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John Evans

25 Incredible Skins, Resources & Tools for the Gmail Power User - 0 views

www.dailybits.com/tools-for-the-gmail-power-user

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shared by John Evans on 20 Jul 08 - Cached
  • John Evans on 20 Jul 08
     
    Each day seems to produce a new hack, tool or tip for better Gmail use. In this post, I want to highlight only the very best, hand-picked from hundreds of resources. This is not another resource list you'll bookmark and never look at again. These tips, monster resources and tools will change the way you use Gmail.
Shaun Fletcher

CBC Radio | Quirks & Quarks - 0 views

www.cbc.ca/quirks

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    • Shaun Fletcher
      Shaun Fletcher on 30 Mar 08
       
      Podcasts are also playable in google reader.
  • Podcasting!Quirks & Quarks is part of CBC Radio’s podcasting project. For more information about podcasting and the CBC programs available, go to CBC.ca’s podcasting info page.To access the Quirks podcast, right click on one of the links below, copy the URL and paste it into your podcast software application. Quirks & Quarks Podcast - show in segments podcast or if you have iTunes installed Subscribe in iTunesQuirks & Quarks Podcast - show in one file or if you have iTunes installed Subscribe in iTunes(hint - iPod users might prefer the whole show in one file)
  • Shaun Fletcher on 30 Mar 08
     
    Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment. We cover every aspect of science, from the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom...and everything in between.
Ruth Howard

High Scalability - High Scalability - The Amazing Collective Compute Power of... - 4 views

highscalability.com/...ower-of-the-ambient-cloud.html

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shared by Ruth Howard on 20 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Earlier we talked about how a single botnet could harness more compute power than our largest super computers. Well, that's just the start of it. The amount of computer power available to the Ambient Cloud will be truly astounding.
  • By 2014 one estimate is there will be 2 billion PCs. That's a giant reservoir of power to exploit, especially considering these new boxes are stuffed with multiple powerful processors and gigabytes of memory. 7 Billion Smartphones By now it's common wisdom smartphones are the computing platform of the future. It's plausible to assume the total number of mobile phones in use will roughly equal the number of people on earth. That's 7 billion smartphones. Smartphones aren't just tiny little wannabe computers anymore either. They are real computers and are getting more capable all the time.
  • One Google exec estimates that in 12 years an iPod will be able to store all the video ever produced.
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  • But all the compute power in the world is of little use if the cores can't talk to each other.
  • Inductive chargers will also make it easier to continually charge devices. Nokia is working on wireless charging. And devices will start harvesting energy from the surroundings. So it looks like the revolution will be fully powered.
  • . Literally billions of dollars are being invested into developing a giant sensor grids to manage power. Other grids will be set up for water, climate, pollution, terrorist attacks, traffic, and virtually everything else you can think to measure and control.
  • . Others predict the smart grid could be 1,000 times larger than the Internet.
  • Clearly this technology has obvious health and medical uses, and it may also figure into consumer and personal entertainment.
  • What if instead smartphones become the cloud?
  • In the future compute capacity will be everywhere. This is one of the amazing gifts of computer technology and also why virtualization has become such a hot datacenter trend.
  • It's out of that collective capacity that an Ambient Cloud can be formed, like a galaxy is formed from interstellar dust. We need to find a more systematic way of putting it to good use.
  • Ruth Howard on 20 Feb 10
     
    digital citizenship headed for the clouds...
Ruth Howard

Internet as Playground and Factory :: Intro - 6 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Large corporations then profit from this interaction by collecting and selling this data.  Social participation is the oil of the digital economy. Today, communication is a mode of social production facilitated by new capitalist imperatives and it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between play, consumption and production, life and work, labor and non-labor.  
  • The revenues of today's social aggregators are promising but their speculative value exceeds billions of dollars. Capital manages to expropriate value from the commons; labor goes beyond the factory, all of society is put to work. Every aspect of life drives the digital economy: sexual desire, boredom, friendship — and all becomes fodder for speculative profit.
  • Free Software and similar practices have provided important alternatives to and critiques of traditional modes of intellectual property to date but user agency is not just a question of content ownership. Users should demand data portability, the right to pack up and leave the walled gardens of institutionalized labor à la Facebook or StudiVZ. We should ask which rights users have beyond their roles as consumers and citizens.
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  • How much should Google pay them to tag an image? Such payment could easily become more of an insult than a remuneration. Currently, there are few adequate definitions of labor that fit the complex, hybrid realities of the digital economy.
  • The Internet as Playground and Factory poses a series of questions about the conundrums surrounding labor (and often the labor of love) in relation to our digital present:
Sandy Kendell

with iPod Touches (Learning Continuity) - 20 views

sites.google.com/...with-ipod-touches

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shared by Sandy Kendell on 14 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Sandy Kendell on 14 Mar 10
     
