links for 2007-11-29

• About Gmail
  (tags: GoogleTools)

links for 2007-11-27

• befuddlr!
  (tags: Flickr games)
• Kathy Schrock’s Home Page – Kathy Dryburgh’s Guide to SL for K-12 Educators
  (tags: secondlife)
• connectedlibraries wiki / Other Helpful Tours of Web 20
  (tags: ProfessionalDevelopment web2.0)
• Not So Distant Future
  (tags: library2.0)
• The Future of Reading (Techlearning blog)
  (tags: SherylNussbaumBeach)
• Instacalc Online Calculator | Instant Results
  (tags: web2.0Tools Curriculum:Science Curriculum:Math)

links for 2007-11-26

• November Learning – Information Literacy Resources
  (tags: InformationLiteracy)
• How to Save the World
  (tags: 21stCenturySkills InformationLiteracy)
• The Fischbowl: Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?
  (tags: KarlFisch ProfessionalDevelopment)
• » Edublog Awards 2007 Finalists Announced! The Edublog Awards
  (tags: EducationBlogs blogsupport ProfessionalDevelopment)
• BarackObama.com | Technology and Innovation for a New Generation
  (tags: futureofeducation BarakObama)
• The iPod lecture circuit – Los Angeles Times
  Technology is bringing the ivory tower to big rigs and fishing boats, offering the chance to study existentialism or theoretical physics.
  (tags: itunes educationpodcasts)

links for 2007-11-25

• WordPress – Movies
  (tags: wordpress)
• Simple Random Header Images for Your Blog — Pearsonified
  (tags: WordPress)
• Knowing Knowledge – Google Book Search
  (tags: GeorgeSiemens)

links for 2007-11-23

• FeedBlendr – blending RSS, Atom and RDF feeds into a single river of news!
  (tags: rssfeeds/podcasts rss)
• TwitBin – twitter your browser – twitbin.com
  (tags: twitter)

Amazon Kindle out of stock— Already!

November 22, 2007 8:56 AM PST

Posted by Michelle Meyers

Despite much skepticism–and some downright harsh criticism–on the part of observers about the looks and marketability of Amazon’s Kindle electronic book reader, consumers seem to be giving it the thumbs up. Read the rest of the article

links for 2007-11-22

• ecards for when you care enough to hit send
  (tags: Clipart Graphics ecards)

The Future of Reading

    This week’s cover of Newsweek features the article by Steven Levy about Amazon’s new reader “The Kindle” an electronic “book”. Not only will you be able to download and read books, but subscribe to newspapers and RSS feeds. It allows .pdf files to be stored on it. The Kindle has changeable fonts and allows term cross referencing. Levy says “Amazon believes it has created the iPod of reading”.
    The implication of this tool for our students is the power it will have on their research, as illustrated in the following paragraph:

        Google’s people have thought about how this connectivity could actually affect how people read. Adam Smith, product director for Book Search, says the process is all about “getting rid of the idea that a book is a [closed] container.” One of his colleagues, Dan Lansing, describes how it might work: “Say you are trying to learn more about the Middle East, and you start reading a book, which claims that something happened in a particular event in Lebanon in ‘81, where the author was using his view on what happened. But actually his view is not what [really] happened. There’s newspaper clippings on the event, there are other people who have written about it who disagree with him, there are other perspectives. The fact that all of that is at your fingertips and you can connect it together completely changes the way you do scholarship, or deep investigation of a subject. You’ll be able to get all the world’s information, all the books that have been published, all the world’s libraries.”

If there was ever a time to justify why we need technology and 21st century literacy skills in school, read the article

links for 2007-11-21

• Elven Institute
  (tags: Library secondlife ElvenInstitute)
• Home
  (tags: $100Laptop)
• Online sites-online sites for children – New York Times
  (tags: SocialNetworking)
• jlwagner wiki / OnlineProject
  (tags: jenniferwagner collaboration wiki)
• Michael Wesch – Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology – Kansas State University
  (tags: MichaelWesch)
• mediatedcultures.net @ kansas state university
  (tags: collaboration media video michaelwesch youtube)
• Sargent Park Math Zone: Penn Turnpike Investigation
  (tags: Curriculum:Math)
• Derek’s Blog
  (tags: DerekWenmoth wow2.0)
• Welcome to CORE Education! — CORE Education
  (tags: DerekWenmoth wow2.0)
• Amazon.com: Action Research: A Guide For Library Media Specialists: Books: Jody K. Howard,Su A. Eckhardt
  (tags: actionresearch)
• Amazon.com: Action Research for Teachers: Traveling the Yellow Brick Road (2nd Edition): Books: Mary Louise Holly,Joanne Arhar,Wendy C. Kasten
  (tags: actionresearch)
• What Kids Can Do
  (tags: actionresearch)
• Center for Collaborative Action Research
  (tags: actionresearch)
• Quality of Life Program
  (tags: actionresearch)
• Centre4 – ULearn07 -
  (tags: conference derekwenmoth)
• TeacherTube – Pay Attention
  (tags: PayAttention youtube professionaldevelopment)
• Quick & Dirty Tips :: Traveling Avatar
  (tags: secondlifereference)

links for 2007-11-20

• Social networking: Introduction
  (tags: SocialNetworking Facebook Webquests)
• Learning Excellence: More on Facebook
  (tags: SocialNetworking Facebook)