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Google Notebooks changing the way Astoria High students learn. Quote: All computing on the notebooks is done on the Internet. Documents, applications and settings are stored on "clouds," and can be accessed from any Chrome Notebook.  "You can't download anything, so you will never have a virus," Scott Holmstedt  Astoria High School technology director. "And every time I open it up, it will be as fast as the first time I opened it up."

The yearly Horizon Report documents key trends in technology that have an impact on education.  Last year, it highlighted Cloud-based computing and Collaborative environments as the most immediate trends.  This year it focuses on Electronic Books and Mobile Devices. good geeky reading!

Interesting data from survey about how Cloud Computing is changing IT.

eBooks, Digital Resources - it is changing our personal consumption of content.  How will it change the way we consume, use, assign books and textbooks in our schools?

The world of tech is changing. This article focuses on the IT side of businesses, but schools need to pay attention, too. "disruptive innovation" is happening before our eyes.

take any image and turn it into a jigsaw puzzle.  Use a Wordle image?  Use on a SMART Board?

Using Google Sketchup and some plugins, this teacher shares some examples of Augmented Reality and gives steps on how to do it. This is from almost 2 years ago.  One of many times when I feel WAY behind...

An attempt to protect kids with unintended consequences? Is it prescribing the wrong medicine (or amputation) for a different disease?

In a 1-to-1 laptop class, do students pay attention? Yes No and... It depends

I've downloaded kindle books from JCPL. The only catch is that these books are loaded through your Amazon account. Many public librarians consider this an invasion of privacy and are unhappy about it. Me? I'm just happy to be able to check out library ebooks to my kindle :-).

Bloom's Taxonomy - using Google Tools.

The graphic below is a clickable image map. Simply click on the tool to visit it! 51 tools of Google grouped based on Blooms Taxonomy.