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March 17, 2010

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Today started out poorly from a technology point of view so I decided to make note of this as my morning progressed.  I’m flying to Calgary today to present at the Teacher2Teacher Conference and the flight out leaves London at 7:30.  So, I decided to drive to London after my university class last night, spend [...]

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Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free | Open Culture
Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your mp3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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ActionBioscience – promoting bioscience literacy
The Bioscience Challenges: How do these issues affect your life?
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March 16, 2010

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If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’m a fan of Georgia Wonder.  The music is so intriguing and their music is on a playlist on my iPod, for sure.  Above and beyond the quality of the music, I’ve come to admire their transparency and use of social media and the [...]

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Web Archiving for Regulatory Compliance, Records Management, E-Discovery, and Litigation Readiness | Hanzo Archives
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March 15, 2010

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I was inspired to do this from a project by ZeFrank called “A Childhood Walk”.  I think that it’s a terrific concept and I’m going to try to replicate some of it here.  As a child, we occasionally went for walks but were always on bicycle tooling around town.  Recently, I was actually in my [...]

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http://video.kidzui.com/
Huge collection of videos suitable for kids.
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Paris 26 Gigapixels – Interactive virtual tour of the most beautiful monuments of Paris
Paris 26 Gigapixels is a stitching of 2346 single photos showing a very high-resolution panoramic view of the French capital (354159×75570 px). Dive into the image and visit Paris like never before!
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March 14, 2010

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Yesterday, I had a quick back and forth with @irasocol about innovation in education.  He had made a comment about parents wishing to have the same type of education that they had without all of this new Web 2.0 innovation stuff thrown in.  But, you know, we agreed that our education has been filled with [...]

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Tom Brokaw Gander Newfoundland 9 11 – Part 1 of 3 on Vimeo
A great documentary of what happened on Sept 11, 2001 when planes were redirected to Newfoundland Canada. Commentary by Tom Brokaw of NBC news.
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March 13, 2010

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Without a doubt, one of my favourite computer conferences to attend is the one put on my the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning organization, or MACUL.  It’s held in the spring of the year and annually attracts a large number of educators.  We’ve always joked about MACUL and its love for rivers.  You [...]

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Use Twitter in PowerPoint | Poll Everywhere
Your audience is tweeting
How do you draw them into your presentation? By asking for their opinion, and displaying their tweets directly in your slides. With Poll Everywhere, you can invite people to tweet a short comment directly to your slide in [...]

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