-game-lets-kids-scientists.html

Kids can sign up here: http://vanished.mit.edu/

Apps & Software:

Darrel love’s this: send gmail from chrome

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pgphcomnlaojlmmcjmiddhdapjpbgeoc

Videos:

Rethinking Education via John Pearce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xb5spS8pmE

Exposed – sexting video from CEOP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ovR3FF_6us

ABC Survey – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ABC_user

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Ed Tech Crew 154 – iPads vs netbooks vs laptops debate

Podcast number 154 – March 21st, 2011

[Running time: 1:17:02 mins, size: 53 MB]

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Ashley Proud’s students iPetitions:

http://oneofthosepeople.edublogs.org/2011/03/21/my-students-are-trying-to-make-a-difference-to-the-world-that-they-live-in/

Panel participants for the discussion:

Narissa Leung

Narissa is currently an Ultranet coach in Goldfields network of Loddon Mallee Region. Passionate about elearning an interested in all things cybersafety related (have worked as a mediator on Superclubsplus). She was also a one to one teacher in the Loddon Malle netbooks trial for grade 6 studnets.

Twitter: rissL

Corrie Barclay

Corrie is currently the eLearning Coordinator at Manor Lakes College, located in Wyndham Vale. They are a Mac School with a 1:1 MacBook Program in Years 7, 8 and 9 (Approx. 500 students) and an iPad Trial in our Year 6 Cohort (Approx. 110 students). They also have a bank of iPads in our Specialist Learning Centre for students with Learning Disabilities.Corrie has a strong passion for ICT integration and strongly feels that the use of the iPad as a tool to assist Student Learning cannot be surpassed.

Website: http://manorlakesvicipadtrial.global2.vic.edu.au/

Twitter: @CorrieB

Other: http://teachwithtech.global2.vic.edu.au/

Brett Moller

Brett is the Head of Learning and Educational Technologies at King’s Christian College on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia. Brett has worked in education for 11 years both as a classroom teacher and department head. He is also an Apple Distinguished Educator, having extensive experience working with Apple technologies in schools.

Website: brettmoller.com

Twitter: brettmoller

Adam Brice

An Assistant Principal at Ringwood North PS. Apple Distinguished Educator. Involved in the Victorian iPad Trial with our Years ⅚ students (138 devices).

Website: applesforkids.org

Twitter: @adambrice

Other: Used to play guitar in a coverband called ‘Shagwell!’ Yeah baby. Is good looking.

Events

Music Technology in Education Conference

11-13 April 2011 in Burwood, Sydney

Website: www.mtec2011.com

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Ed Tech Crew 155 – Focus Grasshopper

Podcast number 155 – April 5th, 2011

[Running time: 1:32:49 mins, size: 79.5 MB]

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News & General Websites of interest:

Inspire2011 conference in Sydney this week http://www.sentral.com.au/inspire/

Breaking news… UK gov wants to ban mobiles from schools

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Di2_VPG5gCbDw-p5wP-oOuPefSH5VDjynOOBeaGVIIc/edit?hl=en_GB#

Darrel loves this site: http://www.telescopictext.org

How fast is Google’s Internet speed:

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/03/29/how-fast-is-the-internet-at-google-mind-blowing/

April Fools Online - I liked the following from Google – Gmail Motion – http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

Maths Class April fools Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blOrY-nEGaE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Henrietta Miller – Sydney Teach Meet:

http://sydneyteach-meet.wikispaces.com/

Interview with Jess McCulloch

Blog and websites: http://www.technolote.com & http://technolanguages.wikispaces.com

http://flavors.me/jessmcculloch – aggregation of Jess’s blog, twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, FourSq & YouTube.

Elluminate sessions for languages teachers as part of the Australia Series:

http://technolanguages.wikispaces.com/technoLanguages+LIVERunning

The Lunch Box Project http://lunchboxproject.wikispaces.com

Other useful resources

http://wordchamp.com

http://woices.com

Feedback

Russell Ogden

http://www.imaginationcubed.com/

From John Pearse- How the Internet Works

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-internet-works/eBook

Link: http://manuals.makeuseof.com.s3.amazonaws.com/MakeUseOf.com_-_How_The_Internet_Works.pdf

Apps & Software:Apps:

Photosync

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/photosync-wirelessly-transfers/id418818452?mt=12

TuneIn

http://tunein.com/

Events:

ICTEV Conference 2011 May 21st – we are doing a session as a podcast not about podcasting so if you are going along come and join our session and have a chat about ICT and getting in touch with it.

http://ictev.vic.edu.au/conferences

DEECD Innovation show case - 13th May 2011 - Register here:

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/researchinnovation/showcase/default.htm

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