http://www.janeknight.com/downloads/top100S08.pdf

This one was posted to Diigo yesterday. An interesting article that lists the top 100 programs for learning. Guess what tops the list: delicious. Interesting, eh? Not Powerpoint. Not Google Docs. Not Word. A social bookmarking site.

Check out the list. What do you think?

MANY thanks to my buddy Barry Sullivan for sharing this one with me via email.

How many of you have seen THIS: http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/04/29/att-to-cut-the-price-of-apples-new-iphone/?section=money_topstories 

(http://snipurl.com/26ez4  [techland_blogs_fortune_cnn_com] )

According to this article, ATT plans to offer the iPhone for $199 if you buy into a two year plan. WOW!!! And I'm stuck with my Verizon phone for another year and a half! RATS! "To page this person press 5. To leave a callback number press 9 (Isn't it already on the phone?) When you are finished you may either hang up or press 1 for more options" GET ON WITH IT! You're sucking up my minutes! (David Pogue did a GREAT schtick about this at PETE&C this year)

An interesting side note. Today I was giving a presentation to about 90 folks. I wanted to show them a live demonstration of a Google spreadsheet form. I was all set up. Only two people in the audience had Windows laptops, but they couldn't connect to the wireless. BUT, one person had an iphone and WAS able to go to my form and enter some data so that folks could see the form in action. There's a moral in there somewhere, isn't there?

Wow.. check THIS out: http://www.moodletutorials.org/

If you've got a moodle site and would like some mini tutorials then you've got the check it out. According to my source, this first appeared in the Classroom 2.0 blog. Very nice.

http://www.quintura.com/

Here's one I picked up from another very cool wiki: http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

I noticed this cool search embedded along the side of the wiki. It led me to the quintura site itself. Here's how it works. You perform a basic search and allow it to do its thing. Then grab the code and embed it in your wiki or blog. I put one on this page: http://gatesworkshop.wikispaces.com/Wikis+to+See

What fun. Just hover over a related term to see the other connections. The first three links appear below the terms.

Eye candy? Sure. But it's still a fun way to embed searches into your site. And, it's a fun way to talk about how the search terms are related.

I'm VERY excited about a class I'm going to teach this summer at Harrisburg University, and I'm hoping you'll forgive this bit of promotion for it. It's a 3 credit graduate level course running from July 21-25, with two follow-up evening (online) sessions, and one final Saturday session in October.

The course is designed to be a complete immersion into the new technologies on the web, from blogs and wikis, to Twitter and Diigo, to uStream and Voicethread - and... SO much more. The purpose is to transform those teachers whose understanding of the web might have stopped with a Google search or who stopped raising the bar on tech skills when they managed to animate a powerpoint :-) . We're going to start with what we know and then see examples of how these new tools are being used with excellent results in classrooms around the world. We'll build things together, and form learning networks, and learn where and how to continue the learning. We'll get a picture of what PA is doing in the area of Education and we'll take a long hard look around us to get a sense of our global position. And, we're going to make sure that everything we do has direct applications to the classroom. By the time we're done the teachers will be globally connected, armed with excellent tools, and ready to go for next year with a TOTALLY different vision of what a modern classroom can look like.

I am REALLY excited about it. (Can you tell?)

So, if you can think of some teachers who would be interested in such a course and who would come to the Harrisburg area for a week-long course, send this information along to them, will you?

For more information or to register, call 717.901.5101; email Admissions@HarrisburgU.net or visit online at http://www.harrisburgu.net/academics/graduate/ltms-summer-clinic.php