Earlier this week, The Linux Foundation announced that it would be working with edX, a non-profit online learning site governed by Harvard and MIT, to make its “Introduction to Linux” course free and open to all.
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Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources and Ideas
To help teachers navigate this ever-changing landscape of social media tools, here are some of the best guides on the web for four popular networks — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-media-resources-educators-matt-davis
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7 Innovators of Edtech to Watch: SXSWedu 2014
SXSWedu is unlike any educational technology conference I’ve ever attended. There is no warehouse of booths at its core but a full schedule of lectures and discussions set amid a whirlwind of networking events. While some found the sessions lacking, …
How Much Money Can You Make Off YouTube
YouTube offers a Partner Program to help you easily monetize your videos on YouTube. Once you are accepted into the program, upload a video “that you have created” on to YouTube, enable advertising for that video and wait for the …
10 New Educational Web Tools to Try Out
These are basically tools other teachers and edubloggers have reviewed in their websites and blogs and which I think are worth sharing with you and keeping you posted about the latest in the world of educational technology.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/03/10-new-educational-web-tools-to-try-out.html
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Getting Started in Writing an Open Textbook
Learn how to use PressBooks, a derivation of WordPress that outputs in html, pdf or e-pub formats.
http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/03/03/getting-started-in-writing-an-open-textbook/
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Student Films about Technology in Education
For this year’s White House Student Film Festival, students were asked to submit videos about how technology is used in their classrooms and how it will change education for kids in the future. Of the 2500 video submissions, 16 were …
Presentation of the Week: The MOOC of One
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The Myth of Average: Explaining Universal Design for Learning (TED Talk)
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Curriculet: Build interaction around digital text
Curriculet enables teachers to deliver customized, Common Core aligned learning and digitally create and share their curriculum and lesson materials.
Get Your Own Personal Cloud With PClouds
PClouds is a personal cloud service that, instead of using a third-party cloud server, it links and uses all of your already existing devices and storage. Why opt for this model over traditional third-party cloud storage solutions? Firstly, the security …
TextSecure: End-to-End encrypted and Open Source Messaging app
TextSecure is as a ‘peer-to-peer messaging app’, where messages are encrypted on one end, and only after they reach their intended recipients they are decrypted.
http://thehackernews.com/2014/03/textsecure-end-to-end-encrypted-and.html
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Top Ten Free Apps for Students
There are plenty of free apps out there to help you with budgeting, cooking and organising your life.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/mar/05/top-ten-apps-for-students
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7 Things To Know Before Using Open Educational Resources
OER are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online. Our goals with OER are to find the best possible course materials to engage our students, improve academic achievement, and save the district money.
http://www.edudemic.com/open-educational-resources-2/
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Skype and Outlook Integration Now Rolled Out to the Rest of the World
Regardless of where you are on the world map, as of today, Skype announced via an official blog post that they’ll be rolling out a feature that will allow you to launch and hold Skype video calls straight from your …