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Google facelifts and new features as of 7/7/11

Chirbit is a program that allows users to record, upload, and share audio with friends and others. Visitors will need to sign up with a username and they will need a microphone or webcam for recording purposes. Visitors can watch the demonstration video here to get started, and after they are done, they can share the audio files with friends via Twitter and Facebook with shortened URLs. Chirbit is compatible with all operating systems (scout report)

KSC Faculty at Institute on Global Learning This summer, a team of Keene State faculty members from all three academic schools will participate in "Shared Futures: General Education for a Global Century," an institute sponsored by the American Association of Colleges and Universities to help faculty integrate global perspectives across the curriculum. The institute will be held in Ellicott City, Md., from July 31 to August 5, and will draw faculty from 32 colleges and universities. During the fall 2011 semester, the core Keene State team will draw in faculty and staff from across campus to implement the goals and strategies developed at the institute. By building a network of educators dedicated to this integrative work, Shared Futures facilitates curricular change and faculty development on campuses nationwide. Through an online social network, the initiative hopes to create new connections between educators and new opportunities for partnership and learning. Keene State faculty members attending the institute include professors Charles Weed (political science), Margaret Henning (health sciences), Patricia Pedroza (women's and gender studies), and Rich Blatchly (chemistry). For more information, contact Prof. Weed at cweed@keene.edu or visit the Shared Futures page.

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 I am distributing my Google Voice number as a course messaging number, where students can leave course-related voicemail messages for me. Here are my reasons for doing this:

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Easily incorporate Google Apps into your curriculum with these classroom-ready lesson plans. Have a Google Apps lesson plan? Submit it for review.

a few freebies.30,000 educational audio books, mp3 downloads, podcasts and videos.

The thing I want to avoid is for people to walk away from this presentation with the view that if work sucks, you can just put the lipstick of points and badges and completion bars and leaderboards on and suddenly make work exciting. we can learn a number of things from games:

recommended by @drsarahgrace at ATI 11.

Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong.

Even better, the data visualisation tools that can manipulate and present that information are getting easier to use and available to anyone. And it is in the social and political aspects of data visualisation that its real value emerges. "If you make these tools and data available to a broader range of people you are just going to get better ideas," said Dr Austwick.

These tours will demonstrate how easy it is to read websites aloud with BrowseAloud and how to personalise your settings to suit your individual needs or preferences.

ISTE 11 presentation 

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