Presentation of the Week
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Nine Important Trends in the Evolution of Digital Textbooks and E-learning Content
Nine trends that we’re currently tracing with regards to digital content in Higher Education. These are the critical trends that we believe will determine both growth and innovation in this market.
Machine can read your thoughts
A mind-reading machine is a step closer to reality after scientists discovered a way of translating people’s thoughts into words. Researchers translated brain signals into speech using sensors attached to the surface of the brain. The breakthrough, which is up …
Search Takes a Social Turn
After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web pages to answer every conceivable query — many people now prefer getting their online information the old-fashioned way: by yakking across the fence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13search.html?_r=2&src=twt&twt=nytimestech …
Blackboard no Match for Moodle
An interesting article showing the change from Blackboard to Moodle at the University of Montana (US).
http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/blackboard-no-match-for-moodle-1.1596737
California tests a full year Algebra course on an iPad app
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a major textbook company, has launched a year long pilot project with the HMH Fuse: Holt McDougal Algebra 1 full year algebra course on an iPad. The course mirrors all the content of the Holt McDougal Larson
5 Tools to Create and Administer Quizzes Online
Other than attending staff meetings, writing and grading quizzes might be the least enjoyable part of teaching. Fortunately, there are some tools that can make the process a little bit easier. Here are five tools teachers can use to create
Wordia Brings Words to Life in Video
Wordia is a free visual, video dictionary. Wordia features a selection of user-submitted and professionally created videos explaining the meaning of a word. The videos focus on the everyday use of words while the text accompanying each video provides the
Open-Source Lecture Capture
A new project from the online educational technology collective OpenCast, called Matterhorn 1.0 devoted to the lecture capture market. The Opencast Matterhorn project is an enterprise-level, easy-to-install open source podcast and rich media capture, processing and delivery system.
Think Tutorial – Free Web Apps & Software Tutorials
Think Tutorial is a site providing free, easy to follow tutorials on a variety of web services and software. On Think Tutorial you will find tutorials for taking advantage of the many features of popular email services like Gmail, Apple …
Tips and Tricks for Finding Science and Math Images on the Web
Like everything else on the Internet, trying to find images is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Without the right tools for finding science and math images on the web it is often an impossible, or at
… How Brazil is Blazing a Trail for Electronic Democracy
In the land of all-night samba clubs and soccer fanatics, Brazil is throwing its famously high-energy spirit into the untested waters of online democracy. Multimillion dollar budgets are being handed over to online “town halls,” and the federal government is
Two easy ways for educators and students to start a blog (for free)
It’s really easy to get started blogging – here’s two different ways to get up and running with a quality blog site quickly.
RemindPost: Dead Simple Task Manager & Reminder
There are a number of really sophisticated task managers available on the web but if you are looking for something simple it doesn’t get better than RemindPost. The tool allows you to assign a task to somebody (or yourself) by
Social Learning
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