Episode 142- A Conversation About the New Windows 8 Tablets for Educators

Episode 142- A Conversation About the New Windows 8 Tablets for Educators

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Tom: It’s Friday, December 14th, 2012 and welcome to episode 142 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich. Tom: Welcome to Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology. 

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(36 minutes 27 seconds)


ITC Chronicles Blog
Postings about my Windows 8 Tablet Experiences

http://eiuitc.blogspot.com/

Logitech K400 2.4GHz Wireless Keyboard with Trackpad

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-touch-keyboard-k400?crid=26

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom's Pick

Google Zeitgeist 2012

http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#the-world

(Be sure to checkout the video)


Cindy's Pick

iPad Music Apps

Virtuoso Piano

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/virtuoso-piano-free-2-hd/id304075989?mt=8

and Bongos!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bongos!-free/id483719120?mt=8

Happy Holidays and Keep on Learning!

Tom Grissom, Ph.D.

Episode 141- The tablets are coming, the tablets are coming...

Episode 141- The tablets are coming, the tablets are coming...

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Tom: It’s Friday, November 30th, 2012 and welcome to episode 141 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich. Tom: Welcome to Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology. 

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(28 minutes 45 seconds)

How tablets are invading the classroom

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/tablets-invading-the-classroom/

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom's Pick

Google Nexus 7 - Android 4.2 Update

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_16gb

Cindy's Pick

Symbaloo

http://www.symbaloo.com/

Tech for Teachers
http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/techforteachers?searched=true

Tech for Teachers 2
http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/techforteachers2

Episode 140 - New Tech for New Teachers

New Tech for New Teachers

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Tom: It’s Thursday, November 15th, 2012 and welcome to episode 140 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich. Tom: Welcome to Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology. 

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(34 minutes 11 seconds)

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom's Pick

Excel Surveys in Skydrive

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/excel-surveys-on-skydrive

Cindy's Pick

Guidebooks for the NCSS Conference in Seattle, WA

http://www.socialstudies.org/conference

http://www.socialstudies.org/annual_conference/download_the_new_ncss_conference_app


http://guidebook.com/g/ncss2012/

Episode 139 - The new new iPad

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Tom: It’s Monday October 29th, 2012 and welcome to episode 139 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich. Tom: Welcome to Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology. 

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(26 minutes 15 seconds)


The new new iPad and iPad mini

Comparison Chart
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/24/tech/mobile/ipad-mini-comparisons/index.html

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom's Picks

Personal Video Conferencing

Skype
http://beta.skype.com/en/


Google Hangouts
http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

Wolfram Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/



Cindy's Picks

doodle.com (Easy Scheduling)
http://doodle.com/

iBooks
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8







Keep on Learning.

Episode 138 - Space Jumps, eBooks, and Word Clouds

 Episode 138 - Space Jumps, eBooks, and Word Clouds

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Tom: It’s Monday October 15th, 2012 and welcome to episode 138 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich. Tom: Welcome to Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology.




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(42 minutes 45 seconds)

Show Notes and links for Episode 138 

Felix Baumgartner lands after flying faster than the speed of sound

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/felix-baumgartner-tries-record-breaking-jump-again-live-blog/2012/10/14/b7ddfc18-159d-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_blog.html 

eBook Settlement
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebook-settlement-means-publishers-apple-162202879.html 

Student Podcast Reviews Talk Shoe
http://www.talkshoe.com/

Word Clouds
 Tagxedo
 http://www.tagxedo.com/ 

http://blog.tagxedo.com/101-ways-to-use-tagxedo-completedhttp://www.tagxedo.com/gallery.html 

Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/http://www.wordle.net/

tt4t_054 Web 2.0 and Deeper Meaning (Wordle Activity)

http://techtalk4teachers.blogspot.com/2008/09/4t054-web-20-and-deeper-meaning.html 

Technology Picks of the Week 

Tom’s Pick:

Word Talk Add-in for Microsoft Word (Office 2007 and Office 2010) 
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/


Cindy’s Pick Flip Board App

http://flipboard.com/ http://flipboard.com

That wraps it up for episode 138 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, Keep on learning.

