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Does anyone else find it ironic that when I follow this link that I cite in my highly trafficked post Making the Case for Cell Phones in School that it would take us to the Center for Digital Democracy and a page that is now firewalled?

We are sending this message out through our networks, but want to make sure that all of you who are collaborating on a global basis have this invitation to share your story.  This is the email we're sending out today. Consider this an invitation to tell your story!  Thank you! **************************************** Hi everyone! We're so excited to be publishing a book with Pearson Publishing teaching how to connect classrooms on a global basis and we want your stories! Please share your story of collaboration by emailing it to story@flatclassroombook.com !  If your story is selected, we will email you with a permission form and confirmation of the text selected for the book (whether it has been edited or not!) Has global collaboration changed your view of the world? Improved some area of your life? Established friendships that you still maintain? Was it a positive experience? Negative? What lesson did you learn from the project? Please share -- we want ...

Programs for Educators Resources and Curriculum for Teachers Common Sense media has acquired CyberSmart curriculum. tags : education digitalcitizenship curriculum Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Image by kharied via Flickr "H--o---oooooo---pe!  Where are you?" I called as I looked in my desk drawer, under the manuscript sitting on my desk, between the books I'm studying to teach in a few weeks. "Hope. Are you in there?" As I looked in the kitchen sink, among the laundry around my recliner.  I see a lot of work.  A lot of signs of life in these places, but no hope. "Hope? Where have you gone?" I said as I booted up my computer and searched the Internet. Maybe I should just stop looking for her.  I'm so tired and have been working so unbelievably hard this summer. My shoulders sagged as I went to preplanning and worked through my days.  She wasn't here either.  Hope must be gone. The bell rang and students filed into my room for the first day, looking me in the eye with eager anticipation. It was then that I saw her reflection in the pupils. The eyes of my students reflected her so that I was almost blinded like a spotlight...

About Ning - Pricing Plans Final ning pricing plans. Make your decision. tags : education ning NASA - Moonbase Alpha Game NASA's MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) has been released and has tons of uses in science. This is perhaps the first of some really amazing online roleplaying games for STEM and I believe we will have more! So very cool. Please let me know if you play it and any information on it. tags : education learning mmorpg nasa science science_teacher Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Image via Wikipedia Tomorrow is "b" day -- the day I have to buy the new laptop at school for me.  Yes, it has to last me another five years. The trusty Toshiba I got five years a go lasted until the backlight went out.  I don't have a lot in my budget for this, but here is what I'm looking at right now. 64 bit Windows 7 8 GB Ram fingerprint reader Media card reader docking station (so I can hook to external monitor) Adobe Suite New MS Office Pinnacle 12 (Man, I love that movie program.) Ok, these are just some of the things and I looked at a Tablet PC but all of my machines HAVE to be able to edit video and the Tablets seem to have a lower power processor of some kind that has issues. Now, those of you who read my blog know that I don't really ask for too much, but today, I'm asking.  Throw it at me -- give me advice. What advice would you give a geeky kind of teacher who doesn't have a ton of money ($1100-1200 probably not including adobe) bu...

Apple - Magic Trackpad - The Multi-Touch trackpad for your desktop. There is now a multi touch trackpad for the Macintosh. tags : education learning Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million - CNN.com "> - Annotated Lost photos by Ansel Adams turn up from someone's garage. tags : education learning Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Image by exfordy via Flickr Taking time to focus on the most important thing, especially first thing on Monday morning is a great way to start the week. It is a gift to yourself for the rest of the week. So, since Julie and I have four more chapters of our book on Global collaborative projects due Friday, I'm focusing on the main thing today -- WRITING. What is the most important thing you SHOULD be working on right now? Stop what you're doing (you're in your RSS reader) and DO IT. OK, I'm listening to myself and getting back to the book -- Bye now, Friends! Related articles by Zemanta Share This : GTD + Your Emotional Life (lifehack.org) 12 Healthy Habits to Grow Your Online Presence and Keep Balance Your Life (coolcatteacher.blogspot.com) Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals   by Brian Tracy

Live Streaming TV and Events for July 24, 2010 The Live streaming tv catalog on Clicker is totally incredible. Wow! How useful. This is just a sample day. tags : education entertainment coolcatteacher's Profile - History I"ve been "Playing with" clicker and think that this site is going to be a fascinating one. Right now, I'm the first one of my facebook friends on the site and it is pretty new. It will be interesting how this works out - it scans all the websites and tells you where shows are available and you can create a playlist. It is sort of like an aggregator for media that is also social. I think there is a a lot of potential here. Will just "Play around" with it for now. tags : education entertainment Watch TV Shows & Movies Online - Clicker.com New "social television"...

  "It's like I'm living someone else's life..." A Little Reflection before Getting Down to Business This just came on my Pandora radio station as I'm doing my monthly "file maintenance" and moving pages around. (See my Facebook posts on technology productivity for more on this.)  When I came to my presentations folder, I saw a journey. A journey of people and faces and places.  Those who gave me chances early on and things applied for - not knowing any better, I guess. So, here's a mini trip that shows you how people network and connect and improve their lives. Here's my screenshot journey of presentations. Bringing us to 2010.  So, I have some people to thank. My husband says in many ways I'm like an elephant... (Oh dear, he's not talking about weight!)   I remember.  And I think it is important for all of us to remember those who have helped us on our life journey. Who believed in us when no one else did? Who gave us cha...

