January 2008
138 posts
From Access to Information to Access to People →
Nice article in Educause by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler titled “Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0″ which is another great conversation starter for those who still may not have a basic understanding of these shifts. It’s written more toward the higher ed audience, obviously, but there is still a lot of resonance for the K-12 set.
There are many familiar...
reading Stephen Heppell’s “Ten Top Tips” - http://tinyurl.com/22xhuo
never realised how much noise my tablet fan makes - shows how noisy the baseroom is without you noticing it.
looking at Kaltura - online group video editing site partnered with Wikimedia Foundation - it’s a bit *wow!* http://tinyurl.com/ysn7bd
just discovered that Voicethreads are embeddable in Tumblr as “videos” - fantastic! http://tinyurl.com/3cv7ca
shifting clients to the newer epo one by one - bit tedious
TwitThis →
Vyew.com - FREE Anytime Collaboration and Live... →
WatchA Silent voicethread created by Langwitches (explanation here). I hadn’t realised that Voicethread has continued to develop - the zoom and pan feature is pretty neat.
researching detection reporting
eating soup
Cisco's Big Switch: Shift Happens Fact of the... →
Cisco announced the Nexus 7000 - a switch capable of routing 15 terabits of data per second. According to this article, the equivalent of moving the entire contents of Wikipedia in a hundredth of a second, or downloading every movie available on Netflix in about 40 seconds.Or, if you prefer, according to this article, It could also copy the entire searchable Internet in 7.5 minutes.Your mileage...
ReadBurner →
Meme tracker - show’s what’s shared on Google Reader
@timekord - have you looked at Shozu for video sharing - needs an app but supposed to work with htc tytn - http://tinyurl.com/2rohgt
@timekord - page2rss working fine to update me on your deadspace :)
@timekord - when I’ve got something to say, don’t have a can with me at the mo
Yay! - got my seesmic invite. “I’d just like to thank my ma and my pa and all the people - you know who you are…” http://seesmic.com/
The Arab-Israeli Conflict →
AIC is a web-mediated character-playing simulation for high school and college students
heading back to BC
doing tippity tip top secret stuff.
@wendypeskett - good links here - http://tinyurl.com/26fewe “top 10 learning tools” are the fave tools of various ed practitioners
Star Viewer →
Pretty mashup of GoogleMaps view of the night sky with embedded tags leading to Youtube videos of many of the features - shame we don’t teach astronomy.
struggling with the MSDNAA renewal page - given up - emailing them.
looking at a Classroom2.0 group called “The Inclusion Revolution - Technology in Special Education” good leads - http://tinyurl.com/29hnxw
Free online text to speech (TTS) converter... →
charging up a couple of Vye’s in case we need them.
looking at great article on using Befuddlr in the classroom - http://tinyurl.com/276eou - try the geography it’s damn hard
got all 3 servers working of the one monitor now - looks pretty neat but ye-gods does KVM produce a maze of cables
do you think you could lead into an English class with this video? Dan Meyer does… http://tinyurl.com/ytszqd
working on the Edexcel server in the Undercroft - may not be contactable by mobile
Free teleprompter/autocue service. Cueprompter -... →
WatchTesting low quality stream from Ustream.tv - quite like the effect though it’s not of any practical use. Recorded on the Vye.
Watchdy/dan » Blog Archive » When I talk, you listen.
@pj2000 - what happened?
The Edge Annual Question 08 - What have you... →
When thinking changes your mind, that’s philosophy. When God changes your mind, that’s faith. When facts change your mind, that’s science. Science is based on evidence. What happens when the data change? How have scientific findings or arguments changed your mind?
“I cursed the edublogosphere in my head — all of you — and then said:
I...”
– dy/dan » Blog Archive » Prologue
think I might turn tumblr into a visualblog - strip out all the comments and just leave the pictures.
David Warlick flags up burgeoning debate in the blogosphere over the Economist debate on SN - jump in here - http://tinyurl.com/2hpa9k
I hate troubleshooting Outlook problems - mutliple calendar sharing yuck, wish they’d just use Gcal
