The Future of E-book
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Pogoplug Software Creates a Personal Computing Cloud
Pogoplug started its life as hardware — plug a USB drive into it and access files from anywhere. Now, there’s a software version of Pogoplug, substituting your Windows, Mac or Linux machine for that hardware and letting you share pictures, …
Using VoiceThread to Promote Learning Engagement and Success for All Students
This article shows how a web-based learning tool can boost the learning skills and motivation of these students and many others as they work with multimedia to explore subject areas, express their ideas, and share information—and all at their own …
How Schools can get Better Media Coverage in the Digital News Ecosystem
According to a new study by the Brookings Institution, Americans want more news coverage of their public schools. But to improve the media’s coverage of public education, school leaders must learn how to navigate the new digital news ecosystem.
6 Web-Based Instant File Sharing Sites You’ve Never Heard Of
Send large files to your friends without any hassle. There are a wide variety of file sharing sites that make it possible for you to send any file to anyone else without having to create a user account. If you’ve …
8 Ways to Support Teachers Integrate Technology
What teachers would like to change to make their work life better? These are some of their responses.
http://edtechtoolbox.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-support-teachers.html…
Edmodo: The Total Classroom Solution
There is one, free, Web 2.0 app that brings everything together that you need for your classroom, including a social learning environment. The app that does all of this is called Edmodo.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/05/edmodothe-total-classroom-solution.html…
Stop the Cloud, I Want to Get Off!
Jason Cross, from Yahoo News, on Cloud Computing: “Remember when the “cloud” was just called the “Internet?” This absurd fascination with naming online services after suspended atmospheric condensation is kind of driving me nuts.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110501/tc_pcworld/stopthecloudiwanttogetoff…
Using Google Docs in the Classroom: Tips and Tricks
This guide provides some six tips and tricks for teachers who’ve mastered the basics of Google Docs. It covers how to keep student work organized, revisions and revision history, and how to publish student work.
https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddnctvgt_216hf44mcfn&ndplr=1&pli=1…
15 Fantastic Ways to Use Flipboard
Flipboard is a phenomenal reading app for the ipad. However, because so little content is really produced FOR the flipboard, you have to know how to add it. You only get two screens of content (for now) so use it …
Cloud Computing Requires Backup
We use several tools that keep our data accessible anywhere the web is, and it works rather well for us. Except when it doesn’t.
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/cloud-computing-requires-backup/…
Augmented Reality and Web 3.0
What will Web 3.0 be like? Almost as soon as people started describing various sites as Web 2.0 others started speculating about Web 3.0 and what it would be. This article gives an overview on Web 3.0 and Augmented Reality.…
Presentation of the Week: New Developments in Moodle 2.0
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7 Solutions for Educators Who Want 21st Century Students to Tune In
Rather than taking away student rights and the freedom to use the tools they want, we must address the root of the issue that is causing the problem.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/04/6-solutions-for-educators-who-want-21st.html…
Improving Education with free Web 2.0 tools
Education is becoming more dynamic, networked and increasingly electronic. We live in a world of Internet social networks, blogs, digital audio and video content, etc. On one hand it allows to have unrestricted access to the world’s best educational resources …