When you think social media you think openness, inclusive communities and platforms that know no boundaries. You think Facebook. But are we starting to reach a point where we’re looking for more personal networks, smaller and more closed communities
Try DROPitTOme to Collect Assignments Online
DROPitTOme is a free service that works with Drop Box to allow people to upload files to your Drop Box account without giving them access to the contents of your Drop Box account. For those not familiar with Drop Box
The First Unofficial Guide to Dropbox
Dropbox acts as a “magic pocket” which is always with you and contains whatever you place in it. Put a file into your Dropbox and it’s on all of your computers and mobile devices, really handy if you own multiple
Open University chooses Moodle 2.0 as their LMS of the future
The Open University, after commissioning a survey of the alternative/rival LMSs available, has decided to continue using Moodle as it’s primary Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) moving forward and is now planning it’s site wide upgrade which will be a several
How Online Classrooms Are Helping Haiti Rebuild Its Education System
While reconstructing the destroyed universities is a long-term task, University of the People is hoping to give Haitian students a way to continue their educations before it’s completed. By opening a center where students can take advantage of the scarce
The Ultimate Guide To Canadian Teaching Resources
Whether you’re Canadian or not, there are a ton of helpful resources for all teachers available at CanTeach. It’s a simple-to-use website that has lesson plans, links, and other resources for nearly any topic.
http://edudemic.com/2010/11/the-ultimate-guide-to-canadian-teaching-resources/
A Moodle Makeover
The Moodle environment which the DECclic Corporation (Montreal) is using experimentally, is offering a stable platform bursting with pedagogical promise. François Lizotte describes several projects in progress as well as future prospects which he finds extremely promising.
http://www.profweb.qc.ca/en/news/columns/nos-premiers-pas-dans-moodle/index.html
7 Sites That Can Help You Deal With Information Overload
The problem that most people run into while browsing the internet is complete information overload. Finding data is a problem that Google mainly solved years ago – now the challenge the typical user faces is how to find relevant information.
Presentation of the Week
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Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending. An article by Tim-Berners Lee, the inventor of the Web.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web
Google Launches Interactive Book to Teach Everyone About the Web
In an attempt to teach the average person about the fundamentals of browsers and the web, Google has released an interactive online book that explains concepts like, TCP/IP, HTML, browser extensions and malware.
Macrowikinomics: Beyond Superman to a New Model of Education
This article is a review about the newly released book Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. The book argues that many of the institutions of the industrial age have finally come to the end of their lifecycle, and are now
YourName(R) – Trademark Protection is Coming to Social Networks
Your personal and corporate reputation and popularity on these networks pivot on an identity known as your username. The role of usernames as brand identifiers is following a similar pattern as domain names but without any of the protections that
Google Apps Now Has 10 Times More Features!
Google has announced that nearly all of Google’s tools can now be integrated into your Google Apps for Education account. This means that if there is a Google tool that you want the users in your Google Apps for Education
Teachers’ Views on Technology in the Classroom
The New York Times asked teachers to submit videos on how the use of technology has changed the way they teach.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/21/technology/20101121-brain-teachers.html