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20 Nov 09

Gained something in the translation « BuzzMachine

  • @rpaskin tweeted this: “In a link economy, there are values from creating content and linking to content. There’s no value in just reproducing content (Jeff Jarvis).”
  • There is no value left over for the copiers. Indeed, online, if one copies, one is considered a thief because it’s only the thieves who copy.
16 Nov 09

100 Excellent Open Access Journals for Educators | Online College Tips - Online Colleges

Google Docs Batch Upload Eases Online Document Transfers - Google Docs - Lifehacker

  • Windows/Mac/Linux (Java): Got a bunch of files to send to Google Docs, and don't have time for the webapp's one-by-one uploads? Google Docs Batch Upload does just what you might think, loading any folder of files into Google Docs' servers
  • java -jar google-docs-upload-1.2.jar /home/kevin/uploads --recursive
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12 Nov 09

The Daily Beacon

  • Online courses simplify scheduling process
  • Robbie Hargett - Staff Writer
    Thursday, November 05, 2009 issue
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11 Nov 09

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers

  • Thousands of gamers may have been cut off from Microsoft's online gaming service Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games.

    Online reports suggest that as many as 600,000 gamers may have been affected.

  • Microsoft said that modifying an Xbox 360 console "violates" the service's "terms of use" and would result in a player being disconnected.

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    "All consumers should know that piracy is illegal and that modifying their Xbox 360 console to play pirated discs violates the Xbox Live terms of use, will void their warranty and result in a ban from Xbox Live," Microsoft has said in a statement.

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Leaders and Laggards: Recommendations

  • Our analysis of the innovation gap in American education leads us to recommend the following reforms.
  • Empower schools and principals.
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Leaders and Laggards: Findings

  • Among our major findings:
  • Rigid education bureaucracies impede quality schooling. Ninety percent of teachers say that routine duties and paperwork interfere with their teaching, according to our analysis of the 2007-2008 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), a nationally representative survey of teachers and principals administered every four years by the National Center for Education Statistics. Only about one-third of teachers approve of how their schools are run. Throughout our educational system, a traditionalist school culture limits autonomy and innovation.
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Interactive Map: Leaders and Laggards

  • Two years ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Center for American Progress, and Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute came together to grade the states on school performance.
  • In this follow-up report, we turn our attention to the future, looking not at how states are performing today, but at what they are doing to prepare themselves for the challenges that lie ahead. Thus, some states with positive academic results receive poor grades on our measures of innovation, while others with lackluster scholarly achievement nevertheless earn high marks for policies that are creating an entrepreneurial culture in their schools. We chose this focus because, regardless of current academic accomplishment in each state, we believe innovative educational practices are vital to laying the groundwork for continuous and transformational change.
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10 Nov 09

Adobe - Security Bulletins: APSB09-16 Security updates available for Shockwave Player

  • Security updates available for Shockwave Player
  • Release date: November 3, 2009
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Slashdot IT Story | Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer

  • "The Associated Press tells the story of Michael Fiola, a former Massachusetts government employee who was arrested in 2007 after child porn was found on his state-issued laptop computer. He was eventually cleared of all charges after some digging by the defense found that the laptop was infected with malware that was 'programmed to visit as many as 40 child porn sites per minute — an inhuman feat. While Fiola and his wife were out to dinner one night, someone logged on to the computer and porn flowed in for an hour and a half. Prosecutors performed another test and confirmed the defense findings. The charge was dropped — 11 months after it was filed.'

Office of Instructional Technology---San Antonio ISD - On the Precipice of Change: 3 Obstacles to Technology Use in K-12

  • On the Precipice of Change: 3 Obstacles to Technology Use in K-12
  • We are often stopped by obstacles that we perceive. Warren Greshes' shares that for most people, there are 3 obstacles that they just cannot get around (Source: Read More) .
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Office of Instructional Technology---San Antonio ISD - 5 Steps to PBL-Enhanced Professional Development

  • 5 Steps to PBL-Enhanced Professional Development 
  • Problem-based learning, however, provides a different approach you can take. It focuses you on an ill-structured problem. The story, the characters in the story, all come from the experiences of your students and real life. Follow these steps to enhancing professional development through the use of PBL. Even if you don’t adhere to the strict process or flow of problem-based learning, you will have transformed the experience for your adult learners. . .and these days, that can be the difference. The difference between another boring presentation people gulp coffee to stay awake in to a transformative experience.
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Office of Instructional Technology---San Antonio ISD - Using Google Docs in the Classroom by Tonia Johnson, Guest Columnist

  • Adams
    City High School: E105, my desk is piled with newsletters, bulletins,
    magazines, books, articles, student gifts and few coffee mugs. What
    you will not find on my desk is piles of student work needing to be
    graded. This is not a testament to my organizational skills, nor does
    it reflect a teacher staying late into to the night to take care of
    grading. My student essays and papers are stored on Google Docs.
  • At the beginning of an assignment, I have students
    “share” their document with me. During the term of the
    assignment I can monitor and collaborate with them. My students have
    a rare ability to work amazingly hard at looking busy, they can seem
    to be working feverishly all week on an assignment, but on Friday
    have nothing to show for it! Using Google docs, I know exactly how
    they assignment is really coming and can give instant feedback.
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Office of Instructional Technology---San Antonio ISD - Using Google Docs in the Classroom by Tom Barrett, Guest Columnist

  • Today
    we explored resting pulse rates and we used an online spreadsheet to
    share our results, hence the title of the post. (This work is similar
    to some online
    spreadsheet action
    we had last year with my Year 6
    class) I decided to use a Google spreadsheet as I have been using the
    Google Docs application for a while - but you could have easily used
    EditGrid
    as an alternative.



