Ep 41 Digital Texts Part 2

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In the second part of this 2-part episode The Teachers Podcast hosts discuss the inroads that are happening with digital texts (AND TWITTER!) across the nation. This episode is brimming with more free resources and discussion related to digital texts and opportunities to extend learning- podcasting, audio books and resources for Twittering which can extend your professional learning. Join us for a full slate of ed tech resources to reinvigorate your classrooms and your professional learning!

Resources include a detailed comparison of free resources to maximize your Twittering, tweeps and twits for PD? Could it be?This is a set of episodes that promise to open new visions of thinking, and approach for your summer school, summer excursions and revitalization. Make us the center of YOUR Ed Tech Universe: www.teacherspodcast.org.

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News Articles

* California considers open digital textbooks

In what could be a first-of-its-kind statewide initiative, California education leaders are working together to compile a list of free, open digital textbooks that meet state-approved standards and will be available to high school math and science classes this fall. Key words: open source, digital textbooks, California education. Read more

HOT NEWS HERE!

· Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com
In another sign that book publishers are looking to embrace alternatives to Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book store, the New York Times reports that Simon & Schuster has agreed to sell digital copies of its books on Scribd.com, a popular document-sharing Web site. | Read More

· Connecticut teachers design their own algebra textbook
Frustrated Connecticut math educators have penned an online replacement for algebra tomes that they say covered too many topics. Their work aims to focus on essential Algebra I and Algebra II topics and reduce overlap between the classes. Since revising the curriculum, the number of 10th-graders in the district receiving top scores on state exams has increased 8%. The New York Times (6/8)

• Digsby
  • A dashboard to control the world of IM, email and social media!
  • Also includes easy to use live chat window for your blog or website
  • Check out this free resource digsby.com
• Twitter.com
• Includes a orientation to terminology and functions as Mark brings us out of the twitterverse down to earth and gets every day explanations- What a good teacher model he is!!
• • Tweetdeck tweetdeck.com
    • A “dashboard” to participate in Twitter and Facebook at the same time!
  • Twitterfeed.com
    • Save your fingers, automatically post your OTHER feeds to your twitter stream!
    • Kathy calls it a Meta-FEEDER!
  • Tweets, twitter.. Twittermania?
  • Follow us on Twitter to get instant updates on ed tech resources and issues

NEWS FLASH I

Learning without limits
How the rise of online instruction is changing the nature of schooling
By Christine Van Dusen

Primary Topic Channel: Virtual schooling / Distance Learning

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Some short videos introducing our series and the podcasting book check it out about 4/28/09!

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