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From TICAL - Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership.
These are short presentations to help busy administrators and teachers gain a better understanding of the variety of tools on the World Wide Web.

Kristin Hokanson's wiki showing how classrooms can connect.

Kristin Hokanson's excellent wiki with many Web 2.0 resources. Excellent site!

Excellent wiki full of resources from Kristin Hokanson. Wow!

This is a gem from UK for "users, teachers, leaders and managers" of educational ICT. As members of ad4dcss are, like it or not, leaders (with all that entails) I think we will find much helpful here. Also this is home of the e-book, "Coming of Age" and soon to be released "Coming of Age 2.0" that are just slightly relevant.

bNetS@vvy is a bimonthly publication of the National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN), the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and Sprint. The bilingual newsletter provides resources from a range of perspectives to help adults understand the problem and connect with young teens to reduce the risks that they will become bullies or victims online. Lawyers, School Psychologists, Classroom Teachers and Teens contribute to the bi-monthly publication. Recent issues have covered Cyberbullying topics and Web 2.0

This issue of bNets@vvy focuses on texting and includes articles on: Understanding the Benefits and Risks of Texting, A Pediatrician's Advice for Managing Your Child's Texting Activity, Parents Share Their Strategies for Managing Kids' Texting Behavior, A Teen Talks About Texting and What Parents/Educators Need to Know About It, What's Up with Texting? A Teacher Asks Her Students to Clue Her In

The California K-12 High Speed Network (K12HSN) is offering a comprehensive set of tools to support teaching and learning in California classrooms. This free suite of tools, known as edZone, was developed by the California Dept of Education and currently includes blogging, videoconference scheduling and a file sharing system where educators can upload videos, podcasts, images and documents. EdZone is an excellent tool to share lesson ideas, upload student learning objects, disseminate best practices, and more! EdZone will soon be expanded to include Instant Messaging, Moodle, Wikis, Social Networking, Moodle-an online course management system and other Web 2.0 tools to enhance today's classroom environment. Watch for these new tools in Summer 2008!

Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed by David Warlick to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties. The updated version 3.0 [Dec 2007] allows for multiple authors and remembers your citations for later bibliographies.

Designed for teachers and produced by the staff at Nettrekker, this 14-page document is a free download.

Canadian resources covering digital citizenship, Web 2.0, copyright, plagiarism, Internet Safety and Cyberbullying.

Terrific slide show for addressing all of the concerns and finding solutions for where to start.

The official White House Blog calls it "WhiteHouse 2.0." The administration is unveiling its membership in a trio of the social-networking leaders today: Facebook, MySpace and Twitter

The challenge for many college administrators today is how can they put cell phones to work for both students and the college. In Palo Alto, Calif., home of Stanford University, developers of an iPhone application called iStanford 2.0 hopes one day to see the iPhone replace the campus ID card. The entrepreneurial Stanford students have already produced a suite of iPhone applications that access the university's course catalog, campus map and other resources.The application suite was rolled out in October and has already garnered national attention, including winning the $10,000 grand prize for AT&T's "Big Mobile on Campus" contest for best smart phone application. One of the student members of the firm said he hopes to see the iPhone replace student identification cards in the future.

Now comes new details about the parental control system coming to the App Store. All iPhone applications will be rated in one of four age categories: 4+, 9+, 12+, or 17+. When Apple announced the coming 3.0 release of its iPhone software, it referred to parental controls for apps.

Designed for non-techies, this excellent presentation by Melanie McBride provides an introductory overview of web2.0 social media tools and trends. It also concerns challenges unique to school boards, their members and the communities they serve.

MySpace, Facebook, and other Web 2.0 tools led TIME to name you, yes, you, 2006 Person of the Year. With such notoriety, you might want to see what your online identity says about you. What do potential employers and friends find when they google you? When was the last time you googled yourself? What impression do your MySpace profile and YouTube videos leave? Your blog? What do other people say about you? How much control do you have over what is written about you on the web?

The first camera we will examine is the Olympus Stylus TOUGH TG-4 . This camera is the definition of durable. It is waterproof up to 50 feet, freeze proof to 14 degrees Fahrenheit, shock proof to 7 feet, and crush/smash proof up to 221 pounds - making it durable to the almost maximum. Durability is important and is something this camera possesses, but some other features it holds are the high-definition video capability, RAW image and Live Composite modes, Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities, wide-angle zoom, and a f2.0 speed lens, making this camera not only durable, but a testament to its name.

Digital Attack Map One of the easiest ways to silence someone online is a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). But it's difficult to solve a problem you can't see. Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now, using data from our partner Arbor Networks. DDoS attacks sometimes relate directly to events in the real world such as conflicts or political disputes. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. They target a wide variety of important resources, from banks to news websites, and present a major challenge to making sure people can publish and access important information.

Want to hear something funny?? The local mega mall fancy shave store is selling beard brushes for $60! That's $-6-0 dollars! Dude. Forget the fancy shave store brush. Get this one. This one even comes with a classy wooden comb! Fancy shave store didn't even have that! I like this brush - good size, good bristles. Some combs are too big, this one feels about right. And the price! You can't beat the price for this quality. Comes with a cool little bag. Not sure if the fancy shave store had that - I couldn't get past the price. And comes with eco friendly box that you can immediately throw into your recycling bin. What's not to like?

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Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Free Technology for Teachers. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.  Great for reinforcing a topic on internet safety, social netiquette, social skills etc.