    I
    set the spreadsheet up so that all of the children’s names from
    both classes were present in the first column. Then 10 other columns
    were labelled, “Resting Pulse1, Resting Pulse 2…”
    It was in these cells that the kids added their resting pulse after
    counting for 30 seconds and doubling.



    I
    then accessed the same spreadsheet through my Google login on all 8
    laptops (per class) that I put around the room - so in effect I
    logged in 16 times (plus my PC and SMARTBoard, so 17) to the same
    document from different locations.



    We
    talked a little about how to find our pulse and then asked the
    children to record 10 readings of their resting rate into the
    spreadsheet.

  • It
    was great! With the live update feature we were able to see
    individual results popping up all over the place and even from next
    door in Rick’s class who were doing the same. Google
    Spreadsheets
    has an Auto Save option which makes life
    much easier and gives you the opportunity to see the live data. Not
    only did the hardware hold out fine, but accessing the spreadsheet
    was excellent - even with 17 simultaneous users on a single login.
    The children really enjoyed seeing each other’s work and it
    gave them a great overview of not only the class
    year group working together, but also to the sorts of data people
    were adding. With the IWB on I could see at a glance who and what was
    going on in different groups. Children from the other class were
    nipping across the corridor and questioning the validity of results
    from children in my class.



    Within
    the space of about 40 minutes, perhaps less, we collected
    approximately 600 individual results all in one file. No doubt they
    will be quicker next time. This method of data collection also allows
    us the ability to then manipulate the results afterwards, working out
    averages of the whole year group etc. I would highly recommend doing
    this if you have the reliable kit in your classroom, we have already
    said that it will be an excellent data entry method for our maths
    lessons on data handling.

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Office of Instructional Technology---San Antonio ISD - Google Docs in Schools by Art Gelwicks, Guest Columnist

  • At the beginning of this school year we began a bold new experiment.  Our goal - to implement a collaborative method of document development and processing for the staff of our school with the eventual release to the students of the same technology.  The tool that was chosen:  Google Docs.  Whoa, hang on a second...Google Docs?  Why not go with some big, powerful package that could be completely manipulated, controlled, and overseen by the administrative powers that be?  The choice was Google Docs because it's not some big, powerful package that can be completely manipulated, controlled, and overseen by the administrative powers that be.  We signed up for Google Apps for Domains and switched our email over to the Gmail platform for all the staff members.  Since email is such a "killer app" it made it easy to bring the added functionality of Google Docs along for the ride.  Once users started churning email, we were able to get them to start writing and sharing documents using the word processing and begin to use the presentations (as soon as they came available) with a minimum of muss and fuss.
  • The ability to work on a document, save and close it, and know you will be able to get to it from any other Internet connected computer is liberating.  No longer is there a fear of floppy failure or virus spread, USB drive disappearance, or accidental deletion due to a mistaken mouse click.  The word processor is basic to be sure but it handles 80% of the things that most users need when writing documents.
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Why The Pursuit Of Innovation Usually Fails - Forbes.com

  • Why The Pursuit Of Innovation Usually Fails
  • few businesses are any good at innovation. For all their brainstorming exercises and "open innovation" programs, they mostly just come up with reformulations of existing products, new pricing plans and basic updates--the same old things just a little cheaper, faster or better.
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Download All Your Documents from Google Docs as a Zip File

  • Download Google Documents for Offline Use
  • While there are third-party tools that let you easily download Google Documents to the local drive in one go, the good news is that the batch export feature is now available in Google Docs by default so you don’t have to hunt for external tools to help you do so.
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03 Nov 09

Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas: The Turnaround Dilemma: Convert or Close Down?

  • The report out last week on the results of a study looking at Chicago's efforts to close down failing schools got me thinking. In its study, the Consortium on Chicago School Research examined the impact on students of shutting down 18 chronically low-performing elementary schools in the Windy City.
  • The bottom line, according to this study, was that the students who were displaced by the closings just ended up at other low-performing schools in the district. Their achievement, as measured by test scores, did not improve all that much, compared to that of students who continued to attend similarly low-performing schools.
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01 Nov 09

Open Office 4 Kids is good for adults, too

  • Open Office 4 Kids is a slimmed-down version of the open source Microsoft Office alternative OpenOffice.org.



    The target age group for Open Office 4 Kids is 7-12
  • Less UI clutter helps make OO4K super-fast
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