Web2.0 in High Schoool

Like NECC, but you don’t get the cough or the jetlag. BYO Firery Red Leather. Info here

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OpenSim Made Easy – Lab
Open Sim made easy Wiki – how to download, set up and run your own grid and connect it to the new world grid. Uses API type set up and interface.
tags: open, sim, opensim, secondlife, grid

Open grids and distributed asset systems « justincc’s opensim blog
blog about OpenSim
tags: open, sim, opensim

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This is a site that my wife found called Reading Eggs. In the video, is my daughter who’s started using the site. Its a great post bath time – pre-bedtime activity.
Shes 5, so a pre-schooler. A friend bought me the ‘pig’, which is a great gadget, she loves it. It amplifies the audio and [...]

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Feedly – Another RSS API – Which I liked. I know Google Reader is the weapon of choice, but this I think is well worth a look. I liked the open clean layout, the tab style feeds and the deep linking. One neat feature lets you preview the blog post in an embedded pop out [...]

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HC Interactive Media
Check out the work Roger Stack, fellow Skoolaborator. Some very innovative teaching and learning with links to student works.
tags: teaching, blog

MetaTrends, EdTech, and the Changing Role of Educators – Fleep’s Deep Thoughts
tags: edutech, teaching

kjarrett’s slideshow on Flickr
tags: secondlife

YouTube – Ballad of a noob
tags: wow, noob, video

BBC NEWS | Technology | The World [...]

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A Digital Education Revolution – Realising the possibilities, managing the realities – education.au
tags: event

Wax Audio | MASHOPOLOS – 2007
tags: mashup, music, cool

Ewan Macintosh – Awesome EduTech guy
Ewan in the Moodle/Games in Edu A list blogger. Great insight, creativity and action!
tags: blog

Machinima.com – Lip Flap
Lip Flap
tags: machinima.com

Greenbush Edusim – Annotated
Got IWBs? – this is a 3D [...]

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Finding Images Online – beyond Google
UK produced infomation sheet about helping students find images as visual literacy and not just Googling a world. Helps with visual planning and thinkinig. Can download this as PDF.
tags: image, search

City of Lost Angels – A Dark Roleplay Community in Second Life
tags: roleplay

SourceForge.net: slat
tags: slat, secondlife, animator

Auto Otaku: Car and [...]

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Well it is time that the school got a new website – of course hooked into a blog – so we need a new home page. Here’s a quick video using Screen Flow and Photoshop CS3 to show the build process, speeded up a little. My plan is to a higher quality, wide screen one [...]

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I am, I may modestly say, a gun at Photoshop, so I am hard to please when it comes to using anything lesser. Avairy is impressive. A collection of online tools to do a massive range of creative things. Check out some of the links … I must be slow, there are plenty of time-lapse [...]

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Once again, Alan posted a tweet that I just had to sticky beak. It linked to UStream and I fiddled about with it this weekend (in between the lawn mowing). After hiding the laptop in the cubby house and using it to stream live action for Kiddy HQ in the back yard to the mower [...]

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