Google is joining forces with edX, a collaboration of 29 top universities offering 72 online courses, to build an open source online education platform. The new platform, called Open edX, will allow anyone—from universities, to corporations, to individuals—to build and …
A Must Read Guide Entitled ” Facebook for Educators and Community Leaders”
A 15-pages PDF document to help inform educators about the educational use of Facebook and also help adults be supportive partners so that teens make safe, smart and responsible choices throughout the online world.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/09/a-must-read-guide-entitled-facebook-for.html
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3 Free Cool Tools to Curate Content
Content curation is a great way to find, organize and share useful knowledge efficiently. Here are three efficient and effective content curation tools that can help educators manage web content and embrace technology.
http://gettingsmart.com/2012/08/3-free-cool-tools-curate-content/
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Useful Resources On Copyright
Learn five myths and facts on Internet copyright infringement.
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/09/29/useful-resources-on-copyright/…
Create Your Rubric Using Google Forms
Here’s a tutorial on how to create an online rubric with Google Forms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ASnCt0wZI&feature=youtu.be
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Research Tools For Students To Diversify Their Approach To Data Seeking
There are many free digital tools available to help students efficiently sift through an overwhelming abundance of web content to find the relevant and reliable information they need. This post will explore some digital resources to provide educators with tools …
Send Large Files: 10 Of The Best Services for Sharing Big Files
Here are ten of our favourite services to share files too big for email.
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Over 7,000 Free Audio Books: Librivox and its New Look!
Can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?” The answer is yes. Thanks to the help of many, LibriVox has made tremendous progress in producing and distributing free …
James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents
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Presentation of the Week: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013
4 Important Tools to Track and Organize Educational Twitter Hashtags
If it happens that you want to start participating in educational Twitter chats, below are some practical web tools to help you stay updated about the things shared in these chats. You can also use them to organize your hashtags …
6 Unexpected Ways You Can Use Dropbox
Dropbox is an awesome tool for teachers. Learn a few different ways that you can get even more out of Dropbox than you already are.
http://www.edudemic.com/dropbox-for-teachers/
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10 Free Google Chrome Extensions Teachers Should Try
A list of great educational Chrome plugins for teachers.
http://www.edudemic.com/free-google-chrome-extensions-for-teachers/
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Transfer photos from your Android phone to your PC in a cool way
Cool Photo Transfer app lets you transfer your photos to PC via WiFi so you don’t need to struggle with USB cables anymore to transfer a photo.
http://www.coolphototransfer.com/
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The 10 Most Important Emerging Instructional and Education Technologies and Concepts
The 2013 Update to our Annual Look at the Technologies, Tools, and Techniques That Today’s Educators Should be Aware of.
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