Podcast number 114 – February 15th 2010
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We’re on the Zune
http://social.zune.net/podcast/Ed-Tech-Crew/d8a4551a-2627-4ac0-93a9-46a49c593fd3
Xinha
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1449
Portable WYSIWYG editor! No matter what site you’re visiting you can launch a WYSIWYG right in your browser.
Google Buzz – social networking battleground
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/introducing-google-buzz.html
Google Baulks at Governments call to censore YouTube
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-baulks-at-conroys-call-to-censor-youtube-20100211-ntm0.html
Filter Protesters Down Parliament Website
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/parliament-website-downed-by-hackers/story-e6frgakx-1225828844405?referrer=email&source=AIT_email_nl
Interactives
http://www.learner.org/interactives/
Youtube turns 5!
http://mashable.com/2010/02/14/youtube-birthday/
From Rob Rankin
New opportunity to share teaching resources provided by Kevork Krozian
http://www.edulists.com.au/
Beyond Current Horizons explores the future for education, beyond 2025
http://www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk
From Clay Leben
Cartoon Creator/Animator
http://www.doink.com
From Narissa Leung via our Netbook Diigo group
http://www.schooltube.com
From John Pearce
Introducing Google Docs
http://edte.ch/blog/2009/10/21/introducing-google-docs-to-the-class/
ISTE Announces Its “Top Ten in ‘10″ Education Technology Priorities
http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=20101&CONTENTID=25206&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm
Digital Story Telling (the Microsoft way!)
http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/digital_storytelling.aspx
Events
Richard Olsen – ideasLab – online course around Kodu starting Feb
15th – http://fuse.microsoft.com/kodu
Apple ITSC – events for Apple enthusiasts.
http://day.scratch.mit.edu/
Scratch Conference in the US- August 11, 2010 – August 14, 2010
http://events.scratch.mit.edu/conference/
ACEC Conference 2010 – April http://acec2010.info/
Computer Games Boot Camp – Andrew Owen
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/promotion/games-boot-camp/