Great for students with cell access...OK that is almost everyone, except in school. Go figger. Drunk. Lampost. Lost keys. Light.
Tech Pedagogy
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How to Create Workflow: From Diigo Bookmarks to WordPress Blog Post.
I am using Diigo’s automatic blogging. It is a fairly frictionless workflow although I have discovered that I must leave the post “uncategorized” or it will publish as gibberish of some sort. Here is a screencast on how I do this.
Television is going the way of the dinosaur, and the deadly comet is called BitTorrent Live. Today, Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing protocol, demoed his latest creation at the SF MusicTech Summit. 
Beginning to come around on these little tools. For my mobile students these are a winner. 
I usually don't like to scoop these cattle call link dumps, but this one was useful to me in the moment of need. Maybe you are in a similar moment. It would have been helpful to divide the apps by OS. Just a little. 
'The Lingospot APP offers a powerful combination of automatic content aggregation and filtering and in-depth content editing.'
OK, but this costs $500/month at the basic level. Does someone have an open source version of this? Could be a tremendous, wiki-like tool for teachers and students to generate enduring project stories and long term data. Workflow, baby. Workflow. 
Classic example of project based learning/ project based pedagogy. 
What about Kickstarter as a new model for education and the classroom. Get support for novel, short-term, MOOC, etc classes inside and outside normal channels.
For years, we've been hearing how the new business models we talk about aren't really "big enough" or that they're just "exceptions" to the rule. Yet, every year we see more and more success stories involving those kinds of business models. Amazing collection of free courses. I am going to take the iphone app course--self directed and for the autodidactically inclined. 
Download ixPaste for Mac - Keep a history of your clipboard. Combine this with PasteboardRecorder and you have a way to recycle your own and others' text. Handy as that proverbial pocket on your pants (not that silly watch fob/booger pocket). 
There are so many uses for this I am truly gobsmacked with ideas for it.
"A $250 kit lets you play around with green screen techniques, setting actors in front of any background of your choosing. It takes the pain out of a process that can be difficult to get right." Converts torrent files into a shortened url. Very handy and very legal. Torrents are the best for sharing or at least the easiest. 
Free Printable Paper in PDF format... and who doesn't need cool printables like Yahtzee score cards , scrabble score sheets and penmanship paper. Geeky and fun. Check it out. Perhaps one can use these as a bridge to digital papers of all sorts. 
Great tip for nixing the detritus around YouTube vids.
If the original YouTube video is located at .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs
You can modify the URL to include the modified argument “watch_popup” (as below) http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=BNHR6IQJGZs And the YT video will fill the browser.
Nice technique to use when creating links on educational materials to YouTube videos!
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Just might get me over the hump on using Evernote as the Ring the Rules Them All. 
Lots of good feedback, but how to fit into classroom workflow? Think I will try and report back. Anybody else?
Interact with your audience - Free of charge and without registration! Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
I go back and forth on these things. Does it work well enough for students to use it as a preliminary editor/peer? Anybody tried this yet? Am I or will I soon be out of a job?
They claim:
This is a great way to improve your essay and assignment writing. This tool willcheck your grammar, show you any areas where you may have plagiarisedcontent and make suggestions for improving your writing style.
True? I will let you know next week. Via Nik Peachey 
Microsoft knows it is on to a winner with its Kinect accessory, having sold 18 million of them in a year since its launch, recently announcing that it would soon be available for desktop PCs.
Well, alright. We are seeing the same convergence on the webcam as we saw on the cellphone. What else could the webcam do? Project?
Great for students with cell access...OK that is almost everyone, except in school. Go figger. Drunk. Lampost. Lost keys. Light. 
3-D printers afford new pedagogies and new work processes. Fast prototypes become a reality. Our play in the fields of the imagined can be realized. Great article of how this is beginning to happen. Listing of Free Online Stanford Courses (Winter 2012) This fall, Stanford opened three of its courses to free online enrollment: Machine Learning, Databases, and Artificial Intelligence. Over 100,000... 
I like the anywhere anytime aspect of this app. I will be testing that out in 'fallow' places over the next two weeks.
"ShowMe lets anyone create Khan Academy like lessons on the iPad. Easily create, record and upload a ShowMe on the portal, making it available to a global audience." 
"Classroom student response system, incorporating Google Forms and an instant data dashboard view for student and teacher." I especially liked how it costs $5 for a teacher to use and $10000 for an edtech company to use. 
I have used several "digital storytelling" apps in the past year with my classes. Storykit & Storyrobe were those that we used most often. Dabbled in puppetpals and recently used the voicememo app to create a podcast. 
Wiki Site of Wesley Fryer... neat to see the mind of a productive person laid out so usefully. Quite a legacy. Understanding collaboration in Wikipedia:
Conclusion This study raises some important questions about what collaboration may actually look like in Wikipedia and may cast doubt on idealized notions of open, community–generated knowledge. Rather than reflecting the contributions and expertise of a large group of people, the typical article in Wikipedia reflects the efforts of a relatively small group of users (median of 12) making a relatively small number of edits (median of 21). Further, the nature of revisions made and user contribution histories suggest that the majority of revisions made by users are micro–structural, stylistic, or typographical and, therefore, may have little impact on the validity of article content. Beyond the questions that these findings raise for collaboration within Wikipedia itself, those interested in similarly open, community–developed projects, including organizations that seek to use wiki–type technologies for documentation purposes and educational endeavors that seek to use wiki–type technologies to support collaborative writing and project development, should consider how accurately the final products (e.g., articles) of a wiki truly reflect the quality and depth of collaboration taking place within them. And, it seems prudent that any attempts at understanding underlying collaborative efforts taking place with the aid of participatory technologies, like a wiki, in the future should account for such factors as collaborative rigor and the nature of individual contributions for the resulting findings to have robust explanatory power. |
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