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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Roland Gesthuizen

Roland Gesthuizen

The Best iPad for Schools article EVER! … and it's not mine :-( | iPad 4 SCHOOLS - 8 views

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    "This article by Edudemic is the best summary of the 5 issues facing iPad rollouts I've read to date. But… many school principals I've met who NEED to read this wont as it's 1300 words. And so, here's my summary for the 'busy' Principal"
Roland Gesthuizen

Blue Microphones | Snowball - The World's First Professional USB Mic - 1 views

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    "Meet the Snowball; the world's first professional USB mic. Whether you're recording a guitar at your kitchen table or a complete band in the studio, the Snowball can capture it with detail unheard of before in a USB mic."
Roland Gesthuizen

Quantum evolution › Science Features (ABC Science) - 0 views

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    "Australian researchers report they've made a breakthrough in quantum computing. So how does their discovery fit in the race to build a supercomputer?"
Roland Gesthuizen

BYOD in the 21st Century - YouTube - 2 views

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    "Wondering what BYOD means or if your school is ready for it? In this 8-minute Pedagogical Quickie, I present some of the many advantages and limitations of this concept for education."
Roland Gesthuizen

Pixar studio stories - The movie vanishes (full) - YouTube - 6 views

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    "Did Toy story 2 ever have the chance of vanishing?"
Roland Gesthuizen

New HD Video Lets You Plummet to Mars With Curiosity | Wired Science | Wired.com - 4 views

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    "Watching this amazing high-definition video of Curiosity's hair-raising landing on Mars will make you clutch at your armrest. Compiled from the probe's MARDI descent camera, it is the best landing video yet and gives you a chance to experience what it's like to ride along with the rover down to the Martian surface. "
Roland Gesthuizen

Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 2 views

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    "The statement "I have read and agree with the Terms of Service" is the biggest lie on the web. We aim to fix that. As a crowd initiative, ToS;DR rates the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy of websites and services from a user rights perspective, with labels ranging from a very good class A to a very bad class E."
Roland Gesthuizen

Free Technology for Teachers: A New Tool for Choosing a Creative Commons License - 5 views

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    "he Creative Commons organization has a new tool to help you choose the best license for your situation. The new interactive Creative Commons license chooser helps you select the right license for your work. To select the right license for your work just answer a few questions and a license will be recommended to you."
Roland Gesthuizen

Convert Word Documents to Clean HTML - 3 views

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    "Word to clean HTML is a free converter tool for documents produced by Microsoft Word and similar office software. Word to clean HTML strips out invalid or proprietry tags, leaving clean HTML behind for use in web pages and ebooks."
Roland Gesthuizen

The Future of Ed-Tech (Infographic) | Blog | eClassroom News - 9 views

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    "In a recent post, Edudemic introduced us to a very intricate, color-coded visualization by Envisioning Tech on what to expect in education technology in the next 30 years or so. And these concepts are not broad generalizations- Envisioning Tech takes topics like digitized classrooms and tangible computing and segments them into practical ideas to produce a well-organized, cohesive diagram"
Roland Gesthuizen

The Ed Techie: Innovating Pedagogy report - 2 views

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    Here at IET in the OU, a bunch of us, led by Mike Sharples, were asked to produce an annual report on how changes in teaching and learning (related to technology) were changing the current landscape. ... Think of it as like a Horizon's report with more focus on pedagogy. We adopted the same methodology as the Horizon report also.
Roland Gesthuizen

What we learned from 5 million books | Video on TED.com - 1 views

  • Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
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    "Jean-Baptiste Michel looks at how we can use large volumes of data to better understand our world."
Roland Gesthuizen

Intro to Scratch on Vimeo - 6 views

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    Scratch is a programming language for young people to create their own interactive stories, games, music, and art. Scratch was created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. You can find more information and download Scratch for free at scratch.mit.edu
Roland Gesthuizen

High Scalability - High Scalability - Grace Hopper to Programmers: Mind Your ... - 2 views

  • Here's a short, witty, and wise video of her famous nanosecond demonstration. An amazing lady, great innovator, an engaging speaker, and an inspiring teacher.
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    Computing pioneer Grace Hopper, inventor of the compiler, searched for a concrete way to create an intuitive understanding of just how fast is a nanosecond, a billionth of a second, which was the speed of their new computer circuits.
Roland Gesthuizen

Build Your Own Blocks (BYOB) - 3 views

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    Welcome to the distribution center for BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks), an advanced offshoot of Scratch .. .. an attempt to extend the brilliant accessibility of Scratch to somewhat older users-in particular, non-CS-major computer science students-without becoming inaccessible to its original audience.
Roland Gesthuizen

Digital Roadtrip * Unique method for accessing student work on iPads? - 8 views

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    We all know that we can share via iTunes over USB to any Mac/PC with a recent version of iTunes. Well would you believe the same thing works without a cable and it doesn't have to be the Mac/PC that manages the devices. It means that any teacher can access all the students files on a device that has been "Saved to iTunes".
Roland Gesthuizen

Thousands of Australians still facing web blackout - 1 views

  • The ACMA, together with other Australian government agencies, has developed a site (dns-ok.gov.au) for users to check if they are infected. People whose computers are still infected come July 9 will lose their ability to go online, and they will have to call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting to the internet.
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    "Despite repeated alerts, thousands of Australians may still lose their internet service come early next week unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago."
Roland Gesthuizen

iPhoneography, the worlds #1 iPhone photography blog, bringing you the latest... - 2 views

  • *Whilst the app is FREE, it does place a watermark across the bottom of the video, which can be removed by upgrading to the Pro Version
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    "From Flambe Studios, the developers of PicPlayPost comes a new pioneering app, that for the first time lets you create picture in picture videos on your iDevice."
Roland Gesthuizen

Mars Curiosity Landing: A Cheat Sheet | Riding with Robots on the High Frontier - 0 views

  • Curiosity is the biggest rover ever sent to Mars, and carries the most advanced suite of instruments, in order to discover the story of the planet’s habitability.
  • Total time from top of atmosphere to full stop on the ground: about seven minutes
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    "After a spectacular launch and a long cruise through the black reaches of space, the Mars Science Laboratory-better known as the Curiosity rover-is set for the most dangerous part of its mission: the landing in Gale Crater. ... Use this page as a quick guide to the event."
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