Ed Tech Crew

Podcast number 43 - May 4th 2008

[EDTECHCREW043.mp3 Running time: 42:41 mins, size: 19.6 MB]

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Links

Ed Tech Crew survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=l7yJs0sT6kHDRS8NtBBEuw_3d_3d

Presentation Zen
http://www.presentationzen.com

Sartz’s blog: http://sartz.edublogs.org

26 Learning Games to Change the World
http://blog.missiontolearn.com/2008/04/learning-games-for-change/

Games for Change Conference
http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/index.php
Opera web browser
http://opera.com

Time Line tool
http://www.dipity.com

50 ways to tell a web2.0 story
http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com

Software tools - (PC) and Free - Debut http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html

ScreenFlow (Mac) Varasoft - $99 - http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/

Skype Call Recorder for windows
http://callgraph.in

Google Webmasters: http://www.google.com/webmasters/

At Google Talks Videos: http://youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=AtGoogleTalks&page=8

Create Photo Mosaics - http://www.picartia.com/
Andrea Mosaic - http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/

5 minute instructionla and ‘how to’ videos - http://www.5min.com

Becta Research - review this site often http://partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=rh&catcode=_re_mr_02

Apple online seminar Podcasting - http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/podcast/apple/index1.html

RollerCoaster - short but simple game: http://puzzling.caret.cam.ac.uk/game.php?game=roller

NECC - 29th June - 2 July
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2008/

Edu Bloggers Feast - held on South Bank on the 14th May http://message.diigo.com/message/58803?page_num=0#3

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Podcast number 42 - April 29th 2008

[EDTECHCREW042.mp3 Running time: 38:20 mins, size: 17.8 MB]

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Links

Please take the time to fill out our Online Software survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=l7yJs0sT6kHDRS8NtBBEuw_3d_3d

Art Rage http://artrage.com/

Wacom http://www.wacom-asia.com/
Graphics tablet drawing competition - http://artrage.com/arpowerofpens.html
Wacom have a list of sites that involve drawing online:
http://www.wacom-asia.com/community/goodies/drawing/drawing.php

UMPC’s
http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/over-past-six-months-or-so-asus-everex_24.html

Google Sketch

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2008/03/throwing-things-out-of-focus.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/4sketchupgo2school
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=aidanchopra

Google are also running a camp based session for user of Sketchup - check out the program here: http://www.google.com/events/3dbasecamp/program.html

Virtual environment to help teach children about money and business
http://www.minyanland.com/launchpad/?pg=%2F

Technology topic
Application storage/infrastructure much like Amazons S3 which runs slideshare.
http://code.google.com/appengine/

Whats New - Via http://edulists.com.au This is a good resource for ICT mailing lists and resources.
www.opensourcewindows.org
www.opendisc.org


Sue Tapp - OZ/NZ Educators online meeting - http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/fm/6ea743-3400

ICTEV Conference 24th May - http://www.ictev.vic.edu.au and http://ictev.vic.edu.au/event/conference.htm
Call for Papers for VITTA Conference held in November - called “Shift Happens: Technology alone will not save us” - http://www.vitta.org.au/c4p

National ICT Conference - ACEC in Canberra 29th Sept to 2nd October
http://www.acec2008.info/default2.asp?orgid=1&suborgid=12

Best of Ted in Australia - May 8 & 9 Sydney….. http://www.powwowevents.com.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/pwweb.woa/wa/referrer?name=tedusa001&skn=50175

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Podcast number 41 - April 22nd 2008

[EDTECHCREW041.mp3 Running time: 44:48 mins, size: 20.6 MB]

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Links

Live Meetings - DimDim

Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008

Google Earth Lessons

Google Pro Free to Educators

Homepage Tools - Pageflakes for teachers

Quicklinks
Photoshop Express - online photo editor from Adobe

SlideRocket - Web presentations

http://twittearth.com

Johny Lee on Tony’s Blog

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Podcast number 40 - April 15th 2008

[EDTECHCREW040.mp3 Running time: 55:07 mins, size: 25.3 MB]

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Podcast http://virtualstaffroom.net
Blog: http://betch.edublogs.org
School http://www.plc.nsw.edu.au

