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- Online Creative Communications Blog " Education Unbound 2008
- The Superstruct Game
AND built outside of the Academy (likely where most of the good educational games will come from anyways) - Does Your Browser Know Where You Are? With Mozilla Geode, It Might - ReadWriteWeb
this will be huge; we are already seeing it in mobile devices like the iPhone with integrated GPS, but every client could just send this info - Does Your Browser Know Where You Are? With Mozilla Geode, It Might - ReadWriteWeb
n August, Mozilla announced the addition of support for geolocation information. In that announcement, Doug Turner said, "I would love to be able to get the UI support in Firefox. This would allow the 'extension' to be more or less the glue between a geolocation device and mozilla." Tomorrow, Turner's wish may be coming true when Mozilla releases Geode, "a Firefox add-on that understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content." - Bill Enabling Community Colleges to Establish OER Pilot Program is signed into law - Creative Commons
Last week, a bill enabling the California Community Colleges to integrate open educational resources (OER) into its core curriculum was signed into law. AB 2261 authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges ?to establish a pilot program to provide faculty and staff from community college districts around the state with the information, methods, and instructional materials to establish open education resources centers.? The program would provide a structure by which community college faculty and staff could vet and repurpose OER in order to create high quality course materials and textbooks for college students. The resulting materials would themselves be openly licensed or available in the public domain so that they could be further adapted and repurposed for future and individual contexts. High quality OER would also set a new and much needed economic standard for publishers, who currently charge exorbitant prices for college textbooks - California OER bill is now LAW, baby!
I stand by this statement that OERs will be the most important development for higher education since the creation of the Land Grants, and I?ll go one step further and say that the widespread adoption of OERs by higher education and K-12 will be the most important thing that has happened to formal education since the advent of formal education. - A Fresh Look At Google Gears
The overall goal of Gears is to bestow upon web applications much of the same functionality enjoyed by desktop apps. And it?s doing so through a browser extension that can be installed for a range of browsers (Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer) on a range of operating systems (Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac OS, and Linux). With the release of Google?s own Chrome browser, some users don?t even have to install Gears; it just comes pre-loaded, making Chrome a super browser of sorts from the get-go. The long-term consequence of this technology is clear: as browsers become more and more powerful with the assistance of initiatives like Gears, there become fewer and fewer reasons to install and run desktop applications (and therefore splurge on Windows and Office, to name two Microsoft cash cows oft identified as dying breeds). - IPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle - Forbes.com
It's official: The iPhone is more popular than Amazon.com's Kindle. And not just in the obvious categories like listening to music, browsing the Web or the other applications where Kindle barely competes. Now, the iPhone is also muscling into Amazon's home turf: reading books. - Amazon Kindle Redesign Shows Its Face - Mashable
The ?Kindle 2? retains most every square inch of white that the debut shows on its face, and it appears to have been squeezed to thinner proportions and spread out top to bottom to be a touch longer than the original. All in an effort, it seems, to give users a more generous supply of space with which to grab hold of the device without mistakenly triggering one page-turn button or another. (Meanwhile, the device?s backside is less ostentatious looking, and features beveled edges, a la iPhone.) - GeoCommons Maker!
Shorten your map creation process from hours to minutes. Maker! gives you the power to make stunning interactive maps with your own data, GeoCommons public data or both. - Fring Releases an Impressive VoIP and IM Client for iPhone - Mashable
Fring has made available its first iPhone- and iPod touch-compatible application for the App Store. the free iPhone/iPod download gets you quite a lot in terms of choice. Far more than what its Apple-approved brethren have provided so far. It can connect you to Skype, MSN, ICQ, Google Talk, Twitter, Yahoo, and AOL?s AIM protocol, as well as conduct cellular, SIP, and Skype Out calls via Wi-Fi. (Cellular is of course only possible via an iPhone.) - SchoolPulse
SchoolPulse provides a simple kid management system for parents, teachers, coaches, PTO leaders, and anyone else with active kids. Save time and improve your effectiveness with robust, easy-to-use calendars and group management tools. - Defense Tech: Camera Shoot
"In the near future, a soldier who needs a quick look over the next hill will be able to aim his rifle skyward, fire a grenade-sized reconnaissance device and instantly receive imagery on his pocket computer," writes Defense News' Barbara Opall-Rome. firefly.jpg"No special training or adaptation equipment is necessary" to fire the Firefly, from Israel's Rafael Armament Development Authority, or Israel Military Industry's Reconnaissance Rifle Grenade. Grunts just fire the disposable "ballistic cameras" from "standard-issue M203 grenade launchers attached to M16 or other assault rifles," and then wait for the pictures to come back, 8 seconds and 600 meters later. In this way, the ballisitc cameras a lot like the pint-sized drones which have become so popular among American company commanders in Iraq. - iCharts | create, share, and embed interactive charts online
iCharts makes it simple to create, share and embed interactive charts. iCharts allows everyone to upload Excel sheets or manually add data from which they can easily create, share and embed interactive charts (= iCharts) within minutes. iCharts can be published on the iCharts Portal at icharts.net and they can be embedded anywhere on the Internet in blogs, forums or corporate websites. Premium account holders can also download iCharts and embed them offline in PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations, retaining their full interactivity. Traditional, static charts are somewhat limited. The interactivity in iCharts provides a whole new dimension for presenting, consuming and understanding data. As a new feature, you can now also place audio comments inside your iCharts to convey your message in a highly convenient and personal way. - The Scannable World: Mobile Phones As Barcode Scanners - ReadWriteWeb
One of the promises of the mobile web was the possibility of being able to integrate the internet with the real world. One of the ways to accomplish this task is through the use of barcodes. The idea is that you take a picture of the barcode with your camera phone and you're then delivered to a mobile web site. This could effectively make anything - whether a poster, an ad, or an object - a virtual part of the world wide web. Although this technology has been available for years, it's only now with the birth of the smartphone, or more precisely, the next-gen smartphone, that the potential for this type of integration may finally be realized.
