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This site highlights an initiative from Exxon Mobil to raise awareness of our plummeting math/science ranking in terms of global competitiveness of US students.

Funny. I think I still have one in my cabinet at school. Amazing how far digital photography has come in a short time.

On February 28, we met a man who was beginning his Appalachian Trail thru-hike the next day. We exchanged contact info and he gave me the address of his blog which he would be updated along the way. This was his way of letting his family know where he was and share pictures.

Fast Follow. Anyone in the US can receive Tweets on their phone even if they haven't signed up for Twitter. This is a simple way for people to get information they care about in real-time. For example, let's say you want to get Tweets from New York City's office of emergency management (@NotifyNYC). Just text 'follow NotifyNYC' to 40404 in the US.

This blog lists some helpful applications for the Android phone. I posted about apps earlier which was more centered for iPhones, so I found this to be interesting. I do not have an Android, but I know many people who do. The list includes apps for record keeping, storage, graphing, measurements, flash card building, and more. There was even the mention of Wolfram Alpha which we learned more about in our most recent class. This blog can be very helpful for educators and students that have the Android.

" it is clear that the technology overlap that has happened in this last decade has given the needed impetus to escalating the potential of mobile learning. This convergence of mobile information and enabling technologies has significantly impacted the way users interact with information on a daily and immediate basis."

Multiple video connections now in skype!

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Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet is fundamentally altering the way that news is produced and distributed, but there are few comprehensive approaches to understanding the nature of these changes. Media Cloud automatically builds an archive of news stories and blog posts from the web, applies language processing, and gives you ways to analyze and visualize the data.

Yodio offers an integrated, one-stop digital publishing service where anyone can go to self-record, produce, and share audio recordings (podcasts) and personal broadcasts (audio synchronized with digital photos). Using Yodio's free production system, most anyone can combine digital photos with their recorded audio to create rich media presentations. What is a rich-media presentation? Think voice narrated power point presentations or photo albums. Now think of them being shared in a player similar to YouTube, so they can be streamed throughout the internet or the player can be embedded in other websites, blogs, etc. This is personal broadcast with the sharing part operating on steroids! You can link, e-mail, embed, and in many cases download as an MP3 file. It's made to share memories and photos that are made more interesting and informative by adding your own voice.

Choose from great images * Sprixi gathers images from quality sites around the web and brings them together. Currently we get images Flickr and OpenClipArt, as well as our own images. * Images on Sprixi generally have liberal licenses such as Creative Commons or are in the public domain. You don't have to buy anything. * You can choose from multiple sizes with one click. * We make it simple to download or link to the image. Sprixi can even generate HTML code for your blog.

"Here's another poster to help get you thinking about how you can apply Bloom's higher-order thinking skills in your classroom. This poster shows the segments of an orange with each segment relating to a thinking skill and some helpful verbs to serve as prompts."

"At Learn it in 5, you'll learn what is Web 2.0, and strategies for using Web 2.0 technology in the digital classroom - all in 5 minutes or less. Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more."

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Two globes in one view. Pointed to by the gearth blog.

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