Google Alerts is a great tool for tracking your name online, tracking work you’ve posted online, and tracking the topics in you have an interest. You can create a Google Alert for any search term(s) you like. Once you’ve established …
Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles
Hard to believe there could be 55 articles on Twitter in learning, but Tony Karrer has them. He writes, “Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying ‘I don’t get it’ – to feeling like it’s …
Make A Lasting Impression With TokBox Video Messages
Email is boring. It has its place and it’s an important method of communication, but if you really want to stand out, it can be hard to do that through a simple email. Text and emoticons can only accomplish so …
Google Calendar’s Smart Rescheduler Searches For The Best Meeting Times
The only thing worse than company meetings is trying to schedule one. The more people who need to be at that meeting, the harder it is to find a time slot that works with everyone’s schedule. A new Google Calendar …
i>clicker Intros Web-based Clicker
i>clicker has created a new student response mechanism that runs through a Web browser. web>clicker allows students with any device that runs a standard Web browser to vote using laptops, PDAs, and cell phones. To help with accessibility, web>clicker provides …
EasyStereogramBuilder: Generate Magic Eye Stereograms Online
Do you remember the nineties when Magic Eye was the craze and people were literally cross-eyed trying to find a 3D image within an image? Here is a website to bring the fun of the nineties back. EasyStereogramBuilder is a …
The iPhone for Moodle web application asks for your feedback
Moodle developers who have released a prototype iPhone app for the LMS are looking for feedback. Also worth noting in this post is the description of the five steps involved in the development of the product.
http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2010/03/our-iphone-for-moodle-web-application.html…
mTouch (MoodleTouch) for iPhone: Another Mobile App
“MTouch is the first and only native iPhone application for Moodle” according to their website: http://moodletouch.com. This adds a little more competition to the quickly developing field of Mobile Moodle apps and plug-ins.
http://www.moodlemonthly.com/2010/mtouch-moodletouch-for-iphone-another-mobile-app/…
75 Free Language Learning Resources Online
Whether you’re trying to learn English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Italian –you get the picture – it’s good to get free help along the way. Luckily, there are tons of free online resources out there. Here are 75 to …
How Does Cloud Computing Work?
Cloud computing has been changing how most people use the web and how they store their files. It’s the structure that runs sites like Facebook, Amazon and Twitter and the core that allows us to take advantage of services like …
College 2.0: More Professors Could Share Lectures Online. But Should They?
There are good reasons to press the ‘record’ button, but uploading to the Internet might desecrate the classroom.
http://chronicle.com/article/More-Professors-Could-Share/64521/…
Use Screencast To Manage & Share Your Media Files
Screencast can be a useful way to manage and share your image and video capture beyond your computer and have them stored in the cloud, i.e., on TechSmith’s server. When you set up your free account, all your uploaded files …
Nexus One (the “Google Phone”) now available in Canada
The Google Nexus One smart phone is finally available in Canada (starting on March 16th, 2010). Essentially, the Nexus One is sold unlocked, so you can pop pretty much any SIM card in there and be on your way. Google …
Turn Your Spreadsheets into Word Clouds
One of the lesser known elements of Google Docs is spreadsheet gadgets. Gadgets are designed to take data from your spreadsheets and use it or display it in non-spreadsheet forms. One example of this is the Word Cloud Gadget.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/03/turn-your-spreadsheets-into-word-clouds.html…
What the Vook? – Future Classroom Tool
Vook is a relatively new tool Internet entrepreneur by Bradley Inman. With the idea to combine books and videos, Vook brings these media forms together. A vook is simply defined as a “new innovation in reading that blends a well-written …