Have you made the move to the cloud? Is your email up on Google? Are your pictures up on Flickr? Are your most important thoughts on Blogger or Word Press? Have you ever considered what would happen to that data if the service you were using went under, gets gobbled up by a competitor, has [...]
Three items that crashed like waves on my virtual shore and just made me go, hmmm…. Laredo, Texas Becomes a City of 250,00 With No Bookstore Vicar Gives Blessing to Electronic Gadgets and OMG! Des Moines Teen is US Texting Queen, Heads to World Championship
From the Google Earth Blog (via dougpete on Twitter) – “Google has been working with GeoEye over the last 24 hours to get fresh imagery from Haiti to help aid relief efforts. They’ve just released a KML file for it, which you’re encouraged to download. The file is actually a network link, so Google can [...]
Just before the holidays I wrote a post here about the upcoming Google Teacher Academy for Administrators, and the conversations that had broken out on Twitter and blogs about the offering. I would be remiss if I did not post a link to Mark Wagner’s thoughtful response in his Educational Technology and Life blog which [...]
If you were not able to join us at the Connecticut Science Center for Discovery’s SCIcon, here are some pictures of the event! You can click on the individual picture to get a larger image. You can also find the photos on Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevesokoloski/sets/72157623056341103/
Discovery Channel’s MythBusters are offering a special presentation, Monday December 28, 2009 at 9PM EST called Mini Myth Mayhem. During the episode, Mythbuster Grant Imahara will be on Twitter (follow @MythBusters) answering viewer question submitted with the tag #grantchat during the broadcast. You can find out more about Grant here: GRANT IMAHARA
This morning’s Twitter stream had several people re-tweeting this link – The Digital Decade – 20 Things That Changed Childhood Forever from Common Sense Media. Common Sense Media says that they are “dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families”. If you are like me, I can take or leave most [...]
Google has announced a Google Teacher Academy for Administrators in San Antonio, TX in March 5, 2010. The deadline for application is January 25, 2010. Here is the announcement from the website -”The Google Teacher Academy for Administrators is a FREE professional development experience designed to help K-12 educational leaders get the most from innovative [...]
Last evening in an Eluminate session hosted by Classroom 2.0′s Steve Hargadon and Sue Waters of Edublogs the 2009 winners of the Edublog Awards – the “Eddies” were announced. Now in it’s sixth year the Edublog awards this time around featured some old favorites and many new entrants. One winner had been blogging for [...]
Do you know TrueTube (http://www.truetube.co.uk/) ? As you can tell from the URL this is a UK based service. It is a place to debate social issues through the use of uploaded videos. As they put it – “TrueTube is a free, website which uses real-life stories and issues to encourage teenagers to explore and [...]
Passing along this link that appeared in the Twitter Stream this morning for the 50 Best Special Education Blogs – http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2009/12/50-best-blogs-for-special-ed-teachers/ The wonderful Lisa Parisi – http://lisaslingo.blogspot.com/ deservedly made the list!
Scholastic / Journey Ed is advertising a a $39.98 deal for a Windows 7 Pro Upgrade version. You have to be a qualified educator or student. There is a verification procedure that requires you to send some information by email or fax before they fulfill your order. You can purchas a 64 bit or 32 [...]
The K-12 Online Conference has opened! Ths is a marvelous free opportunity for educators from around the world to participate in professional development conversations in Web 2.0 formats. The confernce is in its fourth year and has been designed to be “the conference that never ends” featuring, “anytime, anywhere learning”. It is organized all by volunteers and [...]
I wanted to share a couple new things that are part of the Google family, Google Image Swirl and Google Dashboard. Google Image Swirl, new from Google Labs, is an image search engine. It is one of those Google things I am not sure I get. Hey, I am still trying to wrap my [...]
With apologies for the late notice and geographical remoteness, the upcoming Discovery EdTechConnect Webinar with Gary Stager on Wednesday November 18, 2009 at 7:00PM has gotten a bit of a buzz in my school district. Most folks will be connecting from home but a few of us will be gathering to watch it together at one of [...]
A very cool thing happens on Twitter on Tuesdays. It is called #edchat which is an outgrowth of #teachertuesdays. The syntax of #edchat and #teachertuesdays is called a hashtag in Twitter. Hashtags are used to mark or label a tweet so that a conversation on a particular topic can be followed. In this case #teachertuesday [...]
Do you subscribe to Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day? Or follow his generous tweets @Larryferlazzo on Twitter? I have found that Larry is a steady stream of interesting educational links. Larry is starting to post his annual end of the year round up starting with this recent post – The “Best Articles (and Blog [...]
One of the things Discovery’s Kathy Schrock talked about in her recent presentation Score! Winning Strategies to Conquer Information Overload at the CECA /CASL 09 Conference was the concept of of gaining control and organizing your electronic life. In a cross between Schrock inspiration and a “this is just ridculous” moment last weekend I [...]
This link - Comprehensive Guide to Google Wave is posted from a retweet on Twitter that was bouncing around this morning. I have not had a chance to look at it deeply but two things caught my eye. One was that its introduction starts, “Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool the that is [...]
Have you heard? There is a new Windows OS! If you somehow missed the flurry of cutesy TV ads by Microsoft or the sniping back-attack ads by Apple, please be advised that Windows 7 launched on October 22, 2009. And what are you going to do about it? Upgrade in place? Buy a new hunk [...]
The Connecticut DEN Leadership Council held a kickoff/networking dinner right after the conclusion of the CECA/CASL 2009 Conference in Hartford this past Monday. As the pictures below show, it was a great evening to share perspectives about the conference, put names to faces, and to learn more about our DEN colleagues. The DEN Leadership Council [...]
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