    Links to multiple iPod Touch apps from Acalanes UHSD
Anne Bubnic

Cybersafety Games (K-12) - 19 views

sites.google.com/...cybersafetygames

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shared by Anne Bubnic on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Anne Bubnic on 31 Mar 10
     
    Looking for games online that might help students learn important cybersafety concepts? Add this collection from around the world to your digital citizenship training efforts.
Dave Truss

The Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online - NYTimes.com - 10 views

www.nytimes.com/...09privacy.html

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shared by Dave Truss on 10 May 10 - Cached
  • Younger teenagers were not included in these studies, and they may not have the same privacy concerns. But anecdotal evidence suggests that many of them have not had enough experience to understand the downside to oversharing.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 10 May 10
       
      This is why we need to have social networking sites at school, so that we can help teach about safety/security/privacy!
  • But in many cases, young adults are teaching one another about privacy.
  • Ms. Liu is not just policing her own behavior, but her sister’s, too. Ms. Liu sent a text message to her 17-year-old sibling warning her to take down a photo of a guy sitting on her sister’s lap. Why? Her sister wants to audition for “Glee” and Ms. Liu didn’t want the show’s producers to see it. Besides, what if her sister became a celebrity? “It conjures up an image where if you became famous anyone could pull up a picture and send it to TMZ,” Ms. Liu said. Andrew Klemperer, a 20-year-old at Georgetown University, said it was a classmate who warned him about the implications of the recent Facebook change — through a status update on (where else?) Facebook. Now he is more diligent in monitoring privacy settings and apt to warn others, too.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 10 May 10
       
      Great examples of peers leading peers, but not the kind we usually read about when media describes social networking sites.
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  • He has learned to live out loud mostly by trial and error and has come up with his own theory: concentric layers of sharing.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 10 May 10
       
      Like my "Worlds Collide" post: http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/google-buzz-and-george-costanza-worlds-collide/ but I still think there is too much of a perception that you can have 'private' or 'hidden' digital lives (which you can't) rather than thinking about it as being appropriate to your audience, and always "appropriate" and thoughtful about your image.
  • The conventional wisdom suggests that everyone under 30 is comfortable revealing every facet of their lives online, from their favorite pizza to most frequent sexual partners. But many members of the tell-all generation are rethinking what it means to live out loud.
  • more than half the young adults questioned had become more concerned about privacy than they were five years ago — mirroring the number of people their parent’s age or older with that worry. They are more diligent than older adults, however, in trying to protect themselves.
  • In a new study to be released this month, the Pew Internet Project has found that people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves.
David Wetzel

Saving the Sports Complex Algebra Project - 6 views

www.teachscienceandmath.com/...sports-complex-algebra-project

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shared by David Wetzel on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • David Wetzel on 26 Apr 10
     
    An algebra project focusing on a theme which interests students is more likely to engage them in the project, so lets take a look at sports. Many students participate in sports at some level, whether as part of a school team or a community team. For the most part these same students do not understand the costs involved to host the sport. Also, they do not understand how much money is needed to ensure a profitable season so the sport can continue from year to year.
Patricia Cone

The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness: Zendo - 1 views

www.edutechintegration.com/...zendo.html

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shared by Patricia Cone on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Patricia Cone on 23 Mar 11
     
    This website takes your notes and from them create flashcards.
Dave Truss

Please help: Technology activities vs. Technology that supports learning - edtech VISION - 0 views

edtechvision.org/?p=575

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shared by Dave Truss on 24 May 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 24 May 09
     
    I think this is a great idea... let's see some wisdom shared by many educators:-)
  • Dave Truss on 24 May 09
     
    I am collecting real examples from teachers to help compare the difference between an assignment that is "a technology ACTIVITY" vs. one where "technology SUPPORTS STUDENT LEARNING". Could you please help me out and fill out this short form:
Vicki Davis

UK Team is focusing on online comment defamation - 1 views

www.birminghampost.net/...ment-defamation-65233-25030203

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shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
  • a new team to track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online.
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  • a rising problem with people making anonymous statements that defamed companies, and people sharing confidential information online.
  • the new team would ensure there was “nowhere to hide in cyberspace”.
  • a story from six years earlier about United Airlines going bankrupt was voted up on a newspaper website. This was later picked up by Google News and eventually the Bloomberg news wire, which published it automatically as if it were a news story.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
       
