Belgian privacy commission launches lawsuit after warning over alleged privacy law breaches over tracking of users and non-users for ads.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/belgium-facebook-court-privacy-breaches-ads…
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Belgian privacy commission launches lawsuit after warning over alleged privacy law breaches over tracking of users and non-users for ads.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/belgium-facebook-court-privacy-breaches-ads…
PowerPoint presentations provide the opportunity to combine many of those tools into one place. In one lesson, you can easily incorporate speech, text, images, videos, and audio. You want your presentations to be engaging for your students. PowerPoint provides …
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, …
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.
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/…
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/…
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 …
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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Technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces, so in education, technologies amplify whatever pedagogical capacity is already there.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/why-technology-alone-wont-fix-schools/394727/…
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.
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/…
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.
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 …