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TalkTech Episode 30 Links

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These are some (hopefully most)  of the links here for TalkTech Episode 30 on March 4, 2010. Chat room will be be active, so please join us there .

Big Tech


Social Networking Tech

EduTech:

Mobile Tech

Area Tech

Picks

Fun Tech

TalkTech Show Links Jan. 21, 2010

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These are links to today’s show to be broadcast from live from 91.3 WVKR. I anticipate John and Chad will mention other links and I’ll try and get them posted in here as well.

Big Tech News

Area Tech

Exploravision Competitions offers $240,000 to K-12 students

SUNY Orange offers green tech class for homeowners

Guidelines for Email

EduTech

Social Tech:

MobileTech:

Pick of the Week:

Fun-Tech:

TalkTech Podcast Episode 24

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Here’s a link to Episode 24 of TalkTech in iTunes U. The link works best if iTunes is already open. Sorry it took so long to get up, there were a bunch of hiccups in editing, exporting etc.

Most of the links mentioned in this show can be found in the January 14th TalkTech notes.

TalkTech Notes January 14, 2010

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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.

More on 3D

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/technology/personaltech/14pogue.html?ref=technology

Pojo

DCCC offering courses on Green Technology

Dutchess Community College will be offering three noncredit classes about photovoltaics, geothermal energy and solar thermal energy. These courses will offer a mix of classroom learning and hands-on experience.

Dutchess Community College is part of the Clean Energy Technology Training Consortium along with four other community colleges within Hudson Valley,” said Stevens. “We work to train teachers and create stackable credit courses that could lead to more credit classes in the long run.”To register for the session, call 845-431-8900 or e-mail mosher@sunydutchess.edu.
http://www.sunydutchess.edu/

Big Tech
CES Summary
http://www.webkitchen.be/2010/01/11/ces-summary-e-readers-3d-tv-and-internet-connected-tvs/
3DTVs, Internet TVs, eReader features

Approaching deadline for the jackalope mac tablet.

Netflix coming to Wii (also PS3)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/technology/companies/13netflix.html?ref=technology

PICKS

iPhone Dictation App
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2010-01-13-dragon-dictation-iphone_N.htm


Talk Tech in Social Netorking:

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Facebook-Announces-Fellowship/19565/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en


Edu Tech

UMUC can’t offer online course in MD
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Maryland-System-Leaders-Try-to/20458/

MN students get ipods
http://www.twincities.com/ci_14045406?nclick_check=1

Students power down
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9423227

Blogs Challenge traditional newspapers
http://chronicle.com/article/Extra-News-Blogs-by-Students/63474/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Mobile Tech

Googe, anybody home?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/technology/companies/13google.html

Music / Entertainment:

Loudness Wars: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122114058&sc=emaf

Avatar big splash

Xbox – Three rings of death

http://www.cio.com/article/507352/Priceless_The_25_Funniest_Vintage_Tech_Ads

Star Wars Phantom Menace Reviews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI

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