Lecturers and speakers often record their presentation’s audio and appoint somebody to transcribe it. By converting the audio into text files, the audio can be made searchable on the web, making it easier for others to find. A web service
Defined or Denied? 21st Century Students in Today’s Classrooms
Interesting look at replacements to Bloom’s taxonomy and 21st century learning. “Although it pains us (teachers) to reduce children to a grade or score, it’s currently how our system functions and there are many ways to deemphasize grades and focus
… SimpleDiagrams: Cool Diagram Drawing Software
Online you will find many programs that help you create flowcharts and diagrams. But most of them come with a hefty price tag and are not suitable for people who want to make only basic diagrams. For those simple diagrams,
How To Search & Credit Properly-Licensed Photos On Flickr
This article attempts to make it clearer for everyone which Flickr photos are allowed to re-use and how to easily find and credit them. Anyone who has a blog may have used images published on Flickr but not everyone knows
Create Audio Slideshows With Shwup
Shwup is a new service for creating videos based on your images and audio files. At its most basic Shwup is a place for creating collaborative private photo albums. As the creator of an album you can select the best
Meshin: A Semantic Search Engine For Your E-Mails
Sorting, searching, and making sense through thousands of e-mails can be very messy. Even if powerful e-mail clients today like GMail and Outlook can handle being your conversation assistant, you still end up spending more time searching past e-mails to
Professors Shore Up Wikipedia Entries on Public Policy
Professors at nine universities are enlisting their students to update Wikipedia entries on public policy after a request from the Public Policy Initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation. Students will write and publish articles and edit existing Wikipedia entries. The test
Presentation of the Week
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DawsonITE: The Anatomy of a Referred Site
An article about DawonITE on ProfWeb
http://www.profweb.qc.ca/en/news/columns/the-anatomy-of-a-referred-site/index.html
Lessons for Digital Natives
Digitally ‘native’ children are not digitally ‘literate’ – they just accept digital technologies as part of their everyday lives, argues ICT teacher Tristan Ashman. So how, he asks, can teachers meet pupils’ expectations?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/classroom-innovation/lessons-for-digital-natives
Platforms for Interactively Sharing Student Work
We’ve been living in the 21st century for a decade now, and it’s time more of our classrooms looked like it. The good news is that process is not only easier than ever, it’s also easier to receive support as
Twenty Google Tools Tutorials for Teachers
Some of the tutorials you will find on the Google tools tutorials page are: Creating Self-graded Quizzes. Embedding Videos Into Google Maps. Embedding Google Maps Into Wiki and Blog pages. Creating Data Visualizations in Google Fusion Tables Removing the Navigation
NYU goes Google
NYU is the latest major university to announce its migration to Google Apps for Education.
The project is estimated to save the University around $400,000 annually by eliminating the need to purchase, upgrade, and maintain in-house mail servers and software
… The project is estimated to save the University around $400,000 annually by eliminating the need to purchase, upgrade, and maintain in-house mail servers and software
21 Signs You’re a 21st Century Teacher
Are you a 21st Century Teacher? Read the article and find out yourself!
http://blog.simplek12.com/education/21-signs-youre-a-21st-century-teacher/
15 Moodle Tutorial Videos
Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota is a Moodle using institution and has a nice collection of Moodle (pre-2.0) tutorial videos available at their site.Take a peak and learn more about, online and offline assignments, Files the HTML editor, blocks, Gradebook