Writing tool Chris is using to write his book: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

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Podcast number 39 - April 8th 2008

[EDTECHCREW039.mp3 Running time: 46:34 mins, size: 21.4 MB]

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Air Gun link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTVttNST2qU
Darwin Awards: http://www.darwinawards.com/

Slav Conference: http://www.slav.schools.net.au/slav.html

Will’s site - http://weblogg-ed.com

Google Docs
Apps - http://www.google.com/a/
Sites - http://sites.google.com

Diigo Blog - http://khokanson.blogspot.com/2008/03/dig-ging-diigo.html

Tony - Game On - Exhibition http://itmadesimple.typepad.com/learning_thinking_playing/2008/04/game-on-exhibit.html
Crayon Physics - http://itmadesimple.typepad.com/learning_thinking_playing/2008/03/crayon-physics.html

Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool - http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2008/03/29/twitter-a-teaching-and-learning-tool/#comment-2652

Twiddla - http://www.twiddla.com/

Skype Plugins - Yugma Team Collaboration- https://extras.skype.com/1003/view

Twitter ???? - Edmono http://www.edmodo.com/

Inside Google - tools we may see :: “The Tools Google Uses Internally” - http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-03-12-n39.html

Google Finally Launches Offline Access for Docs
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_docs_offline_support.php

Inside Teaching - http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/insideteaching

Games
Wii Fit Oz release date - 8th may (before the US)

MMORPGs in Schools: The Shift Ahead - http://edtechlife.com/?p=1979

Kahootz 3 - launched an set to hit Aussie schools http://www.kahootz.com

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Podcast number 38 - April 2nd 2008

[EDTECHCREW038.mp3 Running time: 16:49 mins, size: 7.8 MB]

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Interview with Ian Cunningham - re the Australian Linux Conference held in Melbourne earlier this year.
Conference Website: http://linux.conf.au/

Conference Program: http://linux.conf.au/programme/presentations


* to view slides you will need to install OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/
** to view videos from the conference you can download and use VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Highlights:

Open Street Maps Openstreetmap.org

Community wireless http://www.air-stream.org.au/

http://www.theingots.org/ - International Grades in Open Technology

www.nodedb.come

www.strengthfinder.com Clifton Strength finder 2.0 Personal strengths/Team integration

Computer recycling – Computerbank and ItShare www.itshare.org.au

www.csunplugged.com teaching computer science without a computer

Psychology of Security www.scheier.com/essay-155.html

Joining second life to the real world using ardvino electronics interface

www.ardvino.cc

www.secondlifeintegration.com

jon.oxer.com-au/talks

2009 Conference: http://marchsouth.org/

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Podcast number 37 - Mar 26th 2008

[EDTECHCREW037.mp3 Running time: 30:19 mins, size: 13.9 MB]

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Topics

US research on media in the lives of teens

Classroom20.wikispaces.com - Interview with Al Upton

Webby Awards & Cool Web 2.0 app awards

Timeline tool
http://mnemograph.com

Broker your own learning & teaching
http://www.globalscholar.com

Economics with Mr Wood

Videos Wired Science - Soft Drink Water bottle Rocket

A technology we will both be checking out ….
Diigo

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Podcast number 36 - Mar 19th 2008

[EDTECHCREW036.mp3 Running time: 37:10 mins, size: 17.2 MB]

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Topics

The Awesome highlighter
http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/

Other Sites:

Podcatcher matrix - http://www.podcatchermatrix.org
Roy the Zebra - http://www.roythezebra.com
Star Fall - http://www.starfall.com
FlickrCC - http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net
Wayfarying - http://www.wayfaring.com

Creative commons
http://flickr.com/creativecommons

Online conferencing
http://vyew.com/

Blogging
Al Upton’s minilegends. Shutdown by the SA Dept of Ed (Twitter)
http://alupton.edublogs.org
Graham Wegner - Teaching Generation Z has a nice summary of what others have written as well as his own comments.
http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2008/03/15/in-support-of-al-and-the-minilegends/

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Podcast number 35 - Mar 12th 2008

