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Top 25 Android Apps for Educators
Looking for the best education Android apps to use in your classroom? Look no further! Here is a great list of Android apps for teachers.
http://blog.simplek12.com/education/top-25-android-apps-for-educators/…
MIT Announces Platform for Free Online Courses
MIT is planning to launch an open platform for free online classes, complete with certification for those who demonstrate mastery of their topics.
http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/mit-announces-platform-for-free-online-courses/…
Building Your Own Textbook: How digital content helps teachers customize textbooks
Textbooks are a multi-billion dollar industry. But the growing availability of digital content and open educational resources (OER) is giving schools the opportunity to bypass some of the traditional expenses of textbook purchasing. It’s also giving teachers the opportunities to …
Top 25 Android apps for education
The iPhone and iPad don’t get to have all the fun. Android is among the leading smart-phone technology, and there are over 70,000 apps available for it. Though we can’t claim to have reviewed all 70,000 of them, here are …
Presentation of the Week: Open Education: The University and the Commons
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Google debuts Dart, a JavaScript alternative
Google just launched an “early preview” of Dart, a programming language the company hopes will help Web application programmers overcome shortcomings of JavaScript that Google itself feels acutely.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20117924-264/google-debuts-dart-a-javascript-alternative/…
Bring Old PC To Life With Ubuntu
Give an old computer a new life, using Ubuntu. It’s simple if you follow the instructions in this guide. Outlining everything you need to know to get Ubuntu up and running on older computers, this guide isn’t one to be …
Presentation of the Week: Open Source 101
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25 Best Sites for Free Educational Videos
A great guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free.
Open Education Is Transforming the Way We Learn
A interview with Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus of Communication and the founding director of the Center for Online Learning, Research and Service at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
45 Web Sites About Creative Commons and Public Domain Images
Not familiar with Creative Commons licensing and public domain images? Read about them here.
… 9 Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images
When students create multimedia projects they might be tempted to simply do a Google Images search and use the first images they see. But as educators we have a responsibility to teach students to respect copyright holders’ rights. One of …
Round-Up Of 20 Most Useful Open Source Software
Open source is a term which is a common knowledge of all, it’s cherished by few and most use it without knowing that they are using the open source. It has flourished so brightly that it has now the best …
Osmek: A Content Management System Built on the Cloud
Osmek is a new kind of CMS, built in the cloud so your content is available where and how you need it. It’s a beautiful interface for creating content, and a powerful set of APIs for retrieving it.