Think Before You Tweet Great post by Beth Still over on Wes Fryer's blog: Moving at the Speed of Creativity. tags : education digitalcitizenship Teaching College Math » Blog Archive » Mathfaery: Elizabeth Hamman For those who knew @mathfaery - you may want to go to this blog and contribute to the fund in her memory. What a horrible Loss. Here are the details: "Elizabeth Hamman was a great math educator who will be truly missed in the International math community. She passed away very suddenly last week, at the age of 40, after suddenly developing a problem with blood clots in her lungs, which led to a bleed in her brain. Elizabeth started writing a blog last year, called Mathfaery: Making Math Magical and was known as @mathfaery on twitter." tags : education math math_teacher 10 Awesome...

Sweltering Last night it felt like an oven in Camilla. Over 100 degrees, the humidity made it feel like you were roasting! So, I tweeted out: coolcatteacher It is so unbelievably hot in camilla, Georgia. How hot is it? It is so hot that ____( retweets to those who fill in blank best! :-) And there were such great answers, I thought I'd share them for a little humor on Friday afternoon. They were all so great, they all deserved a retweet! So, what is so "hot" about this. Oh, we're all sick of those "I really love Twitter " posts -- the connecting, linking up, all of that.  But one of the greatest things about Twitter to me is the impromptu, unorchestrated moments that just pop out and brighten my day. I remember when I first started using Twitter and my grandmother passed away. I had friends from around the world Tweeting me their thoughts and kindnesses. I turned on my dm on my cell phone just to get them. It...

Offline Reader for iPhone/iPod Touch | Diigo Diigo off-line reader lets you send things to read directly from diigo to your iphone or itouch. This is one stop sending. I would either use a list or have a special tag for downloading. tags : education learning productivity. Power Note for Android | Diigo "> - Annotated Powernote for android. A new tool to add text notes, bookmarks, pictures and text messages to library. tags : education diigo rencent Acess Web Highlighter for iPad Safari | Diigo New tool from Diigo - web highlighter for ipad. tags : education diigo ...

First look at “revolutionary” social news iPad app: Flipboard — Scobleizer Robert scoble dissects Flipboard - the good, the bad, the things missing. I don't have an ipad (yet) so will have to listen to this. I do think it seems that some innovations are beginning to come out that will change how we interact with media using the ipad. tags : education ipad Flipboard for iPad This tool is being hotly discussed as a great social magazine for the ipad which integrates twitter and facebook. tags : education learning We provide finance services like like Intraday tips, MCX tips and Sure Shot Tip . It has been proved historically that a Long Term Investor always gains and thus to provide you all with the returns equivalent to long term investment with smaller time frame; we have launched Delivery Stock Tips Plani give Indian Sh...

There is a moment between thought and action. It is good to ponder, to research, to think. And yet, we reach a point where it is time to put those things behind us and act. To do. [URL=http://img8.imageshack.us/i/bystandereffect.jpg/][IMG]http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1461/bystandereffect.jpg[/IMG][/URL] For truthfully, to decide not to act is also a decision to do something. It is a decision to do nothing. What are you pondering today that requires action? People fear action for it means accountability and surely, none of us is perfect. And yet, I can think of nothing worse than a person watching a drowning child and doing nothing. Yet, we all see things before us that require our action. Decide to do something. Doing nothing is also doing something and to do nothing is to refuse accountability and responsibility for something that is yours to act upon. What will you do? Related articles by Zemanta Getting Things Done: The Power of the Next-Action Decision (thesim...

ICT: A Whole New World - Articles - Educational Technology - ICT in Education "> - Annotated I love the student's reflections on her experience with ICT and also presenting virtually at the Flat Classroom conference 2009 in Qatar. Sometimes virtually isn't there but it is close! tags : education student ict Last year with video link up, I and three fellow class mates were able to give a presentation to thousands of teachers, students and educators who attended the Flat Classroom Conference in Qatar. This was an unreal experience and it was one of the first times I realised how phenomenal the internet is. The Reading Workshop It is so great to see authors and students interacting. The Reading Workshop here reflects on Erin Downing commenti...

Image via CrunchBase We're really seeing the rise of the niche bloggers in education.  Those people who know how to do a specific task and do it very well.  Such is the blog, Edukindle - my "go to" place for anything about using the Amazon Kindle in Schools. The EduKindle Blog I point this out, because the three most recent posts are well worth reading: Buying Your Kindles Using a Purchase Order Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids Kindle Phone Home: Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids, Part 2 After reading these posts, it is very obvious how extremely messy it is to get Kindles (or any ereader) in the hands of our students.  You might say, "But who will go to all that trouble?" The answer is:    Leaders, that's who. This is the messy side of innovation -- the front end where everything isn't worked out quite yet.  Where we have to communicate, innovate, and try to tame order of a process meant for consumers that is being adapted for education...

YouTube Users Already Part of Google's Rumored "Google Me" Social Network? | WebProNews Did you know that youtube users are going to be required to connect to their google account? tags : education youtube kindlefeeder.com - RSS and Atom Feed Subscriptions For Your Amazon Kindle Here is a tool for your kindle. This lets you deliver feeds to your kindle. If you want to deliver instant articles, I think that Instapaper is probably better for it. But for feeds, this would be a good way. tags : education kindle Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Reach: Building Communities and Networks for Professional Development Since reading Jeff Utecht 's book, Reach , I've thought quite a bit about how I'm "doing" Facebook and am making some changes as I do summer " social media cleaning." 1) I made a Facebook Page. I've made an official page for Cool Cat Teacher . Pages are different from profile pages in that they represent an organization or person or "entity" like "Cool Cat Teacher." They are, by definition, linked to my profile, but not to all of my friends.  This would be how someone really famous would use facebook to talk to "fans" but have a smaller group of personal friends behind the scenes on their profile. Cool Cat Teacher Promote Your Page Too 2) How will the page be different from my Facebook profile, this blog, or Twitter ? This page will not be repurposing the content on this blog or just sharing my tweets. Right now, those go onto my personal...