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TalkTech Notes January 14, 2010

What follows are links that I plan to refernence in today’s show. I’ll try and add Chad’s on the fly. Wish me luck.

This is very much a work in progress but I’ll refine it when we push out the podcast.

Local

http://pages.vassar.edu/blogwire/
Pojo – January 5th
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100105010

NEW YORK — ESPN is looking to ride one of the next big waves in consumer electronics with a new 3-D sports channel.

The network, owned by the Walt Disney Co., says it will introduce a channel this year that will broadcast live sports events using the technology, starting with the FIFA World Cup soccer match on June 11.

Dec. 10th, 2010 TalkTech Podcast

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Here’s the link to our Dec. 10th Show:

http://bit.ly/TalkTechDec10_2009

Dec. 10th TalkTech Preliminary Links

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Since I’m continually behind schedule regarding posting links after the show, I’m employing a new strategy of posting links beforehand. Sorry for the “notes-ey” quality of this post. These are literally my notes.

We have a special guest today, Dr. Mikhail Gershovich, who works for Baruch College, which part of CUNY.
He is the director of the Bernard L Schwartz Communication Institute, Coordinator, Writing Across the Curriculum

Some of these fine sites from CUNY may be part of our discussion:
CUNY WordPress Applications
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/fro/guide-to-blogging-for-freshmen/
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/fro/
http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/all-the-eportfolios/
http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/showcase/

Big TalkTech
AT&T dissuade data users
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/companies/10iphone.html?ref=technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/technology/internet/07cities.html
Opening up of data sets

Google Apps leads in University Emailhttp://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/appsatschool.html#utm_campaign=gonegoogleuni&utm_medium=oa&utm_source=en-oa-na-us-gonegoogleuni-chronicle-it&utm_term=chronicle-it-CPCC

PICKS
Social GO –
http://www.socialgo.com/
cable freedeom

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10basics.html?em
Talk Tech in Social Netorking:

Facebook Rolls Out New Privacy Settings
Facebook Sting
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Untagged-or-Under-Arrest-/9103/?sid=wc

Faux Friendship
http://chronicle.com/article/Faux-Friendship/49308/

Edu Tech
Computer Labs on the wane
http://chronicle.com/article/Computer-Labs-Get-Rebooted-as/49323/

Lost University Opens
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Lost-U-New-Multimedia-Web/9126/

Online School going underhttp://chronicle.com/blogPost/Online-University-Struggling/9148/

Mobile Tech
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/technology/06apps.html?bl

Music / Entertainment:
Cable freedom
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10basics.html?em
Guy Finishes WoW
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10613422

Literacy class employs WordPress and Social Networking

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I attended a presentation this week in an Education class where several Vassar students presented how WordPress sites could be to augment the educational experience.
The links:
http://pages.vassar.edu/elcunningham/
http://pages.vassar.edu/niengelhardt/
http://education-through-discussion.socialgo.com/
http://pages.vassar.edu/sajones/

Write!
http://pages.vassar.edu/elcunningham/
Blogs to encourage writing workshops for students.

Every Day Biology
http://pages.vassar.edu/niengelhardt/

Goals:

increase vocabulary
increase concept mastery and confidence in subject
increase parent child interaction
break out of teaching to the test
documentation

Challenges:

comments weren’t searchable – impeded the dictionary
evaluating sources – not covered, assumed

Education Through Discussion Christopher Doscher
http://education-through-discussion.socialgo.com/
Facebook for education
supports video chat

Ethical Issues in Science
http://pages.vassar.edu/sajones/
Samantha Jones
Students are using internet and computers at home, when they come to school and work on non-networked computers it isn’t as relevant, nearly everyone is on facebook, teachers don’t know what facebook is.
Incorporating new technologies into the class day would connect home and school life
The blog can spark that connection.
The goal was to integrate science, technology, literacy and ethical issues.

Discussion:
How do you think wordpress could be used to improve the Vassar writing program or the experience at Vassar?
Great to make cross disciplinary connections and to archive work (eportfolios), open up the discussion past the “make a post about this topic” in Moodle or blackboard.

Epilogue:

It would have been great if the class had gotten this far halfway through the semester so they could put their theories to the test. It was time well spent and everyone in the class has a greater portfolio of technology tools to dip into should they become teachers.

TalkTech Podcast October 8, 2009

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This show was broadcast and recorded October 8, 2009.
Baynard and Chad were hosting. Karen Homan, a training and documentation specialist was our phone in guest from Bard.
Podcast Download

Weekly Picks:
http://www.fontcapture.com/ – Create a font from your own handwriting
Rock Band Network Tools – Edit your own song to be shared on Rock Band

Links & Articles Referenced:
Free Blogs WordPress Blogger
U.S. Begins Antitrust Inquiry of IBM
Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines