Ed Tech Crew 148 - Google Whacked and Google Ganger

Podcast number 148 - Feb 7th, 2011

[Running time: 1:02:14 hours, size: 42.8 MB]

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Think like a computer scientist (Python). http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/

News & General Websites of interest:

“IPocalypse” The Internet has finally run out of addresses: http://goo.gl/cSQUa

New home for Global teacher blogs http://global2.vic.edu.au/

In search of the Googlewhack - interesting conversation around search and google.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack

10 Tablets to Keep an Eye on in 2011
http://gigaom.com/mobile/10-ces-tablets-2/

Great site for learning Trig
http://www.touchtrigonometry.org/

Comic Life 2
http://plasq.com/products/comiclife2

Sound Cloud - http://soundcloud.com/

Google Body Browser - http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html#

Skype Education - open in Beta
http://education.skype.com/

Google Docs - another update http://www.google.com/google-d-s/whatsnew.html
OCR is an interesting one: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176692

New Social Web Browser - Rock Melt Beta release
http://www.rockmelt.com

State Library of Qld donated 50,000 images to Wikimedai Australia for the public domain (Dec 21st) - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMAU-SLQ3?utm_medium=sitenotice

Newspapers available online to browse: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

Add the Australian Schools Calendar to your Google Calendar:
https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=r6rued9pal4i9kb6f9192t48h8@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Adelaide&gsessionid=OK
or Events from EDNA in iCal http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/schools_events

Changes at the WayBackMachine - Calendar View http://waybackmachine.org/

Some of the many Feedback from listeners:

Brendan O’Brien

• The 60second science video competition is now International. Open to everyone. A$9000 in cash prizes http://bit.ly/4du9KR Students LOVE it!

John Pearce

• Mapping the Twitterverse: http://www.readwriteweb.com/assets_c/2011/01/Twitterverse-26752.php
• Challenges, change and trends 2011 - http://www.slideshare.net/dwenmoth/challenges-change-and-trends-2011?from=ss_embed
• QR Stuff - http://www.qrstuff.com/index.html
• TwitterCure by Kathy Schrock - https://sites.google.com/a/kathyschrock.net/twittercure/
• How to make an interactive lesson with YouTube - http://www.knewton.com/blog/edtech/education-edtech/2010/12/15/how-to-make-an-interactive-lesson-using-youtube

Clay leben

• Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2011 - http://cck11.mooc.ca/
• Open Exhibits - http://openexhibits.org/
• SimpleDiagrams - http://www.simplediagrams.com/home

Ian Guest

• EmbedPlus - http://embedplus.com/

Roland Gesthuizen

• Things babies born in 2011 will never know http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111745/things-babies-born-in-2011-will-never-know?mod=family-kids_parents
• IBM 100 * 100 YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
• Lost Canister of Film - http://mashable.com/2011/01/18/lost-canister-of-film-prompts-youtube-search-for-its-owners/
• A video by Roland - check it out - very interesting video: Get involved.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9KhR4qRC8I

Shelly Terrell

• MyTweeple - Relationship Management - http://mytweeple.com/home.aspx?yourock=true

Important Notice
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