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* 2006 Round Up - PFT's Top 5 for 2006 * Top 5 Fizzles (of '06) List * 2007 Digital Crystal Ball * Do We Have Room for a Positronic Brain Around Here? Slicing, Dicing, Dissecting 2006 - Positive Trends of EdTech Past * $100 Laptop (OLPC - One Laptop Per Child project) - OLPC website http://www.laptop.org/ - OLPC Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home - Associated Press article: Low-cost laptop's software could be more revolutionary than price http://www.examiner.com/a-483512~Low_cost_laptop_s_software_could_be_more_revolutionary_than_price.html * Google Sets a New Model - Google for Educators http://www.google.com/educators/index.html - Google Earth http://earth.google.com - Google Gadgets http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/ - Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ * eLearning Comes into Adolescence * New Media Becomes Mainstream - Digital Natives Lead the Way! * Social Networking - i.e. Nintendo DS - Nintendo DS website http://www.nintendo.com/overviewds * About.com KPK About.com o Podcasting in Education Column by Dr. Kathy King o First interview with Dr. Kathy King- Podcasting in Education: http://podcasting.about.com/od/podcastingineducation/a/kinginterview.htm o Dr. Kathy King biographical background: http://podcasting.about.com/od/podcastingineducation/ss/educatekingbio.htm 2nd PFT SpotLight Raffle Give-Away for Ed Tech Ideas. Raffle deadline 1/18/07 o Submit Your Ed Tech Activity - details at www.podcastforteachers.org/PFTspotlight.html PFT spotlight o How you customize technology for your teaching or classroom setting? o How do you use education and technology, maybe blogs, podcasts, wikis, slideshows or other technology with your students in a specific application to content? o Rules and Conditions: + By submitting your ideas you are giving your permission for them to be read on the podcast and/or posted on our website and in our podcast shownotes. + Deadline for the drawing is January 18, 2007 5pm EST. + Only one winner will be chosen for this raffle from those entered. + Entries will be reviewed for completeness by the committee. Their decision will be final. + Entries that fulfill all requirements will be entered in the raffle. + Winner to be announced via the Podcast for Teachers Techpod podcast and then subsequently contacted via email. o Help us celebrate ed tech- let's share ideas with all your PFT family of listeners and enter by 1/18/07 for a chance to win a MP3 player combo digital voice recorder! o Entry form at www.podcastforteachers.org/PFTspotlight.html 2nd Annual PFT Best Educational Podcast Competition o Full Details in this episode o Best Educational Podcast Awards5 Categories o Deadline will be May 1, 2007 o More Information Here o http://www.podcastforteachers.org/PFTbestpodcastawards.html PFT ANNOUNCEMENTS News FLASH o PFT Past Episodes now available on CD http://www.bxmedia.net/bxm0024-full.htm o Over 50 episodes on 3 cds !!! volumes 1,2 and 3 o Check it Out! iLEARNRADIO.ORG - "Virtual learning for the digital age.." Be sure to check out the only Internet Radio Station with educational broadcasting 24/7 From PFT's ed tech learning to Dans Mathcast, LD Podcast and Adventures in Transformative Learning! http://www.ilearnradio.org All the web resources for our PFT podcasts are available at http://www.podcastforteachers.org/ResourcesbyPodcast.html Abundant PFT resources are available through our web site portal www.podcastforteachers.org and the to our PFT @ Learningtimes.org online community for the fully searchable database of all episodes, posting episode feedback, and more. Fordham RETC Toolbar Let your cohosts Mark and Kathy know how you use podcasts with your students and email your comments and questions to Email: podcastforteachers@gmail.com Leave a message on our LearningTimes "Record-by-Phone" line: 1-800-609-9006 x8055 Outside the U.S. and Canada, call: 678-255-2174 x8055 OR Join us in the PFT online discussion board at Learningtimes.org: (Click Here) PFT's name is service marked by Fordham University, 2006 PFT content is developed, produced and (c) by Fordham RETC, King and Gura, 2006. "More Ed Tech You Can Use Today and Tomorrow!"