Expectations run high for Apple’s new mobile device, the iPad, which made its formal debut Wednesday. And much of the anticipation is centered around education, both in terms of its usefulness as a computing platform and its potential to usurp …
Thinklinkr – Collaborative Outline Creator
Thinklinkr is a free service for collaboratively creating outlines. Users can invite collaborators to join into the outlining process at any point in the process. When you’re done creating your outline you can embed it into your blog or website. …
SubZin: Find phrases in Movies and Series
SubZin is the search engine to use when you are looking for specific quotes or lines from movies or TV series. All matches are time-based contextualized, and linked with the imdb movie database. Get the exact moment when a word …
e-Learning in the Cloud
Elearning has grown rapidly in importance for institutions and has been largely facilitated through the “walled garden” of the virtual learning environment. Meanwhile many students are creating their own personal learning environments by combining the various Web 2.0 services they …
SocialLearn, an Open University project, steps onto the stage
They write: “We’re moving from operating as a confidential business project, to an open source, open architecture, open partnership modus operandi. May 2010 be an Open, Social, Connected year for us all!”
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn/2010/01/07/sociallearn-2010/…
Virtual 3D Tours of the Winter Olympics
Today, Google announced the completion of 54 3D models of the 2010 Winter Olympic venues in Vancouver. You can view these models in Google Earth by selecting in the 3D buildings layer. You can also view and tour the buildings …
3 Awesome Tools To Add More Functionality To Your USB Drives
USB drives are ubiquitous these days. Almost everyone has one but what do you use them for? Storage? Is that all? We recognize this and we have covered a plenty of tools and applications that you can use with USB …
Get Organized This Semester With Google Calendar
One of the best things you can do to start your semester off right is to leverage free online tools to help you manage your classes. In this article, you will learn how to manage your schedule and get organized …
SMARTBoards and Making Music with Kisstunes
Here’s a really great tool for playing and recording music using your computer QWERTY keyboard, your mouse, or by touching your SMART Board. It’s called Kisstunes. It’s incredibly simple to use and the really fun thing about this program is …
14 Technologies Educators Should Watch in 2010
Which technology tools can help improve teaching and learning? Which can boost productivity? Which are just plain useful for keeping organized? Education technology veterans shared their lists of apps intended to make life in and out of the classroom faster, …
Flavorsme – Create Your Own Free Personalized Webpage
Twittering the other night, I stumbled upon a service called Flavors.me. It’s a personal portal website for linking all your content from around the Internet. Which means that visitors to your Flavors.me page will get links to say your Facebook, …
How to Add Captions To Your YouTube Videos
YouTube has a global audience, so if you want to reach as many people as possible, you’ll have to make sure subtitles are available for your videos. You’ll want closed captioning to reach the deaf and hard of hearing or …
ShoutEm – Create Your Own Microblogging Network
ShoutEm is a free service that allows you to create your own private microblogging network. ShoutEm allows you to make your network public or private. Your ShoutEm network can be as simple as Twitter or as robust as FriendFeed.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/01/shoutem-create-your-own-microblogging.html…
Podcasting for E-Learning: Setting Up a Mini-Studio
If you’re serious about podcasting, consider investing in a mini-studio. A well-equipped mini-studio can be a valuable asset to any learning organization. For a relatively small investment, you can provide employees with a comfortable environment to create high-quality audio and …
Kaltura Releases Open Source Video Extension for Moodle
Kaltura, an open source video hosting and management site, now has a Moodle extension. Using the Kaltura video extension for Moodle, teachers can upload and manage rich-media content, such as full lectures in an online course; students can then post …