Peggy George's Public Library

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Ning community for Seedlings weekly webcast on EdTechTalk: Thursdays, 7:30pm EST.

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ColdSoup serves up delicious, familiar and memorable melodies with a rich blend of unique harmonies in a refreshingly flavorful and unexpected way.Now in their third year, the band has a following of the finest soupies in the land. Whenever or wherever they appear there is sure to be a crowd of music- lovers savoring the sweet aroma of simpler days. ColdSoup (left to right):
Rick Baker, Brad Messer, Scot Stapleton, Mike Gambino, and Lisa Baker.

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"recordings from the LearnTrends 2009 Convergence in Learning conference held November 17-19th, 2009"

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"Clayton R Wright just sent me his incredible annual list of eLearning Conferences. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page and so we’ve somewhat established a pattern of published in here."

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"Becta has announced Inner-city comprehensive Broadgreen International School in Liverpool and independent Prospect House School in Putney, London as the top two schools in the UK when it comes to the best use of technology."

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"Resources for Classroom 2.0 LIVE show on November 21, 2009. Special Guest: Terry Freedman Topic: Succeeding with Web 2.0"

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XLS Commons provides a forum for a team of higher education professionals at The University of Montana to discuss hot topics, newsworthy events and everyday insights with colleagues in similar positions across the state, the nation and beyond. Key areas include online teaching and learning, organizational efficiencies, instructional design, faculty and student support, marketing strategies and operations. We’re looking to share innovative ideas, practices, and research with those supporting learning at universities.

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"Keeping up with several people in a Twitter conversation can be difficult. Tweetgrid is one way to keep up with the discussion as explained thoroughly by Mary Beth Hertz’s post. However, Tweetdeck has some nice features as well for keeping up with hashtag discussions as I describe in this brief Screenr video tutorial."

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"Thinking Blocks is an engaging, interactive math tool developed by classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems."

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Engaging math games for middle school students based on real-world math applications through careers: bicycle designer, biologist, artist, mechanic, engineer, sportscaster, programmer, architect, doctor, meteorologist, astronomer, game designer, chef

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"Home broadband adoption stood at 63% of adult Americans as of April 2009, up from 55% in May 2008.

The latest findings of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project mark a departure from the stagnation in home high-speed adoption rates that had prevailed from December 2007 through December 2008. During that period, Pew Internet Project surveys found that home broadband penetration remained in a narrow range between 54% and 57%.

The greatest growth in broadband adoption in the past year has taken place among population subgroups which have below average usage rates"

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"Last year we brainstormed the following list. Care to discuss the ideas now? Disagree/agree? Change your mind? Any others that should be added? Are we using these approaches in Maine?"

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"Personal learning and thinking skills (PLTS), together with functional English, mathematics, and ICT, cover the areas of competence that are most often demanded by employers. Integrating these skills into the curriculum and qualifications will provide learners with a platform for employability and further learning. PLTS are:

* team working
* independent enquiry
* self-management
* reflective learning
* effective participation
* creative thinking."

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"Welcome to Cloudworks, a place to share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas and experiences."

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"ICT Excellence Awards 2009: Winning schools and organisations

The winning schools and organisations were announced on Thursday, 19 November 2009, at an evening awards ceremony at At-Bristol, Bristol. Congratulations to them all!

To read more about any of the winning schools and organisations, and see a film on eight of the winners, click on the school or organisation name below. Films on 11 more of the winners will be available during January 2010:"

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Archived ustream recording from brainstorming session to talk about plans for a new EdTechTalk webcast on Instructional Design.

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"In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google unveiled new technologies on Thursday that will automatically bring text captions to many videos on the site.While the technology can insert captions only on English-language speech, Google is giving users the choice of using its automatic translation system to read the captions in 51 languages."

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As a teacher who has used media and other communications technologies to connect with learners for more than 20 years, I'm looking for opportunities to to engage in meaningful conversations with teachers who see themselves as learners.

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