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Online, teachers walk a fine line | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
Teachers have a different standard. It is fascinating to read this newspaper article and also the responses. Our students on Flat Classroom project and Digiteen will be reviewing this information because teachers are held to a higher standard online.
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And some districts -- from South Dakota to New Jersey -- are starting to limit what teachers can do on the sites.
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"It is the responsibility of all individuals associated with the Foundation to act in a manner that will ensure the public's trust as well as the trust of colleagues and peers.
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danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?
Excellent article on what Google wave is intended to be: a step up from email to allow for document collaboration. OK, now I finally get it. Seeing people talk about it replacing twitter, etc. I was like "nah - not with THIS" but seeing this blog post made the light go on - a must read for those who want to truly understand what google wave is for and to not get so hyper about what it isn't.
QR Codes Video about how can be used in education
QR Codes are an important new technology that use something called hardlinking.
Linden Lab punctures education community with newly registered trademark - Massively
Second Life in Education users are up at arms over the fact that Linden Lab has now decided that http://sleducation.wikispaces.com infringes on their SL trademark (which has been registered for 9 days.)
In my opinion this will push more people to options like Open Sim (we love Reaction Grid for ours.) You would think that they would have read the case studies on the mistakes of Microsoft when they "gave up" their monopoly when they got greedy and cornered the market. In this environment, people WILL make alternatives and this is not a group of people (the educators in SL) you want to be mad at you. These are the people who teach others how to do things, for goodness sakes - every company should wish for an army of free volunteers like Linden has.
Big mistake, Linden. Big mistake, but one that perhaps it will take years to see. I have seen educators who I have NEVER, I mean NEVER been angry at Linden angry.
Mobile Vein Authentication Technology
Looks like your veins may become your identification instead of your fingerprints. Interesting.
Learning the Skeleton with QR codes « Mr Robbo – The P.E Geek
OH, Mr. Robbo - I am already just crazy about him! Here he talks about how he teaches the skelton with QR Codes.!
YouTube - No Future Left Behind
For the NetGenEd project, students at Suffern Middle school created a video to challenge and deliver the keynote for the project. It is amazing the script that these students wrote for the project!
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Estie's kids are working so hard to get to Qatar
The progression to help students meet face to face. Steve Says:
"The Project alone is already unique and very amazing considering the fact that we are actually working together with students around the world with the help of technology. So what better way to finish the project off by actually working with the people we have been working with online."
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The Project alone is already unique and very amazing considering the fact that we are actually working together with students around the world with the help of technology. So what better way to finish the project off by actually working with the people we have been working with online.
YouTube - Three Cups of Tea SFPL Main Stage
Peace through education - this fits so well with what we're doing and seeing in Flat Classroom. Oh, if I could get an audience to learn but also to just connect for the vision with flat classroom.
Embassies Accepting Injured People in Tehran
There is a silent player to this whole thing in Iran -- Google maps.
Making All the Right Calls | Popular Science
Wow!!! Using cell phone technology, high powered medical diagnosis and lab work can be provided remotely through cameras. This is what letting students work with cell phones can do as this is Daniel Fletcher and his undergraduates at the University of California worked to create a mobile diagnosis tool from cell phones.
THIS is innovation. Harness the untapped power of student creativity and innovation and use it as a learning process. DO IT NOW!!
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“Imagine you’re out in the middle of nowhere and you want to be able to diagnose malaria,” says Daniel Fletcher, holding up what looks like a cellphone sprouting a kaleidoscope. All you have to do is aim the phone at a patient’s wan-looking skin or a drop of blood squeezed onto a microscope slide, he explains. Then you point, click, and hit “send.” The digital image zips to an off-site lab, where a technician scans it for signs of disease and e-mails back an initial diagnosis—all in less than 10 minutes. “In developing countries, patients wouldn’t have to go to a clinic,” he says. “You could make a diagnosis right in the field.” Although many impoverished patients lack access to clinics, 80 percent of the world’s population lives near a cellphone tower.
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With mobile devices like this, home health aides could start to provide diagnostic services, and they could also take pictures over time to show doctors whether a patient is getting better. We’ve got an opportunity to leapfrog some of the costs of health care.”—
3M MPro 110 | Popular Science
Here's your handheld projector - as my students and I joke - kids will no longer be texting in the bathroom but watching movies.
Windows Privacy: Windows 7's New Geolocation Service Introduces Privacy Problems
According to this story:
"Windows 7 has a new system-wide service that will offer very easily accessible geographical location services for all devices and programs. Unfortunately, their implementation seems half-baked in the security front, opening the door to privacy problems that even Microsoft program manager Alec Berntson didn't have a convincing answer for. What is worse: They don't plan to fix them for the final release."
Geolocation services have great uses but we should have a choice!
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Windows 7 has a new system-wide service that will offer very easily accessible geographical location services for all devices and programs. Unfortunately, their implementation seems half-baked in the security front, opening the door to privacy problems that even Microsoft program manager Alec Berntson didn't have a convincing answer for. What is worse: They don't plan to fix them for the final release.
project > "FanVision" > Title Page
Fascinating study that sounds like it is for just commercial use, but some great information on virtual reality is embedded. I'll be blogging some reflections on this this week.
PC World - 15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything
Great article on the technologies that will change everything. Wonderful for your movies.
Welcome to - MYRL - Immersive Entertainment Platform
Link your virtual worlds together with Myrl. Fascinating tool and interrelated with 3 d environments.
SpringWoodsHS » home
Got a link to this wiki from Estie Cuellar, amazing teacher who has joined in Flat Classroom this year. She says:
"I would like to share something with you guys. I teach a Sports Marketing Class. I’m always looking for new and fun ways to reach the kids. Yesterday, I started my class on a comprehensive project that I’m calling, “Rock On.” The goal of the project is for the students teams (all of my classes work in teams) to synthesize what they’ve learned in class so far (they’ve learned the marketing mix, target marketing, positioning, segmenting, and the 7-key functions of marketing) and plan a 20 city tour for their band. I found the project from a “Best Practices” book that Jeff McCauley of The Marketing Teacher compiled from marketing teachers and sent out as a PDF a couple of years ago. I have modified the original project to utilize Web2.0 technologies."
Interesting ideas - wish I could teach marketing!
U.S. Army warns of Twittering terrorists | News - Security - CNET News
Interesting article w/ new term "hacktivists" -- politically motivated hackers. That is a new term.
Twitter is written up in this report as being used by extremist groups of all kinds "socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others...."
Why not just say everyone uses twitter? (Well, everyone DOESN"T use twitter but it can mobilize a lot of people in a pretty short time.)
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xamines the possible ways terrorists could use mobile and Web technologies such as the Global Positioning System, digital maps, and Twitter mashups to plan and execute terrorist attacks.
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"Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter,"
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FOXNews.com - Japanese Woman Arrested for Virtual-World 'Murder' - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
Important article to read about how a virtual avatar murder has consequences in the physical world.
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The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
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but if convicted could face a prison term of up to five years or a fine up to $5,000.
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