U Tech Tips » Jeff Utecht http://www.utechtips.com Articles, Tips, Screencasts, and Tutorials for Educators Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Latest Web Marks 03/10/2010 http://www.utechtips.com/latest-web-marks-03102010/ http://www.utechtips.com/latest-web-marks-03102010/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:31:44 +0000 Jeff Utecht http://www.utechtips.com/latest-web-marks-03102010/ BBC News – Mapping the growth of the internet
A great interactive map that looks at the spread of Internet use around the world from 1998 – 2008. 
tags: Internet, population

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tags: Twitter, classroom, social-learning

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Extensions slow a browser down as it’s extra code that needs to be loaded, extra things sometimes running in the background, so I’m committed to keeping my extensions to a minimum and keep the Chrome speed a priority. So, here’s my basic package:

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As I’ve been investigating Buzz (a.k.a. playing with it…but investigating sounds so much more important!) and how it changes social-networking, it hit me the other day how this might just be the communication tool I’ve been [...]

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Companies looking to reach women — whether as consumers, entrepreneurs, employees, or advocates — have an unprecedented opportunity through social media to engage them. For women, social media presents abundant opportunities to lead, effect change, innovate, and build relationships across sectors, locally, nationally, and globally.
tags: women, technology, social [...]

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I’ve watched more videos than I care to count about the iPad (my thoughts here) and in a recent survey to our students here at ISB [...]

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Enter social video games as a solution — immersive environments that simulate real-world problems. Today, technologically eager schools are replacing textbook learning with social video games, and improving learning outcomes in the process. Here’s how they’re doing it.
tags: videogames, Education

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No internal mailserver and mail back-up costs (hardware, software, maintenance).$12,000 (We were due for a replacement and running out of storage capacity)
No student/staff document file server costs (hardware, software, maintenance). $84,000 (28 servers and server OS at $3000 each on a 5 [...]

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Clearly, farming is a very different activity from hunting. Farmers spend time sweating the details, worrying about the weather, making smart choices about seeds and breeding and working hard to avoid a bad crop. Hunters, on the other hand, have long periods of distracted noticing interrupted by brief moments of frenzied [...]

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