Ed Tech Crew

iPaditis 2 makes you poorer, twitchier and crazier than the original iPaditis. Watch out!

Very funny clip, only goes for two minutes if you want a bit of a laugh. "iPaditis is either a new plague about to be unleashed on humanity… or a way for the BBC to poke a little fun at those of us who enjoy our iPads."

"Our infographic to end the week is one of the better ones I've run across recently. It's about data centers, one of the more talked about topics in recent months. This one explores power consumption by making comparisons between standard usage and what can be accomplished with more efficient technologies."

Create your own widgets for your website - banners, photoslideshows, audio, flipbooks, surveys.

Thanks to @rmbyrne & Free Technology for Teachers

Six online tool maker apps: flash banner, custom video player, custom audio player, photo slide show, and page flip book from PDF. Free Review at MakeUseOf website.

"Last week my wife and I told our 13-year-old daughter she could join Facebook. Within a few hours she had accumulated 171 friends, and I felt a little as if I had passed my child a pipe of crystal meth. I don't mean to be a spoilsport, and I don't think I'm a Luddite. I edit a newspaper that has embraced new media with creative, prizewinning gusto. I get that the Web reaches and engages a vast, global audience, that it invites participation and facilitates - up to a point - newsgathering. But before we succumb to digital idolatry, we should consider that innovation often comes at a price. And sometimes I wonder if the price is a piece of ourselves. "

An excellent read! I've been looking for more stuff on the whole Native/Immigrants nonsense, and there are some very thought provoking ideas contained in here.

Make a map with your data to show trends and facts with interactive mapping tool.

"This video highlights the growth and development of a Google Doc as an Elementary School student in Edmonton Public Schools takes us on a journey of how she collaborates with classmates and her teacher to create a finished piece of writing."

An example of the resources from the Digigogy site. Certainly encourages thinking about practice

An alternative word cloud generator, allowing sign in by Twitter, Facebook ... or not at all.

Tony Vincent's great Youtube tutorial "Basics for using Audacity software to record your voice and add intro music."

Share This MTV clip from 1995 is excellent. It shows reporters and celebrities telling us all about this wonderful new thing called the "internet" - all of a sudden it's everywhere and it's so popular! (Thanks, Sandra Bullock.) While a lot has changed, the issues of the internet as of 1995 weren't all that different from what they are nowadays, actually. Then as now, the web was mostly being used for chatting to like-minded people. But there was a lot more fear around it, with much concern about hackers and debates about protecting children from porn. Not that you could really look at pictures, porn or otherwise, back then, with dial-up being the connection of the day. Remember those crackly modems? We don't miss those. The word "cyber", on the other hand, that looks due for a revival. Who's with me?

"Multi-user whiteboard, live audio, image collaboration, text-chat and more"

"A new research project by the Open University explores the much-debated concept of "the digital native". The university does this by making full use of the rich resource which is its own highly diverse student body. It concludes that while there are clear differences between older people and younger in their use of technology, there's no evidence of a clear break between two separate populations."

"Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program" Similar to Pivot and free to download

In a bright buzzing room, in the glow of the moon-and iPhones and Androids and Blackberries too-it is time to say goodnight...

Once again Apple is taking a lead and asking a lot of its competitors. I wish those competitors luck, for the better all smartphones are, the happier I am. If Steve Jobs's true legacy is that the devices every other company makes are so, so much better than they otherwise would have been, I don't think he would mind one bit.