10th Mar, 2010

Ed Tech Crew 117 – Darrel’s Concrete

Podcast number 117 – March 8th 2010

[EDTECHCREW117.mp3 Running time: 44:04 mins, size: 39 MB]

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Websites of interest:

Robot teachers are coming
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/robot-teachers-to-invade-korean-classrooms-by-2012/

What does you website sound like: http://www.codeorgan.com/
The Ed Tech Crew website sounds interesting!!!!!

Google acquires docverse
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Acquires-DocVerse-Online-Collaboration-Tool-for-Microsoft-Office-506017/

Andrew Jepperson – How to use Mapskip
http://acjeppo.blogspot.com/2010/03/yr8-profiles-and-mapskip.html
http://www.mapskip.com/

Feedback from listeners
Simon Collier – Technology Newsletter

Darren Murphy
http://www.pcworld.com/zoom?id=190172&page=1&zoomIdx=1

http://delicious.com/JoeCastagna
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html

John Pearce
Expanding set of tutorials including iPod Touch, Google Earth, gmail, Google Docs, Google Sites, SMARTBoard and Blogger
http://www.youtube.com/user/RadfordEducation
A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.
http://www.slate.com/id/2244198/pagenum/all
Narissa Leung
http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org

Rob Rankin – A new CMS
http://www.concrete5.org/about
Andrew Jepperson – LinkBunch lets you put multiple links into one small link
http://linkbun.ch/
Other Websites of interest:

NBN sites unvieled
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/02/2834482.htm?section=justin

Events
Online course around Kudo – Starts 1 March. http://fuse.microsoft.com/koduhttp://planetkudo.com

ACEC – 2010 Conference t-Shirt design competition has opened.
You can design an entry yourself or you could get your class to design a tshirt – details about the competition and prizes are available online at: http://acec2010.info/

Richard Olsen – ideasLab – online course around Kodu starting Feb 15th - http://fuse.microsoft.com/kodu
Apple ITSC – events for Apple enthusiasts. http://www.apple.com/au/education/itsc/venue_dates/

Scratch Day 2010 – May 22, 2010: 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/
Over 500 students attended the event last year and a number of teachers.

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