3rd Feb, 2009

Ed Tech Crew 73 – The games people play in 09

Podcast number 73 – February 3rd 2009

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General topics of interest & in the News

Is NSW Leading the ICT World? What do their students and teachers think?
Develop their own laptop:
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24934750-15306,00.html
Google gets into school:
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24966636-15318,00.html

More Links
Internet use tops one billion worldwide
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/internet-use-tops-one-billion-worldwide/2009/01/25/1232818221156.html

CES and BETT (WILL have our UK correspondance on next week to talk about BETT )
Did you see the Fizzbook? : http://www.fizzbook.org.uk
Darren Murphy’s web abulm of BETT http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/541293

Google Oceans:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4434916/Google-Ocean-launched-as-extension-of-Google-Earth-to-map-the-seabed.html

Text to Movie website
http://www.xtranormal.com/

Student Response Software
http://studentresponsenetwork.com

Open Text Books
http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

Gaming trends – Some stats with great images – US centric
http://www.slideshare.net/AdvertisingPawn/video-gaming-trends-presentation

Swiss Police Spy Marijuana Field With Google Earth
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6759110

Netbooks
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/netbooks-hit-right-spot-for-schoolchildren/2009/01/28/1232818513771.html

A couple US teenagers build a homework emailing system
http://sendithome.net

Save The Net -
Register your interest:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442?source=cmailer

Free audio books for kids:
http://storynory.com

Flip Software Update:
Win:http://www.theflip.com/app/fvsw/406/update/win.aspx

Mac: http://www.theflip.com/app/fvsw/406/update/mac.aspx

Games
Auditorium: A beautiful Game: http://www.playauditorium.com/

iphone/ipod touch games – Field Runners
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=292421271&mt=8

From Eric Marcos: Issuu http://issuu.com/

Tony’s book on reading theory - Proust and the Squid: Marryanne Wolf
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Welcome back! So great to hear your voices. For a moment, my students thought it was funny that 40 degrees was considered hot. Then you reminded us it was Celsius…over 100 degree Fahrenheit. Wow!

The issuu link was brought to my attention by an educator named Kern Kelley. He is a wealth of Web 2.0 info. When I saw what his students had accomplished with issuu, I was sold. Check out a sample project his student did: http://tinyurl.com/kkissuu

His blog is worth checking out too: http://thetechcurve.blogspot.com/

Take care and thanks.

By: Eric Marcos on February 3rd, 2009
at 8:03 pm

Welcome back. Hope you had a gr8 break!

After hearing the news that NWS Ed Dept. went to Gmail for students etc. I came across an interesting Email that convinced me of the real reason why they did it. $$$.

Check out this article

http://emergingtechnologies.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=etn&rid=14301

but how many students are their on Gmail? > 15000

By: Wayne Eglinton on February 8th, 2009
at 3:54 am

Hi Wayne,

The $$$ is always the main motivator – we spoke last year about the savings. I guess the advantage that Google has is the ability to scale to such a large size. It will be interesting to see what usage happens and if students and teachers take to it. How is the Territory – will be up in a couple of weeks – we should catch up.

By: tony on February 8th, 2009
at 4:25 am

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