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LanSchool. VODCASTING. Resnooze. Screencast. Cepis. Eapn. Spread your digital influence - Webit Digital Influence Project. Edu4U. We Are Teachers. Internet4Classrooms - Helping Students, Teachers and Parents Use the Internet Effectively. Nokia N8 To Get Early UK Release On 23rd September. 2 September '10, 12:01pm Follow It looks like an eager Nokia employee has jumped the gun and given an early release date for the Nokia N8, citing September 23rd as the date Nokia customers can head over to Nokia Online and grab their new smartphone a week before general release.

NokNok.tv got the scoop, one of its readers spotting a Google Adword associated to a specific Nokia N8 search, saying the N8 would be “In-Stock, Ready For Dispatch 23rd Sept – 1 Week Before Anyone Else”. The N8 is equipped with an impressive 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon Flash, featuring a larger sensor to capture clearer and more detailed photos. The N8 has a 3.5 inch HD touchscreen and will allow handset owners to record HD videos and edit them using an inbuilt editing suite on the device. With Dolby Digital Plus surround sound HD content can be consumed on the device or boradcast on a HDTV by way of a HDMI Out connector.

Can the N8 reverse Nokia’s smartphone fortunes? Free Domain Tools, DNS Tools. E-Safety from a Self-Management Perspective. Last year I was invited to talk to a group of school students aged 16-18 years on the subject of keeping yourself safe in online social networks. An easy task, you might imagine, except that it has two main difficulties.

If you look at it from the teens’ point of view, they’re probably thinking that here comes yet another old fuddy-duddy telling us not to post photos of ourselves online. The temptation is to win them over by telling them not to worry, and to just get on with it. That would please them, no doubt, but What's YOUR digital identity? Would alienate their teachers and, in any case, not be entirely useful. It seems to me that what is required is, first, to acknowledge that we all have a digital identity, unless one takes extraordinary steps to avoid having one. If you cannot avoid having a digital identity, it stands to reason that the next best thing is to manage it as best you can. Embed the use of social networking and other tools into the fabric of school life.

The Making of a 21st-Century Teacher. CLASSROOM 21 | by Greg Limperis Click here for PDF version A modern-day declaration of where things stand for educators in a social-media saturated world yet to fully hit our schools. Today’s teacher has to possess many more skills than a teacher of our previous century. The teachers of today have to be highly-qualified educators, parental figures, master communicators, engaging presenters, expert trainers, sages, technophiles, data analysts, sales people and much more. As an educator, I have had to be not only the teacher at the front of the classroom, but the guide on the side as well.

Interestingly, much of this has been done without the use of any 21st century equipment. All that said, educators today have yet an additional duty: that of sales people. Thus, one of the most important skills we can possess as educators today is the ability to spread the word—to be advocates of change. Our collaboration in professional learning networks is essential; we need to get everyone talking. Using Various Google Sites - 180 Free Technology Tip #2. Social Media School Group News. Internet Time Alliance View of Change. 0000003448.png (PNG Image, 1260x958 pixels) - Scaled (76%) Blog Action Day 2010 Topics Survey. Why Twitter is so powerful. Sal Khan: Bill Gates' favorite teacher - Aug. 24, 2010. Khan turns out thousands of videos from a converted walk-in closet in his Silicon Valley home.By David A. Kaplan, contributorAugust 24, 2010: 5:53 AM ET FORTUNE -- Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan.

Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague at his small think tank, bgC3, e-mailed him about the nonprofit khanacademy.org, a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an ebullient, articulate Harvard MBA and former hedge fund manager. In an undistinguished ranch house off the main freeway of Silicon Valley, in a converted walk-in closet filled with a few hundred dollars' worth of video equipment and bookshelves and his toddler's red Elmo underfoot, is the epicenter of the educational earthquake that has captivated Gates and others.

Khan Academy, with Khan as the only teacher, appears on YouTube and elsewhere and is by any measure the most popular educational site on the web. Quick, free, and easy to understand. Web 2.0 in the Classroom by darren walker on Prezi. Linguistic Diversity Index. Wetoku : Itțs showtime for you and your friends. Full Sail University. Master's Degree- Online For most educators, it's all about the students, but who's looking out for our teachers? Full Sail's Education Media Design & Technology Master's Degree Program was created to help teachers keep up with the changing needs of the 21st century student. In the program, you'll learn to motivate students while utilizing new-media creation tools and technology to create an inspirational and innovative learning environment.

Specialized Areas of Study: Educational Design Motivational Development Multiple Learning Theories & Applications Online Course Development Learn to IncorporateMedia into Education: Film & Video Music Games Podcasts Digital Arts Internet Full Sail's online curriculum is the result of 30 years of innovation in delivering immersive, accelerated curriculum. Use custom-built learning tools that promote interaction and collaboration with instructors and fellow students. Earn your Education Media Design& Technology Master's Degreein 12 months! 100 Ways Google Can Make You a Better Educator. In the Belly of the Whale: How to get your Twitter problem fixed. Update: If you follow @Support, you can DM them (even though they don’t follow you) and ask your question that way.

