#25

SaTP25.mp3 Listen on Posterous News of the Week : 1) Bing's " Our School Needs " contest - prizes up to $100,000 - Deadline Oct 22 2) NYT Pictorial Timeline of The Evolution of Learning Machines 3) The demise of XMarks & Bloglines. Where do we go from here? XmarksPremium Pledge? 4) Skype Ideas and Resources 5) A little dated: Blogpost by Shelly Blake-Plock Increase Student Engagement by Getting Rid of Textbooks TAT 6) On a related note - kno.com - Snazzy but how expensive? - Hardware - Choose from single or dual screen versions that you can write on, highlight on, watch video on. The Kno is stunningly book-like and can display a complete textbook without scrolling. Opens flat like a book or folds back on itself as a single panel slate. - Software - Revolutionary digital note-taking using natural handwriting or a keyboard. Even drag highlights or graphics from your textbook or the web directly into your notes. Write directly on the page, highlight, add sticky notes, and even display two different parts of the book at once - Tech Crunch article - 9/8/10 - The company is still planning on getting its first dual-screen tablet computer to market by the end of the year, says CEO Osman Rashid , although he won't get specific on the price. It will be less than $1,000, but that's as close as they'll get. 7) Follow up on the iPad Project (Frasier Speirs) What we're reaching in some classes is the transformation stage. We're seeing the iPad completely change the way that certain subjects are taught. ... At this point, all I can give you are some practical anecdotes which, I hope, will give you a flavour of the change. Google Docs Editing coming to the iPad. "... Second, today we demonstrated new mobile editing capabilities for Google Docs on the Android platform and the iPad. In the next few weeks, co-workers around the world will soon be able to co-edit files simultaneously from an even wider array of devices." 8) Harvard Study Finds Teens Online Lack Ethics - more of the same RELATED? Cyberbullying and a Student's Suicide Main Topic : Tim's Tech Tidbit : "Micro" Blogging: Tumble Logging Using Tumblr Endorsements : Cammy: Humor - Alfie Kohn vs. Dwight Schrute - YouTube clip on meaningless rewards and learning (humor) Serious - Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome (TED) - Kevin: Alice Christie on Geocaching for Middle Schools Tim: Jeff Jarvis post on publicness My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-e66f61b3f31c928c88b9a32b29fb8239} --> Permalink | Leave a comment »

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#25 is an episode from Schools and Tech by Kevin Brookhouser, Cammy Torgenrud, Tim Torgenrud, and Roger Luckenbach.

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This episode was published on Oct 3, 2010.

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