Saturday, April 30, 2011
QI Technology: Charging the electronic devices battery through Wireless standard QI
Qi (pronounced “chee”) is the new global standard for wireless charging stations, set by the Wireless Power Consortium. The goal is life unplugged, without all those wires, chargers and power cords. Any device with a Qi-enabled accessory or with Qi built directly into it can charge on any Qi inductive charging pad. You’ll be hard pressed to find a Qi-enabled device today, so if you want to get in on the action, expect to purchase a Qi-enabled accessory to make your devices compatible.
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A coalition of manufacturers to the first standard for the transfer of power wirelessly to charge electronic devices and is a standard Qi new and which has already been completed the status of all properties and constraints that govern it and is around the corner from the starting to the land Indeed, in the form of many, and many commercial products capable of dealing with each other, which warns of a big change in how we ship our Electronic Devices for everyday use.
Charging the electronic devices battery through Wireless standard QI.
Digital Trends: Qi Technology Introduces Wireless Charging Stations
Digest of Education Statistics, 2010
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
| Digest of Education Statistics, 2010 | |
The 46th in a series of publications initiated in 1962, the Digest's primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest contains data on a variety of topics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, and federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons.Did You Know?Black students at grade 4 in Boston and Charlotte had higher scores on the 2009 NAEP science assessment than Black students nationally » more infohttp://nationsreportcard.gov/science_2009/g4_district.asp |
Teacher Vodcasting and Flipped Classroom Network - A social network site for teachers using vodcasting in the classroom.
Teacher Vodcasting and Flipped Classroom Network - A social network site for teachers using vodcasting in the classroom.
For more information on vodcasting, the flipped classroom and mastery learning, visit our website at: www.flippedclassroom.com
With the recent TED talk by Sal Khan, Aaron and Jon wrote a blog post about the state of the Flipped Class: It can be found at:
http://blendedclassroom.blogspot.com/
Aaron and Jon just did a guest column for the Daily Riff: You can read it here:
How the Flipped Classroom is Radically Transforming Learning
November Learning, Intel, Google and YouTube Partner for IdeaJam | November Learning
November Learning, Intel, Google and YouTube Partner for IdeaJam | November Learning
How can we help prepare students for the future and encourage them to dream bigger, think creatively and develop innovative solutions?
How can we help prepare students for the future and encourage them to dream bigger, think creatively and develop innovative solutions?
The IdeaJam, moderated by Alan November, sponsored by Intel and Google/YouTube and produced by Katalyst, will ask participants to problem-solve and create new ideas for classroom design that integrate technology and help boost creativity. Many of the ideas that will be discussed directly relate to Alan’s article, The Digital Learning Farm. 
Download article as a PDF
Download article as a PDF"Now is the time to take elements of these tools and provide students with the appropriate role models of how to use them to make important and rigorous contributions to their own school and beyond. If we do not teach students social responsibility and ethics, then our worst fears of children abusing these tools will come true."
You can join in the conversation on Twitter @IntelEdge or check out the livestream on YouTube athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9YULZJwJuI. The stream will begin at 9:30am PT on May 2nd.
Mr. Marcos has found this task to be so motivating that he has worked to build a new YouTube like Web site (http://www.mathtrain.tv) that he and the rest of his school’s math department uses to share the growing number of screencasts that students are creating. He has found that allowing students to create material for this site increases engagement and provides struggling students with more opportunities for reviewing troubling concepts.
montage.cloudapp.net/montage/WhatsMontage/
montage.cloudapp.net/montage/WhatsMontage/
It's what's cool on the Web; all in one place and made by YOU.
Montage is a flexible web-based service that makes it fun and easy to create and share a visual album of the web on the topics you care about. You can design your Montage around any topic you can imagine by adding content that pulls information from a variety of sources, including RSS feeds, Twitter, Bing News, and YouTube. Montage is an expression of you.
Get started, just give Montage a topic.
Microsoft Montage Creates New Ways To Publish
Microsoft Montage Creates New Ways To Publish
Microsoft Montage Creates New Ways To Publish
As people discover content on the web -- articles, tweet streams, images and more -- Montage creates an easy way for them to aggregate that selected information into a web page. These pages live on the Montage site and can be embeddable as well.Friday, April 29, 2011
Evernote vs. SpringPad
Evernote vs. SpringPad
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vs "I use SpringPad for shopping lists, restaurants, books, etc. I use Evernote for code snippets and for most things that I photograph like notes and business cards. Hopefully I can narrow back down to just using one product, but for now I like them both!"
