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The App Garden on Flickr
Here you'll find home grown applications created by Flickr members (like you!) using the Flickr API. The garden continues to flourish so go forth and frolic amongst the apps!
John Larkin is One of the Coolest EduBloggers on the Planet ;-)
John's "Watershed" blog has great edtech stories, but this is a little fun experiment as I see John has been tweeting links coming out of my delicious tag stream, so I wanted to play a game and send a message via a social bookmark.... Think about it, through some process of design (which still eludes me) one could create a story made of snippets between tagged sites, or some sort of game, challenge, treasure hunt... Hi John! Waving from Arizona ;-)
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AppCleaner
AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.
AppCleaner
AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. AppCleaner finds all these small files and saf
Find more to say in a virtual world - Guardian Weekly
I now believe that one of the real educational strengths of SL as a learning platform is this ability to adopt a persona and become anyone you like. Languagelab’s Kaskel calls this “character driven learning”. The environment of Languagelab is now populated by characters that have developed and developing personalities and interact with learners as these characters. The EFL-trained teachers along with business, legal, and medical professionals play these characters with surprising success.
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The National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Information Technology (Learning and Collaborative Group) has started a research and development project exploring the Personal Learning Environment. The project researches how new technologies can be used in a personalized informal learning environment and focuses on two dimensions. The first dimension is the pedagogical: given the new affordances offered by web technologies, how can access to a wide variety of learning opportunities best be managed in an online environment? The second dimension is technical. Given a set of desired types of connections, what technologies can be assembled to best provide seamless access to a large variety of educational resources and services?
noticings : the game of noticing things around you
Noticings are interesting things that you stumble across when out and about. For example: perplexing pavement markings, a discarded photo, and a ceramic space invader are all noticings. Players are awarded points for things like spotting the first thing in a neighbourhood, or noticing something every day for a week.
Guide by Cell - cell phone audio tours for your institution.
Learn why Central Park, the Smithsonian, and the Woodrow Wilson House are using Guide by Cell; check us out on Flickr and YouTube! Guide by Cell turns cell phones into mobile technology solutions.
Central Park Conservancy: Seeing Central Park Audio Guide
Cell phone guide to Central Park
MapSkip - Places Have Stories!
MapSkip makes the world a canvas for our stories and photos. It is an ancient human instinct to share our life stories with others, as the paintings and hand prints in stone-age caves show. And many of our stories are about places. Where we fell in love, had the dream vacation, took that great picture or, well, joined the rebellion. And then there are the many other places that anchor our lives - where we live, eat, work and have fun.
Gartner Says Consumer Location-Based Services Market Will More Than Double in 2009
Worldwide consumer location-based services (LBS) subscribers and revenue are on pace to double in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. Despite an expected 4 per cent decrease in mobile device sales, LBS subscribers are forecast to grow from 41.0 million in 2008 to 95.7 million in 2009 while revenue is anticipated to increase from $998.3 million in 2008 to $2.2 billion in 2009. Gartner defines LBS as services that use information about the location of mobile devices, derived from cellular networks, Wi-Fi access points or via satellite links to receivers in (or connected to) the handsets themselves. Examples are services that enable friends to find each other, parents to locate their children, mapping and navigation. Location-based services may be offered by mobile network carriers or other providers. They are also known as location-aware services.
Halloween through Location Based Applications | Trendsspotting
Google Latitude or other location based applications working through mobile phones can let you track your kids whereabouts during Halloween. Locations of retailers selling costumes and decorations can also be found by using applications as Poynt. To improve the Halloween experience, Zillow.com, have created a Trick or Treat Housing Index, which presents the top-five neighborhoods to maximize candy harvesting. The index uses four equally weighted data variables: Zillow Home Value Index, population density, Walk Score, and local crime data. Based on those variables, this Index represents neighborhoods that will provide the most candy, with the least walking, and minimal safety risks. I find Halloween as a good example for the conflict introduced by LBS technology systems: The need to share experiences and learn about friends locations comes in contrast to safety measures. The same system that gives you more control, is the one to danger your privacy.
Google Squared
Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web, for any topic you specify. Facts about your topic are organized into a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun). Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you're interested in. See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square. Save and share Squares with others. For example, say you're curious about which roller coasters are the fastest, tallest, and longest in the world. Until now, you would have had to comb through dozens of webpages to compile the information. With Google Squared, all you have to do is type [ roller coasters ] into the search box at http://www.google.com/squared and click Square it to see an automatically generated table of roller coasters and their attributes.
