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Re: Podcast Episode 05 - Edmodo founder Jeff O’Hara and Kindle DX

Cliffhanger2871 — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:22:44 -0000

My son has an account with Edmodo through John Marshall HS Rochester MN. I would like to delete this account. His name is Cody Johnson (Cody J) My e-mail is cliffhanger2871@yahoo.com. Please reply to this message.

Re: Subscribe

Cherie Dargan — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:30:35 -0000

This is a very thought provoking article; I have both a netbook and a new ipad, and while I like them both, I would not push for a classroom set of ipads. The netbook is much more geared for what students need to do in the classroom.

Re: Live

DRobinson — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:56:00 -0000

Check out Dragon Dictation for the iPad (http://www.dragonmobileapps.... It's free, and amazingly accurate. Lips are the new keyboard!

Re: Pick of the Week Video Review: Smart Airliner

DRobinson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:56:29 -0000

Thanks for the review. At the college where I work, almost all our rooms have SMART Sympodia (Sympodiums?). And like you mentioned on a podcast, often those are under-used. However use of the Airliner began to take off when we began to offer ECHO 360 capture tools to the faculty. Some are using other drawing tablets, but the SMART Notebook fits this niche very well for us.

Re: Ning shuts down its free network service: What are the alternatives?

Matt — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:59:15 -0000

Here's another article with some resources. http://www.readwriteweb.com...

Re: Ning shuts down its free network service: What are the alternatives?

pkchrisjohnson — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:31:27 -0000

Tech Crunch has an article up about some others: Groups.ps and Grouply. Article here:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/...

Another option, as Matt mentioned in his post...host your own on another tool like Wordpress such as BuddyPress.
http://buddypress.org/

Re: Ning shuts down its free network service: What are the alternatives?

Chris Raasch — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:25:32 -0000

One that I know of is elgg, http://elgg.org/. It has been in development for a couple years now, and is open source.

Re: Ning shuts down its free network service: What are the alternatives?

Matt — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:17:46 -0000

Rachel,
It's ok to admit that you work for webs.com. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Ning shuts down its free network service: What are the alternatives?

rachelgarner — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:59:58 -0000

i heard about ning shutting down their free accounts.. i saw on webs.com that they offer the same things as ning, and have even more cool options.. i have a webs.com account- theyve been around for awhile now, and you can build a free social network website in a few minutes..

it’s definitely worth checking out:
http://www.webs.com

Re: Podcast Episode 9 – iPad!

Matt — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:47:02 -0000

Sorry I had a couple of audio issues at the beginning of the show.

Re: Podcast Episode 07 – We’re Back!

Matt — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:34:33 -0000

I actually didn't have an account at the time of the recording, but since then my invite came through. My first criticism is that for being a real time collaboration tool, it doesn't seem to notify me very well when there is something new. Also, I can't seem to find any way to find out if someone that I want to collaborate with is online. I'm not sure maybe I'm just not quite understanding how it is supposed to function yet.

Re: Podcast Episode 07 – We’re Back!

Jeff O'Hara — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:20:10 -0000

Haven't had a chance to listen yet, but I will get to it this weekend. My initial impression's of google wave is I have been underwhelmed. They have a lot of work to do on it and I think they released it way to early. I still need to play with it more to see how I would use it to get things done with it.

Re: Podcast Episode 07 – We’re Back!

pkchrisjohnson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:09:12 -0000

Thanks Jeff. Hey, saw you on Google Wave. What do you think about it so far? Do you agree with our assessment? Let us know.

Re: Podcast Episode 07 – We’re Back!

Jeff O'Hara — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:06:39 -0000

Welcome back guys.

Re: Microsoft Courier: A Kindle, Ipod Touch and Netbook all in one

Matt — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:37:52 -0000

Jason, I'm not so sure that Microsoft won't tightly integrate this with their new web office offerings. And if that's the case, you've then opened yourself to a whole ecosystem of interconnected technologies. I would agree though, it needs connectivity like a palm pre not like a palmpilot.

Re: Microsoft Courier: A Kindle, Ipod Touch and Netbook all in one

Jason — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:34:41 -0000

Assuming this will ever come out, it's the philosophy that is still wrong - creating more information island instead of just concentrate on organizing information. and adding to it. All you really need is a good organizer, read write web and apps like Sidewiki will do the rest.

Re: Podcast Episode 05 - Edmodo founder Jeff O’Hara and Kindle DX

berkaybey — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:19:26 -0000

nice article, thanks but what the amazon kindle?

Re: Live

Matt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:02:06 -0000

I'm pretty sure it is available right now. Login and check out the notifications area.

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disqus_X9BJdAkk58 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:55:53 -0000

When will edmodo.com be available via SMS?

Re: Podcast Episode 06 - Poll Watching

Valaina Maher — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:24:44 -0000

I am an educator who loves Second Life for my professional development. Students can't get onto the Adult grid but have their own grid where it is more stringent. It is a fantastic tool for PD and it is a shame that it is not used more. They are also working on making it harder for adult content to make it on every sim. I am not a gamer and definitely recommend it. It has increased my knowledge and helped my teaching.

Re: Podcast Episode 03 - Smart or Dumb Boards?

Matt — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:59:04 -0000

Kevin,
I think we are going to talk about the results on our next episode. It should be up soon.

Re: Academic Earth: Matt’s Pick of the Week

Andre L. Soares — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:45:19 -0000

Cool. Very Nice. Tanks!

Re: Podcast Episode 03 - Smart or Dumb Boards?

Kevin — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:47:18 -0000

Smartboards are a waste of money. I missed the poll. I was very interested in what you said. Right on.

Re: Blackboard buys ANGEL Learning Systems

Matt — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:07:33 -0000

What do you think the alternative to role based authentication? Is there another way to structure things that you have found that would get around the bb patents?

Re: Blackboard buys ANGEL Learning Systems

Travis — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:31:19 -0000

Yes, the mashups may be the saving grace. I also considered this in our program's early days and in fact started building the wrappers. Whatever you do though, don't use role based authentication, else you may feel Bborg stalking your institution.