OoVoo: Multi-party Video Chat on Android, iOS, PC & Mac
OoVoo: Multi-party Video Chat on Android, iOS, PC & Mac
Free Video Chat.
Chat from mobile to mobile,
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was more than just tapas and bullfights. ooVoo CEO Philippe Schwartz provided a live demo of the application – making ooVoo the first video chat provider to make multi-point video calling on both Windows OS and iOS devices a reality.
OoVoo: Multi-party Video Chat on Android, iOS, PC & Mac
OoVoo announced an iOS client for its multi-party video chat system. The software allows Android, iPad, PC and Mac clients as part of its system. The new client support will be available in April.
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TIME 100: A New Harlem Renaissance - Video - TIME.com
TIME 100: A New Harlem Renaissance - Video - TIME.com
How the Harlem Children's Zone is changing hearts and minds in a once troubled community
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,912685074001_2066549,00.html#ixzz1Kx20RtIU
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,912685074001_2066549,00.html#ixzz1Kx20RtIU
Michelle Rhee - The 2011 TIME 100 - TIME
Michelle Rhee - The 2011 TIME 100 - TIME
Meet the most influential people in the world. They are artists and activists, reformers and researchers, heads of state and captains of industry. Their ideas spark dialogue and dissent and sometimes even revolution. Welcome to this year's TIME 100
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066128,00.html #ixzz1Kwx55z00
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066128,00.html #ixzz1Kwx55z00
TechShop is the SF Bay Area's Only Open-Access Public Workshop -- What Do You Want To Make at TechShop?
TechShop is the SF Bay Area's Only Open-Access Public Workshop -- What Do You Want To Make at TechShop?
TechShop is ready to help you Build Your Dreams Here!
TechShop is a membership-based workshop that provides members with access to tools and equipment, instruction, and a community of creative and supportive people so they can build the things they have always wanted to make.
calibre - Open books Digital rights management (DRM)
calibre - Open books
Browse 1860 books in 15 genres
calibre 
introduces Open Books, a site for easy browsing of DRM-free e-books (e-books without DRM) that are not in the public domain. calibre has a cornucopia of features including library management, e-book conversion, syncing with devices, news download, e-book viewing etc, but to make the most of these features with your e-books you need to ensure your e-books do not carry DRM.
introduces Open Books, a site for easy browsing of DRM-free e-books (e-books without DRM) that are not in the public domain. calibre has a cornucopia of features including library management, e-book conversion, syncing with devices, news download, e-book viewing etc, but to make the most of these features with your e-books you need to ensure your e-books do not carry DRM.Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals to try to impose limitations on the usage of digital content and devices. When you buy an e-book with DRM you don't really own it but have purchased the permission to use it in a manner dictated to you by the seller. DRM limits what you can do with e-books you have "bought".
Practical Theory Science Leadership Chris Lehmann Academy Science Leadership Academy
Practical Theory Science Leadership Academy Chris Lehmann
“The school was to be an inquiry-driven, project-based school where students would be assessed by the work of their own creation.
What was frightening to me was, even with that idea in hand and a lot of experience with progressive curricular design, I had little idea how to make that idea come to life in the physical spaces of the building.” - Chris Lehmann http://www.designshare.com/index.php/articles/science-leadership-academy/
Like many in the school design community, we had heard about a push to create the school of the future in Philadelphia over the last few years after Paul Vallas arrived in the district with a mandate to spark enormous systemic change across the entire public school community. This past year, 4 new public high schools were given the opportunity to test new learning boundaries — including the one of last year’s “Recognized Value” DesignShare Award winners going by the eye-catching name of the “School of the Future”(through a strategic partnership between Philadelphia and Microsoft).
While this school certainly claimed a great many headlines and sparked a fair degree of debate as to the how ’scalable’ the school could be given its budget-to-student ratio, we were also intrigued by another high school that opened up at the same time just down the street.
