When Windows 10 launches later this year, people who own devices running Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 7 will be able to install the new OS for free…for the first year.
http://linkis.com/www.geekwire.com/201/PgPCa
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How to let altruism be your guide
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Presentation of the Week: Identity in a Digital World
The 11 most useful web tools of 2014
Your 2014 list of our 11 most useful tools of 2014 covers everything from creating charts to making your computer screen a little easier on the eyes. Of course there’s plenty we missed, but these are some of the tools …
The Best Free Photoshop Alternatives
The free Photoshop alternatives below will hopefully allow your students to do some image editing at school or at home should you not have access to Photoshop or something similar.
http://instructionaltechtalk.com/best-free-photoshop-alternatives/
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The Best Language Learning Apps For 2015
Here are ten of the best language learning apps for 2015, updated to include those with social dynamics, like HelloTalk, recent entries like Rosetta Stone, and stalwart Duolingo. We’ve also made an effort to include multiple languages, including Mandarin, French, …
Understanding Google Certifications
A challenge of raising a connected generation of students is figuring out how to be a connected learner yourself. This requires learning about the tools that support connections and connected learning, and to accomplish this goal you may want to …
Grab a GIF from a video with new YouTube GIF creator
Instantly create and share a looping clip from your favourite YouTube video with the new tool.
http://www.cnet.com/news/grab-a-gif-from-a-video-with-new-youtube-gif-creator/
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Duolingo For Schools Is Free, And It May Change The EdTech Market
Duolingo for schools offers a window into the future of education technology. It shows us how interactive digital technologies can be used to create a more equitable educational landscape, not just in the U.S., but globally.
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Skype’s newest app will translate your speech in real time
Skype Translator Preview works on Windows 8.1 or preview copies of Windows 10, and it works by translating voice input from an English or Spanish speaker into text and translated audio.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/15/7393665/skype-translator-features
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Free Book: How to Use Moodle 2.7 (360+ pages of Moodle)
This digital text created by Jaswinder Singh based on Jason Cole & Helen Foster’s Using Moodle 2nd Edition is available for free to Moodlers who are using 2.7. The text is 350+ pages and focuses on all aspects of Moodle’s …
Useful Regular Expressions for Validating Input in Google Forms
When you are expecting dozens, or even hundreds, of responses in your Google Forms, it is always a good idea to have some rules in place and respondents data should be matched against these rules even before they submit the …
How to Build a Successful School Technology Program
Technology is a catalyst. Certainly, it has the potential to make good instruction better, but it can quickly make bad instruction even worse. As any good technology director, curriculum director, or superintendent can tell you, instruction begins and ends with …
Best Education-Related Videos of 2014
They all, in some way, address the mind, heart, and spirit of education. Each touched me in some way to help illuminate the purpose and core of education.
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/best-education-related-videos-of-2014/
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