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Based on lynetter's interesting snippets idea, I'm going to begin to create slides here that can be used for presentations or just as interesting ways to express quotes I find, well, interesting.

Based on lynetter's interesting snippets idea, I'm going to begin to create slides here that can be used for presentations or just as interesting ways to express quotes I find, well, interesting.

Content Injection and Control Protocol allows applications to place interactive content into virtual worlds. By providing a standard, cross-platform way for external entities to interact with users inside a virtual 4d spacetime, CICP promotes software innovation.

Wow, imagine that, a cheap, open education at the high shool level that is nurtured and supported by a forward-looking technologists, some awesome teachers, and a supportive administration. That’s what it’s all about, and while doing this stuff is not necessarily dependant on all these factors aligning—for that is rare, indeed— it sure is nice to see teaching and learning blossom when they do! Bully for Fredericksburg Academy for opting for a fast, cheap, and out-of-control appraoch to teaching and learning technologies that basically tells your students that you don’t hate them or distrust them, but rather are intent on giving them an open and elegant space to make their voices heard. Sometimes a little local sharing goes a long way!

Wow, imagine that, a cheap, open education at the high shool level that is nurtured and supported by a forward-looking technologists, some awesome teachers, and a supportive administration. That’s what it’s all about, and while doing this stuff is not ne

Smoothboard 1.0 developed by Goh Boon Jin, easily transforms your flat screen display (projected screen or flat panel) into a interactive whiteboard with just a Wii Remote and IR Pen. This software provides an intuitive interface that will enable users to interact with their computer directly at the screen. Smoothboard also allows you to control the computer when you are away the screen with the use of the Wii Remote. With Smoothboard, your presentations can be free from the mouse and keyboard.

This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.

(Austin TX, Mar 10, 2009) The Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition was unveiled at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) annual conference in Austin, TX. This newest sector based Horizon Report identifies and describes emerging technologies that will likely have a significant impact in elementary and secondary education

le petite url is a personal URL shortener. Using your own Wordpress (2.5+) installation, le petite url allows the user to create shortened, unique, permalinks to their content using a combination of lowercase, uppercase, and numeric characters, which originate from their own domain name. By default le petite url generates a 5-character combination of lowercase letters only, for ease of use in entering on a mobile device or handset. Which URL would you rather explain to a friend or new acquaintance in person?

le petite url is a personal URL shortener. Using your own Wordpress (2.5+) installation, le petite url allows the user to create shortened, unique, permalinks to their content using a combination of lowercase, uppercase, and numeric characters, which orig

Originally presented at South By Southwest Interactive in March, 2009, the Ultimate Showdown of Content Management System Destiny is an “Iron Chef”-style competition pitting three teams of all-star Web developers from the Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress communities against each other to develop the same Web site in each of their chosen open source content management platforms. The goal of the competition is to provide people with decision-making tools that they can use when trying to determine which of these three open source content management systems might be a good fit for their individual needs.

when you develop, you will comment and uncomment a lot as you optimise and test your code. This means either inserting lines with comment and deleting those lines, adding and deleting the /* */ by hand or using a shortcut of your editor of choice. In any case, it means highlighting several lines to comment in or out. If you however use the following syntax then you only need to delete one slash to comment and uncomment a section:

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist

Students in schools around the world find that their research, creativity and learning potential is seriously curbed by filtering and lack of use of their own mobile and gaming devices in schools. This comes from research spanning the Americas, brought to my attention by its author, Research Consultant Kim Farris-Berg.

On Monday two new blogs started up, the AP Calculus AB: Without Bound blog is still going strong. This is what I did the weekend before the blogs went live:

Plug and play RFID-reading USB peripherals are all the rage, as indicated by a stream of recent product announcements. These readers plug into a PC and make various things happen when they are touched with an RFID tag.

Cloud computing offers some great benefits for education. Cloud computing saves schools money. Google's and Zoho's productivity suites are free for students and teachers to use. Paying for the number of licensing agreements a school district needs to use proprietary productivity software can easily equal the cost of a teacher's salary.

The SIMtone Universal Cloud-Computing Platform is a single software platform that makes it inexpensive and simple to “cloud–enable” any datacenter and carrier network, and deliver all types of full-featured computing services that can be utilized by users everywhere, without requiring a PC.

all about texting, SMS, and MMS

Celebrating 10,000 iPhone Apps in the iTunes App Store

Celebrating 10,000 iPhone Apps in the iTunes App Store

Here we are dealing with budget cuts and struggles - trying to find money for technology. Remember that there is more computing power in most cell phones than in computers in 1997.

The mobile video industry gained a new and powerful player this week - Ustream.tv, the popular streaming video service. uStream joins Qik, Kyte, Flixwagon and several other start-ups as providers of real-time video recording and viewing on mobile phones. These companies see a huge opportunity in the mobile video market and are carving out their territory and customers now. What opportunity do these companies see that is so alluring? And will more companies join the mobile video market? Answering these questions requires understanding the mobile video industry as it stands today, as well as the possible future of mobile video.

The mobile video industry gained a new and powerful player this week - Ustream.tv, the popular streaming video service. uStream joins Qik, Kyte, Flixwagon and several other start-ups as providers of real-time video recording and viewing on mobile phones.

I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules - but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules. I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography. I’ll share ten of these tips today and a further ten tomorrow