Ed Tech Jobs Wiki

Here is the promised link to the Wiki framework for Ed Tech Jobs. I figure we could use this blog post's comments if you want to communicate to the class or you can email Ben or me about the Wiki. I am also sending out an email that will have the password. I could post it here but who knows how many untold people outside the class are now subscribed to my blog.

Actually I realize I don't have email list for everyone in the class the password is "edtech."

Our words for the Articles

1. Hyped
2. pedagogical ignorance
3. cheap
4. stoicism
5. unrealized
   

Free Culture Presentation

Here are some links to sites related to my prensentation on the book Free Culture.

• Larry Lessig: the author
• Creative Commons: foundation Lessig cofounded
• Google Books Search: source for Public Domain books
  
• Internet Archive: source for public domian everything
• Open Source Shakespeare: Complete works of Shakespeare online
• Eldritch Press: Eric Eldred's site. Reason for Eldron Vs. Ashcroft
• YouTube: As if you didn't know the URL.... Stop watch video's during my presentation
• Robert Frost Poem Read on YouTube: Is this legal?
  
  

Social Networking Article

Candidates hip to online hangouts



A candidate said in the article.

"It turned out to be an almost no-cost way to get the message out, and in a race where my margin was 229 votes, who's to say that didn't make the difference,"

It is interesting considering articles like this:

Study predicts record youth voter turnout

I think besides just having candidates having pages and positng videos on the social networking sites, sites like Youtube provide a new way for people interact with the news. Perhaps being able to post content about elections whether you own or from a news cast makes people feel more involved in the election.

Cool Interactive Display

This not really related to anything we are talking about in class but I thought this video was cool. An interactive multi touch display:



I could see where it could have some pretty cool applications with education software, especially science software. Here is the link to the original page. It is from NYU's computer science department.

Office 2.0 Conference

After reading Bryan's post:

Collaboration and Web 2.0 Applications

I followed some links and found the Office 2.0 Conference. If you are wondering what Office 2.o is hear is quote from the page:

"Imagine a computer that never crashes, or gets infected by a virus. Imagine a computer onto which you never have to install any application. Imagine a computer that follows you wherever you go, be it at school, at work, abroad, or back home."

Oh no a computer that follows me wherever I go! My worst fear is realized!

No seriously. It seems pretty cool. If you check out some the site sponsor that have some interesting offerings. I don't see it as an end to desktop applications or free applications for everyone. Maybe the end to desktop office applications.

I would be interest to know if there are any open source "Office 2.0" applications. I could imagine some big organization like UF hosting their own Office 2.0 version on their servers. Then anybody with UF ID could log into to use it .

Camstudio: Free Camtasia Alternative

So I was looking for a program to record a video for my job and I found a free alternive to Camtasia, Camstudio . It is free and open source. I have not tried Camtasia but it seems it might do a lot more than this one. For my purposes though Camstudio was great. It is very easy to use. It records to AVI using different compression codec. I found the MPEG-4 setting was better than the default one.

Also it will export your file to a flash, swf file for the web.

Here is a video I made with it.