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.…
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 …
8 Free Tools For Live Website Visitor Tracking
Real-time visitor tracking tools have been popping up ever since 2007 or so, and now there are many choices in the live website analytics arena. Let’s go over some of the choices and see what makes them stand apart from …
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…
Osmek: A Content Management System Built on the Cloud
Osmek is a new kind of CMS, built in the cloud so your content is available where and how you need it. It’s a beautiful interface for creating content, and a powerful set of APIs for retrieving it.
Magisto makes video editing a snap for the masses
Few people have the time – or even the skill – to trawl through and edit those good bits down into a real sequence. So with one click Magisto finds the good edited highlights automatically.
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/magisto-makes-video-editing-a-snap-for-the-masses/…
Create Useful Charts on the Visual Support Engine
Visuals Engine is a useful free resource from ConnectABILITY. The Visuals Engine provides six customizable templates for creating choice boards, story boards, schedules, and achievement charts.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/04/create-helpful-charts-on-visual-support.html…
Skype Launches a Dedicated Network for Teachers
The company launched Skype in the Classroom, a dedicated teacher network. Using the platform, teachers can create profiles that describe their classes and teaching interests. They can also search a directory of teachers from all over the world by student …
3 New & Superb Ways To Share Files Online
We’ll take a look at some of the newer web-based storage and file-sharing sites that despite their simple looks, offer convenient drag-and-drop, as well as, shortened URLs and statistics (something that most desktop programs don’t provide yet).
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-superb-ways-share-files-online/…
What Is Amazon Cloud Drive?
You get 5GB of cloud storage, free, that’s yours to do with as you please. The focus is clearly music, but you can put documents, photos, and videos on there as well.