The Science Leadership Academy, in partnership with the Franklin Institute, not only was preparing to open up in a very innovative office building renovation in City Center at a fraction of its peer’s budget, but it was being described as one of the only examples of “School 2.0″ in the United States (and beyond). While we’d heard much talk about 21st century schools and even schools of the future, we were very curious about a school that was echoing transformations in the field of communication technology and the Internet itself. Certainly a case study of this “School 2.0″ design grabbed our attention. And even better, we were curious about the design implications as the school’s founder and architects tried to make the renovated space come to life to support a truly new way of embedding technology into the lives of their students/teachers.
Chris Lehmann Apple - Science Leadership Academy Profile
Apple - Science Leadership Academy Profile
Chris Lehmann, a Philadelphia native who had taught English for nine years at a progressive technology integration school in New York City, it was a chance to pitch his own vision for a new kind of school experience. His idea was to combine project-based learning with modern tools like the Mac to help students develop the high-level thinking and skills they would need in today’s world.
In 2005, the School District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, decided to create four new small magnet high schools. The goal was not only to address chronic districtwide problems like high dropout rates, but also to develop new educational initiatives.
When his proposal was accepted, Lehmann became the founding principal of the high school he’d envisioned — the Science Leadership Academy, which has drawn students from all over the city since its first freshman class entered in September 2006. Formed in partnership with The Franklin Institute, a world-renowned science museum, the school features a curriculum in which students learn by creating research projects that try to answer fundamental questions raised in classroom sessions. Learning is measured not just in test results but in how effectively students develop their arguments and present their research.
Apple - Education Seminars & Events - Apple Spring Tech Update - New England Seminars
Apple - Education Seminars & Events - Apple Spring Tech Update - New England Seminars
•ePub for Education - A Look Behind the Veil: The ePub standard has leveled the publishing playing field and created one of the most exciting educational opportunities for schools looking to add mobility tools to their school learning environments. Join us for this session where we will identify what the ePub standard is, understand how it can be used in your learning environment, and then take the time to look behind the veil at the component parts that comprise an ePub file. We will also take the time to discuss tools and strategies that can be employed to use ePub files in your own school system.
(Presented by Paul Facteau, Development Executive, Apple Inc.)
(Presented by Paul Facteau, Development Executive, Apple Inc.)
•Developing an iPad Teacher Evaluation Solution for your District: There is national demand, with coinciding state policy, to improve ways of conducting teacher evaluations. Principals and department heads need better tools to capture data from multiple sources for review, and that is where the iPad comes into play. Kelley Gangi, Curriculum Supervisor for Wachusett Regional School District, and Barry Sclar, Supervisor for Information Services for WRSD,began searching for appropriate tools, but ultimately decided the current offerings were not customizable to the locally determined policy emerging around teacher evaluation. Working with Clear Pond Technologies, they began designing a solution that makes use of the iPad and can be tailored to fit the evaluation system for any school district.
(Presented by Kelley Gangi and Barry Sclar, Wachusett Regional School District and Chris Dunn, Clear Pond Technologies)
(Presented by Kelley Gangi and Barry Sclar, Wachusett Regional School District and Chris Dunn, Clear Pond Technologies)
Dropbox - Simplify your life
Dropbox - Simplify your life
Sharing content with students is also easy once you have created eBooks using dotEPUB. In Burlington, we are introducing teachers to Dropbox
as a replacement for local network-based storage folders. The problem with network-based folders is the lack of quick and easy access from any device or when in any location. Dropbox provides 2GB of free storage that is accessible anytime. Dropbox is an excellent option for Burlington teachers especially since we currently only provide about a fourth of that storage to teachers on network foldersOnce teachers create eBooks, they can save them to a shared Dropbox folder or public folder. Students can access the folder, download the eBook and now have access to new digital curriculum materials. In a 1:1 iPad school, apps like GoodReader
offer an easy way to download and organize these eBooks. Teachers can also create EPUB format worksheets and materials that can be completed in GoodReader and shared back to teachers through Dropbox.The Associated Press: Google replants its garage roots in tech workshops
The Associated Press: Google replants its garage roots in tech workshops
"There is a feeling here at Google that all good things start in a garage," said Greg Butterfield, an engineering lab manager who oversees the workshops. "Larry wanted to create the same kind of environment he and Sergey had when they started Google — a sort of a playground or sandbox for pursuing their ideas."
