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Why Google+ Is an Education Game Changer - Education - GOOD - 10 views

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It's been a week since I snagged a Google+ invite, and while it's fun to hit the reset button on my personal social media life, what I'm really interested in is how the service is going to impact teaching and learning. There's a good chance that Google+ is going to become a powerful communication and collaboration tool in the classroom. In fact, it could end up being a serious education game changer.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It's been a week since I snagged a Google+ invite, and while it's fun to hit the reset button on my personal social media life, what I'm really interested in is how the service is going to impact teaching and learning. There's a good chance that Google+ is going to become a powerful communication and collaboration tool in the classroom. In fact, it could end up being a serious education game changer. </div>

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Women of Google+ - 8 views

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I started to collect a Google+ circle of women-only (aptly named 'Women of G+') and the idea of connecting with early adopter women in a new social networking platform is growing larger in my mind by the minute. I find it stimulating and refreshing to have a list of highly intelligent women on G+ to read every morning over coffee. Thanks for letting me take a peek into your brilliant minds.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I started to collect a Google+ circle of women-only (aptly named 'Women of G+') and the idea of connecting with early adopter women in a new social networking platform is growing larger in my mind by the minute. I find it stimulating and refreshing to have a list of highly intelligent women on G+ to read every morning over coffee. Thanks for letting me take a peek into your brilliant minds. </div>

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Third of us baffled by technology - Sunday Mercury - Weird Science - 0 views

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Communications technology is changing the way that society interacts and now, with the explosion in personal communications devices, wifi and increasing broadband speeds, is a great time to start charting this change.
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The research has shown that communications technology is seen by most as a positive tool but there are examples where people are not managing usage as well as they could be - it is not necessarily the amount but the way in which it is used.
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Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Jul 11

A third of people admit to feeling overwhelmed by technology and say they want to reduce the amount of time they spend on their phones and computers, according to a survey.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A third of people admit to feeling overwhelmed by technology and say they want to reduce the amount of time they spend on their phones and computers, according to a survey. </div>

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Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA | Reporters' Roundtable Podcast - CNET Blogs - 3 views

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"This Friday's Reporters' Roundtable is on a topic that vexes us all: why are end user license agreements and terms of service so long and convoluted? To get ourselves in the mood for this show, we asked CNET fan (and Academy Award winner) Richard Dreyfuss if he'd help us out by doing a dramatic reading of the Apple EULA. He said yes. So, without further ado, we present to you,"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"This Friday's Reporters' Roundtable is on a topic that vexes us all: why are end user license agreements and terms of service so long and convoluted? To get ourselves in the mood for this show, we asked CNET fan (and Academy Award winner) Richard Dreyfuss if he'd help us out by doing a dramatic reading of the Apple EULA. He said yes. So, without further ado, we present to you,"</div>

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DROPitTOme - Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox - 1 views

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Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox. Ever wish you could easily receive big files from anyone? Now you can! Together with Dropbox you can setup an unique upload address with password protection. DROPitTOme is your one stop solution when an email is just not enough.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox. Ever wish you could easily receive big files from anyone? Now you can! Together with Dropbox you can setup an unique upload address with password protection. DROPitTOme is your one stop solution when an email is just not enough. </div>

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Ugly font may improve learning › News in Science (ABC Science) - 4 views

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"It's important to remember that a good third of our visual cortex ... is devoted to literacy, reading. This 5000-year-old cultural invention has usurped a huge chunk of the brain," he said. "One of the trade-offs of this is that people who can read are a little worse at 'quote-unquote' reading the natural world and remembering objects such as plants and animals, because so much of our visual vortex is devoted to letters, syllables and words."
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Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Jun 11

Inspired by comic strips and hated by font designers, new research suggests Comic Sans may help people remember what they read.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Inspired by comic strips and hated by font designers, new research suggests Comic Sans may help people remember what they read. </div>

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Our 'Roswell' now one for the history books | UFO | Westall - 1 views

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ON APRIL 6, 1966, students from Westall High School and Westall State School claimed to have seen a mysterious metallic flying object hover above them before descending behind trees in Clayton South. Many more say they later saw the perimeter of a perfect circle singed into the grass at the Grange Reserve near Westall State School.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">ON APRIL 6, 1966, students from Westall High School and Westall State School claimed to have seen a mysterious metallic flying object hover above them before descending behind trees in Clayton South. Many more say they later saw the perimeter of a perfect circle singed into the grass at the Grange Reserve near Westall State School.</div>

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All Radio, All the Time, and Free (for Now) - State of the Art - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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DAR.fm, a Web site that lists every single radio show on every one of 1,800 AM and FM stations across the country. (It stands for Digital Audio Recorder.) You can search, sort, slice and dice those listings any way you want: by genre, by radio station, by search phrase. It's all here: NPR, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck. Music shows. Talk shows. Religion, sports, technology. Politics by the pound.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">DAR.fm, a Web site that lists every single radio show on every one of 1,800 AM and FM stations across the country. (It stands for Digital Audio Recorder.) You can search, sort, slice and dice those listings any way you want: by genre, by radio station, by search phrase. It's all here: NPR, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck. Music shows. Talk shows. Religion, sports, technology. Politics by the pound.</div>

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DAR.fm Digital Audio Recorder DAR - 3 views

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Record, play and pause your favorite radio using DAR

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Record, play and pause your favorite radio using DAR </div>

