Vittles are engaging videos that combine your photos, handwriting, and voice to help you share your best ideas.
http://www.qrayon.com/home/vittle/
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50 Little-Known Ways Google Docs Can Help In Education
We’ve discovered 50+ great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive.
http://www.edudemic.com/2012/04/50-little-known-ways-google-docs-can-help-in-education/
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8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom
Remake Your Class is a 3-part video series that covers how one educator transformed his classroom with the help of his students, some community volunteers, and design experts.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/8-tips-redesign-your-classroom-david-bill…
8 Next-Gen Devices Students Will Be Using In A Couple Years
Between official company press releases and leaked information, we generally have a pretty solid idea of what we’re in for by the time a device actually hits the shelves. So what noteworthy items did 2013 bring us? This handy infographic …
The 9 Best Web Tools Teachers Will Use This Year
For this year’s bunch I have gathered the most important items into one single web page of my classroom website. The following is a list of free online tools that I have incorporated (or plan to) for this year’s class. …
Moodle.org introduce their first MOOC for Teachers
Moodle for teachers: An introduction is a 4 week introductory course with a recommended total of 8-12 hours participation time. Registration opens on 19th August 2013 and the course starts on 1st September 2013.
http://blog.matbury.com/2013/08/09/moodle-org-introduce-their-first-mooc/
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Why Organizations Choose an Open Source Learning Management System
Why should an organization choose an open source Learning Management System as opposed to a homegrown or proprietary LMS? Kineo recently distributed a survey to organizations which reveals the reasons why they chose open source.
http://elearningindustry.com/why-organizations-choose-an-open-source-learning-management-system
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What the Stapel scandal can teach us
In the summer of 2011, a Dutch social psychologist was in the process of losing his job. His name was Diederik Stapel and he’d committed an unimaginable fraud: over ten years he’d falsified data for over 55 experiments, some of …
Presentation of the Week: Powerpoint doesn’t suck, you do
Blending Technology and Classroom Learning
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7 Useful Cloud Storage Tools to Back up Your Digital Data
A lot of things have changed since the introduction of cloud storage tools. Problems of data storage and data loss have been tremendously reduced. Users now store their files in the cloud and access them anywhere with internet connection. More …
6 Of The Simplest Ways Teachers Can Embrace Technology
There is no getting around technology in the classroom. You can try to wrench the smartphones from a student’s iron grip, or you can cater to that desire to explore technology. Not every piece of technology is easily accessible, but …
Three Good Options for Creating Digital Portfolios
The type of materials required for a digital portfolio varies quite a bit from school to school and sometimes it varies from teacher to teacher. Here are three services that I recommend.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/08/three-good-options-for-creating-digital.html…
Is the University Lecture Doomed?
In university you’re still likely to be in a large lecture hall with a very boring professor, and everyone knows it’s not working very well.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/08/wikipedia-mooc-doomed-jimmy-wales/…
Another Look at Eliademy, a cloud-based alternative to Moodle
Eliademy is a new LMS that allows for Moodle backup files to be restored to their system. Their new LMS features a pretty simple look and feel, is very easy to use and create with but lacks some of the …