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Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/15/2011
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/will_chromebooks_for_education_be_a_good_deal_for.php
  
  tags: chromebooks google education chromebook chrome technology
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May 15, 2011
Chromebooks

According to Google, Chromebooks are built and optimized for the web. So we will get a faster, simpler and more secure experience from the Chromebooks. Chromebooks boot in 8 seconds and resume instantly with full support for the latest web standards and Adobe Flash. Chromebooks will be available on June 6. I can’t wait to test drive one.

Filed under: Future Technology Tagged: Chromebook, Google, laptop, mobile, technology

May 14, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/11/2011
- Search The Web’s Most Shared Links At All Things Now
  
  tags: search facebook tools web links
- SharedLikes – What People Are Liking & Sharing On Facebook
  
  tags: sharing facebook sharedlikes tools people
- 20+ Essential Tools and Applications For Bloggers
  
  tags: blogging tools applications essential resources bloggers apps 20
- Apps in Education
  
  tags: apps iPad education
- EdTech Toolbox: Top 10 Web Tools April
  
  tags: edtech toolbox Web2.0 tools
- Web 2.0 / 21st Century Tools
  
  tags: web2.0 tools resources wiki 21stcentury technology web20
- 10 Tips For Designing mLearning And Support Apps.
  
  tags: mlearning elearning apps design 10 tips mobility
  - 1. Use a broad definition of mobile
  - 2. Design for short bursts of activity
  - 3. Minimize functionality for a simple user interface
  - 4. Make efficiency a goal
  - 5. Think differently when designing for touch
  - 6. Use the simplest features of the gestural interface
  - 7. Consider one-handed users
  - 8. Design for visual clarity
  - 9. Design for a low error rate
  - 10. Prototype first with a web app
- FreeMind – an open source mind mapping software
  
  tags: freeware productivity freemind mindmap software mindmapping tools opensource
- College 2.0: A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man ‘Academy’ on YouTube – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
  
  tags: Education youtube learning college elearning teaching Technology khan Academy
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May 11, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/10/2011
- 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) | MindShift
  
  tags: education resources OER open opencourseware edtech learning
  - You probably already know about: Khan Academy and Wikipedia, for example. But in the spirit of 10 years of OCW, here’s a list of 10 cool OER and OCW resources that you might not know about, but should know:
    
    P2PU: The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project in which anyone can participate. Volunteers facilitate the courses, but the learners are in charge. P2PU leverages both open content and the open social web, with a model for lifelong learning.
    
    OpenStudy: OpenStudy is a social learning network where independent learners and traditional students can come together in a massively-multiplayer study group. Through OpenStudy, learners can find other working in similar content areas in order to support each other and answer each others’ questions. OpenStudy supports a number of study groups, including those focused on several MIT OCW courses.
    
    NITXY: NIXTY is building a learning management platform that supports open education resources. Rather than an LMS that closes off both academic resources and academic progress, NIXTY is designed to support open courses so that schools, teachers, and students’ work is not necessarily closed off from the rest of the Web.
    
    OER Glue: Still under development, OER Glue will be a site to watch. The Utah-based startup is building a browser-based tool that will allow students and teachers to “glue” together OER resources online. Rather than having to copy-and-paste resources into a new setting, OER Glue will reuse and integrate resources.
    
    iUniv: iUniv is a Japanese startup that is building web and mobile apps to support and make social video and audio OCW content. Resources can be shared to Twitter, Facebook, and Evernote so that students can actively engage in discussions around OCW content.
    
    OCWSearch: OCW Search is a search engine dedicated, as the name suggests, to helping learners find OCW content. The project is, unfortunately, no longer under development, but it does index ten universities’ OCW content, including MIT, Notre Dame, and The Open University UK.
    
    Smarthistory: Smarthistory is a free and open multimedia website that demonstrates how very heavy, pricey, and obsolete the traditional art history textbook is.
    
    CK-12: The CK-12 Foundation’s Flexbook platform provides free, collaboratively-built and openly-licensed digital textbooks for K-12. Much of the content is standards based.
    
