Episode 138 - Space Jumps, eBooks, and Word Clouds

 Episode 138 - Space Jumps, eBooks, and Word Clouds

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Tom: It’s Monday October 15th, 2012 and welcome to episode 138 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich. Tom: Welcome to Tech Talk for Teachers the show about Teaching and Learning with Technology.




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Show Notes and links for Episode 138 

Felix Baumgartner lands after flying faster than the speed of sound

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/felix-baumgartner-tries-record-breaking-jump-again-live-blog/2012/10/14/b7ddfc18-159d-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_blog.html 

eBook Settlement
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebook-settlement-means-publishers-apple-162202879.html 

Student Podcast Reviews Talk Shoe
http://www.talkshoe.com/

Word Clouds
 Tagxedo
 http://www.tagxedo.com/ 

http://blog.tagxedo.com/101-ways-to-use-tagxedo-completedhttp://www.tagxedo.com/gallery.html 

Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/http://www.wordle.net/

tt4t_054 Web 2.0 and Deeper Meaning (Wordle Activity)

http://techtalk4teachers.blogspot.com/2008/09/4t054-web-20-and-deeper-meaning.html 

Technology Picks of the Week 

Tom’s Pick:

Word Talk Add-in for Microsoft Word (Office 2007 and Office 2010) 
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/


Cindy’s Pick Flip Board App

http://flipboard.com/ http://flipboard.com

That wraps it up for episode 138 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich, Keep on learning.