Ed Tech Crew

Podcast number 82 – April 16th 2009

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In the News this week

Stephen Downes in Australia
Conference in Melbourne
John Pearce – Cover It Live
http://johnp.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/stephen-downes/

Suzi Arnott – Cover It Live
http://starnott.edublogs.org/2009/04/06/learning-20-with-stephen-downes/

Website of interest:

Twitter Handbook for Teachers – Tomaz Lasic
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14062777/Twizza-Handbook

Math, Physics, and Engineering Applets
http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

OCR Terminal is a free online Optical Character Recognition – PDF to Text
http://www.ocrterminal.com/

Primary ICT – Whiteboard Thinking Skills – Start Thinking | Teachers TV
http://www.teachers.tv/video/32458

Ed Tech Crew Diigo group
Skyfire: Free mobile browser. The PC web on your phone. Real fast.
http://www.skyfire.com/ – Russell Montgomery

Bookmark suggestions from inSuggest
http://bookmarks.insuggest.com/main.php?user=montgorp – Russell Montgomery

SuperClubsPLUS Australia Trial – Cybersafe Classroom – SuperClubsPLUS – Working with the Web – Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/management/elearningsupportservices/www/classroom/superclubsfaq.htm
Rob Rankin

eyePlorer
http://www.eyeplorer.com/eyePlorer - Rob Rankin

Student Materials Index
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp – John Pearce

Inspiring Ideas for writers – Jo McClay via Oz/NZ teachers diigo group
http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddf8kn4m_59zqzbv9gs&pli=1

Q & A live from Melbourne via – Wayne Eglington
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s2521164.htm

Visual Searching
http://www.search-cube.com/

Bump – Top – available for Windows
http://bumptop.com/

Alternativeto
Great website for the location of alternatove software options
http://alternativeto.net/

Link from Twitter about presentations – have a read:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/04/the-hierarchy-of-presentations.html

Tag Galaxy
http://taggalaxy.de/

Technology topicEvents
Weird Spot via Darren Murphy
Woman catches husband cheating… on Google’s Street View
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25271803-663,00.html