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ASB Un-Plugged This is going to be an amazing conference this February in Mumbai India - we are running a Flat Classroom strand and still have openings for students - also there are leadership strands with Doug Johnson, Scott McLeod, Helen Barrett, and Scott Klososky. You get something here by going overseas - the networking is phenomenal for those who truly want to understand international. tags : education , learning digiteen09-2 - Action_Mt_Carmel Wonderful work from Suzy Nestico from Mt.Carmel Area High School for their digiteen action project. tags : education , digitalcitizenship , online , learning , digiteen Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

So, what happened in one house when the Mom and Dad decided to split the jobs to get ready for school?  This hiliarious, funny video, that's what.  (Worth watching at home if youtube is blocked and you're back at school. Related articles by Zemanta Tuning in to the Blind Spots of this Generation (coolcatteacher.blogspot.com) Hatching New Life (coolcatteacher.blogspot.com)

Calendar & Contacts Sync : Choose Which Calendars to Sync - Mobile Help IF you want to sync multiple calendars, this is the second step of doing that - you have to use the native safari web browser and navigate to the mobile apps piece to select the appropriate calendars. Change it as often as you like (I do!) tags : education , itouch , iphone , apps , timemanagement , tips Calendar & Contacts Sync : Set Up Your iPhone or iPod Touch - Mobile Help One of the most important things you can do to synchronize your family is share calendars. We do this on our itouches (which we all have now!) So, here are the instructions for doing that. tags : education , learning , itouch , timemanagement , tips Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

Image via Wikipedia This from Odd News: Harvard University's moves to seek U.S. trademarks for everyday phrases such as "Ask what you can do" are defensive measures, a school official says. What else are they trademarking?  "Lessons Learned" and "Managing Yourself" said the Boston Globe in their August first, 2009 Article.  It also has a pending application for "The world’s thinking." The Boston Globe reports: "Securing each trademark costs from $500 to $1,000 in the United States and thousands more overseas, Calixto said. Legal disputes run up the costs. Harvard pays for the effort with the more than $1 million in royalties it earns each year from licensing its trademarks to such entities as bookstores and mall kiosks selling Harvard apparel; about a third of royalties go toward scholarships, he said." To me, it is interesting, but also disconcerting.  I have a cousin who was in a music program at a public universit...

It is 9:53 pm and there are another 7 minutes on the edutweetpanel for tonight.  I've been tweeting away until 5 minutes a go, however, I just discovered that twitter prevented me from tweeting about 9:24 pm - so my questions haven't been posting, etc.  So, while the others are sharing link goodness and I'm totally left out (and hoping Twitter doesn't mark me as a spammer,) here are some tips and reflections. What is a Twitter Panel? What I've learned this week is that twitter panel is really sort of a guided discussion that centers around a hashtag and a timed discussion on different topics.  Some do it to make their topic trend (like crayola's girls night out that introduced me to this concept when I happened upon their hashtag last week) but really, we just wanted to try it out to talk about technology tools, but you could talk about anything.  You use a tool to "mash it up" like Tweetgrid that helps everyone stay on the same page.  It is reall...

ShoutEm - Roll your own Microblogging Social Networking Make your own microblogging community with shoutem. tags : education , microblogging , twitter , tools , edu_newapp Haas | English - Roman Republic / FrontPage Classroom wiki on the Roman Republic, shared at last night's edchat on Twitter. tags : education , edchat , web2 , edu_trends WebHome Lots of resources on teaching with wikis. tags : education , wiki , edu_newapp YouTube - x5315's Guide to Twitterfall Twitterfall has a tutorial - some people used this on our edchat last night. tags : education , twitter , edu_newapp Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here.

This teaser for Alan Levine's upcoming speech is just incredible. Talkin' Bout Open from cogdog on Vimeo . These stories are so rich and so demonstrative of the amazing grassroots movement of teachers to connect with others all over the world.  Powerful things are happening and every teacher and ever school must ask themselves:  Am I being left out?  Am I reaching out?