      Could this be considered the new "insider trading" - hmmm. Surely there are issues if it is done maliciously but isn't there a line here?
  • rogue employees
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
       
      Uhm, how about rogue companies?
  • trying to get Internet Service Providers to give out details of customers who had made comments online
  • shares in American firm United Airlines fell by 99 per cent in just 15 minutes after an outdated story that the firm had filed for bankruptcy was forced back onto the headlines.
  • the numbers of disgruntled employees looking to get their own back on employers or former employers was also on the rise.
  • could stifle free speech, and the ability of people to act as whistle-blowers to expose actions by their employers.
  • an outlet for anonymous reporting.
    • Vicki Davis
      Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
       
      Is it possible to have accountability AND anonymity? Must these be mutually exclusive?
  • This is known as the ‘Streisand effect’ online, after a case where singer Barbara Streisand tried to suppress photos of her California beachside home from a publicly-available archive of photos taken to document coastal erosion.
  • Nightjack. This was the guy who was blogging on the front line about police work and he was forced to stop this story because he was unmasked by The Times
  • If you allow a lot of anonymous debate by people who are not regulated, you can get it descending to the common denominator. If you allow people to register with an identity, even if it’s not their real one, you bring the level of debate up.”
  • There was one case a couple of years ago that we just keep referring back to where a defamatory comment was made and it wasn’t taken down for a period of time. Because of that the host of the website was held to be liable.”
  • the ‘Wild West’ era of the internet was in some ways coming to an end, with firms starting to crack down
  • I think companies are still grappling with whether it’s better to take it on the chin and hope people don’t see the comments, or on the other hand cracking down on everything that’s particularly damaging that’s said online. Maybe this is set to change.”
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 09
     
    While this article starts out about a lawfirm in Birmingham UK that is going to "track down people who make anonymous comments about companies online" it becomes an amazingly poignant article on the very nature of the Internet today and the push pull between anonymous commenting and accountability of the commenter. Push pull between free speech and online identity and brand protection. One person in this article claims that this sort of thing is the sign that the "wild west" of the INternet is coming to an end. Oh dear, I hope someone invents a new one if somehow anonymous commenters are now going to risk such! Also love the article's discussion of the Streisand effect wherein Barbara protested the sharing of some photos of her eroding beachfront which caused a stir and more people looking at the photos than if she had left it alone. This article is going to be a must read for Flat Classroom students and would be great for college-level discussions as well.
Vicki Davis

QR Codes, Electronic Devices,Nonprofits, and Concert Etiquette | Beth's Blog - 11 views

www.bethkanter.org/nprofits-and-concert-etiquette

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shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Apr 11
     
    Ecellent blog post on the use of QR codes in nonprofits from social media nonprofit guru - Beth Kanter. Tons of potential here!
Patricia Cone

From Rapunzel to The Little Red Riding Hood, Beloved Children's Classics as Minimalist ... - 8 views

www.brainpickings.org/...childrens-book-posters

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  • Patricia Cone on 27 Feb 12
     
    These posters are wonderful representations of classic fairy tales!
Dave Truss

Kelly Christohperson - School-Wide Integration of tech- notes from presentation - 0 views

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  • Dave Truss on 27 May 08
     
    Kelly Christohperson - School-Wide Integration of Technology - May 16/08 -10:45am Administrators need to be on board with technology. It needs to be something that they are willing to do in their schools. Principals need to be technology leaders.
Maggie Verster

A teen's view of social networking and digital citizenship (thanx @terryfreedman) - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 21 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 21 Apr 09
     
    There is a lot in this: how her class handled a setback created inadvertently by Google, how their teacher laid down the rules and gave tuition on internet safety right up front, how their other teachers are learning from Miller and her classmates, and a lot more.
Ruth Howard

I'm sure I'm doing it wrong | Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech - 8 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • According to many definitions of good teaching, I don’t qualify: I don’t clearly state objectives If I do state them, they are as fuzzy as all get out I have a hard time measuring student progress My course syllabus changes almost daily I never use tests I constantly stray off topic
  • I do constantly question whether or not I need to be more structured.  Do I need to be able to define my outcomes more succinctly than this? Students will learn that: Learning is social and connected Learning is personal and self-directed Learning is shared and transparent Learning is rich in content and diversity
  • I do provide rubrics, build criteria together, emphasis and utilize descriptive feedback.  Providing supports and the odd insight best describes my role.  I’m of total confidence they are learning. Just read their blogs.
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  •   I’ve read, listen and thought  more about assessment than most and yet it still baffles me. Mostly because the kind of assessment that makes most sense (immediate and descriptive feedback) isn’t really valued in schools.
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