Even as many institutions grapple with their cloud strategies, faculty are taking advantage of cloud-based services to rev up their classes and engage students.
A new look at the inclusive classroom
Inclusive classrooms are a charged and popular topic in current education. Explore some of the latest tech and theories in the field.
The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (Book)
The book itself is an attempt at collaborative, digital publishing, with early drafts made public for comment and suggestions, using ‘a new digital tool, called CommentPress, that allowed readers to open a comment box for any paragraph of the text …
The 10 Best Sites To Rent Or Buy College TextBooks Cheaply
Today’s generation just has to type in a URL and hey presto, there are more than a dozen sites plying cheap textbooks for sale or rent. Most of these sites are US only.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/sites-college-textbooks-cheap-rent-buy/…
5 Fascinating & Inspiring TED Talks That Explore The Edge Of Technology
Dive into the fascinating world of modern technology with the following five TED Talks.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-fascinating-inspiring-ted-talks-explore-edge-technology/…
Ten Paradoxes of Technology
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Presentation of the Week: The Power of Infographics
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Everything You Need to Know About Apple’s New iPhone 4S
Apple finally delivered on its promise of a new iPhone during an event Tuesday at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. Know what’s new about this new model.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/apple-iphone-4s-specs/…
Download a Portable Desktop Search Tool for your USB Drive
You carry your important files on a USB drive but when you plug that drive into another computer, Windows search can’t find your files. This portable desktop search tool should fix the problem.
http://www.labnol.org/software/usb-desktop-search-tool/20147/…
dotEPUB – Convert Any Webpage into an ePub Document
dotEPUB is a free service that allows you to convert the content of a webpage into an ePub format to read on your tablet, phone, or other ereader device.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/10/dotepub-convert-any-webpage-into-epub.html…
The Best Tools for Content Curation
A content curation tool, in simple English, lets you easily pull videos, images, presentations, tweets, blog posts and other web content into a collection which you can then embed, publish or share online. Here is a list of a few …
From the desert to the web: bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls online
Dead Sea Scrolls online: Google and the Israel Museum have partnered to launch a new website that allows the public the ability to examine the Dead Sea Scrolls in fine detail. The site provides searchable, high-resolution images of the scrolls, …
Newspaper map: 10000+ online newspapers in the world, translate with one click
An incredible source of world newspapers!
7 Good Screen Capture Tools for Teachers
Here are seven tools that you can use to create annotated screen capture images and screencast videos.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/09/7-good-screen-capture-tools-for.html…
12 Cool-laborative Web 2.0 Tools
In the rapidly evolving world of web 2.0, four experts offer their picks for the latest and greatest collaborative tools for classroom use.
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