Official Google Enterprise Blog: Microsoft Exchange or Google Apps? One government agency goes Google

• Official Google Enterprise Blog: Microsoft Exchange or Google Apps? One government agency goes Google

  New Mexico Attorney General Office on why they are using Google Apps.

  tags: google, web 2.0, FERPA

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The Innovative Educator: 21st Century Educators Don’t Say, “Hand It In.” They say, “Publish It!

• The Innovative Educator: 21st Century Educators Don’t Say, “Hand It In.” They say, “Publish It! - Annotated

  6 ways teachers can move from "hand it in" to "publish it". Good examples of actual assignments which can be used in any classroom.

  tags: web 2.0, education, publish

  • All this data, assessment, and evidence that lives nowhere that is authentic, relevant, or important to the actual student we are trying to develop. It takes more than collecting data or creating on computers to be a 21st century school. If educators are not having students publish regularly in thoughtful, authentic, and relevant places they are NOT preparing them for today or tomorrow.
  • 6 Ways Innovative Educators Can Move from “Hand It In” to “Publish it” Teaching
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Digital Youth Project: What kids are really doing on-line.

• Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use technology and why, this is a must-read - Boing Boing

  New research into what/how today's "digital youth" use the internet.

  tags: education, web 2.0, digital youth

  • The conclusions are sane, compassionate, and compelling: in a nutshell, the "serious" stuff we all hope kids will do online (researching papers and so on) are only possible within a framework of "hanging out, messing around and geeking out." That is to say, all the "time-wasting" social stuff kids do online are key to their explorations and education online.

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Twitter in the classroom. Is it in you?

• Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - Annotated

  tags: twitter, web2.0, education

  • OK, asking 250 students to post questions on Twitter during a class doesn't risk life or limb. But it can cause ego damage if the mob of students in his course on personal finance gets disorderly online.
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  • During one session this month, students took over the back channel to ask the professor to cancel class Thanksgiving week so they could have a longer vacation.
  • Opening up a Twitter-powered channel in class—which several professors at other universities are experimenting with as well—alters classroom power dynamics and signals to students that they're in control.
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Google Makes World Bank Data More Discoverable

• Google Makes World Bank Data More Discoverable

  Google search to start displaying graphs using World Bank public data.

  tags: google

  • Google just announced that it now uses public data from the World Bank to display graphs for queries
  • Google makes uses of the World Bank's public API. Through this, Google can access 17 World Development Indicators. Google displays this data in interactive graphs that make it easy to compare stats for different countries
  • Google also added data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Division to its search results page.

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Using Google Forms and graded quizzes

• Google Quizes | Screencast-O-Matic

  tags: googledocs, tutorial, googleforms

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Netbooks are dead? Just when I thought these were the answer to the one to one situation.

• Netbooks are dead. Long live the notebook. | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com

  tags: netbooks

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  • Even Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Dell CEO Michael Dell have spoken out about the poor user experience of netbooks. Ballmer is especially bullish on CULV systems, even though Microsoft only makes a little bit more money on CULV machines than netbooks.
  • To these consumers, the term “netbook” meant two things: cheap and portable. What many of them quickly found out was that these PCs had LCDs so small that they didn’t work well with many applications and Web sites, had non-standard keyboards that were not meant for extended use with adult-sized fingers, and had CPU power that was ill-equipped to handle heavy multi-tasking or anything other than standard Web or productivity applications.

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