GoT

GoT is a site I just learned about from Alex Fransisco's excellent blog, Zarco English. This is a mash-up of Google Blogs and Twitter and is a really nice search engine to use when searching for whats new in technology.

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Papershow

Papershow is a new interactive presentation kit that will be debuting on a Mac later this week at the MacExpo. The $200 kit comes w/ a blue tooth pen, USB, and special paper. After watching the video (which I highly recommend) it is kind of like having your very own teleprompter attached your visual presentations.

I can really see the benefit of something like this in both the business world and educational field.

Check out the video yourself by clicking here.



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Citrify

Citrify is a new site for editing photos online. There are a bunch of tools that do this such as Avairy but Citrify is one of the nicest ones around. For example, when a user uploads a photo it opens up a new browser window to edit the photo. There is no distracting images/text in the side windows. Also, there are a lot of nice features that a person can use to modify their image such as: touch-ups, special effects, and stickers.



Give Citrify a try by clicking here.

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Pretty Graph

Pretty Graph is a new (beta) site for creating beautiful looking charts. It is very similar to Widgenie or Rich Chart Live, where it is very easy to make excellent looking graphs!!

What makes PG really nice is the ability to choose from different styles of graphs: bar, line, heat, pie, etc. and then either print it out or email it to other users.

Below is an example of a scatter plot graph...



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Digital Books: Top Ten Creators

Creating digital books has inadvertently become a hobby of mine, so I've decided to compile a list of the top ten digital book creators:

1. Mixbook - far away the best site for creating a digital book to either share w/ others or order for a hard copy. Also, educators can create student accounts for better management.
   
2. Bookrix - one of the best sites for advertising your digital book, very user friendly, and a nice social environment.
3. Panraven - a nice site for creating, sharing, and purchasing your digital book.
4. Bookbuilder - nice educational site for creating digital books, user account must be created.
5. PDF Flash - upload a PDF to create a nice looking flash-based digital book.
6. My Publisher - free software which allows user to create fancy looking photo/digital books.
7. Tabblo - create a user account to make digital books w/ photos.
8. Smilebooks - create beautiful looking storybooks w/ either online/download software.
9. Blurb - great site for making photo books to order.
10. LuLu - create real/ebooks w/ this nice looking site.

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Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier

I had the great pleasure of catching an excellent special on PBS on technology and how it influences our lives. It is presented in a smooth and fluid format w/ a history of technology and how it has evolved over the years.



What made this program so intriguing as how it covered both sides of a situation. For example, multi-tasking is a theme brought up and how it is so prevalent in today's society. Schools are going one to one, mobile devices are more and more common, and kids today are born as digital natives. The way people get their information is drastically different then how they did 20 years ago. I like how this documentary covered both the good and the bad of technology. While some studies show that students in a one to one situation do better on test scores. It also shows that people aren't necessarily able to learn/retain information better when multi-tasking.

It's a very interesting topic of conversation. Are students that have a laptop in school able to learn better? Well, I think the answer is yes and no, that it depends on the individual. Yes, students can get to information easier but they will also have more distraction w/ a device that can get online. However, that being said I do think that this is the wave of the future, and more and more one to one environments will be happening.

This program also focused on using technology as a marketing tool for the military as well as how some people have become anti-social as addicted to online gaming.

I highly recommend any person who is interested in technology and it's impact on society to check this out... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/ Sphere: Related Content

WordItOut

WordItOut is a site similar to Wordle for creating word clouds. I first heard about this great site from Zarco English one of the great resource sharing blogs out there. What makes WIO so great is how easy it is to use. All a person has to do is paste text in and click create. Also, the user has the ability to tweak their settings and even embed their cloud into their site.



Give WordItOut a try by clicking here.

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