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The Palm Beach School System has an incredible wiki where members of the community share their favorite apps for specific disciplines. Below I’ve embedded their list for the top middle school apps but they also have a curated list of apps for middle school and high school. No comment yet.
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Worry not, edtech integrator! The Palm Beach County school system has a full review of their deployment process along with photos and commentary. Their incredible wiki features tons of great resources (the best iPad apps for particular grades, how much iPad labs actually cost, etc.) so be sure to check it out. Below is their must-have guide for installing, setting up, and syncing iPads in the classroom:
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Regardless of which form new technologies take—whether students access classes through laptops or tablets, and how much of their curriculum will have an online component—the emphasis needs to shift from viewing education technology as just the addition of cool new gadgets plugged into the same old classroom environment.
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The trend to put Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology into schools continues. Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) announced that it has been chosen by the Georgia Institute of Technology to provide its Dimension 3D Printers to select high schools across the U.S. as part of The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach (MENTOR) program.
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Urbanite’s editor-in-chief, David Dudley, interviewed Charles Limb, an otolaryngologist at Johns Hopkins who has a research fellowship to study the brain through functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Limb’s research focuses on studying the connection between music and creativity, and he used jazz musicians to discover what happens in the brain when creativity occurs. He found that when the musicians in the scanner were asked to stop playing memorized music and improvise, “The [activity in the] medial prefrontal area went up—that’s this autobiographical, self-referential, self-expressive area. And the lateral prefrontal regions went down—those are self-inhibitory, self-censoring, self-monitoring regions of the brain….The way we interpreted it—and this is with a lot of caveats—is that this might be one of the neural signatures of spontaneous creativity.”
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Kizoa is a new web-based service geared to those needing to create family, party and celebrative presentations in the easiest possible way.
The service, which offers a free basic level, it is indeed very easy to use and makes it a breeze to upload btaches of images from your hard disk or directly from your Facebook account.
If you want to go beyond this, and embed or publish your presentation on your site, you need to upgrade to a paid account which allows you also to utilize more visual effects, upload your own music and burn your visual slideshows to DVD. Via Robin Good
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Robin Good: Titanpad is a web-based collaborative document editing tool that allows any number of people to work collaboratively and simultaneously on the same document. Via Robin Good
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Rondee 2.0 is a telephone-conferencing with web-based scheduling and response tracking service.
The new free service allows users to have access to a single platform providing the choice of scheduling a conference in advance with RSVP tracking or conferencing on demand.
Additionally, users now have the option of customizing a variety of features such as configurable greeting tones, audio recording, detailed call reporting.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/07/prweb8940727.DTL Via Robin Good
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How it works: Initiating a Facebook-to-Facebook call from within Skype is quite easy; all you need to do is connect your Skype and Facebook accounts.
Then, select a Facebook friend and hit the video call button in Skype- your friend simply picks up the call from Facebook.
This new feature lets you maintain social connections with your Facebook friends and compliments previously announced features such as being able to see when your Facebook friends are online, read their status updates and IM them all from Skype.
Find out more: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/11/bring_your_social_network_to_l.html Via Robin Good
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Keep The Record is a new online collaboration service which allows you to instantly create a free teleconference for up to 10 people to which you can invite other contacts by email, phone or sms. Via Robin Good
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ThinVNC is a cross-browser, cross-OS and cross-device solution for accessing a remote Windows desktop and all of its applications.
There is both a Free and a trial version of the Pro edition. Compare editions here: http://www.cybelesoft.com/thinvnc/default.aspx/#tabs-4
Via Robin Good
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A visual manifesto for keeping the fire in kids' eyes burning.
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In a recent comment on Stefan G. Bucher’s fantastic 344 Questions: The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment, which has quickly become the most popular book on Brain Pickings this year, a reader named Terry tipped me off to The Universal Traveler: A Soft-Systems Guide to Creativity, Problem-Solving, and the Process of Reaching Goals — a curious metaphorical travel guide to creative problem-solving, originally published in 1971 by researchers Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall, offering what’s essentially a blueprint to design thinking nearly four decades before design thinking was a buzzword. |
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The Palm Beach School System has an incredible wiki where members of the community share their favorite apps for specific disciplines. Below I’ve embedded their list for the top elementary school apps but they also have a curated list of apps for middle school and high school.
