• “The most important thing for allowing bonobos to acquire language is not to teach them.” -Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on Apes that Write I wasn’t sure why this was a TED Talk at first … but about 5 minutes in, you’ll understand.  A video about cultural transfer between humans and Bonobos.  Absolutely amazing.
• “Grades may encourage an emphasis on quantitative aspects of learning, depress creativity, foster fear of failure, and undermine interest” (Butler and Nissan 1986, p. 215) for more on this, read Grading: Not How but Why by Alfie Kohn [via @tonnet]
• “… knowledge about technology cannot be treated as context-free, and that good teaching requires an understanding of how technology relates to the pedagogy and content,” -TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) [via @tonnet] The premise is that there are three overlapping domains: Content Knowledge, Technological Knowledge, and Pedagogical Knowledge – in the center of these three domains is TPACK.

Games …

• Just when you thought there was nothing else to be done with Tetris, here’s First Person Tetris.  Motion-sickness pills anyone? [via @courosa]
• The New Games People Play: Game Mechanics In The Age Of Social reminds us that individual games were only a recent phenomenon, social games are actually the norm, evolutionarily speaking.  [via @TechCrunch]  There’s not much to read here, but you might be interested in the 33 minute video on Social Gaming: The Mechanics of Fun at the end of the article.
• The blue elephant is back! Play Achievement Unlocked 2 from @armorgames, a quirky game that you only really understand as you play.  Fun and short, not TOO addicting.   [via @tweedcap]
• Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures and the results make it into Nature magazine!  This is all about the game FoldIt, an awesome experiment in crowdsourcing/harnessing human thought.  [via @arstechnica and @Seriosity]

