October 20, 2010
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I have been looking at The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom as a learning tool for social networks impacting society and found this a very deep read….like a college econ/sociology textbook. Caught myself thinking I … Continue reading
September 15, 2010
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Are teachers actually using new, advanced technologies in teaching? The answer may surprise you and shock all those tech jockeys in both K12 and HigherEd that the chalkboard is dead. Only 13 percent of the professors surveyed said they used … Continue reading
September 13, 2010
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August 13, 2010
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Sometimes a 2.0 release is viewed as a fix for shortcomings in the initial release of just about any product….except this update from Tom Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew … Continue reading
July 28, 2010
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FireFox is set (soon I hope) to launch an innovation called Tab Candy. This will permit Firefox to act more like a OS. Kinda Chrome like if Google has their way. The focus of Tab Candy is multitasking and sharing. … Continue reading
July 3, 2010
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Small schools (K12 and Colleges with less than 1,000 students) are accustomed like all of us to accessing email around the clock. We know email is habit forming at best and compulsive at worst. The new economy proves funding 24/7 … Continue reading
June 24, 2010
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Last year Google announced it would provide industrial strength email anti-spam & anti virus (Postini) to K12 schools for FREE. Act Now – Deploy later. Google’s offer ends July 2010 As budgets have been cut across the country for education, … Continue reading
May 24, 2010
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Google has released their internal learning platform, CloudCourse under an open source license. Built entirely on Google’s own App Engine, CloudCourse is a new entry into a crowded LMS arena. CloudCourse provides calendaring, waitlist management and approval features. To no … Continue reading
April 28, 2010
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Imagine that! In the “what took so long” category Google has finally released a series of good video training session all about their real-time communication and collaboration tool Google Wave. I posted last month (read it here) Google is missing … Continue reading
April 13, 2010
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Google’s impressive tool just received a nice upgrade. For most users the new updates further justify migrating away from Office. When you consider Google gives this away for free (especially to schools)….well a good thing just got even better. From … Continue reading