Educational Technology and Life

• How many people use RSS anyway?
  This is a very important question for edubloggers… Scoble shares that Feedburner reports “that they have 65.6 million subscribers.” I’m sure that’s inflated, but it’s more than I (or Scoble) expected.
  (tags: RSS)
• Screenshot Tour: First Look at Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
  I will certainly check this out, but is it relevant at all (in the era of Open Office and Google Docs)? Should schools ever spend money on an office suite again?
  (tags: microsoft office)
• Does CIPA mandate…filtering settings?
  John Pederson quotes form the ALA’s FAQ related to CIPA. He highlights the flexibility available to libraries (and schools). To be clear, we *can* give students access to web publishing tools. Like NCLB, the law is not as bad as the implementation.
  (tags: CIPA internetsafety)
• Nancy Willard’s Voice of Reason
  I guess I need to order this book to keep up on the topic for my own Internet Awareness and Safety workshops… or Cybersafety as it seems to be more popularly called in education circles.
  (tags: internetsafety)
• The Google Model
  The SMUHSD tech professional development blog discusses Google’s 20% time as a model for schools. This is a more thoughtful treatment than my post following one of the Google Teacher Academies: http://edtechvalley.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-model.html
  (tags: googleined schoolchange)
• Send a personalized message to your friends from Optimus Prime!
  Miguel posted about this. I sent a message to Eva while she was shopping. She laughed so hard people stared, but she brought home the DVD!
  (tags: andlife)
• mark wagner – Google Search
  Arg! I got knocked from the top again, only a few short days after first making it there. It’s still much better than my 5th place finish last month and before, though. How ’bout the link love folks? :)
  (tags: egosurfing)
• theory.isthereason » Why that new Flock rocks my world…
  Kevin Lim posted about the beta of Flock 1.0. It looked interesting enough to try out again, and I think I’ll be using it for a few days…
  (tags: flock webbrowser)
• Games for leadership training | learnandteachonline.com
  “Jon Udell’s latest on IT Conversations is an interview with a 17-year-old gamer and a USC prof who researches the social and economic impact of gaming.” Haven’t heard it yet myself, but I’m bookmarking it for later. :)
  (tags: edugames)
• theory.isthereason » Today’s Links: Feeding the “Self-Help” Web one link at a time…
  I clicked through to several Kevin Lim posts today. This one lead me to Slife, an application for tracking how you spend your time on the computer. UPDATE: There’s too many limits on the free trial version. Interesting slife sharing features, though.
  (tags: time selfhelp)
• Around the Corner v2 – MGuhlin.net – Educational Gaming
  Here’s another games in education interview for later, this one comes via Miguel.
  (tags: edugames)
• Twitter / dbrussin
  David Brussin, “Entrepreneur at large, ” is twittering now. He’s an old friend from High School and very successful in the *real* tech industry. I’m sure educators would benefit from following him – and vice versa I’d hope. ;)
  (tags: twitter davidbrussin)

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