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Twitter continues its uninterrupted advances as it moves to take over the world and enslave us all to its demonic will... No, wait. That's Google.

Twitter is the kind, simple, uncomplicated app that's melting the hearts of even the most curmudgeonly of us.

Google is the multi-tentacled monster of the deep. Twitter is a sad-eyed kitten. In the end they'll both steal your soul, but you'll feel better about one. You figure which.

Anyway, on to more Twitter matters...

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Since 2004 a team from Tulane University has been traveling each year to Guatemala to produce content for a multi-media language application. Next week begins the fifth and final Guatemala road trip collaboration between the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Tulane Technology Services. The final product of this multi-year effort is a self-paced, online and CD-ROM, Flash-based language learning application. The goal: use innovative new media technologies to teach the Maya kaqchikel language to English and Spanish speakers.

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Last month I attended the New Media Consortium annual conference in Monterey, California, and brought along an entry for the poster competition. I'm a new media sort of fellow, but sometimes paper and ink (even laser printer ink) is the way to go.

I'm happy to report that my entry, "The Four Corners of Classroom Support: A Multi-Part Approach to Classroom Technology at Tulane" won a Judges' Choice award. It looked darn nice, too!

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Twitter's been around since 2006 and in the public eye since 2007, but recently it's exploded into the consciousness of the general population. I think we can all agree that when a social technology makes it into the heads of Congress, it's no longer "the-latest-thing." But now that Twitter's hit the mainstream, the social network possibilities have multiplied.

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NMC 2008 Conference program | Archived media from NMC 2008 Conference | del.icio.us tags for NMC2008

Another great New Media Consortium summer conference has come and gone. This one was hosted by Princeton University and was attended by more than 500 new media and education technology professionals from around the country. Nearly 90 sessions were offered during the four days and Gina, Marie and I took in as many as we could. An abundance of "link-ful" goodness after the jump...

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Now on the Second Life Main Grid - Tulane Island!

We're still making changes, but Tulane Island is now available for work and play! Grab your avatar and take it for a spin...

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It's 5:10 in the A.M. and we're leaving in a few minutes to catch our flight that will ultimately lead us to Guatemala. It'll be ten days in Panajachel and Antigua shooting video with native Mayan Kaqchekel speakers. Read about it at the eKaqchikel project site.

More after we reach Antigua

I'm going to channel Navin Johnson for a moment... "The new iPhone's here! The new iPhone's here!"

No, really. The iPhones are here. What? I'm a week late, you say? Maybe. But I finally laid my hands on one of these beauties yesterday and, honestly, it is all it's cracked up to be. Not perfect, to be sure, but the interface – the breakthrough element of this product – is outstanding. You only need to handle an iPhone for a short while before you realize that you're dealing with The Next Big Thing™.

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It's not hard to design and install a technology-enhanced classroom: a projector, a screen, a few cables and a computer and you have your room. Designing a campus-wide system of technology-enhanced classrooms and keeping them all operating at full capacity every day of the school year with an FTE staff of one – that's the real trick. One element of this elaborate juggling act we call classroom support is preventative replacement, A.K.A.,technology refresh.

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Now that the dust has settled and the NMC 2007 summer conference is one for the history books, thought I'd do a little link wrap-up.

Many of the presenters submitted their presentations for online posting, and some sessions were even recorded for podcast. The full list of available presentations is on the NMC site: NMC Summer Conference Presentations. Check them out - they've included the poster sessions, too, several of which were facinating!

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