Episode 137 - Blogging, Books, and RSS Changes

Episode 137 - Blogging, Books, and RSS Changes

It’s Friday, September 28, 2012 and welcome to episode 137 of Tech Talk for Teachers. I’m Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich.

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(30 minutes 57 seconds)

In this episode we talk about a blogging project with 34 students and some of the issues we run into with using wireless Internet connections. We also talk about the National Book Festival that was completed last weekend in Washington, D.C. and we finish up with a couple of useful Technology Picks of the Week.

Take a look at the brand new site, Congress.gov http://beta.congress.gov/ for federal legislative information. This beta site is exciting for educators that teach social studies or current events and are familiar with THomas.gov.

Technology Picks of the Week.

Tom's Pick Sound Cloud http://soundcloud.com/

Cindy's Picks

Safeshare.tv http://safeshare.tv/

That wraps it up for episode 137 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, Keep on learning.

Episode 136 - We have the technology and we can use it

Episode 136 - We have the technology and we can use it

It’s Friday, September 14, 2012 and welcome to episode 136 of Tech Talk for Teachers. I’m Cindy Rich and I’m Tom Grissom. We are changing things up a little bit. TechTalk4Teachers is moving to a bi-monthly format.

   

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(36 minutes 29 seconds)

In this episode we talk about the all the technology available for teachers and students to use to create amazing projects. We also have a couple of useful Technology Picks of the Week. Technology Pick of the Week

Tom's Pick

Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch USB Slate http://www.wacom.com/en/products/bamboo/bambootablets.aspx

Cindy's Pick

Hero GoPro Caneras http://gopro.com/

Keep on Learning!

Episode 135 - Technology Triage: The Big 3 and Plan B

Episode 135 - Technology Triage: The Big 3 and Plan B
It’s Friday, August 31st, 2012 and welcome to episode 135 of Tech Talk for Teachers. I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich.

   

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(45 minutes 53 seconds)

In this episode we talk about the first week back-to-school tidal wave that educators all across the nation are experiencing. We discuss some basic trouble-shooting techniques to use to help solve common technology problems during the first week of back-to-school.



2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival
September 22-23, 2012 on the National Mall
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/

Technology Pick of the Week

Tom's Pick
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/windowsexperience/archive/2012/08/07/introducing-the-new-windows-photo-gallery-and-movie-maker.aspx

Cindy's Pick
http://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2012/08/it-happens-every-four-years/

Keep on Learning!

Episode 134 - Countdown for Back to School and Olympics via Twitter

It’s Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 and welcome to episode 134 of Tech Talk for Teachers. I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich.

   

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(35 minutes 53 seconds)

Countdown to Back to School

In the News

Technology Picks of the Week 

Nexus 7
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb&utm_source=oa&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=launchDR&utm_term=bk

Droid Razr

http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/DROID-RAZR-BY-MOTOROLA/78281,en_US,pd.html

That wraps it up for episode 134 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, Keep on learning.

Episode 133 - Tux Typing, Summer Reading List and Conference Season

It’s Thursday, June 28th, 2012 and welcome to episode 133 of Tech Talk for Teachers. I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich.