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Swinburne Rubik's Cube robot breaks world record - ABC Melbourne - Australian Broadcast... - 0 views

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Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Jun 11

A group of Melbourne university students have created a robot that can solve a Rubik's Cube in a record-breaking 10.18 seconds.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A group of Melbourne university students have created a robot that can solve a Rubik's Cube in a record-breaking 10.18 seconds.</div>

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YouTube - The Crevasse - Making of 3D Street Art - 3 views

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"In Dun Laoghaire the "Festival of World Culture" took place from 21. to 24. of August 2008. Edgar Müller has followed the invitation and continued his series of large-sized 3D Street Art there. For this year's Festival of World Cultures renowned German street painting artist Edgar Müller transformed a huge slice of the East Pier into a dramatic ice age scene. This project was supported by the Goethe Institution Germany."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In Dun Laoghaire the "Festival of World Culture" took place from 21. to 24. of August 2008. Edgar Müller has followed the invitation and continued his series of large-sized 3D Street Art there. For this year's Festival of World Cultures renowned German street painting artist Edgar Müller transformed a huge slice of the East Pier into a dramatic ice age scene. This project was supported by the Goethe Institution Germany."</div>

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Sensory Map of Hong Kong - 1 views

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YouTube - Chromebook - Business and Education Overview - 2 views

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Learn more at: www.google.com/chromebook/business-education.html

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Learn more at: <a href="http://www.google.com/chromebook/business-education.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.google.com/chromebook/business-education.html</a> </div>

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While IT pros scoff, Google Chromebooks will likely seduce businesses | TechRepublic - 1 views

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The time is right for a thin client solution to replace the overcomplicated mess that is corporate PC deployment and management. Google is right about that, and there’s a growing legion of CIOs — still of a vocal minority of about 30% — that are clamoring to reduce IT spending by moving to thin clients or desktop virtualization. Google’s solution could give many of them exactly what they need.
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Roland Gesthuizen on 17 May 11

"Google's Chromebook for Business program could entice a lot of organizations to consider ditching Windows for Chrome OS. Learn why and see how it could save big money."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Google's Chromebook for Business program could entice a lot of organizations to consider ditching Windows for Chrome OS. Learn why and see how it could save big money."</div>

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Google's latest revolution: fixing the 'broken' PC - 5 views

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The new web-centric PCs made by Samsung and Acer - dubbed "Chromebooks" - were announced at Google's I/O event overnight. The computers, which boot in seconds, will be available in the US and Europe next month.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The new web-centric PCs made by Samsung and Acer - dubbed "Chromebooks" - were announced at Google's I/O event overnight. The computers, which boot in seconds, will be available in the US and Europe next month.</div>

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BBC News - Raspberry Pi: A £15 mini-computer - 7 views

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A piece of technology not much bigger than an adult's finger could help a new generation discover how to programme computers. Games developer David Braben and some colleagues came up with the Raspberry Pi - a whole computer on a tiny circuit board made with not much more than an ARM processor, a USB port, and an HDMI connection.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A piece of technology not much bigger than an adult's finger could help a new generation discover how to programme computers. Games developer David Braben and some colleagues came up with the Raspberry Pi - a whole computer on a tiny circuit board made with not much more than an ARM processor, a USB port, and an HDMI connection.</div>

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Raspberry Pi | An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte! - 5 views

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"The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing. We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing. We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world."</div>

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Super telescope will overload computers › News in Science (ABC Science) - 3 views

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"Scientists admit they'll be forced to throw out valuable data because today's computers aren't powerful enough to process all the information that will be generated by a proposed new super telescope. The planned $2.3 billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the largest and most sophisticated radio telescope ever built."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Scientists admit they'll be forced to throw out valuable data because today's computers aren't powerful enough to process all the information that will be generated by a proposed new super telescope. The planned $2.3 billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the largest and most sophisticated radio telescope ever built."</div>

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The problem with the iPad and Facebook « Esko Kilpi on Interactive Value Crea... - 3 views

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Reach together with symmetry and equality were the things that made the Internet such a radical social innovation.
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The real genius of Napster was the way it made collaboration automatic. By default, a consumer of files was also a producer of files for the network.
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The big challenge for many organizations is to do things in a much, much simpler and more responsive way. The sad truth is that it is easier for managers to grasp the threat of competition than the risk of simply becoming obsolete.
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Roland Gesthuizen on 05 May 11

I believe that Napster gave us a glimpse of the future. The architecture it pioneered is going to be a viable model for the agile value constellations of the very near future. Client-server is not the only truth and Facebook is (just) a modern version of a Telco. Facebook is not the same as the Internet.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I believe that Napster gave us a glimpse of the future. The architecture it pioneered is going to be a viable model for the agile value constellations of the very near future. Client-server is not the only truth and Facebook is (just) a modern version of a Telco. Facebook is not the same as the Internet.</div>

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I Education Apps Review - I Education Apps Review - Screencasting via the iPad - 9 views

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Screencasting via the iPad. A video tutorial that uses a range of tools to record a tutorial on an iPad. Each tool has an interesting use, together they enable you to record an annotated vido screencast (of sorts)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Screencasting via the iPad. A video tutorial that uses a range of tools to record a tutorial on an iPad. Each tool has an interesting use, together they enable you to record an annotated vido screencast (of sorts)</div>

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