The workshops offer a peek into ways Page may try to make the Internet giant work with the verve and creativity of a garage-bound entrepreneur. Page believes the 13-year-old company needs to return to thinking and acting like a feisty startup as it faces competition from younger Internet stars such as Facebook, Twitter and Groupon.
There are four separate rooms — for metal, wood, welding and electronics — tucked into an isolated corner of Google's 4.3-million-square-foot headquarters in Mountain View.
Besides heavy-duty equipment, such as an oscilloscope, plasma cutter and miter saw, there are some children's toys. One piece of gadgetry currently under construction in the shops partially consists of Legos — the same material that Page once used to build an inkjet printer, years before creating Google.
Using Games to Change Your World....and Then the Real World | Hybrid Reality | Big Think
Using Games to Change Your World....and Then the Real World | Hybrid Reality | Big Think
If you're not a gamer, it’s hard to imagine why 183 million Americans spend over 13 hours a week playing video games. It’s even harder to see why game designer Jane McGonigal would claim that games are the route to solving the world’s problems. Games instill some very good habits in people, McGonigal writes in her recently published book Reality is Broken. For starters, they make people happy because when they compete against each other or against artificial intelligence, their creative juices flow. As they improve in the game, their sense of accomplishment and self-confidence rises. Complicated games also require complex moves, which further gives players the rush of overcoming a challenge. If you play in an online community, your peers cheer you on. And in many games, you partner with others to achieve a goal.
The book is exemplary: McGonigal has expressed a vision for games that even the layperson can understand and should read. One of the games she recommends is a social game called Extraordinaires, which allows you to do a good deed in as little as a minute.
Ayesha and Parag Khanna explore human-technology co-evolution and its implications for society, business and politics at The Hybrid Reality Institute.
Burlington Public SchoolS IT
How Do I Do That - April 2011
We will have two sessions of the Burlington Public Schools How Do I Do Thattechnology series in April.
On April 12, we will feature the new iPad 2. We will discuss new features and ways to use iPads in a 1:1 classroom environment. Burlington High School teachers are encouraged to attend with questions and to receive some help in preparation for the 1:1 initiative next year.
On April 26, we will feature Twitter and Skype. New users can learn about these tools and set up accounts. Twitter is a great resource for collaboration and personal professional development. Skype has many features that are perfect for education. Both tools enable students and teachers to communicate with the world, learn from others, share and connect to authentic audiences everywhere.
Please contact me with any questions:
So you are using iPads in your classroom and you want to get away from your old, expensive, out of date, and often poorly developed textbooks…what do you do?
Too often teachers and administrators are stumped by that question. Although many educators agree that textbooks are not always the best teaching tools, most don’t know where to start when it comes to teaching without them. The good news is that some educators are trying to live without textbooks. They are developing their own curriculums based on digital resources and materials available for free.
Don’t repeat that last part too loudly… Textbook companies don’t like free.
Burlington Public Schools is currently making an exciting move to a digital infrastructure for curriculum. We are looking at ways to introduce web-based applications and cloud based storage. We are trying to cut down on text costs and the use of paper. We also want to build relevant, engaging, curriculum infused with current technologies.
At Burlington High School, teachers and administrators are only a few months away from introducing a 1:1 iPad environment. The iPad, as I have written before, is what I believe to be the best educational technology tool available. The iPad, however, doesn’t come preloaded with curriculum materials. Educators still need to develop curriculums just like they always have, but at BHS they will be using a new device to help deploy the material.
The idea of creating educational content in a digital world can be overwhelming to many teachers. It is important to me that we help our teachers with simple ways to find, save, develop, or create digital materials.
Marc Prensky.com
Marc Prensky.com
Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the author of 3 books:
>Teaching Digital Natives---Partnering for Real Learning(Corwin 2010),
>Don't Bother Me Mom -- I'm Learning (Paragon House 2005), and
>Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001).
Marc is the founder and CEO of Games2train (whose clients include IBM, Nokia, Pfizer, the US Department of Defense and the L.A. and Florida Virtual Schools) and creator of the sites www.dodgamecommunity.comand www.socialimpactgames.com .
dotEPUB — download any webpage as an e-book
dotEPUB — download any webpage as an e-book
dotEPUB is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book.
