Gmail Users Now Can Send 10Gb Files
A new button in the Gmail compose window will give users the ability to attach a file (up to 10 Gb) from their Google Drive account rather than attaching the file itself to the message.
http://mashable.com/2012/11/27/gmail-10gb/
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Using Dropbox as FTP Client to Create a Course Website
By using Dropbox as an automatic FTP client, you can save yourself a huge amount of time and hassle, while ensuring your website is always current with useful educational content and resources for your students.
http://tapintoteenminds.com/2012/04/12/using-dropbox-to-maintain-your-course-website-quick-easy/…
Essential Steps on the Way to Teaching Something: Robert Gagne’s “Nine Events of Instruction”
Gagne’s theory suggests a sequential, orderly process–the nine steps. And it leads to a desired end place–effective instruction/training.
http://blog.convergencetraining.com/2012/11/essential-steps-on-way-to-learning.html…
Conquer Your Next Research Project The Easy Way With These Tools
Whether you’re in school or you have a job, you likely have or will have to research at one point or another. And if you’re like most people, you will have to do it several times. These tools will help …
Learning Analytics: The Next Generation Initiative in Student Assessment
Learning Analytics is the use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning. See how can you use it in Student Assessment.
http://epubgeneration.weebly.com/learning-analytics.html#.ULwn7KVmlUR…
How Teachers Use Skype in the Classroom
See different ways teachers are using Skype in their classrooms.
http://techland.time.com/2012/11/28/how-teachers-use-skype-in-the-classroom/…
35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy and digital tools creates an innovative learning environment where students are engaged in their assignments. The following is a list of digital tools as it relates to Bloom’s Taxonomy.
http://edudemic.com/2012/11/35-digital-tools-that-work-with-blooms-taxonomy/…
Apps that Keep You from Getting Lost in Translation
There are plenty of translation apps for smartphones, but sometimes they speak better than they listen.
A Short Guide to Google Maps for Educators
In this guide you’ll find directions for using the measurement tools in Google Maps, directions for creating your own maps, directions for sharing maps, and links to additional resources about using Google Maps in education.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/12/a-short-guide-to-google-maps-for.html…
6 iPad Apps That Help You Create Interactive Study Guides
With the end of the semester drawing near, so are the plans of preparing students for final exams and standardized tests. Check out these six iPad apps to create fun, engaging, interactive study guides for your students.
http://edudemic.com/2012/11/6-ipad-apps-that-help-you-create-interactive-study-guides/
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Is “Deep Learning” a Revolution in Artificial Intelligence?
There is good reason to be excited about deep learning, a sophisticated “machine learning” algorithm that far exceeds many of its predecessors in its abilities to recognize syllables and images.
5 Ways to Improve Education Through Technology
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Presentation of the Week: 60 of the Best Websites and Apps for Teachers
In This Flipped Class, Teachers Learn From Students’ Video
As many students can attest, video creation doesn’t have to be difficult and it certainly doesn’t have to be scary. One teacher shares how the flipped classroom can be a lesson in media literacy for students and teachers alike.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/11/12/using-student-video-to-evolve-the-flipped-classroom.aspx…