Educational technology that talks!

An email during the week reminded me that I haven’t promoted EdTechTalk to new readers to this blog.
May 15 marked EdTechTalk’s first anniversary – and what a year! Wow, professional learning at its best!

Edtechtalk is a webcasting network of educators dedicated to helping those involved in educational technology explore, discuss, and collaborate in its use. The EdTech Channell currently webcasts 7 shows:

Australia’s Library Newspaper Archive Project Begins

The National Library of Australia is ready to begin a major undertaking of newspaper digitization. Within the next five years, Australian newspapers printed before 1954 will be available online for free. According to NLA director-general Jan Fullerton, “Within this project, we are planning to digitise one newspaper from each of the capital cities and the territories from the beginning of their time until 1954 which is the copyright cut off.” [Reported in The Age]

[From iLibrarian ]

Digital Identity Mapping

Digital Identity Mapping

Originally uploaded by fredcavazza.

This is a very nice visual image of the shift in our social environment – which now embraces a combination of online tools for every facet of our personal life..