For content consumers (readers), we have developed a bookmarklet (or favlet) for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Opera. And, if you are a Google Chrome user, you can install the dotEPUB extension in your browser.
Project Gutenberg - free ebooks online download for iPad, Kindle, Nook, Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, Sony Reader
Project Gutenberg - free ebooks online download for iPad, Kindle, Nook, Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, Sony Reader
We carry high quality ebooks: Our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers and digitized by us with the help of thousands of volunteers.
All our ebooks can be freely downloaded: Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.
Safe Browsing Tool | WOT (Web of Trust)
Safe Browsing Tool | WOT (Web of Trust)
The WOT add-on is a crowd-sourced enhancement to your browser protection, helping you stay safe from online threats that escape from automated security technologies.
- WOT shows you website reputation ratings based on real human input by millions of web users
- You can leave your own ratings to help other web users stay safe
- Third-party trusted sources provide technical security
- It’s free and easy-to-use
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Pearson Blog Network | Groups | Considerations for Next-Generation Assessments: A Roadmap to 2014 | Wiki
The Pearson Blog Network | Groups | Considerations for Next-Generation Assessments: A Roadmap to 2014 | Wiki
Welcome to the “Considerations for Next-Generation Assessments: A Roadmap to 2014” Wiki.
This open forum is intended to engage and encourage input from professionals and organizations who are addressing the challenge of moving from paper-and-pencil to online assessments. Many individual state policies dictate the move to online assessments, as does membership in both Race to the Top assessment consortia, SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC).
Could IBM’s Watson Computer Aid the Work of Nonprofits? - Corporations - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas
Could IBM’s Watson Computer Aid the Work of Nonprofits? - Corporations - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas
What about in educational testing?
In the United States of America, we have something called the common core standards that have now been developed in more than 40 states. We’re now developing new standards in science, math, history, and English. But if you’re still stuck with the same multiple-choice testing, even if you have higher standards, it won’t raise people up, it will dumb things down so people base their teaching and learning on those multiple-choice tests.
The technology behind Watson blows that up. It says you could have long-answer questions, you could have the ability to grade lengthy paragraphs of information. If the testing system incorporates that, it will allow teachers to test to higher standards and children to learn at higher levels. And it will save lots of money in what is currently a very ineffective and inefficient testing and assessment system.
School of One – Concept | Reimagining the classroom to meet the needs of every student
Overview
School of One was created to generate bold, effective and transformative changes in the classroom to better meet the needs of today's students. Our first major engagement is a full-time math program in several New York City public middle schools. Read below to learn why — and how — School of One reimagines teaching and learning.
Every student has different needs
Each student comes to the classroom with a unique profile of abilities, knowledge and interests. Some do better when they can first try to figure things out on their own; others do better when a teacher can first provide an explanation. Some do best when they learn in groups; others do best with technology. Some are far ahead of grade level material; others are behind.
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What Is Satellite Radio?
It’s like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Imagine just about every kind of music – commercial-free. Plus, sports, news, comedy, talk and entertainment. Now imagine it all in one place. Welcome to the world of SiriusXM.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Tell us about when words couldn’t describe your experience — and then let’s try to find the right words | The Hot Word | Hot & Trending Words Daily Blog at Dictionary.com
Tell us about when words couldn’t describe your experience — and then let’s try to find the right words | The Hot Word | Hot & Trending Words Daily Blog at Dictionary.com
@VEllisonne on twitter writes: “When I found myself in the middle of a dangerous situation but was completely calm and alright with the whole thing.” Perhaps “imperturbation” works here
And Kathie Wallis stumped us with: “The moment when irony and coincidence bring a truth to you out of nowhere; when you realize the world is not as you were living it. As if the dimensional plane you are standing in suddenly shifts, just a bit, leaving you disoriented and the world around you is forever changed.”
The suggestions keep rolling in and we are thrilled with what we’re reading.
Liongrrrrl offered the following scenario: “I can’t figure out how to put certain facial expressions to words, like when someone says something sarcastic to another person and that person gives them a *look*, where they blink kind of long and stare at them, maybe pursing their lips or folding their arms. I can’t figure that one out.” To which one reader suggested: moue.
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