links for 2008-03-31 from Wagner

• Adobe Photoshop Express – Made You Look.
  This is exciting, and very un-Adobe. It’s an online photo editing application with all the bells and whistles of a web 2.0 application. I look forward to really playing with it.
  (tags: images)
• Middle School Journal – Video Games in the Middle School Classroom
  This article describes “a pilot curriculum built around a commercially available video game.” Students are playing Restaurant Empire in Middle School. I hope to see more and more of this.
  (tags: edugames)

Author: Mark Wagner, Educational Technology and Life Blog, 31st March 2008

Full article available here.

iPhone for Kindergarteners (Or Younger Kids!)

I’m now a proud iPhone owner (and loving it), and I’m noticing when people mention new ways the amazing (though expensive) handheld Internet devices can be used in education. My colleague Lainie McGann from the Newport-Mesa USD shared with me this email from Colleen Gurney, a Kindergarten teacher in the district.

Author: Mark Wagner, Educational Technology Blog, 24th March 2008

Full article available here.

Students Recieve Free MacBook, and choice of iPhone or iPod

SAN FRANCISCO – Incoming students at Oklahoma Christian University will receive new Apple Macbook laptops the school said, and also get a choice between a new iPhone or an iPod Touch.

Author: Daniel Jacobs, International Business Times, 3rd March 2008

Full article available here.