    Flat World Knowledge: This is a college textbook publisher whose books are published under an open license. This allows professors to customize the books they order – edit, add to, mix-up – or use as-is. Students can access the books online for free or can pay for print-on-demand and audiobook versions.
    
    Connextions: Connextions is a repository of educational content, containing over 17,000 openly licensed learning modules.
- Khan Academy – a non-profit organization with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
  
  tags: education math Video science tutorials khan physics Free educational resources
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May 10, 2011
Social Media Revolution

Socialnomics has created several versions of Social Media Revolution. These videos provide interesting social media and mobile statistics that are based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman.

Filed under: Social Media Tagged: facts, figures, media, mobile, revolution, social, statistics

May 8, 2011
Best Education iPhone and iPad App Lists

Best Education iPhone and iPad App Lists. http://t.co/aSTQF7Y—
Steve Yuen (@scyuen) May 06, 2011

Filed under: Mobile Learning Tagged: apps, ipad, iphone, itouch, mlearning, mobile

May 8, 2011
Free eBook on Podcasting in the Classroom

Free eBook on Podcasting in the Classroom. http://goo.gl/ga2Uw—
Steve Yuen (@scyuen) May 07, 2011

Filed under: Podcasting Tagged: ebook, free, Podcasting

May 8, 2011
10 Tools to Collaborate Documents in Group

10 Tools to Collaborate Documents in Group. http://t.co/gPXBbMW—
Steve Yuen (@scyuen) May 07, 2011

Filed under: Collaboration Tools Tagged: collobartion, group, online, tools

May 8, 2011
The State of Wikipedia

I have recently viewed an excellent video “The State of Wikipedia” produced by Jess3.com. Wikipedia just celebrated its 10th anniversary with a collection of more than 17 million articles in over 270 languages. Wikipedia has undoubtedly become one of the most successful wiki and the most visited encyclopedia online. “The State of Wikipedia” explores the rich history and inner-workings of the web-based encyclopedia.

Filed under: Internet, Web 2.0 Tagged: infographics, state, statistics, wiki, wikipeida

May 8, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/08/2011
- CU3OX : Free 3D Flash Gallery : 3D Flash Slideshow
  
  tags: slideshow 3d flash webdesign cu3ox free image software
- Automatically Backup WordPress Blog to Dropbox
  
  tags: wordpress backup blog automatically plugin
- Live Photo Editor
  
  tags: photo editor
- Mobile Motivation: Real World Learning with Mobile Devices
  
  tags: mobile mobilelearning web2.0 motivation learning
- QR Codes Resources by Cybrary Man
  
  tags: qrcodes internet catalogue QR_codes education
- 10 Tools to Collaborate Documents in Group
  
  tags: tools collaboration document group
- Photopic Sky Survey
  
  tags: science space astronomy sky photopic survey stars panorama
- Top 10 Open-Source Platforms to Build Your Own Social Network.
  
  tags: opensource social community cms network platforms socialnetwork
- Podcast Pickle
  
  tags: podcast podcasting podcasts audio mp3 music
- Self Publishing – Lulu.com
  
  tags: publishing self lulu web2.0
- Education 2.0 Tools Resources by Purdue University
  
  tags: education tools resources technology
- OpenHeatMap – turn a spreadsheet into a map
  
  tags: visualization maps data tools heatmap mapping map opensource
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May 8, 2011
Unbox the BlackBerry PlayBook….
This will be my first post and it will be about the unboxing of my new BlackBerry PlayBook. I have never used a tablet so this is new territory for me.

The Package from Staples

The packaging is professional as you would expect it to be. Here are a few shots….

Not many accessories. Just a wall charger and a USB cord….Oh, and a neoprene sleeve that you can see in the photo above on the right…..

And here comes the boot-up….

Took a bit more than a minute, but hey, we get balloons to watch…..

WiFi setup was absolutely effortless (sorry about the reflections. I will catch on for the next pics)……

And a software update was next. About 280MB and was done in a flash….