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How do you future-proof your education? A fantastic and immersive Prezi (embedded below) by Maria Andersen shares the key skills needed: flexibility, interactivity, learning, explaining, analyzing, and focusing. There are numerous YouTube videos embedded in the presentation and that’s where the real meat of the content is.
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Thanks to a handy new infographic from HackCollege, it’s easy to find the diamond in the rough. Happy hunting!
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CSS is a charter school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, which serves approximately 600 students in grades 4-9. The school maintains this collective faculty blog as a means of sharing: classroom work, teachers' and administrators' reflections, ideas and experiences with those outside of the school.
Such an unusual, collective means of communication indicates that this is quite an unusual school. The reflections of the individual contributors display a great deal of passion and engagement. This is truly a bold experiment. -JL
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Blogger Elena Aguilar shares how she maintains hope and stays inspired as a teacher.
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If you are looking for your ideal HTML5-based video player for your web site or blog, look no further: this comparison table has all of the HTML5 video players available out there, compared side by side. Via Robin Good
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Rondee 2.0 is a telephone-conferencing with web-based scheduling and response tracking service.
The new free service allows users to have access to a single platform providing the choice of scheduling a conference in advance with RSVP tracking or conferencing on demand.
Additionally, users now have the option of customizing a variety of features such as configurable greeting tones, audio recording, detailed call reporting.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/07/prweb8940727.DTL Via Robin Good
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From the article: "Everyone wants to be in on the conversation, but sometimes distance can make in-person meetings hard.
We tested five multiperson video chat services--Google Hangouts, Skype Premium, Tinychat, AV by AIM, and AnyMeeting--to find the best place to conduct a group meeting online.
A lot of variables can affect the performance of a video chat service, from the available bandwidth to the quality of the participants’ webcams. In our lab tests, we set up five computers to video chat with one another: two desktop PCs, two Windows laptops, and a MacBook.
We provided ethernet connections for the desktops and wireless Internet connections for the laptops. We also looked at how easy it was to set up and use each service, and considered whether each service had any extra features (such as text chat or video silencing) to enhance video chat.
Here’s what we found."
Apples and oranges being compared. The lack of a common use case makes this comparison only partially useful. Via Robin Good
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ISL Online, an online collaboration solutions provider, has just launched a new free web conferencing service called Team Hangout. Automatic sound and video device detection – no settings required USB audio device hot-plugging during a web conference Share live content: screen sharing, application sharing, region sharing Share static content: PowerPoint presentation, images, clipboard content, a snapshot of live screen, text File sharing Annotations: text, arrows, highlighter, pen Highest security: AES 256 Bit SSL.
Online meetings started through teamhangout.com are public and can be joined by anyone visiting the website. Via Robin Good 
Sethu's comment December 22, 2011 2:14 AM
I wasted 30 min on ISL Teamhangout setup in Facebook, download plug-in etc. It simply doesnt work and there are no user friendly prompts or instructions to make it work. Better avoided
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December 22, 2011 3:19 AM
Thank you Sethu for reporting this. Much appreciated indeed.
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Hall.com is a new web-based collaboration service which allows you to create a public (or private) conversation hall in which specific topics can be discussed, custom polls, voting and selecting tasks or things to do is made as easy and effective as possible. Via Robin Good
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Stixy is a new collaboration workspace which makes it easy to create permanent private spaces in which multiple people can add, edit and update notes, photos, documents and to-do lists.
The service is free. Via Robin Good
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We’re fascinated by the origin of creativity and Kurt Andersen should know a thing or two about it. Co-founder of Spy magazine, host of Public Radio International’s iconic Studio 360, notoriously fired from New York magazine for sticking to his journalistic integrity, and founder of the most excellent Very Short List, he’s a paragon of cross-disciplinary creative entrepreneurship with just the right amount of cultural irreverence. His latest exploit, Spark: How Creativity Works, co-written with Studio 360 executive producer Julie Burstein, explores the nature of creativity through 10 years of Studio 360 insight into the drive, spirit and thinking of some of the most acclaimed artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers in contemporary culture. |