[EDTECHCREW035.mp3 Running time: 46:04 mins, size: 21.1 MB]

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Topics

Video Conversion
http://www.cultcase.com/2008/02/get-your-own-copy-top-10-online-video.html

WWT - http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
WWT TED Video - http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/224

Way Back Machine

Kerpoof

Online presentations

Screen casting software

iPaper

Twhirl - Twhirl.org
Twitter client based on Adobe AIR Platform

SMS Polling

Spore for the iPhone

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Podcast number 34 - Mar 4th 2008

[EDTECHCREW034.mp3 Running time: 48:59 mins, size: 22.5 MB]

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Topics
A conversation with Joel Stanley about the ‘One Latop Per Child’ project.

One Laptop Per Child Site - http://laptop.org/
OLPC Wiki - http://wiki.laptop.org

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Podcast number 33 - Feb 26th 2008

[EDTECHCREW033.mp3 Running time: 57:48 mins, size: 26.5 MB]

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Guest speaker - Jo McLeay
http://theopenclassroom.blogspot.com

Flatworld Tales
http://ms1001tales.wikispaces.com

Clarence Fisher’s blog
http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/

Jo McLeay uses 21 classes for a class blog
http://www.21classes.com/

“What’s Your Ideal Educational Technology Conference?”
http://edtechlife.com/?p=1928

Ted Talks:
Hans Rosling
Sir Ken Robinson

Digital Education Revolution
http://www.digitaleducationrevolution.gov.au/default.htm

Check out the FAQ’s http://www.digitaleducationrevolution.gov.au/computer_fund/faq.htm

Cyber Safety funding - money available to run programs. Telstra Program: http://www.telstrafoundation.com/dir148/tfweb.nsf/webdocs/CAG~SpotlightIssue

Australia 2020 - http://www.australia2020.gov.au/
Submissions Due - Wed 9th April 2008

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Podcast number 32 - Feb 19th 2008

[EDTECHCREW032.mp3 Running time: 32:52 mins, size: 15.2 MB]

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This week Darrel interviews Mark Chrisman - an eLearning specialist from Seattle, America.

Mark’s blog: http://badsquare.wordpress.com

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Podcast number 31 - Feb 12th 2008

[EDTECHCREW031.mp3 Running time: 36:04 mins, size: 16.6 MB]

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Topics:

Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information - http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html

Writing a book in Google Docs - http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-01-23-n82.html

Music Player as Browser - http://www.songbirdnest.com/screencast

Google Docs in Plain English from Common Craft
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-googledocs

Human body tour - http://www.visiblebody.com/

That SBS TV show

Games
Xmoto - http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/simulation_and_sports/xmoto.html

Armadillo Run - http://www.armadillorun.com/

Help
Need to get access to a Flip - http://theflip.com/index_flip.shtml

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Podcast number 30 - Feb 4th 2008

[EDTECHCREW030.mp3 Running time: 35:38 mins, size: 16.4 MB]

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Topics:

New Apple Computer - MacBook Air
Top 25 Stories of Google Earth 2007

Free Moodle course on the Scratch programming language

Gdocsbar - google doc extension for firefox

Jo Mcleay - Openclassroom blog

Tony’s Post re: Growing Up Online Video

“Growing Up Online” documentary from pbs.org

Games
Super Mario Galaxy

Spore on the Mac

GameArena CES 2008

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Podcast number 29 - Dec 18th 2007

[EDTECHCREW029.mp3 Running time: 25:52 mins, size: 11.9 MB]

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Please click here to take the ‘Ed Tech Crew Podcast Survey’

Wii remote for multi touch device.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ&eurl=http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
Johnny Lee’s website

3D environment built on Croquet
http://edusim3d.com/

Kids hooked up to, but not hooked on gizmos
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/kids-hooked-up-to-but-not-hooked-on-gizmos/2007/12/17/1197740248648.html

The EdTechCrew would like to wish all our guest speakers and listeners a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. If you need to keep up to date please visit our blogs at:

ICT Guy - http://www.smsn.vic.edu.au/ictguy/

Tony Richards (ITmadeSimple) - Learning - Thinking - Playing

See you in 2008!

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