Updates on: Second Life
Tourism Ireland has launched a marketing campaign in Second Life; the first time a real world tourist board has used the Internet-based virtual world to market a real holiday destination. The campaign involves Tourism Ireland sponsoring a range of events and activities in Second Life’s replica of Dublin City , which was created by London based Irish developer John Mahon of PickSL until St Patrick’s Day 2008. — Tech Central
Coming up: Cognition in the Digital Age (Portugal), Education Technology (Minnesota), Global Knowledge (Malaysia), Virtual Worlds in Learning (online), Diverse Students (Illinois), Technology-Knowledge-Society (Massachusetts), Technology for Intervention (California), Technology in Education (Arizona)
International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) 2007
December 7-9, 2007
Algarve, Portugal
The conference aims to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. Topics of interest include: Collaborative learning, Exploratory technologies (such as simulations, VR, i-TV and so on), Learning Communities & Web Service Technologies, Virtual University.
Registration is ongoing.
TIES 2007 Education Technology Conference
December 8-11, 2007
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The STEM initiative focuses on preparing students for careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Topics include: Emerging technologies, 21st-century learners and learning environments, Social, legal and ethical issues, and Academic content areas technology integration. Minnesota’s largest technology conference. Over 2,000 attendees expected. Online registration available.
3rd Global Knowledge Conference (GK3)
December 11-13, 2007
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The conference’s theme, “Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies” focuses on the interplay of issues related to Knowledge for Development (K4D) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) within the context of evolving societies, economies and technologies worldwide. 2,000 people expected to attend. Online registration goes on until November 30. On-site registration will be possible on December 9 and 10.
Strategies and Techniques for Implementing Social, Collaborative, and 3D Learning (Virtual Worlds)
December 13-14, 2007
Virtual Conference
This Online Forum looks at different types of collaborative and social technology-based learning. It will examine to use these technologies to support your current learning initiative or as stand alone learning environments. You will see how to use different tools to build collaboration into learning, as well as new development techniques. Early registration deadline is November 30.
31st Annual Statewide Conference for Teachers of Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students
January 8-11, 2008
Oak Brook, Illinois
Topics include: Technology in the classroom, Supposrting literacy through instructional methods, Cultural, social, and emotional issues, Student-centered learning environments. Registration deadline is December 17, 2007.
International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society
January 18-20, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society. Online registration is ongoing. Deadline for submission of papers for publication to the journal: February 20, 2008
Technology, Reading & Learning Diversity (TRLD) 2008 – 26th Annual Conference
January 24-26, 2008
San Francisco, California
Educators and administrators from across the country come to participate in interactive workshops carefully designed to address systematic changes in education. Participants learn to use innovative technologies, proven interventions and validated instructional models in an intimate think-tank learning environment. Early registration deadline is December 4, 2007.
Arizona Technology in Education Alliance (AzTEA) - 16th Teaching and Technology Conference
January 26, 2008
Tucson, Arizona
The conference’s theme is: Teaching and Learning on a Small Planet: Transforming Classrooms. Call for presenters closes December 14, 2007
We searched the web to find some of the biggest student contests with media, creative or technical focus.
2007 Extreme Redesign: The Ultimate 3D Printing Challenge
Organized by: Dimension Printing
Who can enter: high school and college students
Categories: Engineering, Art&Architecture
Deadline: December 31, 2007
Prizes (total): over $10K in cash prizes
C-Span StudentCam 2008
Organized by: C-Span Education Foundation
Who can enter: middle and high school students
Categories: Video Documentary
Deadline: December 31, 2007
Prizes (total): over $10K in cash prizes
2008 iDidaPodCast Contest
Organized by: Alaska Society for Technology in Education (ASTE)
Who can enter: no age limits or age categories
Categories: Public Service Announcement and Storytelling
Deadline: February 8, 2008
Prizes: to be announced
ThinkQuest International 2008 Website Competition
Organized by: ThinkQuest, sponsored by Oracle
Who can enter: students ages 9-19
Categories: Website creation; separate age divisions
Deadline: April 2, 2008
Prizes: laptop computers, cash for schools
2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
Organized by: Adobe
Who can enter: full-time higher education students from select countries
Categories: 12 categories within 3 areas: Interactive media, Video and motion, and Traditional media
Deadline: May 2, 2008
Prizes (total): over $60K in cash prizes
SpaceTime Student Competition
Organized by: ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee
Who can enter: primary, secondary, college, and university students
Categories: Print, Linear animation, and Interactive works; separate age divisions
Deadline: May 15, 2008
Prizes: winning work will be included in traveling exhibit
Imagine Cup 2008: Imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment
Organized by: Microsoft
Who can enter: students ages 16 and above
Categories: 9, including Software Design, Interface Design, Photography, Game Development, Algorithm
Deadline: varies by category
Prizes (total): $30K in cash prizes
Updates on: Electronic Arts, One Laptop Per Child, game development, IBM, Brandeis
Game developer, Electronic Arts (EA), has announced donating its original 1989 classic, “SimCity”, to the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project. — Tech Tree