First impressions:
- Very sturdy-feeling build. Has a quality feel
- Screen is absolutely beautiful. Crisp, clear with vibrant colors
- WiFi is incredibly fast
- Downloaded and installed the Bridge to my Tour. Easy
- Set up the BB Bridge to connect to my Tour (on BES). Easy, but browsing with the Bridge Browser is, as you might expect, s l o w
- Upgraded BB Desktop. Easy
- Logging on the BB App World a breeze
- Almost no apps available the first day, but there seem to be new ones going up in App World daily.
- BBM was recently added and is easy to use while Bridged
- Typing with the on-screen keyboard is actually easier than I expected
I purchased the PlayBook as a toy to play with. I had no intentions of pretending it is to make myself more efficient at work, but I did keep saying “why did I buy this?”. I had a two week period to return it with no questions and I am happy to say I let that expire. I find myself sitting in front of the TV with the PB, but I am finding I become so distracted I am not watching the television shows.

There is much to learn about this little device and while I may not be using it to its fullest potential I believe it has met my expectations…..It is a great toy. I fully expect to become more proficient and I also expect I will start using it at work.

I plan to post updates as time allows to let you know how the experience is progressing. I also have begun to put together a PlayBook Tips and Tricks guide which I hope to post in the PB Forum in a few days….
May 7, 2011
Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

This is a thought provoking video presentation produced by TED in last September. In this video, education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Filed under: 21st Century Education, Educational Technology Tagged: child-driven, education, internet, schools, web

May 7, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/07/2011
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May 7, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/06/2011
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May 6, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/05/2011
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May 5, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/04/2011
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May 4, 2011
Version 1.5 Now Available
We’re pleased to introduce WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.5, which adds new features like a home screen icon showing you how many comments are in moderation, custom image sizes, and discussion settings!

Depending on your region or country, you might not see the latest version in the BlackBerry App World just yet, but the update should be available on your device starting now.

Here’s what’s new:
- Added support forBlavatars (“Blog Avatars”).
- Added preview for drafts, scheduled and private posts.
- Introduced the home screen icon for comment notifications.
- Added a visual indicator that shows the post status in the post list screen.
- Added support for Discussion settings (enable/disable comments, pingbacks and Trackbacks).
- Categories are now alphabetically sorted.
- Added the possibility to specify a resize dimension on each image.
- Changed the image resize feature, by adding predefined dimensions loaded from the Blog Media Settings.
- Fixed issues on the Permissions settings screen, it now appears once at first startup.
- Small UI redesign.
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May 3, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 05/03/2011
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May 3, 2011
15 Must Have Web Tools for Teachers

Today, over 3,000 of the Web 2.0 applications and services are available on the Web and many of them have great potentials in teaching and learning. The image link shown below was a presentation I delivered at the 2011 TxDLA 14^th Conference in San Antonio two weeks ago. This presentation offers a list of 15 of the best Web 2.0 applications for teachers. These Web 2.0 tools are free and valuable to teachers and students.

http://prezi.com/suoreasmdbh9/15-must-have-web-tools-for-teachers/

Filed under: Collaboration Tools, Software Tools, Web 2.0 Tagged: 15, students, teachers, technology, tools, web, Web 2.0

May 2, 2011
Daily Diigo Bookmarks from Steve Yuen 04/29/2011
- Does Facebook Make You a Better Student? [Infographic:]
  
  tags: socialmedia infographic facebook learning twitter education
- Blackboard Learn for K-12 | Education in the 21st Century
  
  tags: education 21stcenturyskills mobile mobilelearning learn Blackboard
- Smartphone Privacy & Security | EDUCAUSE
  
  “Smartphone Privacy & Security”
  
  tags: security privacy policy educause mobile computing
- Mobile Enterprise Integration | EDUCAUSE
  
  tags: mobile enterprise educause integration
- Mudpies and Butterflies – a Web tool that helps you build your school community on the web.
  
  “helps you build your school community on the web.”
  
  tags: mudpies socialnetworking butterflies home education teachers school community
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April 29, 2011