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11 Nov 09

Portable device takes pictures of text, reads aloud

  • Portable device takes pictures of text, reads aloud

  • The product features a design that combines a high-resolution camera with an Intel® Atom™ processor to convert printed text to digital text and read it aloud to the user. This portable device can take pictures of any printed material including textbooks, novels, letters, magazines, or even bus schedules and automatically converts it into accessible digital formats. The device also highlights each word on its built-in LCD display.
02 Nov 09

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  • 12 Types of stories can you tell on your blog?
  • 12 Types of stories can you tell on your blog?
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07 Oct 09

Social Learning Models - Social Media In Learning

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    When I help organisations understand how to incorporate social media into their formal e-learning content to create formal social learning, I explain this can be done in 3 different ways as shown in this slide from a presentation I use:

29 Sep 09

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    • 50 Terrific Twitter Tutorials for Teachers

      from Online Colleges by Site Administrator

      Using Twitter in education has been all the buzz recently. If you are ready to start using Twitter yourself and need a little help getting started or have already been using it and can use a little extra help, then these tutorials are just for you. From getting started to ways to use Twitter more effectively to using Twitter tools to applications and suggestions for Twitter use in the classroom, these tutorials will provide you with tons of knowledge and ideas to get you going.


      Getting Started


      These tutorials will help you set up your account, introduce you to the basics about Twitter, and more.



      1. How to Set Up a Twitter Account. Follow these five steps to get started with your own account right away.
26 Sep 09

Macon Vo-Tech gets new name - Macon, MO - Macon Chronicle Herald

  • By Deb Keithley

    C-H reporter

     

    MACON – A new name for the Macon Area Vocational-Technical School was approved at Thursday night’s regular Macon R-I Board of Education meeting. The Macon Area Career and Technical Education Center (Macon CTE) received 44 percent of the student vote to become the new name. There were six other suggestions on the ballot for the new name.

    “It was very important to our students and faculty to retain the name of Macon in the new title,” said Director, Pam Wilgus. The next step will be to look for a new logo for the center.

    The board gave their approval for the name change.
  • rior to the beginning of the regular meeting, the board was addressed by Tarra Shoemaker, Vice-President CTA/MSTA (Community Teachers Association/Missouri State Teachers Association) and Marta Gall, President, Macon NEA (National Education Association). The two were spokespersons for a group of teachers attending the meeting that are participants in Career Ladder Program.

    The Career Ladder Program provides teachers compensation for activities beyond the teacher’s contracted time. A few of the many activities include: tutoring, extra reading activities, club and extra curricular sponsorship, special family night activities and teacher professional development.

    Gall and Shoemaker shared information and concerns about the possibility that the state will not be funding their portion of the program this year. In the past, a portion of the funding came from the local districts with the remaining amount funded by the state.
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22 Sep 09

PR Disaster at United Airlines due to Broken Guitar! : Australian Frequent Flyer Gazette

  • PR Disaster at United Airlines due to Broken Guitar!




    September 17, 2009




    United Breaks Guitar


    If you have a gripe, need to rant or vent your spleen in the 21st Century the days of letter writing, word of mouth and talk-back radio are slowly coming to an end.  These days it’s all about the blog, social networking sites, discussion boards and You Tube.  These methods reach a wider audience, can penetrate the mass media direct and can even create an overnight celebrity out of the “gripee”.

Technology in the Middle » Blog Archive » K12 Online 2009: September 26 LAN Party

  • K12 Online 2009: September 26 LAN Party





    K12 Online is an annual, free conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.

21 Sep 09

Quick Start Tips For Student Blogging Part I: Setting Up Your Class Blog | The Edublogger

Weblogg-ed » The Obama Speech

  • The Obama Speech    



    In the midst of all of the “uproar” over the President’s planned speech to school kids on Tuesday, I keep thinking about what all of this says about schools, about what they are for, and about the perception that a lot of people in this country have of them.


    It would seem to me that there should be no better place for my children to watch that speech (or any other, for that matter) than in a place where ideas are encouraged, where critical thinking about those ideas is a natural part of the conversation, and where appropriate response and debate can flourish. Where the adults in the room lead my kids to dig deeper, to validate facts, and consider the many levels of context in which every speech and every debate takes place

How Passion Can Transform Your Blog

  • How Passion Can Transform Your Blog

  • Forcing things makes them worse. It’ll show up in your writing. Readers aren’t interested in reading something you’ve forced, and they’ll go elsewhere.


    Passion is the exact opposite:

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09 Aug 09

By Sarah Fine -- Why I Left Teaching Behind - washingtonpost.com

  • Schools Need Teachers Like Me. I Just Can't Stay.
  • By Sarah Fine

    Sunday, August 9, 2009
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08 Aug 09

Moodle Services - moodle.com

  • Welcome to the Moodle Service Network!
  • Moodle
    is a course management system designed to help educators who want to create
    quality online courses. The software is used all over the world by universities,
    schools, companies and independent teachers. Moodle is open source and
    completely free to use.
05 Aug 09

Host Your Own Webinars | LearnCentral

  • Created by Steve Hargadon

  • LearnCentral allows educators to use a free public Elluminate room to hold large webinars or group meetings.  To qualify, the events must be 1) education-oriented, 2) free (you're not charging those who attend), 3)  recordable, and 4) open to anyone to attend.  We're really excited to see what you do with this capability, and are hoping that it allows you to regularly gather other educators around curricular interests in "historic" ways.


    The current instructions are below.  This is a new service, so your feedback and help are greatly appreciated!

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03 Jul 09

Web 2.0 Tools and Applications - Go2web20

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Issuu: Publish your own Issue - issuu.com

  • Issuu - Publish your own Issue


    Issuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, documents, and stuff you'd normally find on print. It's the place where you become the publisher. Upload a document, it's fast, easy, and totally free. Within seconds you'll have a super cool online magazine you can post anywhere on the web and share instantly with your friends.
23 Jun 09

How To Import Your Blog Posts Into Facebook | The Edublogger

  • How To Import Your Blog Posts Into Facebook




    May 31st 2009 by Sue Waters in Working With Web 2.0 Tools -   




    Whether you are a fan of Facebook or NOT really doesn’t matter.


    What does is most people have Facebook accounts. Reading updates and commenting in Facebook is what they are used to whereas posts on blogs isn’t.


    Importing your blog feed into Facebook means that people who are most comfortable using only Facebook are more likely to read your blog posts.

18 Jun 09

Academic Bait-and-Switch - Chronicle.com

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    Many a tenured professor today is guilty of fraud committed in graduate school





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