NEW DELHI: If you have an idea to make learning fun, campuses are all game. And with scores of firms introducing educational games targeting school, colleges, besides management students and professionals alike, learning could be just fun. Companies in the education space — Educomp, NIIT, 24×7 learning, Gurukul Online, Applect Learning Systems and Tutorvista, to name a few — are either planning to launch or have launched education-based computer games. — Economic Times
IBM is working with Brandeis International Business School (IBS) to test “serious games,” video games designed to help students build combined business and IT skills often required in today’s work environments. — Campus Technology
Updates on: technology in higher education
According to Eduventures, investments in networks and data security continue to be priorities for higher education institutions, with increased investment in wired and wireless networks. Campus wireless network adoption continues to broaden its reach, as campuses integrate mobile computing into their teaching and learning strategies. — Campus Technology
Worlddidac Asia 2007, the world’s premier trade event on educational materials, media and technology, is being held in Bangkok from Nov 27-29. — Bangkok Post
Updates on: One Laptop Per Child, Hoover City Schools in Alabama, PBS and Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s literacy initiative, No Child Left Behind, and LeTourneau’s Tyler Educational Site
India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. — Wiki News Reports
Hoover City Schools in Alabama is expanding access to library services with the adoption of a centralized, Web-based system that allows students to search for and reserve books online and have them delivered to their desks the next day using Follett’s Destiny Library Manager. The district is also using the system to provide library enhancements, including providing previews of books. — T.H.E. Journal
In January PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will launch a five-year literacy initiative for preschoolers and young learners aimed at teachers, parents, and caregivers. Funded in part through a grant from the United States Department of Education, the multi-pronged initiative, dubbed “PBS Kids Raising Readers,” will include a wide range of new tools and media, including television series, Web content, professional development, and a preschool curriculum, designed to develop literacy skills in kids aged 2 to 8. — T.H.E. Journal
No Child Left Behind is up for reauthorization this year, giving supporters and opponents alike a chance to change the federal law. Bush signed the bill into law in January 2002. The law has become one of his most prominent domestic achievements. Bush has asked Congress to reauthorize the law, saying No Child Left Behind “is working for all kinds of children in all kinds of schools in every part of the country.” — The Durango Herald
LeTourneau is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Most students follow a “blended” track by attending classes at LeTourneau’s Tyler Educational Site and also taking some courses online. This article profiles the institution and some of the students who have benefited from its flexible program. — Tyler Paper
Updates on: T-Mobile, Facebook, and Google
T-Mobile has invested €3.5 million in Arantech, a Dublin software firm that was this weekend named company of the year by the Irish Software Association (ISA). — Sunday Business Post
Don’t compare Facebook’s new ad system to anything you’ve seen on Google, television, or any other advertising medium you can think of. Compare it instead to Amazon.com (Charts, Fortune 500) or eBay (Charts, Fortune 500). That’s because, while advertising as we know it today may very well be a good profit engine for the social networking company, its new Facebook Ads program is also about e-commerce — that is, selling. — CNN
Google’s mobile plans, announced earlier this week, failed to generate the kind of consumer buzz and media frenzy that the iPhone launch did. Unlike Apple’s sleek, all-touchscreen device, Google’s Android isn’t a phone — it’s a mobile platform. — CNN
Updates on: Princeton Review, Reader’s Digest
Princeton Review Inc., which provides test-preparation and college admissions services, on Wednesday named Stephen Richards chief operating officer and chief financial officer. Richards was previously executive vice president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Houghton Mifflin. — CNN
Reader’s Digest has named Peggy Northrop U.S. Editor-in-Chief, it was announced today by Mary Berner, President and CEO of The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. Northrop joins Reader’s Digest from Meredith’s More magazine, where she has been Editor-in- Chief since April 2004. Northrop will also serve on the company’s Executive Committee. — PR Newswire
New service expands the opportunities for video blogging
Nashville, Tenn. - U-Debate.com will launch on Nov. 6 as the first online community for one-on-one video debating. Further evolving the video blog, U-Debate gives users the ability to post a video discussing their views and virtually debate any thought, idea, or topic with another U-Debate member. From the election to Britney Spears, U-Debate.com is providing the video forum that challenges people to “Prove Your Point.”
U-Debate can be used in a variety of ways. Members join the site for free and upload or embed a video discussing their views, then either challenge a specific opponent or post it in the general forum to wait for someone to challenge them. Once two members have decided to debate a topic, they have unlimited opportunities to rebuttal each others’ views while earning support from other users. Members can choose to support a debater by adding video comments, text comments, or adding their counted vote for who they agree with. Debates are won by a debater’s choice to forfeit or failure to rebuttal within one week of their challenger’s latest post.
“There are any number of issues that can be discussed on U-Debate.com and there are ,sure to be some heated debates,” says U-Debate co-founder Jack Behar. “We really tried to pick up where sites like MySpace and YouTube left off, and further improve people’s ability to interact with each other. People want to express themselves, and this will be the place that takes the pulse of society.”
Be sure to visit http://www.U-Debate.com and see for yourself!
For more information, comments or interviews, please contact Jennifer Padgett at jpadgett@cubedmonkey.com or 615.347.4253.
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