Use VideoAnt to add annotations, or comments, to web-hosted videos. Export your annotations in a variety of data formats. You can even embed your Ants on a personal website, learning management system (like Moodle), or anywhere HTML is allowed.…
What’s so sexy about math?
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Presentation of the Week: 2016 Internet Trends Report
Why Emotions Are Integral to Learning
Teachers intuitively know that neither their nor their students’ learning is steady and constant, the same day in and day out and moment to moment, consistent from topic to topic. Learning is dynamic, social, and context dependent because emotions …
22 Best Antivirus Software For Windows 10 Home PCs
Here’s a list of the 22 best antivirus software for Windows 10 Home PCs, as suggested AV-TEST. Just like the previous lists, Bitdefender has managed to score the top position by scoring perfect 18 points in three tests.
http://fossbytes.com/22-best-antivirus-software-windows-10-home-pc/…
Even Apple is acknowledging that the “iPads in education” fad is coming to an end
Almost 90% of teachers and 74% of students preferred laptops over tablets, according to a survey conducted by the Maine’s Department of Education.
How to Tell if Your Computer is Vulnerable to Hackers
Here are three different things you can investigate to see just how safe you are from online miscreants.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tell-computer-vulnerable-hackers/…
Turn Your Old Laptop into a Chromebook
You can now easily convert your old laptop or PC into a powerful Chromebook. I did this for a Dell Mini and a Dell laptop that I bought in 2009. Those two devices were collecting dust and were destined …
The Best Moodle Modules and Plugins
My presentation at the annual Moodle Day on May 27th, 2016 at Dawson College.
http://www.slideshare.net/rscapin/the-best-moodle-modules-and-plugins…
Microsoft wants to store your data under the sea. Why?
At a time when we all seem to be looking to the cloud to store our data, Microsoft is looking to the sea. The company has been experimenting with a prototype underwater data centre, dropping it into the ocean …
Edtech and Elearning 2016: Top 200 Influencers and Brands
This time we scaled our list up to include the top 200 influencers and brands driving the edtech and elearning discussion.
http://www.onalytica.com/blog/posts/edtech-and-elearning-2016-top-200-influencers-and-brands/…
7 Nifty Office tricks to make a teacher’s life easier
The right technology makes lesson planning and essential tasks much easier and efficient for teachers. Check out these tips on how to utilize Office templates for shortcuts that help you save time for the important things you do in …
Here’s how artificial intelligence could solve the biggest problem in education
One of the reasons for the big dropout rates in MOOCs is that there are no teaching assistants. So you can sign up for a course, say in mathematics, or computer science, or web design, or whatever. But you …
Chinese billionaire launches world’s biggest education prize
Teachers and educationists from around the world will be able to compete for the world’s biggest education prize worth more than US$ 7 million.
This is your brain on communication
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