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– I have long been a fan of Jing as an alternative to Camtasia. Today they came out with a Pro version for $14.95/yr (that’s cheap) that has HD quality video for the web, and direct output to YouTube. Awesome! I’m so upgrading! Thanks Jing Folks!

– A new application that might be useful to students that have a hard time remembering.

– Great presentation on what 2009 will look like for mobile devices.

– As we look toward mobile devices becoming an integral part of education this app looks promising.

– The latest Skype is going to have built in screen sharing. This could be great for educators that are already using Skype in great numbers. Awesome for sharing and showing students how to do a certain task… or remote classes.

– “For many university technology leaders, the emergence over the past couple of years of Web 2.0 technologies represented a confluence of maturing underlying technologies combined with the rise of what we asserted was the first really promising set of mass collaboration tools. Here we were sitting on the precipice of the long promised “transformational” potential of technology to the education enterprise — and then the economy tanks.”

Top 10 trends for higher education in 2009

1. To The Cloud and Beyond
2. The Consumer Reigns Supreme
3. Streaming Media for Education Goes Mainstream
4. Second Life Goes Back to School
5. e-Book Readers Disrupt the College Text Book Market Place
6. The IT Help Desk Becomes An Enterprise Service Desk
7. Course Management Systems are Dead! Long Live Course Management Systems!
8. ERP? What’s That?
9. In God We Trust – Everyone Else Bring Data
10. Smile, Interactive High Definition Video Conferencing moves from the Board Room to the Research Lab and the Lecture Hall.
11. The Campus Data Center Goes Under the Scope.

– The latest news from the iPhone/iTouch pilot going on in Abilene. Don’t be deceived by the title. It is going well and they actually have some statistics in the article.

“About 85 percent of freshmen at the university see the iPhones as “very valuable” to their education, according to preliminary results of a university survey. And the freshmen said that 20 percent of their courses made some use of the devices during the semester.”

“Mr. Watkins, the student-government president, said that despite his concerns about the iPhone program, he praised the college’s efforts to develop services for the devices. And he said the project has improved the university’s reputation. ‘In the long run,’ he said, ‘it’s going to make my degree worth more.’”

– I know I must have been hiding under a rock, but apparently the Classroom 2.0 community does a live meeting every week. This past week they had 160 people there. What a great opportunity to learn and connect with people that are working on the same things we are working on.

– If this were even somewhat affordable it would be AWESOME!

– I have had Stanza on my iPhone since I first got it and I love it! Here is another great article about how it can revolutionize the eBook industry!

– This is a great discussion about digital annotation. Prof. Wesch points out some great points, and Evernote and Diingo actually reply on his blog (I love the internet!)

– “Those of us striving to integrate participatory media literacy practices into our classes often face resistance. “

– More and more professors are looking to capture and SHARE their lectures! This is great!