Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/24/2012
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Facebook Announces Tight Integration of 60 Apps to Timeline, More on the Way
The full list of the 60 apps in Open Graph. Time to start testing (and unblocking Facebook.)
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The social study hall linking you with your friends as you study. ".Big test looming? Grockit is a social study tool that’s customizable and connects you with friends on Facebook. Study guides are available for middle school, high school, college and graduate students — from the SAT to GRE. The program has some hefty research behind it, too. Experts in curriculum design who’ve worked for Apple and Houghton Mifflin helped create some of the lesson plans on the app. Study solo or connect with study partners on Grockit. Let your Facebook friends know you’re studying on Grockit and boast about the latest badges you’ve earned on the site."
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Apple Will Own Your Work With iBooks Author
Use iBooks author and Apple effectively owns all distribution rights to your work. This is a terms of service to run by your lawyer if you are, have or plan to publish in the future.
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Reflecting on two years of 1:1 [guest post] | Dangerously Irrelevant
Principal Charlie Roy reflects on his schools's first 2 years of 1:1 with a guest post over at Dangerously Irrelevant.
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Top 6 Music Streaming Services — Life Scoop
For you audiophiles, the top 6 music streaming services.
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Crowdsourcing the State of the Union | The Mozilla Blog
Pay attention. US politics is changing again. "Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from U.S. President Barack Obama will include something special: crowdsourced captions and subtitles provided by everyday citizens around the world. Using new web tools from the Participatory Culture Foundation, supported by Mozilla, participants will transcribe and translate the President’s speech into dozens of languages in a matter of hours, making it more accessible to those with disabilities and in other countries across the globe. Launching “Open Election 2012″ The event marks the launch of “Open Election 2012,” a new partnership between Mozilla, PBS NEWSHOUR, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Participatory Culture Foundation."
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Effective library budgeting - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
Doug Johnson shares about how to effectively budget for your library.
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A detailed view of Apple's iBook Author for the Mac. It is supposed to be great for textbooks but you may want to look elsewhere for more multi platform compatibility for your non textbook ebooks.
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Apple Saw 350,000 Textbook Downloads in 3 Days
With only 7 titles, Apple still had 350,000 textbook downloads. eBooks are in demand, no doubt. Whether these books are in demand or if curious stakeholders downloaded them is unclear. If this number gagues interest, ebooks are hot topics.
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Phone hacking: News of the World journalists lied to Milly Dowler police | Media | The Guardian
Phone hacking scandal in UK has findings released. They found, "Rather than tell her family and police of this important information, it appears they concentrated on getting a scoop." This is sad.
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Evi arrives in town to go toe-to-toe with Siri
" Evi is a new iPhone (iTunes link) and Android app in Beta (link) which might just give Apple’s Siri a run for her money" Ftom True Knowledge, this app is said to be much better for those outside the US where Siri really doesn't have the answers, literally. Have the virtual assistant app wars begun?
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Carol Allen (caroljallen) on Twitter
Carol Allen is another UK special education educator who runs an autistic center. She will also be presenting at the special ed Teach meet this Saturday. #tmscn12
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Ceri Williams (cerirwilliams) on Twitter
Ceri is from the UK and is going to live demo a program he's written for Kinect (that he plans to give away for free) that emulates the program Soundbeam. This program lets you move parts of your body and plays music and is going to be an incredible thing to use for special ed students with the Kinect. This is his twitter handle. Follow him to Keep up with what he's doing.
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One of my favorite youtube channels for teachers and educators is from Jarrod Robinson "Mr. Robbo the PE Geek" from down under. He is helpful, loves kids, and has a unique understanding of engaging bodily kinesthetic learners in all subjects and a passion for mobile learning.
