CATE edtech bookmarks

On Experiential Learning (David Kolb's Theory) and critiques

David Kolb maintains this site on Experiential Learning

Twitter: Mashable's Twitter Guide Book - a guidebook for new and experienced twitter users. How to build community, customize your profile, issues to consider, things to avoid.

Technology, Entertainment, Design: riveting talks by remarkable people, free to to the world. Some of the most amazing video presentations on the Internet on a variety of current topics. Excellent stuff for inspiring class and putting things in perspective.

Seven Things That Could Make Your Gadgets Obsolete: (1) HDMI 1.4 - new standard for moving media from source to display will include 3DTV & ethernet for transfer of data up to 100 Mb/sec (2) USB 3.0 - new USB format at up to 400 Mb / sec is ten times faster than USB 2.0 (3) 3DTV - you'll need glasses - to appear latter half of 2010 (4) DLNA - Digital Living Network - around since 2004 is now getting integrated into lots of digital appliances. Get ready for the promised "connected house" (5) Mobile ATSC - to allow us to get t.v. broadcast signal to mobile devices (6) Ambient Light Sensors and other eco-friendly tv features (7) Internet-enable TV sets

The Future of Education: a ning network "charting the course of teaching and learning in a networked world" - schedules of discussions by many of top leaders in digital learning: David Thornburg, Sir Ken Robinson, Dan Pink, Larry Johnson, James Paul Gee, Dave Edyburn, etc.

Sambiglyon: renting Second Life land for non-profit and educational organizations

slurl builder: create your own clickable Second Life url or "slurl" using the region name and x, y, & z coordinates

Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010: a forecast

The Institute for the Future of the Book: investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens

NYTimes article re: Federal Money for Technology in Education

The International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE) provides readers with comprehensive coverage of developments in learning technologies for an international readership of educators, technologists and trainers. The journal is a primary source for academics, professionals, corporate trainers and policy makers in information and communication technologies. The journal publishes high quality contributions (papers, book reviews) on a range of fields associated with Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), Social Networking Sites (SNS), Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), and 3D virtual worlds, including for example Second Life (SL). Articles published in the journal cover education and training, concentrating on the theory, application, and development of learning technologies. There is a particular interest in the application of new and emerging information and communication technologies in education and training.

The Archaeology Channel is the homesite of The Archaeology Legacy Institute, directed by Rick Pettigrew

Mixed ink: a collaborative writing tool that touts itself as a "fun, democratic, and elegant way for people to weave their ideas together" Their service is free.

Inkling: "the worlds first end-to-end platform for mobile learning content" - build rich, interactive learning content to tablet devices like the iPad.

Questia School has over 15,000 full text online resources enhanced by research and productivity tools, lesson plans, staff training, 24 / 7 access. Possible exploration for CATE as a delivery partner

Doug Rushkoff on Metanomics

Great article on the generation gap of kids putting their whole lives online and older folk (like us) balking at the cultural shift. A fabulous article - great for using with college level courses in tech, media, paradigm shifts, web2.0

Best Educational Wikis of 2009 by Wikispaces: best-of examples of using wikis in the classroom (1) interact with schools around the world; (2) share classroom activities; (3) turn online class notes into end-of-year exams

Know Your Meme: RocketBoom's documentation of Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebrities, etc.