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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 163 – Just the two of Us

Podcast number 163 – June 17th, 2011

[Running time: 46:14 mins, size: 42.2 MB]

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Crowd sourcing idea for message boards:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ae0GCC7IiUvwZHMzZDJiY18yOWZmdzNieGo4&hl=en_US

Edna Closing Down

http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/ednaclosure

Google Search By Image – new functionality

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html

Ad – Plug – new website for ITmadeSimple – www.itmadesimple.com

20 Digital Media Initiative projects to be supported by NSW Government

http://www.business.nsw.gov.au/news/nsw-announces-funding-for-20-digital-media-initiative-projects

Hype – http://www.tumultco.com/hype/

Flipped Classroom :: Kathleen Morris

http://www.connectedprincipals.com/archives/1534

iLearn – Home :: John Pearce

http://gameslab.radford.edu/iLearn

A SPECIAL REPORT ON MULTIMEDIA IN SCHOOLS :: Shelly Terrell

http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/multimediareport-2011/index.html?intc=EW-MM11-TWT

IssueMap – Got Data? Let us map it for you. :: Clay Leben

http://issuemap.org/

Project Reclaim: or, how I learned to start worrying and love my data. :: Shane Roberts

http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2011/06/10/project-reclaim-or-how-i-learned-to-start-worrying-and-love-my-data/

Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA :: Roland Gesthuizen

http://www.cnet.com/8301-30976_1-20068778-10348864.html?tag=topTechContentWrap%3BeditorPicks

Firefox add on

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/grabmybooks-firefox-addon-html-epub-conversions-making-ebooks

Australian NBN – Want the governments spin on the NBN and impact on Education keep updated here:

http://www.nbn.gov.au/education/

Muvizu :: Adrian Bruce

http://www.muvizu.com/

Autistic Teen Find Inner Voice – Must watch vide :: Link from @sumich via Twitter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1uPf5O-on0&feature=player_embedded

DIY U: The Future Of Learning – Via Clay Leben in the diigo group

http://www.fastcompany.com/1758162/diy-u-video-premiere-the -future-of-learning

Open Culture – Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites

http://www.openculture.com/intelligentvideo

Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences

http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-howard-gardner-video

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Thursday, 16 June 2011

Google just got serious about mobile

It looks like the power balance between desktop computers and mobile devices has finally shifted for good. Google debuted improvements to its web search on Tuesday that show the search giant’s increased prioritization of the mobile experience. Two of the three technology updates Google announced for desktop are of features that were first available on mobile and the other will make the mobile browsing experience better.

Here’s what Google showed off:

Voice search. Google has made speech recognition search available on the desktop for Chrome users to allow people to speak, rather than type, their queries. Desktop Chrome users will now see a microphone icon next to every Google search box. Voice search has long been available on Google’s mobile search applications.

Search by image. Google debuted the capability to search using an image on the desktop browser. Users can now upload any picture from their hard drives, or plug in an image URL from the web, and ask Google to identify what it is. Google’s “Goggles” mobile application has allowed people to search by taking photos with their mobile phones since its launch in 2009.

Instant Pages. Pages is an iteration of the Instant Search feature launched last year. Instant Pages renders a visual of the search page a user is likely to click on while the query is in the process of being typed. According to Google, Instant Pages shaves between two to five seconds off of the typical search time. Instant Pages is only available on the Chrome browser for now, but much like Instant Search, which launched on the browser before coming to mobile search, hopefully Instant pages can make the transition. Like Instant Search, which seemed tailor-made for searching on a mobile device where every click counts, Instant Pages could be a boon for mobile devices as Google pre-renders pages in the cloud while your search is being performed.

For years, Google’s efforts on the mobile web have seemed largely about trying to translate the desktop experience onto a handheld form factor. But recently, it seems even the tech industry’s largest players, companies who got their start by succeeding in the desktop environment, have acknowledged that the power dynamic can and should change. Lion, the new version of Apple’s desktop operating system launched last week, took a number of cues from Apple’s mobile operating system iOS. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the latest updates from Apple and Google indicate that desktop software has finally started to look to mobile for inspiration.

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Monday, 20 June 2011

Ed Tech Crew 153 – More than just your average links

Podcast number 153 – Mar 16th, 2011

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