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VoiceThread as a Digital Portfolio. I’ve been twittering the past several weeks about using VoiceThread as a digital portfolio for our Student-Led Conferences this semester.

VoiceThread as a Digital Portfolio

Dark Side of the iPad ~ Collecting student projects is difficult! Since its release the iPad has garnered arguments regarding whether it is primarily a device for consumption or creation. I have always believed that it is a device capable of creation. One simply needs to consider apps such as Avid Studio, DemiBooks Composer, Pages, Keynote, Minecraft Pocket Edition, Art Rage, SketchBook Pro, Comic Life and many others.

These and many other apps all allow the user to tap into their talents and produce output of which they can be proud. Of course the iPad is also a worthy consumption device. Think of FlipBoard, Reeder, Safari, Guardian Eyewitness, The Elements, Solar Walk, and any other app that allows anyone to easily explore information, imagery and data on the web or embedded within the app. [Note: A number of readers have begun adding comments below which may also interest you. The Dark Side. Telescopic Text © Joe Davis 2008. Thank You. 10,000 Times. How Can We Stop Cheating In Online Courses?

6.24K Views 0 Likes While clearly not every student is trying hard to take the slacker route, it's worth noting that picking out the students trying to take this route gets a little more complicated when you move from taking classes in person to taking classes online. 100 Teaching Tools You Should Know About. 5 Ways To Be A Better Public Speaker 7.15K Views 0 Likes If you've been asked to speak at a conference or host a seminar, you may be shaking in your boots. Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube Revolutionize Television? On a rainy night in late November, Robert Kyncl was in Google’s New York City offices, on Ninth Avenue, whiteboarding the future of TV.

Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube Revolutionize Television?

Kyncl holds a senior position at YouTube, which Google owns. He is the architect of the single largest cultural transformation in YouTube’s seven-year history. Wielding a black Magic Marker, he charted the big bang of channel expansion and audience fragmentation that has propelled television history so far, from the age of the three networks, each with a mass audience, to the hundreds of cable channels, each serving a niche audience—twenty-four-hour news, food, sports, weather, music—and on to the dawning age of Internet video, bringing channels by the tens of thousands.

They Did It: Google Personalizes Search & It Is Not Evil. Promethean Planet - Interactive Teacher Community, Interactive Whiteboard Lessons and Resources, Online Lesson Plans, Teaching Resources. Podcast. Professional Development for Creating 21st Century Student-Centered Learning Environments. Google+ Hangout With Sal Khan, Peter Norvig, and Sebastian Thrun Now Available. This Is How I Would Love To Learn History. The Gamification of Education: What School Can Learn from Video Games. A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool. The popularity of video games is not the enemy of education, but rather a model for best teaching strategies.

A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool

Games insert players at their achievable challenge level and reward player effort and practice with acknowledgement of incremental goal progress, not just final product. The fuel for this process is the pleasure experience related to the release of dopamine. Dopamine Motivation. If Earth’s Entire History Was Just 24 Hours Long. Course: Beginning Gaming Educator's Toolkit. 6 Great Twitter Quiz and Polling Apps. Core Strategies for Innovation and Reform in Learning. Cyborgology » humanity meets technology. On Pharrell’s “Happy” by robinjames, 2 days ago at 05:00 am.

Cyborgology » humanity meets technology

Can Facebook become the Web? By Jessi Hempel, senior writer FORTUNE -- Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today at f8, Facebook's sort-of-annual developers' conference, to the screaming affirmation of thousands of laptop-toting fanboys (and also a few women) and a live-streaming audience that surpassed 100,000.

Can Facebook become the Web?

What began a few years back as a fringe festival for legit hackers has become ground zero for anyone interested in helping build the infrastructure of tomorrow's Internet. What's changed? A year and a half after the last f8, where the "like" button debuted, Facebook has increased its users 40% to 750 million and eMarketer estimates it will double revenues to an estimated $4.27 billion.

9 Laws of Consumer Affinity in the Digital Age. Brian Solis is principal of Altimeter Group, a leading research-based advisory firm.

9 Laws of Consumer Affinity in the Digital Age

Brian is also the author of The End of Business as Usual, which explains how to tap into today's biggest digital trends. Follow him @briansolis. Today, people have uninhibited access to platforms, channels and tools to express themselves at will. That group’s voice, employed individually or collectively, can reach the masses to organize game-changing movements across the world. Yet, despite the universal potential for connectivity, businesses are still struggling to understand the real impact of connected consumerism. A new way to learn. On-Demand Scalable Workforce Solutions. Communication - Lifehacker. Communicatrix — a virgo's guide to the universe. Chris Garrett on New Media — the business of blogging and new media. Why Self-Publishers Should Consider Using Lightning Source. Killer Flagship Content – Free Ebook To Download — Chris Garrett on New Media. 16 Infographic Resumes, A Visual Trend.

(It’s actually up to 18 now.)

16 Infographic Resumes, A Visual Trend

A number of designers have attempted to design a visual, infographic resume, and while this is certainly not mainstream (yet), it is gaining some momentum. I wanted to highlight some of the great examples available on the web, but the line between an infographic resume and a designer resume is tough not to cross. I’ve tried to stay true to only infographic versions here, and didn’t include many good illustrated resumes that didn’t include any visualizations. Michael Anderson’s 2008 concept on an infographic resume (above) is probably the most well known.

What Is Space? If Only We Knew : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. Movie Maker. GoAnimate - Make your own cartoons and animations easily. Our tools are free... The Scale of the Universe, Five Ways. Universcale - StumbleUpon.

Works by Seymour Papert, Ph.D. Malcolm Gladwell: When technology fails. SurveyMonkey: Free online survey software & questionnaire tool.