Weekly Tech Tip: The 21st Century Teacher as Sorcerer

Rather than give you a self-produced tech tip video this week I would like to turn your attention to a keynote address by Clay Burell from this fall's Learning Technologies Conference in Australia. I think this is a must-see for all educators. In his keynote, Clay takes us on a four year journey from self-described technology illiterate to internationally known edublogger. Clay has come to be know in the edublogosphere for both his deeply insightful reflective writing on teaching, policy, learning, and schools as well as his mastery of the social web and it's impact on his students (both in and out of his classroom). Enjoy!

Weekly Tech Tip:

Part 1---------Part 2

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Link Stew:

• Learning Technologies Conference 2009 - Free Conference Session Recordings, enjoy the openness!
• FRONTLINE digital_nation
• Voicethread4Education - Wiki to find other classrooms to collaborate with on Voicethread projects
• 6 Best Sites to Share Files on Twitter
• Dragon Dictation for iPhone & iPod Touch - Free app that types what you speak
• Storykit - Free iPod app that lets you edit classic children's books and publish your own versions or write and publish your own book from scratch.
• Acrobat.com - Free iPod version of Adobe Acrobat. Create and edit PDF files from your iPod Touch or iPhone.
• SimpleMind Express - Free mind mapping iPod app
  

New Tutorials Blog Locked!

What is going on? I am wondering if anyone else has had trouble with Google's bot that is supposed to detect spam farms on blogger? I created a new blog yesterday to use as a place to share tutorials with the staff I work with. Today I tried to edit it and I got this message:


I have requested it be reviewed for a false positive. I don't know how this happened. Lets see how long it takes Google to get around to letting me back on my new blog.

Blogger and Firefox Compatibility Issues?

For the past week, every time I try to sign into my blogger account to edit this blog using Firefox there seems to be a problem. This problem did not exist before and it only seems to be with Blogger that I am experiencing this issue. I have no problem using IE Tab though. I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem or if those at Google are aware of this issue.