Google Squared
Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web, for any topic you specify. Facts about your topic are organized into a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun). Customize
Create A Graph
Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world. NCES constantly uses graphs and charts in our publications and on the web. Sometimes, complicated information is difficult to understand and needs an illustration. Graphs or charts can help impress people by getting your point across quickly and visually
Innovative Interactivity | Data visualization tools for free or cheap
After finally taking the time to watch the NewsU webinar on data visualization that I blogged about back in March, I was inclined to research more about different apps, tools and concepts required to create compelling data visualization interactives. Interestingly enough, I have found that regardless of owning the Adobe suite, anyone can put together stunning graphics with open-source applications.
Innovative Interactivity | Data visualization tools for free or cheap
After finally taking the time to watch the NewsU webinar on data visualization that I blogged about back in March, I was inclined to research more about different apps, tools and concepts required to create compelling data visualization interactives. Inte
Six Social Media Trends for 2010 - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org
In 2009 we saw exponential growth of social media. According to Nielson Online, Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month. Meanwhile, Facebook continued to outpace MySpace. So what could social media look like in 2010? In 2010, social media will get even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive — at least, that's my guess. What are the near-term trends we could see as soon as next year?
Against Transparency | The New Republic
How could anyone be against transparency? Its virtues and its utilities seem so crushingly obvious. But I have increasingly come to worry that there is an error at the core of this unquestioned goodness. We are not thinking critically enough about where and when transparency works, and where and when it may lead to confusion, or to worse. And I fear that the inevitable success of this movement--if pursued alone, without any sensitivity to the full complexity of the idea of perfect openness--will inspire not reform, but disgust. The "naked transparency movement," as I will call it here, is not going to inspire change. It will simply push any faith in our political system over the cliff.
Shovelware: Developers Now Launch More E-Books Apps Than Games in iTunes Store
According to a new survey conducted by mobile analytics company Flurry, developers now launch more e-book apps than games in Apple's iTunes App Store. Games now represent 13% of the new releases while 20% of all the new apps in the App Store are e-books. One of the reasons for this is that it's quite easy for developers to release large numbers of e-books. Developers just have to switch out the text, rename the app and send it to Apple for approval.
Top News - Study: 2 in 5 teachers 'disheartened' with profession
The report is based on a nationwide study, "Teaching for a Living: How Teachers See the Profession Today," and was conducted by Public Agenda, a New York City-based nonprofit research organization, and by Learning Point Associates, a nonprofit education research and consulting organization based in Chicago, Ill., in partnership with Education Week.
MEDL MOBILE : AppIncubator
Do you have a great idea for an iPhone application? Tell us about it! Your great idea could be the next iPhone phenomenon – and you could get paid for your creativity.
eBook App Maker
eReader for iPhone is an our proprietary process of eBookApp.com which takes advantage of Secured Web Technology where by you upload contents/ chapters/ paragraphs of your book for iPhone. Your content is converted in an XML database file which is sourced to iPhone Application code creating your iPhone Book. Through our Publication services we then publish your book on AppStore ready for than 1 million iPhone users can directly purchase / download it on there iPhones.
GameSalad - Game Creation for the Rest of Us ™ - GameSalad.com
make iPhone games without having to program!
AppBreeder | The Online iPhone App Builder - Build iPhone Apps, Blackberry Apps and Android Apps Online | Home
Building iPhone Apps just got a lot easier, with AppBreeder - the online iPhone App Builder. No Coding. No Mac Needed. No Programming. 100% Real, Native iPhone App. If you can write a Blog...you can Build an App. Starting is free & easy...
Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps - BusinessWeek
Services that do the coding for you make it easy for nontechies to create iPhone apps. Applications to the Apple App Store are exploding
Publish Digital Magazines and More Online for Free | YUDU
Yudu is a free library of digital content to read and explore. Find eBooks, magazines, and other documents as well as photos, music and podcasts and bookmarks and add them to your own library.
For The Future Of The Media Industry, Look In The App Store
Media scarcity is dead. In the future my son will have a flash drive that he will pay $29 for that will have the capacity to hold all movies and music ever released by a major label, studio or tv/cable network. It will take 30 seconds to clone the data over the network to a friend who will pay $14.99 for a device with double capacity a year later. How does the media industry survive such a coming disruption?