Ed Tech Crew

End of year wrap up ….

Best tech moment?
Tony – The development of the e-book reader. Release of Windows 7 – where Microsoft should be.

Darrel – HTML 5.  Great mobile devices – iphones, ipod touch, up and coming Android handsets.

Worst tech moment?
Tony – No camera in the iPod Touch

Darrel – No ZFS in the Mac OS X. Terrible 3g data plans.

Two best websites?
Tony – too may to name!

Darrel – http://etherpad.com & http://www.diigo.com/education & Google docs (especially forms for collecting information)

Gadget/tech for Christmas
Tony – Wacom – Bamboo touch. Would like a Kindle – but will not have one.

Darrel – Android – Motorola Droid phone in Australia.  Some sort of PVR – tivo, networked hard drive or build my own with XMBC.

• Trends for 2010 – what do you think will be the big developments in 2010
• e-books – greater application!
• netbooks roll on.
• Small laptops, much more technology rich classrooms.
• Many schools exploring other devices ipods, phones, DS’s, kudo for xboxes, etc
• Tablet Mac ?!?! Will this rumour ever end?
• Schools having to deal with personal technology products in schools – issues associated with these devices http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/phone-camera-rules-needed-to-protect-teachers-20091128-jxvz.html
• Also the ability to more personalise the learning and match with students a vast range of resources to suit their needs.
• More data applications – more web services and cloud computing
• Cisco – going from internet plumber to social facilitator
• Video/web conferencing

Here are what others think:
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/12/10/5-k12-technology-trends-for-2010.aspx

Web Trends – http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/03/cashmore.web.trends.2010/index.html

Horizon report

General topics of interest & In the News week

Hi Tech Movies – $400 million of special effects!

Avatar Movie
http://www.avatarmovie.com/

Pandora
http://www.pandorapedia.com/

Avatar on IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/

Free Audio books

http://www.openculture.com/2006/10/audio_book_podc.html

Google Goggles
http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/

Google DNS