The Google Beat: Special Zeitgeist Edition (Dec. 2010)
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Resources to Help Schools Understand Social Media
One of the reasons why more schools are not using social media is because their leaders don’t understand social media. To help school leaders understand some productive uses of social media, here are some resources to check out.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/12/resources-to-help-schools-understand.html
California Embraces Open Source Digital Textbooks
California schools have cracked the spine on open source, free digital textbooks in an attempt to save money and to make educational resources easier to access and update.
http://www.edutopia.org/california-open-source-digital-textbooks
7 Tools to Build a Social Network for Your School
Here are seven tools you can use to create your own social network or message board forum for your school.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/12/7-tools-to-build-social-network-for.html
Google eBooks launches in US, and aims for other countries in 2011
Google is launching its long-expected web-based ebook offering, now renamed Google eBooks, in the US from today and says it aims to bring it to other countries next year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/dec/06/google-ebooks-edition-launches
5 Innovative Classroom Management Tools for Teachers
With help from the many online services and mobile apps designed for teachers, it can be easy to efficiently organize and complete classroom management responsibilities. Here are five of our favorite virtual tools for tackling some of the most common
Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools
Today there are many social media tracking and analytics tools available that can track your performance on social media sites like twitter. These tools are essentially tweet analyzing software that assists a company/individual with various kind of analysis including sentiment,
25 Social Media Resources And Tools That You May Not Know
We all spend so much time on the same sites online that sometimes it can feel like we have blinkers on and that we miss all the good stuff. You may know some or even many of the names on …
Creative Commons: What every Educator needs to know
Many of us already know about Creative Commons content and how it works, but I found this presentation, with audio slidecast. It is well worth listening to the 20 minute slidecast that accompanies this presentation, it brings the static pages
Speak Foreign Languages with Google Translate
You can use the free Google Translate service to instantly translate text from one language to another and in some language pairs, you may even listen to the translated text.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/speak-foreign-languages/18288/
Educational possibilities for digital books
The arrival of digital books through Kindles, Sony e-Readers and the iPad raises all kinds of questions about the functions of digital books, given the possibilities for interaction. Some thought is being given to this at a general level; see
Import files from Dropbox into Moodle 2.0
Dropbox is really a convenient way to store and access your files from different computers in different locations. In Moodle 2.0 it is possible to import files you have in Dropox by choosing the Dropbox repository when you go to
What are your favorite free productivity applications for teachers?
A list focused on resources intended specifically for educators divided into categories.
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