   

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(40 minutes 52 seconds)

The Linux Challenge (Part 2)

Tux Typing (and other Tux Kids Programs) http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxtyping.php

The Story Behind Tux the Penguin http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/03/42209

Ubuntu (Most Popular Desktop Version of Linux)
http://www.ubuntu.com/


Summer Reading List 

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-and-Slow-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA/ 

Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-of-Crowds-ebook/dp/B000FCKC3I/

Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room by David Weinberger
http://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Know-Rethinking-ebook/dp/B005XQ97MS/

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell
http://www.amazon.com/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without-ebook/dp/B000PAAH3K/



Conference Season 

The International Society for Technology in Education 
http://www.iste.org/conference/ISTE-2012.aspx

Apple Macbook Pro Retina Display
http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/ 


New Microsoft Surface Tablet
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx 


Google I/O Nexus 7 inch Tablet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57461837-94/googles-nexus-7-tablet-image-leaks-onto-the-web/




Technology Picks of the Week 

Tom’s Picks

ISTE 2012 Conference Youtube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/istevideos

Flipped Learning Conference 2012 - Chicago
http://flipped-learning.com/?page_id=5


Don't Use Khan Academy without Watching this First http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2012/06/dont_use_khan_academy_without_watching_mmt2k_first.html

Flipped Classroom Videos
http://flipped-learning.com/?page_id=421

Steve Kelly Talks to Michigan State Board of Education about the Flipped Classroom (Youtube Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXlh8w0azXs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Cindy’s Pick of the Week 
http://loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/


That wraps it up for episode 133 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, Keep on learning.

Episode 132 - The Linux Challenge and Teaching with Primary Sources DC Meeting

Episode 132 - The Linux Challenge and Teaching with Primary Sources DC Meeting 

It’s Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 and welcome to episode 132 of Tech Talk for Teachers. I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich. 

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(41 minutes 40 seconds)

The Linux Challenge

Ubuntu Linux

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Asus Pad Fone
http://www.asus.com/Mobile/PadFone/


Ubuntu for Android
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

Teaching with Primary Sources

http://eiu.edu/~eiutps/

Goobuntu - used by Google Employees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu

Technology Picks of the Week

Tom’s Picks
Ubuntu Tutorial
http://complete-concrete-concise.com/ubuntu-2/ubuntu-12-04/ubuntu-12-04-basic-unity-interface-desktop-tutorial

Reviving an Old Laptop with Linux

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/ars-gear-the-old-windows-pc-resurrected-with-ubuntu/

Cindy’s Pick
Visual Search

http://oolone.com/

That wraps up episode 132 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, Keep on learning.

Episode 131 – Summer Plans and Cloud Wars

It’s Friday, April 27th, 2012 and welcome to episode 131 of Tech Talk for Teachers. I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich.  Welcome Cindy.

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(39 minutes 0 seconds)

News Items

Facebook buys Instragram - hits 901 million users
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57419864-501465/facebook-grows-to-901-million-instagram-details-in-s-1-filing/

Insta-Rich –dozen employees
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577333840377381670.html

Cloud Wars – Skydrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2972228/cloud-storage-terms-of-service-comparison-avoid-google-drive

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/google-clones-dropbox-lock-stock-and-privacy-gaffe/4870

Ubuntu 12.04 Linux LTS out this month
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-1204-arrives-and-its-great/10836

New versions of Windows 8 – Apple Mountain Lion – Google – Google+ - Office 15

New version of Adobe CS6 – ebooks/EPUB3/iBooks Author

Summer Plans

200+ new computers, laptops, netbooks, iPads, VDI terminals to be replaced this summer for CEPS

New VDI project – Virtual Device Infrastructure BUZ 2445 – VMWare

Active Directory Project – Authentication & security

New ITC staff to get up to speed

Changes to Learning Management System – WebCT to ?

Video Projects – Flipped Classroom – TPACK projects – screencasting – TV style shows
http://tpack.org/

Kindle Fire/Nook/Android tablets

Cindy:

Personal Archiving http://www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/topics_personalpreservation.php

Technology Pick of the week

http://broadbandillinois.org/index.html

http://broadbandillinois.org/maps.html

Map of South-Eastern Illinois Region of Broadband acces (or lack thereof)

http://broadbandillinois.org/Get-it/East-Central-Regional-eTeam/Broadband-Maps-Demographic-Analysis.html

Cindy’s Tech Pick

http://instagr.am/

That wraps it up for episode 131 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, Keep on learning.

