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Waze provides “real-time maps and traffic information based on the wisdom of the crowd.”
Here are a few items of note from the Waze website. (Source)
(Hat Tip to Wes Fryer for bringing Waze to my attention.)
Educational Uses
Waze could be integrated with geography, driver’s education, and social studies.
Data generated by Waze (collected from the live maps) could be used in math and science classrooms.
Please share additional educational uses in the comments.
“BarCamp isn’t just a Web 2.0 conference. It’s an unconference.cWhat does that mean, exactly? Well… that’s up to you. The entire event will be crafted by attendees (you), so you can learn about the specific technologies, trends, gadgets you really want to learn about – and hear from the people you find interesting. We’ll be voting first thing in the morning to determine the day’s sessions. Totally crowd-sourced!” (Source)
Register here.
BarCamp Memphis 2010 will be at Emerge Memphis downtown. Located at 516 Tennessee Street in the historic South Main Street district of downtown Memphis, EmergeMemphis sits at the corner of Tennessee and G.E. Patterson (formerly Calhoun) Streets. The site is only two blocks west of the main Memphis train station and adjacent to the main gated entrance to the well-known South Bluffs residential area.
Emerge Memphis
516 Tennessee St
Memphis, TN 38103-4717
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I decided to share AudioBoo during my presentation at TeacheMeet Memphis. Our kids and I have a lot of fun with this service. AudioBoo makes podcasting and audio blogging a snap and can positively impact your classroom (See previous posts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Here are my notes as well as the Ustream archive from my session. My full presentation notes are also available on my wiki, Learning Telecollaboratively.
Tutorials
Publishing to AudioBoo from a Web Browser
Creating an AudioBoo from iPhone
Teacher-Created Examples
2 Announcements
AudioBoo in the Classroom
More Examples
Student-Created Examples
Let’s Connect
Clif’s AudioBoo Profile
[NOTE: This post will be updated throught the event.]
Here are some of my notes and photos from BarCamp Memphis.
Google Wave: What It Is and What It’s for
By: Greg Dunn and Thom Rigsby
Designer vs. Developer
By: Steven Trotter, Joseph Yancey and Craig McCoy
PowerPoint Karaoke
This is an interesting activity. Here are the rules.
Prosper during a Digital Age Recession
By: Ryan Hinricher
Show and Tell Tools
By: Everyone
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“BarCamp Memphis isn’t just a Web 2.0 conference. It’s an unconference. What does that mean, exactly? That’s up to you. The first half of the day will feature predetermined, scheduled sessions like any other conference you’d attend, but in the afternoon the topic curating is turned over to you. Throughout the morning, you’ll vote on what you’d like to discuss or learn more about in the afternoon sessions so that BarCamp is hand-crafted to meet the needs of the community. The afternoon sessions might be panels or Q-and-A with specific BarCampers, or they might be roundtable discussions — Core Conversations, as we call them — with groups of Campers looking to bounce ideas and learn from others’ experiences.” (Source)
I enjoyed SocialCamp Memphis back in March (Here are the resources from one of my presentations at that event.) and I’m looking forward to BarCamp Memphis. Please come join us.
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