Podcasts of presentations during the WM-CSPD August Institute - this year's theme - Technology Runs Through It

Some great presenters, including Kevin Honeycutt and Wes Fryer

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I've bumped into many interesting videos while flowing through the intertubes and I'd like to share some of them here. I'd say they are appropriate for most middle school students, up to adult. You, of course, will know best.

This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!

Great visualization of Bloom's and which web2.0 tools align with the various levels.

hilarious and addictive game using basic geometric shapes and physics principles

One Laptop One Child How about having kids bring their own?

What the Web is For

A support forum for K-12 Technology Leaders

David Warlick has four things the POTUS ought to know about making U.S. schools better. Last month I posted a manifesto of sorts to my Web site. I was following a meme started by a group of other edubloggers called "Five things policymakers ought to know!" T&L editors asked me to tweak it a bit to give our next President some big-picture twenty-first-century education advice. Here's my take.

The discussion at Wes Fryer's blog in part concerned the implications that the December 2006 e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) have upon technology use in the schools, particularly Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, Wimba, social networking sites, and microblogs.

Becta has published major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, by children between the ages of 11-16, both in and out of the school environment.

DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories.

created by national geographic

Planned is a five-year campaign, called My Wonderful World, that will target children ages 8 to 17. The goal is to motivate parents and educators to expand geographic offerings in school, at home, and in their communities. (from eSchool News article)

eSchool News collection of resources and information about using GIS/GPS in classrooms.