Still unorganized …

• Open Scholar http://is.gd/dYeIb via @rhollingsworth #
• RT @derekbruff My thoughts on the @Chronicle piece by @jryoung about the “last technology holdouts”: http://is.gd/dV4Vx #clickers #edtech #
• RT @maanow: Today’s Math in the News: For K-12 Teachers: Free STEM Content and Professional Development Courses http://cot.ag/bKcCr2 #
• RT @Ginaschreck: FINALLY! //RT @mashable: Put All Your Club Cards on a Digital Key Ring – http://mash.to/2jNOs #
• RT @Ginaschreck: Impressive //RT @gigaom: Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S. http://dlvr.it/3JWZs #
• RT @randyfuj: RT @TechCrunch Wave Goodbye To Google Wave http://tcrn.ch/9IgE6t #edtech #
• RT @c4lpt Useful resource fm Lifehacker – How to migrate your entire Google account to a new one http://bit.ly/dbnkPQ / awesome! #
• RT @mcleod You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding http://post.ly/qKls #
• RT @cherylcolan Drag and drop attachments received in Gmail from Google Chrome to your desktop http://j.mp/b31xWy #
• RT @courosa Google to implement multiple sign-ins. http://is.gd/e3xKD #
• RT @simbeckhampson RT @RadHertz Dynamic Learning Maps http://bit.ly/cYpm0T – Interesting work… #
• The great twitter experiment of Summer 2010 Calculus was a success. By the end of 10 weeks, the students “got” why… http://fb.me/xuj8YCQU #
• Woo hoo! My @EDUCAUSEreview article on The Open Faculty is published! http://is.gd/e4neF #
• Q5) Venues for emotional and cognitive sparks? The shower. Seriously. Can stand there for 30 min thinking. #lrnchat #
• Q5) Also, airplanes. There’s something about the digital quiet and white noise that sparks my creativity. I love flying! #lrnchat #
• Do you think the shower space is also digital quiet and white noise? (that’s @mr_busynessgirl‘s theory) #lrnchat #
• RT @eLearnMag: Are inexperienced writers (or unconfident ones) not cut out for online ed? http://tinyurl.com/elearnBGwriters #
• RT @cnansen RT @oc_tony: Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Saving for Attachments http://bit.ly/d0Jx5R #gct #gtauk #
• RT @davidwees Inquiry based learn improves student’s scores on standardized testing & reduces achievement gap. http://bit.ly/b7MQNz #edchat #
• RT @ShowerThinker: If you get ideas in the shower and your need a waterproof tool to write on: http://bit.ly/gyhFY / #lrnchat #
• Did you know you can drag a tab out of Firefox or Chrome and it will just become a new window? One of those things I somehow missed I guess. #
• RT @cherylcolan: @busynessgirl you can drag tabs from one window to another, too – I do that a lot / Hmm … did I miss some class on this? #
• Have you had any of those “I can’t believe I didn’t know you could do this?” moments re: using computer or Internet. Please send my way. #
• Just discovered:Click on an item in your Windows taskbar and drag up to see the most recently visited sites/documents for that program. #
• RT @mathhombre: @busynessgirl COMMAND+` to cycle through windows on a Mac; my introduction to 2finger scrolling on a macbook #
• RT @jstein: When I learned to use Win quick keys, especially Win + M, Win + E… #
• RT @EDUCAUSEreview:The “open” issue: @opencontent @coolcatteacher @davecormier @gsiemens @busynessgirl @brlamb @jimgroom @carolinarossini #
• Still collecting “Boy I wish someone had told me this earlier” tips about PCs, Macs, and browsers … making a new resource #
• RT @krzyslower @busynessgirl Cmd/Ctrl + 1, 2, 3, 4, etc… Cycles through open tabs in Firefox. #
• RT @cnansen Install Readability into all browsers – click it and web based article displays article w/o all the clutter / LOVE this one in reply to cnansen #
• RT @jasonschmidt123: Quick tab-changing in Firefox – Ctrl + 1,2,3, etc (cmd+1,2,3… Mac) switches to that #tab in order from left. #
• RT @suburbanlion: Neat trick on a MacBook: hold Ctrl and slide two fingers up on the touchpad to magnify the screen #
• RT @cnansen: Here is a screen shot from an iPad marked up on a Mac with Skitch – http://tinyurl.com/2de8eg7 #
• PC tip: Select text in document program and press Ctrl+Plus for subscript, Ctrl+Shift+Plus for superscript. Handy for chemists. #
• PC Tip: Ctrl-Alt-V is paste-special (useful for image work) #
• For Chrome, try Lazarus Form Recovery (when your tab crashes, all the text you entered for that speaker proposal is not lost) #
• Another great Chrome extension is “Chromey Calculator” which uses Wolfram Alpha on back end. #
• RT @ricetopher: There are times when Microsoft impresses the hell out of me. This is one of those times: http://j.mp/bmrTJz #
• Super (free) Wolfram Alpha Intermediate Algebra worksheets from @ffeldon http://twurl.nl/hpp0c7 #
• Newbies to tech always claim there’s a “Secret Club” with “secret codes” . Here’s the cheat sheet we give them: http://twurl.nl/j13bf4 #
• RT @tonnet It Now Takes Six Years—and More—to Earn a College Degree http://is.gd/e6MHA #
• RT @tonnet Academics Build Blog-to-eBook Publishing Tool in One Week http://is.gd/e6Nnj #
• RT @tonnet RT @s_burke: Does “spring cleaning” happen in the summer for all teachers? / yes. #
• RT @lcbyoung RT @dompruitt: Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web – http://tcrn.ch/9isM05 #
• RT @rkiker Haven’t checked out Photosynth in a while, new interface seems nicer for image visualiz http://bit.ly/9vDfCL #PATeach #edtech #
• RT @JoyGayler: Caffeine infographic – http://flic.kr/p/7uZHAw (RT @timbwatkins) / awesome reference! #
• This infographic by Jess Bachman is really cool: http://www.deathandtaxesposter.com/ #
• RT @rtkrum: How Does Diet Soda Cause Weight Gain? [infographic video] http://bit.ly/a1M9Vf #
• Wow! This is like eye/brain candy for a Saturday morning http://www.historyshots.com How cool would these be in the classroom? #
• Wouldn’t it be cool if you could print a prezi in high-def to PosterBrain? #
• Perhaps the honors calc project this year will be to create an infographic of the history of calculus. #
• Both KartOO and Clusty seem to have died their Internet death in the last year. KartOO–>Knowhow and Clusty–>Yippy now. #
• .@mrdfleming Try setting up Chrome like this and you’ll be completely happy: http://is.gd/e7BBZ (except for the java part) in reply to mrdfleming #
• Hmmm … it seems that http://yippy.com is basically Clusty with a new name. Still clusters search results, calls them “clouds” now. #
• This is cool, a search engine that searches for mindmaps on a particular topic: http://www.mindmapsearch.org/ #
• RT @pwelter Also, addicted to address bar/search being one and the same in Chrome. / oh hell yes! #
• http://www.mahalo.com looks interesting, but I don’t understand why have to have an account to search. #offthelist #
• Oh YES! Java app to do Google search with mindmap display http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html #
• Here’s another cool search engine with visual display: http://eyeplorer.com/show/ #
• RT @cherylcolan: Cool! “most desirable graphing calculator this side of Pluto” http://j.mp/bDJMAl / can’t anything shame TI at this point? #
• RT @c4lpt: Do you get your best ideas when you are in the shower and wonder why?! http://bit.ly/9fU74z / just talking about this on Thurs #
• RT @CarnivalOfMath: 68th Carnival of math is up over at @plusmathsorg http://plus.maths.org/content/carnival #
• RT @Ginaschreck In 2005 avg cell phone call was 3 min. Today it is 1/2 that. Will the phone call go the way of written letter? #
• RT @ShellTerrell RT @Marisa_C: http://bit.ly/12Jvot Tech Singularity – interesting re technological progress and human brain limitations #
• You cannot even begin to imagine how awesome it is to have fast upload and not be always worrying about how much data I am using online. #

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