Inspired by Sandy Speicher’s vision of the designed school day of the future, reader Shelly Blake-Plock shared his own predictions of that ideal day. How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says …
8 Free Tools For Live Website Visitor Tracking
Real-time visitor tracking tools have been popping up ever since 2007 or so, and now there are many choices in the live website analytics arena. Let’s go over some of the choices and see what makes them stand apart from …
Google for Educators, Interactive Mind Map
Google for Educators is a web site that support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge.
http://gogeometry.com/software/google_for_educators_mind_map.htm…
Investigating the Effects of Technology-Assisted Instruction on Cégep Students
Helen Stavaris (a Dawson College faculty) was skeptical about the didactical effectiveness of a platform that relied on electronic means as a vehicle for instruction, which is why she chose to investigate varying degrees of technology-assisted instruction for her Master’s …
Is Facebook the next LMS?
You can ‘drag’ your learners to a learning management system (LMS) but you can’t make them ‘drink’ in the content unless it’s engaging. The solution – could Facebook be used as an LMS?
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/facebook-next-lms…
100+ Free Internet Resources for Real Teachers in Real Classrooms
A great list of free resources for every classroom.
https://sites.google.com/site/meetthegeeksii/Home/teacher-tools…
Osmek: A Content Management System Built on the Cloud
Osmek is a new kind of CMS, built in the cloud so your content is available where and how you need it. It’s a beautiful interface for creating content, and a powerful set of APIs for retrieving it.
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Teaching & Learning in a Networked World (by Alec Couros)
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Magisto makes video editing a snap for the masses
Few people have the time – or even the skill – to trawl through and edit those good bits down into a real sequence. So with one click Magisto finds the good edited highlights automatically.
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/04/05/magisto-makes-video-editing-a-snap-for-the-masses/…
Identifying Anonymous Email Authors
A team of researchers from Concordia University (Montreal) has developed an effective new technique to determine the authorship of anonymous emails. Tests showed their method has a high level of accuracy.
http://www.concordia.ca/now/what-we-do/research/20110307/identifying-anonymous-email-authors.php…
Create Useful Charts on the Visual Support Engine
Visuals Engine is a useful free resource from ConnectABILITY. The Visuals Engine provides six customizable templates for creating choice boards, story boards, schedules, and achievement charts.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/04/create-helpful-charts-on-visual-support.html…
Skype Launches a Dedicated Network for Teachers
The company launched Skype in the Classroom, a dedicated teacher network. Using the platform, teachers can create profiles that describe their classes and teaching interests. They can also search a directory of teachers from all over the world by student …
48 Interesting Ways to use an iPad in the Classroom
This guide is constantly being updated by users. It’s a great resource with interesting tips on how to use an iPad in the classroom.
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_721gdk5jtd8…
Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy
This website is the product of a collaboration that started in the fall of 2010 when a total of eighty New School faculty, librarians, students, and staff came together to think about teaching and learning with digital media. These conversations …