Open source is a term which is a common knowledge of all, it’s cherished by few and most use it without knowing that they are using the open source. It has flourished so brightly that it has now the best …
How to Use Cell Phones as Learning Tools
Regardless of your school’s cell phone policy, the reality in most schools is that students have phones in their pockets, purses, or hoodies. Why not get these tools out in plain sight and use them for good and not evil? …
100+ Google Tricks for Teachers
From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.
Thoughts on Connectivism
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Presentation of the Week
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Best Practices in Social Networking for Educators
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Free Online OCR: web app delivers editable text from scanned images or PDFs
Do you have PDF documents or images (e.g. JPG, PNG, TIFF) that were created using a scanner, and that you wish you could convert to editable text?
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy—Livebinder
Resources for understanding Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy & applications for classroom.
Snip.ly: Snip and Share the Best Parts of Pages
Snip.ly is a new service for clipping and sharing parts of websites. The idea is this; when you want to share just a portion of a webpage with someone you can now highlight the text you want and share it.…
70+ Google Forms for the Classroom
Here you’ll find 70 example forms created by Tom Barrett from Edte.ch. There is a link included so that you can get your own copy of the form – click on the appropriate link and it should open in your …
The Netflix Effect: When Software Suggests Students’ Courses
Austin Peay State University created an automated system which “considers each student’s planned major, past academic performance, and data on how similar students fared in that class. It crunches this information to arrive at a recommendation. An early test of …
7 Must-Read Books on Education
21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020
Inspired by Sandy Speicher’s vision of the designed school day of the future, reader Shelly Blake-Plock shared his own predictions of that ideal day. How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says …
Google for Educators, Interactive Mind Map
Google for Educators is a web site that support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge.
http://gogeometry.com/software/google_for_educators_mind_map.htm…
Investigating the Effects of Technology-Assisted Instruction on Cégep Students
Helen Stavaris (a Dawson College faculty) was skeptical about the didactical effectiveness of a platform that relied on electronic means as a vehicle for instruction, which is why she chose to investigate varying degrees of technology-assisted instruction for her Master’s …