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Here we are as part of our 5 day session and we are looking at how technology weaves together!

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Live Blogged:  So please forgive any typos, thought fragments, and any other issues.
Steve Dembo:  Discovery Education – NOTE: Steve put forth a specific disclaimer that he is not a lawyer and is NOT recommending anything or a direction in any way what so ever Go Steve!
Steve referenced Tony Vincent: Learning in Hand and [...]

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Ok, I have to start with this: I am seriously going to finish the Part III of my “In the Cloud” series but I keep getting distracted. Also, I don’t want my blog to just be about tools and resources. I would prefer to discuss instructional / curricular / and PD issues, thoughts, ponderings, [...]

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Greg Noack just posted his first blog post and he relates a great story of efficiency and the utilization and experimentation of new tools specifically Google Docs and Zoho Writer. 
I left a long comment and it got me thinking about my use of Zoho’s myriad of applications and how they might be better [...]

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In this post I will be expanding on the category of RSS I started in this post. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a tremendous way to simplify your processes in searching and gathering information. I know that I could hunt for words to describe an RSS Aggregator but Lee Lefever from Common Craft really sums [...]

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While I was off on a different tangent a few weeks back, I had a chance to spend a couple of minutes talking with David Jakes about a couple of different subjects, but one thing that he said that really resonated with me was that teachers needed time to internalize technology before they begin [...]

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After writing Wednesday’s post, I really felt that I needed to break out each of the topics “categories” into a post of their own to both further clarify my ideas and thoughts as well as provide some insight on educational uses both for educators and students.
Looking at “the list” I threw out there, I am [...]

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Yesterday I was attending a grad school class, and during a quick question and answer session I found myself on a small soapbox regarding some web 2.0 technologies. Didn’t mean for it to happen, it just did and everyone in the class appeared quire responsive to the information I was well… spewing out about. [...]

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This post comes on the heels of reading Will’s post, From Access to Information to Access to People… aw, dang…
[side not commentary here.  This is NOT what this post was intended to be about... well it's happened.  Will Richardson is so popular (he has reached 1000 people following him on twitter) he has been [...]

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I recently read a NewsGator Daily article written by Leland Rucker on how the internet has the possibilities of making reading more fun. In the article “Using the Web to Make Reading more Fun” Rucker relates how he had used Google Earth and Google Images to go to all of the places referenced in [...]

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