Facebook knows the social network of more than a billion persons. If you are a Facebook user though, you have little tools to explore your own social network. We are going to see how, with a few scraping tools, …
Great list of resources: data science, visualization, machine learning, big data
Fantastic resource created by Andrea Motosi. I’ve only included the 5 categories that are the most relevant to our audience, though it has 31 categories total, including a few on distributed systems and Hadoop.
Tech-savvy cheats beware: Universities are banning smartwatches
As technology has gotten smarter and a lot smaller, educators have raised concerns that gadgets — from blue tooth earpieces to Google Glass — could be used to cut corners during important tests.
http://mashable.com/2015/06/16/universities-banning-smart-watches/…
10 Easy and Innovative Ways to Use PDF Files
Here are 10 ways in which you can extend the uses of PDFs, in order not only to increase your productivity but also extend your knowledge of such a useful document format.
http://socialbarrel.com/10-easy-and-innovative-ways-to-use-pdf-files/98741/…
The Internet of Education Things (part 1)
If we distil the Internet of Things down to its essential purpose, it is the use of technology to permit us as human beings to yield or surrender some aspects of our attention, the need for our attentiveness, to …
Do we see reality as it is?
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Presentation of the Week: MOOCs and pedagogy: where are we heading?
Google Launches ‘Expeditions,’ An App For Shared Virtual School Field Trips
The app is aimed at giving students the ability to travel to places they otherwise might not had the opportunity to reach.
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Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun: How Nanodegrees can democratize tech education
Nanodegrees aren’t much different than college; the end result of the education is pointing you toward a career. In the case of many Udacity students, it’s a second or third career.
Do MOOCs Work Best For Educated People?
If there is any overall pattern so far it is that students who are beginning students, more remedial students, they’re going to have problems.
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/16/taking-stock-do-moocs-only-work-for-educated-people/…
Ten Things You Can Do This Summer To Prepare For Teaching In A 1:1 Classroom With Chromebooks
Here are ten things you can do this summer to hit the ground running in the fall, brought to you by a teacher who has been in your shoes.
How to Create Free Closed Captioning Text for E-Learning
We’ll explore a few simple ways to create free closed captioning text for your online training courses. We’ll work off of the assumption that you want closed captioning to sync with your audio narration or an inserted video on …
Photo Storage Showdown: Google Photos vs. Apple iCloud vs. Amazon Prime vs. Dropbox vs. Flickr
To take some of the edge off, several popular cloud-based photo storage services have popped up to help you store your precious moments. Here’s a look at five popular choices:
http://time.com/3911952/photo-storage-amazon-apple-dropbox-flickr-google/…
7 free tools for anyone who wants to become a better writer
There are plenty of resources out there that can speed the editing process up and make you more confident about the work you’re submitting. Use them all, and you’ll be a stronger writer faster than you can say, “How …
24 Google Docs Templates that Will Make Your Life Easier
If you use Google Docs, here are 24 time-saving templates that’ll let you get on with using the documents, rather than struggling with putting them together in the first place.
The templates below have been split into four sections; …