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This is a great and easy-to-use site that allows you to create professional looking Photoshop-style effects with little effort. Do you want to see yourself on the cover of Rolling Stone, as a painting in an art gallery, or as a tattoo? Select an effect from the front page, upload a picture, make any necessary adjustments (e.g. zoom in on face), and view the result. Just be aware that all original photos and the resulting images are publicly viewable.

Start building your own AR experience with this download. I have not tried as I am a Mac

Dang! I have a Mac, too. Anyone in class with a PC desktop/laptop and handheld? I'd love to try it out. Let me know.

Great site dedicated to the integration of technology in the classroom. Podcasts cover topics ranging from presentation tools, wikis, cyber safety, collaboration tools and more.

"Is Google Making Us Stupid" going into three anthologies

Nick Carr's take on FT twitter article

What is Twitter doing to us?

Video demonstrates an intuitive pan/zoom feature of 'video screen capture'. This could be very useful, but it is quite expensive $299.

Ning trying to spread it's wings. Let's users create their own social networks-mini facebooks-if you will. Ning is slowly becoming popular in classrooms and institutions of higher learning

Good utility since many people will likely be sharing documents via Google Docs while working on projects for coursework.

Hey Chris. Given all the other options we have for creating and sharing documents and information, how do you see this being most useful to you?

The 1-step migration of research content to the host document is very nice, but outside of that, I think I would be inclined to stick with google docs if for no other reason than users (and any collaborators) do not need to download an application to their computer.

Bringing Wireless Infrastructure to small villages in Peru. Why and how?

Jenny, you should check this one out...

For people interested in the new HTML 5 standard, there are some great things that will be possible. This article gives a quick overview of Canvas, which will use JavaScript to allow some pretty complicated visual effects. This guide assumes a good grasp of the current standards and of typical digital design tools.

Great learning object repository site.

That takes care of the display challenge, now if we could only develop a more sophisticated and biologically intuitive method of data entry (no keys or multi-touch surface), the world will be a very different place. Def. an emerging technology with wild educational/training implications.

Have you LOLed today? A comic that presents a cynical view of the efficacy of blogs to effect change.

Article from Usable Knowledge regarding augmented reality from the perspective of Mr. Dede himself!

What can I say, its a smartpen. On the flip side of the user-value, a teacher could use the device to 'capture' student work in a digital log, The ability to program the SmartPaper with unique commands would make for some simple yet scalable adaptive testing designs.

This is a new interface for taking notes -- what are the implications for studying and for content mastery?

Hey Prof! Funny you tagged this article. I was just searching for advanced note-taking software and was having a difficult time finding anything that would resemble my handwritten notes. Also, I came across a similar device that is described in your article today at my internship at Soup2Nuts. Since all of the animators/artists use Flash to create the cartoons, they have something similar to this "magical pen". However, they need to use a specific type of tracking pad to draw. The idea of applying this same technology to any piece of paper is a useful idea (if you are one of those people who remember to bring paper and pads to class).