Though it doesn’t always work. For what is often a better but sometimes slower way to contact Twitter support, read on: Top Issues Account hacked? If you’ve been suspended, read this first.Change your password. If you can’t login, have Twitter reset your password.Revoke bad, unfamiliar or unused apps.If you’re still having problems, let Twitter know your situation at one or more tweets letting your followers know what happened.Contact anyone who unfollowed you because of the hack, letting them know what happened, and that you’ve fixed the problem according to these steps.Tell others how you fixed your problem: Twitter accounts are often hacked in groups, and if you were hacked, it’s likely others were too, and are searching for information on what to do.

Account suspended? Suspension is not always a death knell! Accounts can be permanently suspended. Google for teaching adults how to describe statistics | Kalinago English. Google is just so useful, isn't it? But did you know that you can get your adult Business English students looking for their own data, specifically relevant to their own interests, projects and responsibilities? For fun, drag the yearly scroll bar! This incredible site, Google Public Data Explorer, offers statistics from the World Bank, Eurostat, OECD and also includes several more country-specific-options as well (Australian Bureau of Statistics, US Bureau of Labour Statistics and much, much more). Most of the charts are completely customizable and although the fun factor, when messing about on the site trying to decide just how to present the data, is high (you can change years, colours, countries and layouts), the very real potential for pedagogical application is even higher!

For fun, hover over the country names! What can you encourage your students to do? What language could you use this website to practice? Best, Karenne education. Information retention from PowerPoint and traditional lectures. The benefit of PowerPoint^(TM) is continuously debated, but both supporters and detractors have insufficient empirical evidence. Its use in university lectures has influenced investigations of PowerPoint's effects on student performance (e.g., overall quiz/exam scores) in comparison to lectures based on overhead projectors, traditional lectures (e.g., ''chalk-and-talk''), and online lectures. Thus far, comparisons of overall exam scores have yielded mixed results. The present study decomposes overall quiz scores into auditory, graphic, and alphanumeric scores to reveal new insights into effects of PowerPoint presentations on student performance.

Analyses considered retention of lecture information presented to students without the presence of PowerPoint (i.e., traditional lecture), auditory information in the presence of PowerPoint, and visual (i.e., graphic and alphanumeric) information displayed on PowerPoint slides. Data were collected from 62 students via quiz and questionnaire. The Freenet Project - /index. În sfârşit vin vaccinurile - Stiri si informatii din Resita, Caransebes si Caras Severin pe Caras Online. Portal de stiri Resita, Caransebes si Caras Severin, matrimoniale, fata zilei, party, vremea, locuri de munca. 9 Ways to Cartoonize yourself. Sometimes it happens we feel boredom to put our real pics again and again or we don’t want to put our Real pics in any online profiles. So why dont we do some intresting things by create a cartoon characters of yourself?

It’ll be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartoonized way in any online profiles such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, orkut etc. and it also give a new look to your online profile! There are many free web services and applications which can create cartoon of yourself and you don’t have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations. Here you can find some of the best tools including Face your Manga, South Park and Meez ( A 3D Animated Avatar generator ) character generators. Here’s 9 websites that allows you to create a cartoon of yourself. Cool list of Funny T-shirts Face Your Manga Create your Avatar with Face Your Manga! Yahoo Avatars South Park Studio For South Park fans, now cartoonize yourself and become one of them!

Befunky. Chew TV Network - A communication network for a connected generation. GoMobile4Learning. Detailed Tutorial on Glogster EDU. OpenID Foundation website. When are young people ready for technology? | NetSafe Blog. 26 July 2010 | By Martin Cocker Categories: Education, Privacy | I recently provided some information for an article in a weekend paper, which I’ll reproduce in full here. The question was basically - at what age are young people ready for different technologies. Its a good question, and one that many parents would be asking themselves. Each parent needs to decide when their child is capable of managing each technology.

Emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010. 10 Ways to Evaluate Blogs. Now that the new school year has started, or is about to start, we all want to have fresh insights into how to do the things we’re paid to do. It may be how to teach better, or how to engage students more. In my case, not being a school teacher any more, I want to keep my feet on the ground and my finger on the pulse; I want to know what new applications and innovations folk are talking about, and to keep abreast of current thinking. One of the places we children of Web 2.0 turn to, of course, is blogs.

But how can you tell if a blog is worth reading? What sort of things should you look for? Who is the blogger? I always like to know who is giving me their advice or opinion. What I’m actually concerned with is the blogger’s qualifications for writing their blog. What is the focus? Well, I guess the real issue is: does the blog actually have a focus? How sound is it? In other words, do the suggestions sound reasonable? Has the blogger been published elsewhere? What is the tone? StarPlanIt. Google Books. Learning Objects Community - Objects of Interest. As we get closer to the next school year, it is a good time to re-think some lesson ideas and find ways to refresh them, and, ideally, incorporate some technology into our day-to-day teaching and learning. Here are some ideas for using Social Media in the Classroom. Course Blog - Create a class blog and share it publicly to let others know what your class is learning and doing.

Add an RSS feed so students can subscribe to the blog and get updates on the go.Individual Student Blogs - Enable students to blog on their own to learn how to share their work with others. Journals for critical reflections.Post homework, notes, and lectures - provide easy access for students. Share materials, news, current events, changes to syllabus or class schedule.Share resources / build a class knowledgebase. Do you have other ideas or suggestions that you can add to the list? Feel free to post them to the comments section. Web3 Platform - NetworkedPlanet.