Episode 130 - New and Old, Deep Sea Challenge and Civil War Links

It’s Friday, March 30th, 2012 and welcome to episode 130 of Tech Talk for Teachers. I’m Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich

Welcome Cindy

Thank you

Well, this time I thought we’d talk a little bit about some of the new things going on in the world as well as some of the old so this will be a mixture of new and old




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(24 minutes 10 seconds)



Kind of pulling it all together

And, we always spend a lot of time talking about primary resources, and one of the things I always like to do in my classes, in fact all my classes I start off with an in the news segment. So just kind of paying attention to what’s going on in the world, you know. And this week, the one thing that caught my imagination in things that were going on, and in my professional learning network on twitter, this is how I found out about it a lot of people talking back and forth. But this week James Cameron broke the solo dive record.

That was amazing.

And what he did was he did a submarine dive to the Marianas Trench, the deepest place in the ocean, over 7 miles deep, and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how deep that is.
That’s what you and I were talking about, how long it takes to get down there.

Yeah, and that’s as deep as it is that jet airplanes fly.

True, I had never thought about that

And it’s kind of this alien type environment, and you can kind of compare it to space, to outer space because you have some of the same challenges of extreme environments.

And it’s amazing how much we don’t know about the bottom onf the ocean and all that, and I think that’s a very exciting area that we’re gonna start seeing more exploration of that’s gonna be great in a classroom.

Technology Picks of the Week

Free ebook (Must be a member of Amazon Prime for free checkout version)
http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Era-Recipes-ebook/dp/B0076PHDXY/

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE2D663ECCE7D60B6&feature=plcp

Episode 129 - Privacy, archiving, preserving the old, keeping up with the new

It’s Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 and welcome to Episode 129 of TechTalk4Teachers, I'm Tom Grissom and I’m Cindy Rich. Welcome Cindy. Happy Leap Day!




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(37 minutes 46 seconds)


Show Notes:

Teaching with Primary Sources Links on Preservation
http://www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/topics_preserving.php


https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect

State of Utah Open Textbooks
http://www.schools.utah.gov/main/INFORMATION/Online-Newsroom/DOCS/01252012OpenTextbook.aspx

ebooks, stores and formats
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/29/apple-refuses-to-sell-book-that-links-to-amazon-store/

Technology Pick of the Week

Cindy's Pick
http://pinterest.com/

Simple Pinterest for Beginners (from coolcatteacher)
http://coolcatteacher.visibli.com/share/vL4a2s


Tom's Pick
Open Educational Resources: Share, Remix, Learn
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/117659

Click on the tabs at the top of the livebinder, for example K12 Open ebooks tab



That wraps it up for episode 129 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, keep on learning.

Episode 128 - US Constitution resources for teachers

It’s Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 and welcome to Episode 128 of TechTalk4Teachers, I'm Tom Grissom. First of all I would like to thank everyone, we do have enough students that our Students Involved with Technology Conference is a go for February 18th. So I want to thank all the teachers out there for getting the word out and all the students signing up and we look forward to a productive conference for the students. Thank you all for getting the word out on very short notice.



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With us in the studio today is Dr. Cindy Rich, and Dr. Rich is back again this time to talk a little bit about the Teaching with Primary Sources Program here at EIU, and our topic for today is the US Constitution.

Our Constitution and Bill of Rights
Podcast Notes (from TechTalk4Teachers)
January 31, 2012

http://www.eiu.edu/eiutps/topics_constitution.php



Technology Pick of the Week

A Better Calculator

HTML 5 Version
https://www.abettercalculator.com/


Older Flash-based Version
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/

A Better Calculator is a great free browser-based graphing calculator solution for teachers and students.

That wraps it up for episode 128 of TechTalk4Teachers. I want to thank Dr Cindy Rich for joining us today and thanks again to all for spreading the word about the upcoming Students Involved with Technology Conference coming up on February 18th. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom, keep on learning.